Peru Gazette in Peru, Indiana

Fragmented Tales and Oddities From a 19th Century Paper

A collage of quips and anecdotes includes a defiant wartime slogan about freemen and graves, a witty land-management anecdote with John Chawhbacon, an editor inventing a cooking stove, a Marblehead boy’s death from a fall, and brief notes on journalism politics, Mastodon bones near Bastrop, a winds and waves quip, a Bermondsey barber’s surveying joke, and Sydney Smith noting famed figures often lacked university education.