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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1901
Page
13
The Standard notes the prolific photography of McKinley’s journey across the continent with official and amateur photographers capturing train scenes crowds and moments along the route. It argues these images provide a vivid historic record surpassing written descriptions.
In Southampton County Virginia two aged sisters Miss Judith and Miss Anne Thomas deny kinship with General George H. Thomas the Union commander known as the Rock of Chickamauga. They claim no brother and reject aid from federal officers while preserving a legend of loyalty to Virginia. The tale ends with their keeping the sword given to him after the Mexican War and a quiet life at the ancestral manor.
Four surviving widows of American Revolution veterans continue to receive pensions. Esther Damon of Plymouth Union Indiana, Rebecca Mayo of Newbern Virginia, Mary Snead of Powell Virginia and Nancy Jones of Jonesboro Tennessee, with husbands who served in Continental or Virginia/Tennessee forces, sustain payments into old age as witnesses to the nation’s founding.
A Worcester Methodist meeting heard an eye witness say President McKinley drank champagne. Clergy denounced him, but observers note the president has right to drink and ministers have no role in his personal habits.
An array of brief quotes extols the American soldier as capable, ready, and free to serve Old Glory, contrasting American troops with European forces and noting their scrappy, self-respecting character.
A medical warning describes golf tendon injuries among amateurs as a new season risk. Experts link plantar tendon strain to unbalanced weight transfer during strokes especially on power shots, noting some cases of snapped tendons and weeks of bed rest.
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