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...Cruisers come high, go cheap. Last week the U. S. sold six old ones on the Pacific Coast for $275,927: the Albany, New Orleans, Salem, Charleston, Huron, Frederick. Abe Goldberg & Co. of Seattle got the Charleston for $49,111.60, a record low price. Conditions of sale: the ships are not to be used for naval purposes or as rum runners...
...caricaturists were quick to seize upon the rude rusticity of Lincoln features and figure.* During the Lincoln-Douglas debates every U. S. newspaper-reader came to recognize the beardless, bony railsplitter, shabbily clothed, big stick in hand, whacking at his rotund little antagonist. At this time the names "Honest Abe," "Old Abr'm" and "The Rail-Splitter" were popularly given Lincoln. These and others less affectionate stayed with him until his assassination...
...asylum (the White House) by the young Republican Party. Shirt-sleeved, he balances precariously on his perch, regarding the troupe, black libertines, thugs, abolitionists, Mormons. One particularly vicious lady looks up into his face saying: "Oh, what a beautiful man he is. I feel a passional attraction." Out of "Abe's" mouth floats a balloon: "Now my friends, I'm almost in and the millenium is about to begin so ask what you want and it shall be granted...
...boor" by its greatest draughtsmen, John Leech and Sir John Tenniel, later famed for his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland illustrations. The magazine Fun carried a series of bitter drawings by Matthew Somerville Morgan, whose work has only recently been discovered by Lincoln authorities, purporting to show "Honest Abe" a thief, demagog and charlatan. But it was in the South the most galling pictures were drawn. One Adalbert J. Volck of Baltimore struck upon the novel idea of showing ''Honest Abe" as an evil Negro. In a delicate line drawing Volck depicted Lincoln as a Negroid puppet...
...Guard R. A. Williams, already dead. At 9:00 p.m. the hundreds of soldiers and citizens surrounding the prison yard saw a third dead hostage crash to the ground outside Cellhouse No. 3. At 10 p.m. Guard John Shea staggered out bearing the body of Guard Abe Wiggins. Shea said that Danny Daniels had walked up to Wiggins at an appointed hour, grinned and shot him through the temple with his 48 calibre pistol. Then he had turned to Marvin Duncan, another captured guard, and said: "Prepare yourself. You're next." They let Shea go because he had been...