'Journalism in a Culture of Grief'

On Friday morning,” the Inquirer wrote in 1829, “Mr. Jonathon Russel of Brockport put a period to his existence by shooting himself through the head with a musket, loaded with powder and shot. Mr. R. was about 50 years of age - he left a wife and seven children in Salem, Ashtabula County, Ohio; and another wife in Brockport.”

--from Journalism in a Culture of Grief by Janice Hume and Carolyn Kitch, as reported here.