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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1864
Page
4
An ambitious Cleveland tombstone sales agent visits a rural town and offers consolation and grave markers after learning a man’s wife has not actually died. The tale follows his clumsy efforts through rough roads and misread signals as he attempts to close a sale amid a surprising twist about the wife.
A Seneca Indian from the Fourteenth New York Artillery, on a wager, camouflaged himself with pine boughs to resemble a tree and captured a rebel sharpshooter by surprise. He crept under the tree, waited for the foe to reload, then seized and escorted the man prisoner to camp after forcing him down. This daring feint was praised as clever and bold.
In this excerpt the author criticizes the obsession with oversized infants. Mothers praise and prize unusually large babies, equating weight with worth, while average plump infants are made to feel inadequate. The piece notes society’s preference for remarkable traits over normal development.
A Union sergeant on picket duty with three 100 day men nearly falls to sleep in a rifle pit. He spots a rebel sergeant with a cocked rifle and urges him to come in. Fire from his own men drives the rebels off as the sergeant improvised to avoid capture. A string of aphorisms follows about life and labor.
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