20 Nov 1868
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Newspaper
Reading Daily Eagle
Location
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1868
Page
1
A passage from Spring Mold recalls a distant scene of a daughter in a river hut and men and women aboard a Chicago to Springfield train. A tense platform confrontation ends as the man capitulates to the woman’s threats and returns to his seat amid a tense journey.
A temple to a real idol is erected and established in Portland Oregon. The completed building shows Chinamen busy furnishing it. The vestibule holds two large oil-globes with burning lamps revealing painted heathenish figures on the outside. One transparency depicts celestial warriors both on foot and on horseback, all set in motion by heated air.
The piece urges preserving love letters while burning harsh ones, praising letters as echoes of youth for widows and mothers. It shifts to a Louisville incident where a white schoolteacher confronts her Black husband’s new partner, leading to a violent fight and potential bigamy or adultery suit.
A compact essay notes famous figures from Adam to Washington were farmers, praising rural life as peace and consolation. It lists Socrates Burns Cincinnatus and Lafayette among others, then jokes about a man advised to rub brandy on his forehead and his vain attempt to drink it.
A colonial era tale in Mississippi features a scalawag named Jink who vows to hang any negro who votes for his own race. Sambo challenges him asking what should be done to a white man who votes against his race. The judge dismisses the discussion and cuts the evening short with no further invitation.
A playful exchange between a fast eight year old girl and Georgie imagines future roles. She foresees mil getting jewelry or a water cure while she hopes for a nice young man with whiskers and vows to sue for divorce in Chicago if her husband proves a brute.
Reports from Philadelphia arrest and bail issues surface as Fitzgerald faces illegal voting charges. The New York Commercial Journal notes a flood of Broadway spaces for rent. In Illinois an inn keeper is arrested after skeletons are found in an inn. Belfast residents win a defamation case while Buffalo reports a major ale spill into sewers. Dexter the horse posts a fast half mile. The Fiji islanders reportedly ate a Spaniard and his wife, sparing the children. Crenshaw Alabama votes Seymour and Blair. Greely reports no murderer found in a week.
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