08 Dec 1871
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Newspaper
Monmouth Review
Location
Monmouth, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1871
Page
1
A Long Branch on July 4, 1871 audience recites a poem asserting military veteran privilege. The speaker boasts wealth from army service while criticizing officers and calling for defense of veterans. The verses juxtapose a seaside cottage life with calls to arms and imagined resistance.
A Boston Post piece recounts Gumbs and the Cambria Milky Way editor attacking local figures with fierce satire. The rival paper's editor, mayor, postmaster, and a youth named Alexander Jones are targeted, leading to threats and the Milky Way’s sensational demise. The item shifts to a Newfoundland wreck tale about Barnacle Bill, a hermit wrecking suspect, whose victims are found on a cliff, roped to a grim spree. A South Carolina bayonet law note and fashion trend on hair pins follow, underscoring a miscellany of oddities and crimes.
A Civil War veteran with one arm travels through Missouri and reveals his name, J M Waldrup. He reunites with a blacksmith he once courted his wife recognizes him, and a wrenching choice unfolds. The wife chooses the elder love but can’t abandon her children. The blacksmith releases Waldrup to take the children aboard a steamboat as the couple parts forever with sorrow.
A White government clerk, intoxicated, insulted a colored diner with a racial slur in a city eatery. The incident was reported to department heads. the clerk confessed the insult and excess whisky, was questioned, and dismissed. The offended party was R. B. Elliott’s colorally-backed son, a colored congressman from South Carolina, noted in Washington City Stars.
The 1871 year is praised for abundance across states from Illinois quail flocks to Kentucky pumpkins and Virginia elk. The piece contrasts Grant and Palmer Thanksgiving proclamations, favoring Palmer as clear and spiritual, while noting French fireproof building methods and a Nottingham tale on marriage choices. A Christ Church note and Boston fashion are briefly mentioned.
Washington correspondent notes New York leading Democrats are split over whether to back an early candidate or wait for a reformer. Discusses civil service reform, Palmer Sheridan clash, and Trumbull comments on state authority, with updates on Honolulu shipwrecks and a murder confession related to the Benjamin Nathan case.
A collage of brief items including divorces, population claims, railroads, price fables, political quips, misprinted words, and curiosities. It mentions a Wisconsin judge granting his own divorce, Indiana widows, Colorado rail miles, Italian marriage limits, African coast reports, and varied oddities from sermons to printers.
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