Keep a Stir Upper Lip Poem by Cary
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1871
Page
6
Grandma Sinclair's Snake Story and Civil War Echoes
An elderly veteran recounts a true snake tale from his Civil War march near Atlanta. He describes a poisonous bite on his thigh, saved by whiskey, and shows a box containing a rattlesnake tail as a reminder of God’s Providence. He also recalls a Plains trek mishap with a thorn and a near Indian capture, and ends with a note on social equality for freedmen seen in New England.
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Nigger Dickson
Reconstruction as a vital issue in 1870 election
The Mobile Register argues that reconstruction must be a central issue in the next presidential race. It notes the Thirteenth Amendment as ratified by states and contrasts with the reconstruction amendments, which the Southern and National Democrats view differently, referencing the 1868 New York Convention platform that labeled those measures unconstitutional and void.
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Mobile Register
Democratic Party
New York
Ice bouquet encased in glassy ice display
A Philadelphia ice machine created a cake of manufactured ice with a bouquet of fresh flowers at its center. Leaves and blossoms remained fully visible through translucent ice while colors shone through refraction. The Carre ammonia process, a French invention, powered these machines.
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Philadelphia
Parson Brownlow backs Grant renomination and party unity
In a Knoxville Chronicle interview last week Parson Brownlow spoke hopeful about the Republican party. He said the country can rely on the President to enforce laws against the Ku Klux Klan and protect law abiding people white or colored. He expects Republican success in the next presidential campaign and believes party divisions will heal. He endorses the administration’s honesty, integrity, and policy.
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Reflections on Religion and Conscience Across Ages
A compilation of quotes on faith, prayer, and virtue. It includes remarks from Adbbe Sieges, Liedig, Hebel, Seneca, Clarendon, Parker, Channing, Witherspoon, Felix Neff, and references to antebellum South slavery. The passages praise gratitude, humility, charity, and steadfast conscience amid adversity.
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Liedig
Continental Railway proposed to connect New York and Chicago
The Chicago press cheers a dual track Continental Railway from New York through New Jersey and Pennsylvania to Chicago. Project aims to cut Chicago New York travel to twenty hours, tap Pennsylvania coal, and ship grain to tidewater at reduced cost. Backed by eastern and midwestern interests with potential operation by 1875.
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Tennessee preacher and Brazilian debt sale story
A Tennessee preacher who once preached slavery fled to Brazil during the war. He became a naturalized citizen then bankrupt, with Brazilian law allowing the sale of his children to pay debts. His two children were sold for $4900. he no longer believes in the divine origin of slavery.
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Professor G Sparks Classroom Joke About Lyward Hen lays
A Rochester University professor teased on Lyward Hen the Norwegian poet with a pun in class causing a brief burst of laughter among students. The humor arose as he expanded on the poet's career and style and then declared he would read one of his lays.
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