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Newspaper
Freeport Republican
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1881
Page
5
A sentimental home vignette opens with family scenes and a request to fetch the lamp. The page then shares a string of light anecdotes and quips about daily life, faith, manners, and social observations, reflecting a reader’s miscellany of humor and moral reflections. Notable jests touch on newspapers replacing sewing circles, a pun about breath and pulse, faith and generosity, married life, and a traveling railroad station remark.
Lincoln listens as Joshua Speed presses for his view on postwar punishment for Jefferson Davis and other Confederates. Lincoln shares a fable about a coon to illustrate restraint, then muses on animal cleanliness and a review of New York politics with notes on Tammany Hall Bosses and Republican factions.
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