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Newspaper
Kokomo Journal
Location
Kokomo, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1870
Page
4
A lengthy critique appears with moral appeals against drink and sympathy for the fallen, interwoven with a review of J H Beadle’s expose on Mormonism. The piece cites social costs of intoxication, judges’ quips, and previews Beadle’s Utah history, noting its strong testimony and subscription sales.
A southern paper describes a large Cedar Keys family living poverty stricken with twenty two children. They subsist on fish and oysters, lack proper dishes, cups, or plates, and use gourds and shells. Each member uses a personal jack knife for meals, eating from corn meal on raw bread. The piece portrays them as earthy yet robust in health.
A lawyer builds a hexagonal office that draws curious Irish bystanders who joke about it being a church. The lawyer berates them as blockheads then asks why they stare. One man replies he mistook the diver’s head at the window for something religious.
North Western Farmer published in Indianapolis is a rural magazine on agriculture horticulture rural economy stock raising salome culture and family reading. It features many pictures of stock machinery fruits flowers and buildings and is touted as the handsomest magazine in America with a large western circulation. Ten copies and one free to the agent for 10 dollars.
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