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merited by the complete text of a sermon from the previous Sunday, though, interestingly, not usually by a local preacher. Whether this was a tacit editorial commentary on the community clergy is difficult to say.
Two observations are clear from looking over the musty remains of The Guide in the bowels of the Rappahannock Historical Society. First and foremost, the editorial style was clear: if it bled, it led. From ferryboats sinking in the Orient or political intrigue and assassinations in Haiti, to multiple, gruesome murders in Arkansas, no tale of woe escaped the editor’s watchful eye. The ‘style’ seems not dated in the least. Consider the content of the nightly local or national TV news of say yesterday, for example. Actually, the TV news seems rather tame in comparison to some Guide headliners.
Looking for local
Beyond the numerous references to mayhem, the second striking aspect of The Guide was the nearly total lack of ‘hard’ local news articles. There was much discussion of national topics (WWI dominated from late 1915 tol917) and Virginia statewide issues, but not so much on the affairs of Rappahannock County. The local stuff,
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