27 Aug 1860
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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1860
Page
1
J A Schnable, contractor, offers masonry, bridge building, and house work with neatness and dispatch. Advertises prompt service and cheap rates via Mel & Co painters and glaziers. Darden & Co builders carpenters joiners take orders and provide credit.
A jokey first person tale recalls a county courtship, rival suitor Jake Simmons, and Sofy Blason near Nashville Tennessee. The narrator recounts dressing to win Sofy, the calf incident that doomed his chances, and how he fled with a wary lesson about women and heartbreak.
A foreign correspondent reports a tale from Emirghian where seventeen narghile pipes sent to the Sultan were seized by the Duke of Irabant. The Sultan applauded the spoils and fell ill shortly after. A Greek physician, once honored, was blamed, jailed, then spared as doctors diagnosed the illness and avoided emetic treatment.
An article critiques Northern anti slavery papers for exposing slave trade profits in New York New London New Bedford and Boston arguing profits exceed ten million dollars with steamship expansion. It questions suspected secret partners in the trade and recounts a rail car encounter illustrating intrusive inquiry.
In sharp rhetoric the piece accuses anti slavery leaders of hypocrisy profiting from the slave trade while denouncing it. It likens their conduct to a character in the School for Scandal and argues prices of Africans are hidden in pockets and bank deposits as they fund campaigns for Old Abe Lincoln.
A speaker praises an honest man as the noblest work of the Lord then adds with a pause that the Lord hasn’t had a job in fifty years. The dialogue reflects humorous skepticism about divine activity and worldly work.
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