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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1900
Page
28
A Cape Town dispatch describes the modern battlefield as workaday and unreal, detailing dawn routines, mobile Boer positions, and the quiet prelude to combat. It notes orderly roll calls, shifting artillery, and troops forming in dusty lines as dawn breaks over a perplexing, war-tired landscape.
An eyewitness describes a South African engagement with kopjes, Highlanders, lancers, and ambulances moving forward under clear skies. Distant guns, a dressing station, and wounded officers color a day of skirmish, with observers learning how a battle unfolds amid indifferent hills and dust.
Letter from Barnabas Niles now of Van Wert Ohio recalls boyhood experiences in Cincinnati including birthplace near Delta Avenue, early schooling at Crawfish Creek, a great earthquake in 1811, family history, and a memorable incident with a teasing rider that caused a hay cart to plunge into the river.
A Middletown Ohio veteran known as the Hermit of the State Dam recounts his Civil War service in the Army of the Cumberland, his early life from Tippecanoe to St Louis, building a boat hut after a fire, apprenticeship in copper, marriage signed by William Henry Harrison, and decades of local history from Hyde Park to Cincinnati.
Barnabas Niles writes from Van Wert Ohio in June 1900 recalling the arrival of railroads telegraph and printing press shaping commerce and daily life. He reflects on his boyhood in Cincinnati and invites old friends to visit while noting his health memories and faith.
The Golden Penny notes army shipments to Cape Town and Durban use color symbols to identify contents. Blue balls mark ammunition and general stores, red crosses medicines, black crosses hospital items, black hearts clothing, black horseshoes equipment, black squares building materials, red triangles camping gear, and green foil for forage. This coding streamlines storing sorting and forwarding to the front.
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