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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1917
Page
7
The piece honors Memorial Day as the nation's deepest tribute from the heart. It notes the faltering voice and moistened eye of citizens paying homage to soldiers and pledges to safeguard liberty with future sacrifices.
Columbus Ohio resident David N Osyer of Company F Ninth Ohio Cavalry recalls the April 17 1865 Durham swamp engagement near Durham Station New York where Union forces fired a last shot at a Confederate soldier in a tree and later met Amos Thompson who claimed to have fired the other final shot in the war confirming both sides ended with a final volley.
In an address at Pittsburgh's Homewood cemetery J B Norcross of Shady Avenue Baptist Church urged resolve amid war rumors. He said humanity advances, nations rise and fall, crises expose broken laws, and that America bears a specific mission to help fulfill its destiny with divine aid.
A Washington reading honors Gen. Ulysses S. Grant with a poem by Dr. Thomas Calver read at Metropolitan M. E. church. The piece lauds Grant as a selfless soldier and steadfast statesman whose name embodies courage, truth, and patriotic service to the country.
A Marblehead Memorial Day procession honors sea veterans with bands, Grand Army of the Republic members, clergy, firemen, police, and schoolchildren. Wreaths decorate graves at Burying Hill and Waterside Cemetery as descendants remember sailors lost at sea and those who fought in the Civil War and earlier wars. The march ends with prayers, hymns, and patriotic songs.
At Gen. E. Burd Grubb's Grasmere New Jersey home a Confederate veteran, James Cooper of Haddonfield, meets William Gilbert Haines of Penns Grove the Union veteran who saved his life at Fredericksburg. The two clasp hands in a moving embrace as old soldiers recall the battlefield water aid and pledge another reunion at Grubb's.
Memorial Day stands for the emancipation of slavery, victory in war, and the sacrifices of heroes. The week’s services are described as sacred as Americans pause amid daily life to honor those who fought for principles and sacrificed for the land they loved.
Washington reports the war revenue bill the Ways and Means Committee sent to the House would raise about 1.8 billion dollars for war expenses. It expands taxation across incomes inheritance amusements alcohol tobacco and transportation with new rates on surtaxes and a 10 percent tariff on free list items. The plan lowers exemptions to 1000 for single and 2000 for married filers and increases income tax rates for higher brackets with a one third advance due in June 1917. A 5 percent tax on heat light and telephone services and higher taxes on liquor tobacco and mail follow to fund the government.
The article lists broad tax rules for the proposed war revenue bill, detailing per cent or fixed charges on stock transactions drafts deeds life and marine insurance premiums passenger and steamship tickets freight bonds express rates and various consumer items including automobiles and instruments. It notes rates vary by item with caps and thresholds, outlining tax impact across services and goods.
Hull House, established in Chicago in September 1889, began as a cooperative effort by two women and supporters. The house aimed to serve immigrant communities with lectures, discussions, trade unions, arts and crafts, a music school, and a theater, offering accessible cultural and social services in a large city.
The fragment notes Jane Addams, head of Hull House, born at Cedarville Alabama in 1800, with references to a gymnasium local clubs a coffee house and a day nursery.
The National Geographic Magazine notes numerous salt mines in Treasylvania. The Morosalvar mine yields about 100 million pounds of salt annually. At the Tordo gallery, known as the Joseph Gallery, visitors report hearing a man’s voice echoed and re echoed sixteen times.
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