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April 28, 1843
The Illinois Free Trader And Lasalle County Commercial Advertiser
Ottawa, La Salle County County, Illinois
What is this article about?
In Boston, a lavish wedding featured a bride with $10,000 jewels and $1,200 veil, costing $15,000 total, contrasting sharply with a nearby poor widow who died of starvation after spending her last money on bread for her children.
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OCR Quality
98%
Excellent
Full Text
Hard Times.-A wedding is described in Boston, which took place a few days since, at which the bride wore jewels worth $10,000, a lace veil worth $1,200, and the expense of the whole affair was $15,000.
In the rear of this scene of 'revelry by night', lived a poor widow, whose last pittance had been spent to purchase a single loaf for her starving babes, and who was then stretched on the couch of death, her frame wasted with famine her face flush with the gnawing fever, and who, in a few hours, passed the dark shades of that valley which all mortals dread, her spirit released from that world where pride scorns to look on virtuous poverty, and charity seeks strange lands for its merciful ministrations.
In the rear of this scene of 'revelry by night', lived a poor widow, whose last pittance had been spent to purchase a single loaf for her starving babes, and who was then stretched on the couch of death, her frame wasted with famine her face flush with the gnawing fever, and who, in a few hours, passed the dark shades of that valley which all mortals dread, her spirit released from that world where pride scorns to look on virtuous poverty, and charity seeks strange lands for its merciful ministrations.
What sub-type of article is it?
Tragedy
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Misfortune
Social Manners
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Lavish Wedding
Starving Widow
Social Contrast
Poverty
Boston
Death By Famine
What entities or persons were involved?
Bride
Poor Widow
Where did it happen?
Boston
Story Details
Key Persons
Bride
Poor Widow
Location
Boston
Event Date
A Few Days Since
Story Details
A extravagant wedding in Boston contrasts with a poor widow nearby who dies of starvation after buying bread for her children, highlighting pride's scorn for poverty and charity's misdirection.