29 Jan 1869
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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1869
Page
1
A seven year old Willie plucks courage to peer behind his father’s mysterious nightly visits to a curtained store. The tale follows the boy’s plea to join, the father’s reluctant restraint, and a late night transformation as a preacher’s grave warning tempers the household, ending with tears and healing at home. The piece blends a domestic vignette with a broader wartime note on local figures Mansfield Ohio January 20 1869.
The Cincinnati Gazette cites Wells and the internal revenue report showing annual receipts from liquor retailing at 1.5 billion dollars. It totals home tobacco and cigar use at over 803 million pounds and 15 million cigars, with liquor costs per person at about 3.33 annually. The piece closes with a harsh rebuke of idleness and a quip about a gentleman who dines with servants while neglecting prayer.
A humorous Civil War anecdote recalls General Sherman during his Benton Barracks visits in St Louis. He confronted a mule beater who claimed the old brown coat and stove pipe hat proved his identity, only to be dismissed as another imposter by the soldier. The tale shifts to a Mississippian piano prodigy girl who, despite no musical training, can flawlessly replicate any piece after hearing it once, then to a Providence neighbor’s charity tale about aiding a poor woman and a benevolent annual gift of £100 to a long-serving clerk.
A bill introduced in Ohio on April 1 seeks to repeal an act and allow inmates of the National Asylum for Disabled Soldiers to vote in the township and county where located. The piece quotes partisan inflammatory sentiment and mocks politicians related to Grant and Seymour, reflecting wartime political tensions and frayed loyalties in Dayton and statewide discourse.
A wandering man recounts a breakfast scene at a backwoods farmhouse. The old hunter, savoring a squirrel dish, begins a halting grace asking for guidance and protection. In a rush he spots his rifle and proclaims Gideon’s curse and claims ownership of the prized piece.
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