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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1909
Page
1
A fragment from AXKRON IOWA reflecting on spelling reform, presidential messaging, marriage trends, and scientific progress. It lists diverse items from Liquor and opium laws to explorer Peary and a London menagerie posting seeking a dancer, ending with praise of the King’s goodwill as a national asset.
The article notes growing demand domestically and in world markets while production lags, urging larger cultivated areas and lower costs. It cites farming shifts and cites a Klang Su case where a woman killed herself after harsh treatment, her farewell letter spreading as a national document in the new movement.
A London Chronicle report notes the peril of reading backward impressions on blotting pads and the resulting security concerns at the foreign office. It recalls early pepper caster drewn blotting and later absorbent rollers used to dry diplomatic documents, with ciphered impressions challenging to defeat.
A grass widow reads a letter from a youth who has not seen her for two years. He jokes about taking her to dinner if she will go. She replies that she has never married but once, in Chicago, calling the remark mean.
A dialogue hints at a wedding plans with Mr Mhere absent for a third marriage. A German student topic links China and Hanyang’s armament industry. Notes on Washington Union Station vast concourse and references to migrants and defections conclude the fragment.
Matthew Buckinger a German native born June 2 1074 without hands feet legs or thighs captivated all ranks with extraordinary drawing and musical talents. He performed before audiences, crafted engravings and landscapes, and designed machines to play instruments while supporting himself and family through exhibiting and selling works. He married four times and had eleven children, dying in 1722.
A poetic plea for a monument built not of marble but of a people’s love prayers and faith. The speaker asks if stone can bleed or eyes can mean but answers that the figures shall be fair brave and true. The monument should rise stately with pillars niches gates and the souls of the fallen as its heart.
A Success Magazine excerpt argues that declaring ambition and taking a firm stand transforms how others treat you. It links grit, time discipline, and rejecting mediocrity to protecting yourself from time-wasters and seizing opportunities. The text contrasts bold effort with those who waste chances.
In autumn 1864 Union raiders pursued a tough Confederate ranger across northern Virginia. The rider outpaced pursuers, swam a stream, and eluded capture by slipping into a rural house. A dramatic search followed, with beds torn and pantry rummaged, but no trace found of the rider who vanished as dust-filled cellar doors and a broken dock concealed the escape.
A Confederate spy hides in a ticking clock to avoid a sneeze that would betray him. The scene shifts to Lincoln and Grant meeting in Washington, where Lincoln declares the man to end all troubles, portraying a fatherly bond between the great leaders amid dusty, worn uniforms.
A Confederate soldier, two days from Nashville, discarded his gear and sat in the woods to think. He rolled up his sleeves, examined his arms and physique, and said, I am whipped, badly whipped and somewhat demoralized, but no one can say I am scattered.
Fragmented OCR of the Gettysburg Address editing obscures some phrases but preserves Lincoln’s core message. The speech honors the fallen at the battlefield, asserts dedication to a country born free, and calls for renewed devotion to government of the people by the people for the people.
A fragmentary verse piece recalls veterans of the Grand Army, describing aging fighters ready to answer the flag again if called. The tone honors former soldiers who endured the bitter days and ensured the nation’s honor, with a call to sign up at age twenty one.
During the Civil War the late Colonel Gabe Bouck led a regiment as a strict ruler. An itinerant evangelist entered the camp and asked Bouck if he commanded the force. Bouck demanded, in a thunderous rebuke, that ten men be baptized, declaring no Massachusetts regiment would be spared for piety.
A fragment recalls a sailor named John Davis aboard the United States steamer Valley City during the War of 1812. As enemy vessels and a fort near Elizabeth City came under fire, he reportedly strapped himself to a powder magazine to keep the fire in check. The account notes naval honors awarded for bravery.
A Conscript Father from Oxfordville Nebraska learned his three sons served in the Union Army. Two fought with the Fourteenth Massachusetts and the third, a daughter twin, served with the Little New Hampshire regiment.
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