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As a family researcher I simply adore newspapers, old, historical newspapers. Newspapers with announcements, marriage, birth, deaths, taxes, probates, crime, social tidbits, I love it all.
From the Waverly Republican, Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa, published December 24, 1874:
“Compliments of Thos. Lashbrook to the Editor of the Independent
EDITORS OF REPUBLICANS - - I have taken my county papers since they were started. I am now taking the REPUBLICAN, Independent and Folks Zeitung, and have almost invariably paid for them in advance, but somehow Daniel duns me for four dollars. I do not owe him or any other printer a cent for printing. You’ve dunned the wrong fellow this time, Daniel. Daniel, my time is almost out on your paper. I have told you three or four times to stop it, but in your trades, buying and selling, you got the start of me, but Daniel don’t send your dirty sheet to me after January 1st, 1875, for it is not fit for a “Two-cent Democrat,” as you called me in your paper of October, to read. No, Dan, you said in that paper that I was grabbing all that I could “under the plea of a Granger.” Dan, that is a lie and you are the maker of it. Sir, I am a Granger, and do not deny it. I am a Spiritualist all over - - not a Spiritualist on the Wapsie - - a Methodist in Waverly, and something else when elsewhere - - all for popularity. Dan, it won’t always do to have too many faces! Don’t send your dirty paper to a Two-cent Democrat - - you can’t afford it - - but keep your rotten sheet for your “straights,” and you may get another rolling over the logs by-and-by. THOS. LASHBROOK.”
Truly a epic classic rant.
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** Article accessed via https://waverly.advantage-preservation.com/ via the Communityhistoryarchive project.
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