American Civil War era copies of the Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted By RichC on November 13, 2009
I enjoyed lunch with a good friend of mine that just returned from the laborious task of going through his mother’s 
estate. He kept a few antique furniture items and uncomfortably stuffed them in his apartment while trying to figure out just what to do with the balance. 
While we were standing by our cars, he asked what I thought of these: a stack of American Civil War era newspapers piled in a box. Wow … very historic as I took a couple quick photos with my Palm Pre.
As he leafed through the copies (feeling guilty to be touching them), the magnitude of the events being reported sunk in. Imagine, a war between the states, the thousands of dead and an assassination of debatably our countries greatest President? Wow.
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