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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1898
Page
6
A poet questions why we delay expressing love until loss or death. The verses urge speaking tenderness while alive, gifting roses and lilies, and blessing beloved eyes and hearts with praise before final parting. The cadence urges timely affection and acknowledgment of deep feeling.
A serialized tale follows Fannie McLane a young widow invited to visit the Graftons at Fort Sedgwick. Her sister resists as Merriam and his bride are stationed there while Fannie later reunites with Merriam during travel and memories surface through a dying message from McLane’s stepson.
In October the Mescalero survey ends and Merriam is recalled to Sedgwick. Rumors flare over his engagement to Florence Tremaine, an 18 year old girl admired by many yet viewed skeptically by officers. Florence's charm and Merriam's complex past fuel gossip as the couple's plans unfold amid camp life and wartime duties.
In autumn Merriam and Florence Hayward Merriam plan a Sedgwick ceremony and a California honeymoon after a year of delicate balancing with family expectations. Merriam confesses deep affection for Florence while contending with parries over loyalty, love, and the respect of comrades.
Merriam aims for San Diego but ends up on a Pullman with his bride Floy. After a tense encounter with Mrs. McLane, he slips away to compose himself and writes a note to Floy. He returns alone for a planned confrontation, while Mrs. McLane presses for a public rebuke amid the wedding drama.
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune item recalls a Quaker elder in Hoosierdam nicknamed Uncle William who trades horses and hides faults. At a sister’s deathbed she cautions his sons to honor virtue, while he deflects with a quip claiming she is delirious.
The young French painter Girard, then in modest dress, carried a letter to Lanjuinais, a council member of Napoleon. Lanjuinais, impressed by his talent and conduct, accompanied him to the ante-chamber and remarked that merit, not appearance, dictates farewell and recognition.
In a Cleveland Leader item, old Billyums voices a favor to Arabella about her young man. He wants a message delivered to him noting he does not object to the couple staying or using his gas villa, but he insists on registering a public kick when the morning paper goes with him on leaving.
A fragment from a larger piece praising steadfast courage and integrity. It extols the virtue of enduring effort and the honor in doing one's best, even amid suffering and challenge, highlighting patience and moral resolve as supreme qualities.
Sir Francis Grant, famed portraitist, kept a visitor for his legs to model a full length portrait of the late Duke of Rutland. The sitting man, a dull snuff taker, dwarfing the duke in knee and limb, earns money by posing while Grant paints in the hunting box at Melton during a hunting visit.
A Cincinnati Enquirer tale recounts a farm girl near Colorado Springs befriending a mother bear who joins her family after a hunting party encounter. The cub enjoys candy, learns manners, and becomes a town bear pulling a dog cart until long teeth are filed and routines settled in a treehouse bedroom.
During the 1862 Sioux attack on Fort Ripley Minnesota the Mille Lacs Chippewas aided settlers and were promised protection from removal by the Interior Department. Years later a special agent urged relocation to Leech Lake, but a Minnesota activist and tribal chiefs resisted, culminating in a persuasive speech about justice and rights.
A French metal worker near Van denene in Nievre reportedly harbors the longest beard in Europe. At 74, the man is in good health. his beard, which began at six inches at 14, now unrolled measures ten feet ten inches. He carries it like a skein, winds it around his neck in winter, and stands just five feet three inches tall compared to the beard's length.
A fragment shows a domestic scene where a mother and children discuss readiness and clothing as Emma holds an apple, and Edger notes the fruit in a brief, unfinished family vignette.
A young East Indian of some wealth arrived in New York and claimed acquaintance with a Calcutta contact. He was invited to a planned elaborate dinner with friends but did not appear. The next day at his hotel he explained he was well but very hungry, saying he had simply not eaten.
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