11 Aug 1860
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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1860
Page
1
A mixed Vignette collection opens with a haunting ballad on love and mortality. A narrator recalls Jerusha Jane, a doomed romance with a country girl turned city sweetheart, and the ache of time, separation, and a veteran memory that lingers within a sorrowful breast.
An Albany search spans two to three days for Simon Lord a pedler said to have seven wives He is not Mormon though linked to the faith His latest victim Caria Owens a Detroit farmer daughter nearly driven to lunacy after learning her beau’s true character He has two wives in this state Lord a Connecticut native with relatives there Officers received tips guiding the eastward pursuit hoping to rescue the afflicted and stop Lord’s alleged crimes.
A garbled collection of jokes and anecdotes about marriage, mosquitoes, shadows, and quirky locals. Vignettes include a Milwaukie remark on marriage as protection, a drowning farmer tale, a Daguerreotype fade, an Arkansas shadow kiss joke, pickling by old maids, a bachelor editor quip, a Michigan wry remark, and Mississippi lean shadowless folk.
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