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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1896
Page
6
The piece claims fiction yet aligns with facts as its core features. It notes that local names are fictitious but the flag-raising over McLran's factory and its later destruction by fire echo earlier Civil War events in North Georgia. The author signs A. HL. Kinwoov.
In Allington Georgia in 1863 a factory owner, Robert McLean, battles low Confederate pay and private orders. Miller John Hicks and Captain Fowler clash over cloth requisitions while Hicks plots to arm a local unit, and McLean threatens to sell only at 1860 prices in gold, risking confiscation. Old Tom invites all to supper as tensions rise toward a continuation.
A collage of biographical notes on Marguerite of Savoy and other figures. Details include her birth in 1851, royal connections, languages, height, beauty, and social duties. Also mentions Phillips Brooks Memorial Library plans in Massachusetts, Archduchess Maria Theresa’s strength feats, and unrelated items about div orce in Kansas and a Czar palace at Sochi.
A Washington Star anecdote from Loudoun County recounts a cyclist who killed a black snake crossing his path and used its peeled skin as a tire in a roundabout fix. The rider, dubbed a Virginia character, claimed the skin held up on the wheel after being pumped and tied, with local humor about a roaming congressman figure.
The widow of Alexander Campbell, aged ninety four, resides in Bethany West Virginia, with children prospering. James J Belden of New York bought Audubon’s Birds of America for 1800 dollars, among top copies. John Stemme, New York’s millionaire, has a mortuary obelisk name inscribed in Egyptian hieroglyphics and will erect a sixty five foot monument with gilded pyramid. A stray remark notes the tea piece on a warm day.
A Tribune note cites a man’s complaint to a book publisher about uncut pages in a bound book. A book seller in Ogallala says uncut edges are common, leading to quick refunds if a different binding isn’t possible. The Houston Post cites political and social quips with playful, satirical definitions.
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