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Domestic News
May 2, 1899
The Morning News
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia
What is this article about?
The Lumpkin Independent reports receiving sad telegraphic news about a formerly respected Lumpkin citizen now in Texas, but withholds details to spare pain to relatives and avoid feeding morbid curiosity.
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There are no doubt some citizens of Lumpkin who would like to know what one of their former fellow citizens did in Texas. This is the way the Lumpkin Independent puts it: The town is in receipt of very sad telegraphic news involving a formerly highly respected citizen of Lumpkin, now of Texas. We do not consider it imperative or necessary to parade the facts before the morbid and unsympathetic appetites of the news hungryards, when it can be of no possible benefit to them and is the occasion of so much pain and mortification to relatives and friends. It is the barbaric instinct that gloats over the misfortune of others, and in the course of life and events is there that many things were left unrepeated.
What sub-type of article is it?
Crime
What keywords are associated?
Lumpkin Citizen
Texas News
Sad Telegram
Misfortune
Withheld Details
Where did it happen?
Lumpkin
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Lumpkin
Outcome
misfortune causing pain and mortification to relatives and friends
Event Details
Receipt of very sad telegraphic news involving a formerly highly respected citizen of Lumpkin, now of Texas; facts not paraded due to no benefit and to avoid barbaric gloating over others' misfortune.