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Newspaper
Springfield Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1872
Page
1
A garbled newspaper fragment blends poetry and prose on The White House era and Lincoln. It recounts early presidential history, Adams, Washington, and a Mississippi rail tale, with scattered notes about a Lincoln manuscript from Jesse Fell and the Lincoln bid for the presidency, including a vivid personal sketch and later dissemination.
The Naples dispatch from April describes a fiery torrent thirty meters wide and sixteen meters high, burying homes and gardens in ash and cinders. People flee toward Naples, with families and belongings carried on backs and shoulders as lava advances. The king distributes money and comforts the affected, while engineers are sent to rescued slopes. Wounded and dead are reported, but exact fatality counts remain unclear.
The article reports fresh London dispatches confirming meeting with Dr. Livingstone in the interior and discusses the world’s anticipation of his fate. It surveys public interest, American editorial boldness, and British government inertia alongside reflections on poverty, wage labor, and the social order.
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