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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1913
Page
3
President Wilson on Gettysburgs semi centennial urges continuity of national purpose. He honors veterans, recalls union, and frames peace and justice as the nation’s ongoing task. He emphasizes that laws, not flags, guide the days ahead and calls citizens to steady, principled civic action.
The Times Engineering Supplement notes the Atlantic gales buckling and tearing iron and steel plates from ships and wrecking seawalls and harbor work. It calls for study of the destructive action and its quantitative aspects. The Isle of Man recently defeated the workman’s compensation bill amid a description of its backward status in the empire.
The Gettysburg reunion brings together Union and Confederate veterans amid recollections of the Civil War. Stories tell of uniforms swapped on the platform, prisoners’ escapes, and meetings with friends and foes as crowds witness the anniversary events and shared reminiscences.
Miss Lula Minot, twenty, daughter of J H Minot, was killed on the New York street bridge when a skyrocket struck her heart as crowds watched a three day homecoming. Dozens injured lightly. it was a chaotic scene with the Fox river crossing at its widest point.
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