02 Nov 1866
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Newspaper
Fremont Journal
Location
Fremont, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1866
Page
1
Curated miscellany includes Kit Carson and Colonel Pfeiffer war tales with vivid battles and escape, Webster anecdotes about tickets and speeches, brutal frontier scenes, a Portugal to Paris array of vignettes, and quips on manners, temperance, and wit.
A vagrant before Loads magistrates on the 24th ultime claims no bed for ten years. A London shirt maker finishes a dozen shirts for a gentleman priced at 120 pounds, noted for fine cambine with fronts embroidered in gold. At Liverpool Police Court a tailor Needham cut tails from spectators with shears, hiding a cloth bundle. A York shireman recalls Anthropological Society talk about humans from monkeys and returning to their origin.
In wartime, a starving widow and her child faced four soldiers who demanded food. After a tense delay, the men searched the house and found Makey’s Masonic Jurisprudence with the husband’s name on the flyleaf. The apparent leader asked if the husband was a Mason, and, upon confirmation, ordered the soldiers to retreat immediately.
The article reports Senator Wilson's public conversion at a Natick revival meeting, detailing his long search for faith, personal peace, and gratitude. It includes his praise of mercy, calls to fellow youths to seek God, and reflections on eternity and the limits of worldly success.
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