Editorial mudslinging in early American journalism
In the early nineteenth century editors like Greeley Bennett Webb Bryant sparred openly. A fight with Webb knocked Bennett down and Bennett retorted in the New York Herald with sharp wit and a claim his ideas would flow freely again. Webb later attacked again in a similar style asserting he would tell the truth regardless of consequences.
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Horace Greeley
James Guordon Bennett
James Watson Webb
William Cullen Bryant
Bennett
Webb
New York Herald
Herald
Timetable Talk At Essex Village Inn
A village inn in Essex sparks chatter about timetables two miles from the railway station. The land lord frets over his old timetable dating from 1012, while staff and patrons bumble through recollections of trains and past riders as the narrator heads to the station seeking the next departure.
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Essex
Lizzie
George
Mft
Three Words That Cost a Fortune in a Jape
Amherst Lord Jeff recalls a comic tale where a man blames three words spoken ten years earlier for losing vast wealth. He muses on a safety-pin plantain empire and a fiancée who rejected him with No. The punchline centers on a bold refusal that derailed a $10,000,000 windfall.
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Croesus
Amherst Lord
Jeff
Royal Marriages Law and Hindu Wisdom Sayings
The piece discusses the royal marriages act of 1772 granting the English king power over noble matches with a saving clause for age and notice and potential parliamentary disapproval. It also retells two fables about prudence versus cleverness, including a garden mango tale and a Hindu saying about wisdom and bliss.
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George II
Privy Council
Sir Ramarkrishna
Old Adage Questioned on Seeing and Believing
London Answers notes that perception may mislead and believing may not follow from familiar sight. The item questions the adage that seeing proves truth, using a brief example of daily recognition to illustrate doubt.
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Barton
Beleving
Harton
London
Milton Writing Lycidas and the flower passage revisions
Laura E. Lockwood notes in Modern Language Notes that Milton drafted Lycidas with little premeditation. He wrote the first fourteen lines and struggled with the flower passage, deleting and reworking it before starting anew. Ruskin labeled line 148 mixed fancy and imagination, while later lines saw revisions mainly around line 58 02.
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Milton
Lycidus
Ile
Ruskin
Liverle
Laura E. Lockwood
Saint Birgitta and the first woman’s rights pioneer
The Exponent highlights Saint Birgitta as the lone marked Swedish pre Reformation figure known to popes and hailed as the first apostle of woman’s rights. She advocated mixed orders and convents to foster joint effort by monks and nuns to aid suffering humanity, with canonization credited mainly to her pilgrimages and role in restoring the papacy to Rome from Avignon.
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Birgitta
Sweden
Rome
Jerusalem
Avignon
Disappearing Love Across Night Doors
A fourteen year old narrator recalls a secret romance cut short when her father confronted her on the porch, his angry gaze sealing the loss as her young lover vanished and was never seen again, the tale recounted by the Chicago Journal.
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Chicago Journal
Thought for the Day Reminds of Selflessness
A brief moral note asserts a gentleman measures character not by self forgetfulness but by considering others, emphasizing thoughtfulness as the hallmark of true nobility.
Class Night Performers Arouse U S A May 22
Readable text suggests a framed event titled Class Night Performers at U S A on May 22. The fragment mentions feeling related phrases and indicates a public or school gathering headline style. Entities include U S A and May 22 with possible performers.
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U. 8S. A
United Doctors Visit to Sidney at Commercial Hotel
United Doctors will be at the Commercial Hotel in Sidney on Wednesday May 23 1923 from 10 a m to 8 p m for free examination consultation and advice. Licensed diagnosticians claim nonoperative treatment for chronic diseases of blood liver stomach and more with guaranteed results. Bring urine for chemical and microscopic analysis. married ladies must come with husbands and minors with parents. Ad.
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Diagnostician of the United Doctors
Nebraska
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