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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1906
Page
2
Poetic meditation on Memorial Day scenes with veterans, families, and graveside tributes. A narrator references Columbia and the fallen, while a town gathering near a cemetery depicts flowers, cakes, and memory. Miss Hetty Vail and residents reflect on the dead and the healing power of remembrance.
Two children beg flowers from a stern woman for Decoration Day and are gently refused at first. She reveals her late husband loved laylocks and roses, and after learning their kindness she invites the siblings in for a warm cake lunch and milk.
A woman tends flowers for veterans and contemplates loss on Memorial Day. A citizenry struggle unfolds as a man condemned for killing is taken to his death, witnessed stoically by a wife and daughter and a departing party.
A trooper was shot through the heart by a guerrilla hidden in a corn field as Union forces advanced along the highway in a column of fours. The rider reeled from his saddle, and the men broke through the fence to pursue and capture the guerrilla at the far end of the field.
The article traces Memorial Day origins from ancient Greece and Rome to the U S practice, highlighting General John A Logan's May 5 1868 order designating May 18 for graves of soldiers. It notes women in the South advancing the custom, Arlington's first observance, and New York's May 30 legal holiday establishment.
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The piece notes government zeal in pursuing fraudsters from the Post Office Department to engineers in Georgia, with Greene and Gaynor convicted and fined after extradition from Canada. It condemns the seed distribution as graft and mentions President actions over Fort Oglethorpe, China ties, and Peirce disputes, finishing with treasury bank import policy shifts.
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