Man accidentally shot child while officiating wedding near Lincoln, deputy says

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Man accidentally shot child while officiating wedding near Lincoln, deputy says

A Texas man accidentally shot a child while officiating a wedding in Lancaster County on Saturday, the sheriff’s office says.

Chief Deputy Ben Houchin said deputies were sent to a wedding at Hillside Events near Denton on a report of a gunshot wound.

Deputies learned that 62-year-old Michael Gardner, the wedding’s officiant, fired a gun to get everyone’s attention.

“He was going to fire in the air, and as he did that, it slipped and went off,” Houchin said.

The gun was loaded with a blank that Gardner made with gunpowder and glue.

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I agree with you, but I wouldn't read that much into their writing. The English language was even more lawless in their day.

In fact, the German-style capitalization of nouns may have just been a stylistic choice by the calligrapher:

Modern printings of the Constitution that follow the engrossed copy of the original can be identified by the many stylistic features in which Jacob Shallus's calligraphy departs from the style of the printers of 1787. The most conspicuous difference is Shallus's capitalization of almost all the nouns, in contrast to the very limited presence of capital letters in the work of the printers. The capital letters now help to give quotations from the Constitution, when taken from modern prints that follow the engrossed copy, an air of authenticity.

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2012/fall/const-errors.html

What exactly do modern reprints have to do with why the founding fathers capitalize certain words?

No idea, I didn't say anything about modern reprints.

But your quote was specifically about modern reprints and nothing about why they original writers capitalized specific words.

Read it again, they didn't. It was a stylistic choice by the calligrapher.