Since I am deep into a major home remodeling project at the same time as preparing to move house from the old homestead, I had a look back at some posts that appeared on my own blog. This one comes from 2013 and I thought it was worth revisiting with a few changes and additions. Hope you do, too--the thoughts about language here are certainly worth a second round of discussion!
One Christmas my daughter, knowing her mother's fanaticism about owning anything to do with the Old West, bought me something that was within her budget and definitely within my scope of interest. It is a wood engraved illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 30th, 1872. It depicts 'Wyoming Territory—A Passenger Train of the Union Pacific Railroad in a Snow-Drift, Near Wyoming Station' from a sketch by C. B. Savage. While the illustration has been framed and found a place on my wall, I was also fascinated by the accompanying news article, which uses a language not often employed in modern journalism. "The actual troubles of east-bound
One Christmas my daughter, knowing her mother's fanaticism about owning anything to do with the Old West, bought me something that was within her budget and definitely within my scope of interest. It is a wood engraved illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 30th, 1872. It depicts 'Wyoming Territory—A Passenger Train of the Union Pacific Railroad in a Snow-Drift, Near Wyoming Station' from a sketch by C. B. Savage. While the illustration has been framed and found a place on my wall, I was also fascinated by the accompanying news article, which uses a language not often employed in modern journalism. "The actual troubles of east-bound 
