Word: sangamon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usually reserved by him for stag gatherings. Printed privately several months ago, circulated quietly (chiefly at newsstands), it has achieved wide popularity among people not squeamish at the mention of a "privy" or "backhouse." The speaker is a carpenter who specialized in privy construction, became thereat the champion of Sangamon County. He gives full details of the best design and procedure, with reasons...
Abraham Lincoln was but faintly famed as a newspaperman. Yet his writings for the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, 111. , were the nursery rhymes from which developed the majestic cadences of the Gettysburg Address. The newspaper with this notable tradition, now named the Illinois State Journal, has just passed to the control of Col. Ira Clifton Copley. One newspaper acquisition at a time is normally enough for growing publishers. Not so Col. Copley. He stretched half across a continent and added almost simultaneously the San Diego Union and Tribune to his pack* of papers...
...which we celebrate the birthdays of our two greatest Americans, it is of interest to know what "the emancipator" thought of "the father". I wish to submit here the tribute which Lincoln paid to Washington at the close of an address delivered in 1842, and published in the "Sangamon Journal" of Springfield, III., on March 26, 1842. This tribute was lost for seventy-eight years--till one day in February, 1920, L. H. Alexander of Philadelphia discovered it in the files at Washington. Because it is so little known, and because it is so simple and beautiful a statement...