08 Jan 1861
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Newspaper
Wilson Ledger
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1861
Page
1
A narrator recalls a cascade of encounters around a lost diamond ring and a crest, meeting a series of London figures a college principal a nurse and a sister, a dapper father and a sea voyage memory of a pirate ship amid famine relief. The tale blends whimsy with regret and a turn to a moral maritime anecdote.
A collage of anecdotes and notices features Captain George Samuel Thunder charged with drunkenness on voyage home from Portland with Prince of Wales on board the steamship Mere. The piece blends jokes about angels and honey, political quips, marriage jokes, and remarks on Boston commerce, Napoleon, Milliners, and Austrian coinage.
An Ohio stumper paused a speech and invited the audience to respond. A man with a Scotch brogue rose and said he would stump the country with the speaker, asserting they would tell more lies than any two men and that he would not speak at all during the tour.
A short, quirky ad from Cairo details a lost black and tan dog with bobbed ears and a lame streak in the off fore leg. Jos offers a five dollar reward for the animal’s recovery in what reads as a humorous classifieds note.
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