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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1881
Page
3
A compact miscellany of wry observations and quips from a 19th century newspaper page. Short anecdotes touch on life, virtue, humor, and social manners, with remarks attributed to various editors and correspondents across multiple papers.
The article notes fifteen general managers earning from 10 000 to 25 000 dollars, nine superintendents with 7 000 to 10 000 yearly, and other officers in the same rank making over 5 000. It comments on wit and malice as moral themes.
A speaker praises a beloved woman, declaring true love and claiming only she fits the perfect ideal. The poem extols virtues of modesty wit and birth, noting beauty whether brown or fair, and emphasizes that love is directed to one person alone.
A Detroit Free Press sketch of prisoners recalls an old man known as Uncle Abe living alone on the Platte River. A violent stranger breaks in on a stormy night demanding money, threatening with a knife as the old man pleads he has none. The scene foreshadows a desperate crime.
A grim recounting of a murder in which a man killed an elderly neighbor with a bowie knife after restraining him with threats. The killer confesses of sorts, but pleads self defense at trial, receiving ten years in a Detroit prison. The survivor’s memory haunts the killer, who fears Uncle Abe’s ghost.
The passage laments the modern editor must master politics science religion art agriculture and literature. It demands instant informed opinions on Ashantee to New York. It critiques editors guiding currency taxes and tariffs while judging church factions and denomination debates. It ends noting writers flood press with trash and ireful letters.
A Denver Tribune excerpt explains Colorado dialect are widely used and essential to grasp editorials. It contrasts terms for occupations with slang for food and drink, and notes phrases for death such as “passed in his chips” and “gone over the range.” It cites a reader’s quip about a social gathering at Major B s.
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