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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1881
Page
4
The verse recalls Bayard Taylor urging a song from soldiers as bombardment fades. Soldiers guard the outer trenches while guns grow quiet and the Redan and Malakoff fortifications loom, their thunder dimmed and ready for a pause in the siege.
Narrator recalls Nat Reanes recruiting teamsters to haul ore milling gear from Great Bend on the Gila during Apache-hostile times in early Arizona. The trek covered desert ranges, rugged hills, and cacti as three trips carried a boiler, stamps, and supplies. Nobel's blasting oil and nitroglycerine details illustrate primitive blasting practices and risks in 19th century mining.
On the second day a band of Apaches ambushed the wagon train. Mr. and Lonze were bound and marched toward the mountains. The captors killed some, tortured others, and held the two prisoners with vague prospects of ransom or fate as darkness closed in.
I describe the chaotic aftermath of an ambush with cans and fuses. a blast knocks the wagon, injures and scatters assailants, and a lone Indian flees as the author and Lonzo cut free from the wheel. We trek to the Condor mine works, with one captive man later recovered and nursed back to health.
Samuel Plimsoll recalls a miner’s widow days after a pit disaster. She tended a pan of dirty water by her door while her husband lay dead in the mine, her despair marking the plight of many families left behind.
The piece argues women, skilled at patient care, prefer Parker's Ginger Tonic for ailments from despondency to indigestion and kidney pain. It asserts the tonic is a family remedy trusted through experience and cites its wide use among women. It also notes Southern California secession sentiment and mentions Hep Bitters as a popular cure.
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