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Newspaper
Lindsay Expositor
Location
Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 28, 1869
Page
3
A fragment discusses idle loafers and a world without work, then shifts to Addison and the Spectator. It quotes on cheerfulness as a virtue, praising Addison’s writings for elevating character and confidence in eternity, asserting his serene resilience through life’s trials.
A seventeen year old boy visits a New York merchant seeking an engine position. He volunteers to learn, plans to work in a Brooklyn machine shop, gives his five dollar weekly wages to his mother, attends Cooper Institute, studies mechanics, and rejects liquor and theater to support his family. The merchant is impressed, offers to train him and promises higher pay once capable, praising the boy as embodying grit and virtue.
A dying man in a hospital bed wrestles with guilt and faith. He declares that without Christ’s desire and repentance no salvation is possible, lamenting a lifetime of sin while a nurse and friend offer comfort and biblical passages. The scene ends as he loses consciousness and dies. A reflective piece follows on gentleness and true gentlemanliness, contrasting performative manners with genuine character.
A crowded page of humorous vignettes and aphorisms. It includes palindromes like Madam I’m Adam and Able was I ere I saw Elba, a tale of Knickerbocker and a dinner settlement, corn jokes about vegetable and animal corn, and a cross purpose Irish voter dialogue ending with a weary agent.
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