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Newspaper
Wakarusa Weekly Sun
Location
Wakarusa, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1876
Page
4
A satirical column chronicles editors chasing long unpaid debts from readers who promise payment after payday or harvest. The piece riffs on unrealistic promises, delayed income, and the recurring excuse pattern across towns, with dated humor about editors’ experience and unfulfilled payback.
Josh Billings offers comic household tips for a young woman named Gertrude. He urges early rising, kitchen duties, cooking, cleaning, mending, and cheerful usefulness to attract a suitor who will marry and support her. The tone mocks formal education with practical labor as social ascent.
A bald man in Greencup Kentucky visited an institute for deaf mutes on a Saturday asking how long to teach his wife to be dumb. After explanations he bought three yards of clothes line and walked toward the woods. A curious note in a Boston pulpit reads as a novelty.
A new conductor, eager for advancement after years on freight, is promoted but soon toned down. The superintendent first backs him, then observes as the man tries a flashy, casino style approach aboard a freight train but is told he should have been promoted backward to freight. The anecdote ends with a Sunday scene of a wife scolding in Brooklyn.
Publicist Hmile Burnouf states the Rothschilds' capital has reached about 17 billion francs in the current year, roughly $3.4 billion, rivaling the funded debts of Britain and France and outstripping the US national debt. The family rose from a Frankfurt rookery to European financial dominance in sixty years.
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