From Pudding Guides to Lincoln Lectures in Late News
The piece blends culinary tips on puddings and pie crust with a long-winded account of a Col. Kidd Washington audience lecture by Col. Robert Ingersoll. It quotes Ingersoll extolling Lincoln the liberator and statesman, discussing Lincoln’s character, education, honesty, and power.
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Capt. Kidd
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Robert Ingersoll
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Lincoln
President
Liberator
Statesman
A Placid Drummer’s Odd Train Car Encounter
A New York drummer aboard the New York Central, smoking in the baggage car, meets a stranger who pries at his past while a baggage man and others observe. The stranger hints at a forgotten wife’s remains as the mood shifts from curiosity to tension on the through train.
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How a Georgia Negro Becomes Owner of His Former Master’s Plantation
A Meriwether County tale of Jack Wilson, formerly enslaved, who after emancipation gains control of the Gates plantation. Born to a mixed-race wife, he builds wealth through diligent farming, amasses 1400 acres near White Sulphur Springs, and now owns stock, mules, and a family-centered estate. He values education for his children and holds about $80,000 in value. The narrative highlights self-made success by Black resilience in Georgia after the war.
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