There are a lot of stories and articles on the first page. There are sections for national news, regional news, and world news. The front page ads are conveniently pushed over to the far right and all the news is to the left. The front page is mostly factual. In the later pages the opinion based articles are found. Compared to a modern newspaper, the news articles are short and concise, and the articles aren't from the day that a certain event happened. I personally like this newspaper more than a modern one.
August 21, 1880
Dear Phillip,
Did you hear about the railroad incident on August 12th? Truly horrific. One of the train's cylinders exploded and released boiling water into one of the cars. It sounds like the people who were injured were hurt very badly or killed. And in San Antonio, there were a bunch of Indians who were driving off local cattle and killing people along the trail! And in Little Rock some Indians ravaged a mail coach and killed the passengers. It sounds like Indians are the main cause of violence in the news. But I must be generalizing, there are good and bad Indians. We only hear about the bad in the news.
Here's another crazy story. A man named Tom Beckett was searching for his wife in Jacksonville and he broke into his mother-in-law's house and it led to a shootout with the police. Stories like this have me concerned with our countries morals. The weirdest story by far is about a robbery in Denver. The man robbing the bank used a sandbag instead of a gun! Isn't that wild?
It seems that today's news is mostly tragedy. Is that the case for the news up in Boston? But on a happier note, I read today that the United States is exporting more silver than we are importing. Must be a good thing for a port city like Boston. I also heard that a prospector in a Mexican village outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico struck gold! Very unlikely for a poor Mexican village. Such a crazy world we live in today!
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Your's truly,
William Joiner
A sandbag as a weapon for robbery, I've never heard of that before? I might have to try that some day.
ReplyDeleteGreat Job, sucks that Tom ended up not finding his wife.
ReplyDeleteThanks for telling me about the railroad innocent on August 12th because I had never heard of it!
ReplyDeleteI liked that your character sort of had a mind of his own and wasn't 100% anti-Indian.
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