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Wednesday, September 17, 2003 :::
I've Been Working on the Railroad, Part 4-C
I just got a great assignment from the railroad company. They want me to go through a ton of newspapers from the 1840's to the 1890's looking for articles on the company. They don't want me working more than 15 to 20 hrs a week, when the lady handed me the list of papers, I said "This will keep me busy for 15 hrs a week for a couple months." She answered, "I know." Thats great, I now have steady, easy, and interesting work from them for awhile.
Yesterday I was going through the "Greensborough Patriot" years 1858 and 1859. It will probably be awhile before I can find any funny or sickening headlines for blog entries. At this point the art of the pithy headline had not developed yet, at least in Greensboro.
Items of note in the paper: everybody was interested in William Walker's filibustering adventures in Central America and folks were aflutter about the LeCompton Constitution over in Bleeding Kansas. The jokes in the paper were really bad, people's slaves were running away, and there was lots of talk of secession but nothing about having to fight a war to do it.
It ought to be interesting going through Goldsboro's short-lived newspaper "The Ku Klux Kaleidoscope" and the Fremont "Anglo-Saxon."
::: posted by tom at 11:04 AM
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