14 Feb 1895
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Newspaper
Chariton Patriot
Location
Chariton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1895
Page
1
The piece blends notes on Tennyson’s floral imagery with a humor tale about a tough Indianapolis grocer. A traveling salesman offends the owner with brash talk, then uses persistence to close a deal, proving that nerve can win in business.
In 1861 Kentucky mountain communities rally around Dick Bradley and Father Peters to form a secret Union league. A white flag truce meets two Confederate officers as Bradley leads about 40 men toward Camp Dick Robinson while fires signal for secessionists and Union refugees to unite in defense.
An elderly recounting recalls an 1876 duel at Standing Rock agency Dakota between Scout Shave Head and Hunkpapa Chief Crooked Neck over beef distribution. The observer, a former interpreter and chief of scouts, describes beef issued to bands and families and a confrontation where Crooked Neck pushed Shave Head aside demanding the beef be taken to soldiers.
Chicago Inter Ocean reports tales of Senator Fair visiting a coal mine, sharing tobacco and mingling with miners. He pockets a blessing, fires a new worker for smoking, praises a rock sample, then dismisses a senior miner who hints at high ore value.
A fragmentary river report describes a vessel struck by water as it descended a bridge, its smokestack carried away, then righting itself and continuing after more waves. The scene evokes horror amid the river’s hazards near Lewiston, as observers recount the peril.
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