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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1894
Page
6
Alfred Ellison in Chicago Record recounts a mother’s loss and a child Amy who longs to be with her mother. The narrative explores grief, memory, and solace as the speaker comforts Amy and tells her the heart endures sorrow while the grave leads to another world. Amy repeats her wish to go where mother is.
Travelers Mike and a man named Jack camped after a mine crew accident. Strained nerves and eerie pine noises from the surrounding pines build to a mounting, indistinct roar as unidentifiable sounds approach, prompting them to ready to flee in darkness.
Mike and Jack flee a desert hell when a turtle herd attacks their wagon. They escape by hopping from shell to shell, climb to a rock, and weather a rainstorm and a cloudburst that washes the herd away. The pair survive as daylight returns.
A traveler wears a white rose pinned by a girl as he enters a cabin. A woman bursts in and tears it off. a man warns that she is not right. He recalls a lost daughter with blue eyes whose graveled path the roses haunt, driving his wife to madness as she tramples the rose on the floor.
A speaker describes five weeks at Primrose-Place-by-the-Lakeside her summer home near an old Wisconsin farm. She notes gold lettered paper and the desire to be “in the swim” while her friend remains curious about the place.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote where a young man asks a father about marriage and savings. The father, noting the youth’s small yearly saving, declares he will marry only when the future husband has one hundred thousand dollars, implying a twenty five thousand year wait. The tale mocks impractical striving.
A colored man faced a Kentucky judge for a statutory offense of stealing chickens. He pled not guilty. The judge noted prior appearances, imposed a ten dollar fine and costs, and the prisoner protested the fine as excessive for a single hen.
Fragmentary dialogue mentions a drome dary and Noah twice but lacks coherent events, people, places, or dates to summarize into a newspaper item. No identifiable organization or outcome is present.
A reflection on how the term colored has been used to describe people and aspects of literature noting that many things described as colored may simply be shaded or nuanced rather than racially defined.
A Union sentinel recounts a starlit nocturnal vigil in dense woods near camp. He stalks a stealthy attacker creeping through brush, firing only when the foe comes within ten feet, ending with a fallen bushwhacker and a reserve rifle shot.
The piece notes the odd survivability of a fort under heavy bombardment. It recalls how despite thirteen hundred missiles landing on walls, only one person was killed. An officer planting a flagstaff was hit by a fifteen inch shell, yet life was preserved elsewhere. Minor injuries and a single bloody strand were all that remained.
Capt J G B Adams unanimously chosen commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at Indianapolis. Born Groveland Massachusetts, age fifty two next October. His Civil War service included brave actions at Fredericksburg Gettysburg and the Wilderness, later held posts in Boston Lyoll and Concord reformatory. Also noted for recovery of flags of the Twenty second Michigan and a Caldwell Ohio soldier reunion speeches.
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