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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1894
Page
2
Gwynne Hilliard encounters love and deception as he and Jamie the crippled boy deliver hyacinths. Jamie confesses a preference for Miss Jessie, whose quiet virtue shines as Henrietta schemes. Jessie and Gwynne marry, while Henrietta’s plan backfires. the trio finds unexpected happiness through truth and sacrifice.
A Civil War era piece blends a poem on Dixie and a confederate cavalry encounter near Henderson county Tennessee with a dramatic Union camp incident. A child delivers an old flag and a heartfelt letter from John Lucas, a Tennessee Union loyalist, pledging devotion to the flag and urging preservation of the Union.
An aged veteran writes from a torn diary page promising to rally a force of possibly a thousand men on January 8 to ensure the flags fly atop John Lucas’s flagstaff. He bids farewell to a young girl, gifting her his last silver dollar as soldiers shower her with kindness and sorrow.
The lines lay about 170 yards apart and sharpshooters pierced a hat on a ramrod just above the parapet. Soldiers kept ceaseless vigilance, often struck in the back by bullets skimming the parapet, while humor kept morale. When a Federal battery fired, troops cried More bread, trading metal fragments for fresh loaves with Petersburg bakers, a relief from hardtack.
Chauncey Depew recalls a Washington dinner anecdote about the Merrimac threat. Delegates boast vast fortunes to fund defense. Lincoln replies he would buy a warship and gift it to the government, noting limited resources but greater resolve than fear.
Beaver Falls veteran Colonel J E McCabe led forty five scouts in rebel uniforms from Sheridan’s command. They obtained uniforms from Confederate prisoners to study enemy regiments and fortifications. Survivors plan a Pittsburg reunion during the national encampment. McCabe is believed the last witness to Lee’s surrender to Grant. He previously served as sergeant in the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry performing dangerous scout duties.
A Southern writer notes a seeming novice at a Culpepper signal corps post. An infantryman questions the signalsman who continues to wave his flag while the visitor cajoled with a drawn out remark.
Civil War gunboat commander Captain Dennison earned high praise from a captured vessel’s captain who quipped this was his third capture. Connecticut prison convicts enjoy an annual Thanksgiving turkey funded by a donor’s will. Chinese Nanking families send daughters to an American mission school seeking husbands.
St Michael's Episcopal Church Charleston founded 1751 with services starting 1761. Bricks came from England and leftover brick formed church fence. Fire damage 1780, 1863 65 shell holes, 1885 cyclone, 1886 earthquake. Reopened 1887 after restoration funded by members. Tiffany chancel window, English organ, and chimes recaptured from Sherman loot. Washington, Lee, Princess Louise once sat in famed Vanderhorst pew. Reverend Trappi er praised for reading commandments.
A wife of an Essex agricultural laborer started with two or three laying fowls and sold eggs to townspeople. Her cautious reinvestment grew demand, leading to yard expansions, a bank account, and finally the purchase of land for a large house dubbed Egg Hall with a billiard room and luxuries.
The merchant argues from a mercantile standpoint that he acted squarely while Judge Erlich labels the entire transaction fraudulent and not legitimate. The merchant concedes the difficulty in distinguishing a legitimate deal from a swindle in today’s market.
Miss Mary Titus from Williamsport Pennsylvania, who had been without a voice for three years, suddenly spoke in a revival last week declaring Praise God from whom all blessings flow. She calls the moment a direct answer to her prayers for relief.
The article notes widespread demand in Louisiana for re enactment of a law protecting alligators. It warns that renewed wholesale destruction has led to a surge in pests like muskrats rabbits and opossums, threatening levees crops and possibly lives.
Robert Bonner releases an old letter from Henry Ward Beecher recounting a Lincoln visit. Beecher says Lincoln heard three stories, forgetting two while the third story he says cannot be told. The Plymouth pastor notes Lincoln’s reaction to the tales.
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