31 Jul 1868
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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1868
Page
1
A fragment from a late 19th century miscellany mentions lonely paths and angelic hymns for a departed brother. It includes a NYT correspondent note on hydrophobia remedies with calomel and mercury baths, a claim of horseradish and sweet oil cures, and a passage on America’s first steamboat voyage from Latrobe.
The Democratic vice presidential candidate Blair faced chaotic reception during a March 26 1807 speech. Audiences shouted hisses and calls for order as Blair defended constitutional principles amid interruptions and claims of government disruption.
A narrator recalls a lively tale from Simon Wheeler about Jim Wolfe the friendliest apprentice, as a group of boys at a candy pull tell of Jim climbing onto a roof in icy moonlight to grab a yellow cat’s tail. The plan ends in chaos with candy soaked and Curry’s misadventure leaving Jim battered and laughing despite the fall.
A ragbag of quips and social remarks about politicians, Sermons, and courtships. It mocks Democratic and Republican theatrics in Louisville and notes a hat accident on a Troy ferry. It includes comic exchanges, hymns at a Vernon Center sermon, and musings on the value of humor.
A Rural World note explains hog sweating via leg pores and remedies by rubbing with a corn cob. The political section surveys the Democratic Convention and Chase’s fate, Alabama’s pledge for Grant and Colfax, and Wilkes’s critique on Seymour’s nomination. Mississippi letters claim a 5,000 majority against the constitution was achieved by fraud amid threats to Union loyalists.
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