To great fanfare and celebration – as if to counter the tidings of recession, everyone hypes up the publication of the journal. Something like The Golden Era, the Occidental was an ambitious 8-page journal of short stories and poetry. the sagebrush school writers contributed material but Thomas got no advertisers and only printed one. Fitch […]
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Southern Sympathizers run a slate of candidates in elections
Secesh Democracy Party, Jefferson Davis Democrats, Douglas Democrats, Peace Democrats, Copperhead Sneaks made up for lack of numbers with volubility and nuisance tactics. Their mouthpiece paper, the Democratic Standard met in the bar of the Virginia Hotel.
Sam has the Mercury in NY print again
“Those blasted children” intro’d as “our unique correspondent, Mark Twain