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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1905
Page
3
A battlefield poem recalls Corporal Greent and two soldiers who die in a skirmish. Officers and brothers share sorrow as the color bearer and wounded leaders urge their lines forward. The roll shows a hundred men went into the fight, only twenty answering the roll call.
Miss Melissa Sivort, a stern old woman, shelters Bob Marsh a hungry boy after a tramp visits. A cannon ball relic hides a bag of gold long buried beneath the stairs, found by Bob when moving the relic to safety during a burglary attempt.
A Cincinnati Post reflection urges Americans to honor Decoration Day with sentiment and memory of Lincoln, Grant, Jackson, and Lee. It calls on citizens to emulate heroic sacrifice, prioritize patriotism, and commit to national progress and higher civilization through civic duty.
An elegiac verse honors a fallen soldier and his widow on Memorial Day. The hero dies in battle, his image kept by loved ones as distant thunder of cannons sounds outside. The widow, aging with white hair, keeps faith that fame and memory may find him, even as his grave remains unknown. A stark statistic notes 100000 children. 31243 live to 73.
The piece highlights two Minnesota tailors creating a trouser leg spacer to keep fabric from touching the shoe and a heat retaining drinking utensil by Maud L. Williams of St. Louis. It notes the cake making machine as a further example of feminine patent topics.
The invention from Columbus Georgia aims to form cake batters quickly by a machine that simultaneously beats whites and yolks and butter in separate receptacles. A cross head and handle operate multiple paddled vessels linked in one system, with paddles given horizontal play by spacing receptacles the width of a paddle.
The article explains how automatic railway safety devices in England use interlocking switches and signals, grade crossing gates, and shunting sticks. It details that main-line signals must show danger before siding switches move and that gates must be closed before a line is deemed clear, ensuring road traffic is interrupted only when necessary.
In Oil City Pennsylvania a cocker spaniel trained to fetch the newspaper from the porch yard brings the paper inside and earns pats. Recently the dog collected six additional papers from neighboring yards, prompting the owner to locate and return the owners.
Tess recalls a queer remark about the bride. Jess notes the man’s line about her looking natural. The aside ends with a quip calling him an undertaker, implying the odd dig was a social misstep in a Philadelphia Press piece.
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