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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1913
Page
3
Gettysburg July 4 1925 President Wilson addresses thousands of veterans and visitors marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg He argues the nation is not finished urging unity peace and ongoing reform to fulfill its standards of righteousness and humanity.
George M. Cohan, in Chicago for a new engagement, meets an elderly colored woman scrubbing the theater foyer. She sings a mournful tune and answers that the song is her path to heaven through steady work and minding her business.
Veterans from across the nation gather on the battlefield to mark the Civil War’s Gettysburg clash. Captain W H Fleig of Houston, aged ninety, recalls Confederate marine service as John Goodwin of New York and Margaret Murphy of Chicago wed after rekindling a long‑smoldering romance.
John Francis Key aged eighty two of Pikeville Maryland, grandson of Francis Scott Key, and veteran of the Second Maryland Infantry Confederate Army, wore gray and entered town weak but declared he would visit Gettysburg on this occasion or die.
A witness named Lansberry recounts hiding in a barn when Confederate forces arrived. He fled as infantry fire peppered the area and hid at an alley mouth. Two comrades tried to flee across the street but were shot down at mid street by Confederate sentries. He was later found and disarmed.
Harry K. Thaw aided Gen. Daniel Sickles by sending $1000 in cash from prison to mark Gettysburgs fiftieth anniversary. In a letter to Schoonmaker Thaw expressed sympathy for Sickles and cited two uncles in the Union army and a near relative in the southern army.
In the big tent camp, a lost and found bureau under the benches handles all grounds finds. About 100 crutches are piled there with around 60 applicants daily seeking them. Many claim mislaid items and leave with others. A wooden leg and several sets of false teeth were found too.
An Illinois veteran recalls a girl’s gift of a purple ribbon pinned to his coat at Gettysburg. He wore it into battle and kept it as a treasured memory. The piece contrasts Civil War rations with 1913 meals showing richer fare and desserts.
Tom Stewart of Pennsylvania tells of an eighty five year old veteran who escaped his home to attend a reunion with former comrades at Gettysburg. The man climbed out a window to join the gathering and arrived in good shape, now happy and well cared for.
Survivors of Picketts division led a charge at the Bloody Angle where gray uniforms met blue at the wall. The scene ended with both sides inspecting the field and discussing a proposed $250,000 monument to be funded by Congress.
A fife and drum corps in blue uniforms paraded through the Confederate section of the camp, stopping before tents to play fanfares and greet occupants. They walked to nearly all red tents, exchanging warm handshakes and embraces as they expressed friendship for hours.
Chief Clerk George G. Thorne in Harrisburg recounts a Union veteran’s call confessing he stole onions from the Thorne garden on the fiftieth anniversary of the battle and wished to make amends. The offer was refused, and the Thornes seek the soldiers who damaged eight beehives and took the honey.
The house has no Civil War veterans on the Republican side while three Union veterans are Democrats and six Confederate veterans sit as Republicans. In the Senate six Confederate veterans and six Union veterans balance party lines. The era shows more Spanish-American War veterans than Civil War vets in Congress, with nineteen Senate members veterans of the war with Spain. One House member has warless service in the signal corps. Delegate Quezon served with Aguinaldo during the Philippine rebellion.
James H. Lansberry of St. Louis recalls his Gettysburg capture by Confederates fifty years earlier. He joined the Third Indiana cavalry from Madison and helped carry a wounded officer to the seminary. Escaping after five days as a prisoner, he walked fifty miles shoeless and returned to Gettysburg to aid the wounded housed in the seminary and churches.
In a daring river crossing during the Venezuelan struggle for independence, Paez leads 300 Llanero lancers to swim the Apure and seize the Spanish flotilla guarding the river. They reach the boats, board them, and capture the entire flotilla under Bolivar’s command.
Mrs. Edith Schwartz of Hillsboro Illinois reports her child suffered a two month eczema breakout on the lower limbs with itching burning and sleep loss. A sample of Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured the condition in ten days after starting treatment. Cuticura products advertised with free samples and Skin Book offer.
An oddly phrased inquiry mirrors a joke about private affection and pastry. The line uses humor to suggest closeness and familiar familiarity within domestic life.
A witty quip contrasts lawmakers with women voters saying the legislature prefers to do all the talking itself. The line frames a gendered critique of political participation in a sharp, humorous voice.
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