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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1896
Page
6
Fragmentary verse ponders fate and mortality with images of a hearse and riders moving toward the grave. The lines question strive for wealth and the ultimate end, reflecting on life’s impermanence and the inexorable last ride.
A fiction writer hosts a mysterious visitor who claims to be Jasper Gore also known as Paul Warnham Roland and other aliases. The man offers sensational real crimes for future stories, but the author instead helps him to leave and the visitor is later found to be an asylum escapee smiling through his crimes.
The Boston Transcript reports James Otis was struck by lightning at the Isaac Osgood farm in Andover Massachusetts in May 1783. He stood by the doorway watching clouds and said a heavy shower was coming when the bolt struck, killing him instantly and traveling along a beam to the cellar.
A Methodist minister famed for fashion prompts a friend to pay for a plain suit. The tailor delivers a simple cut but the minister's natural grace makes the outfit seem as if new from Paris, stunning the donor.
A sermon on Luke 14 15 24 highlights the parable of the great supper. It urges urgency in inviting all people from streets and lanes including the poor and disabled, and warns that those invited who rejected the feast will not taste of it. The preacher emphasizes salvation through Christ and the call to preach to every creature.
Portraits of Hetty Green and Os man Digna appear in a combined feature. The piece traces Greens wealth from inheritance and bank dealings in New York and Boston, and recounts a dramatic bank withdrawal, then shifts to Osman Digna born George Nisbet in Rouen, raised in Cairo, rising as a Sudanese leader and skilled fortifier around Suakin.
The Chicago Tribune reports on Joseph Manley clarifying delegate counts for the Republican National Convention. The call totals 906 delegates with Utah poststatehood, and potential expansion to 918 if three territories gain extra delegates. Alaska and Indian Territory face possible loss of representation on the national committee, while the District of Columbia retains two delegates.
Market note reports Southern delegates selling steadily at good prices with family notices for Roy Jones recovery.
The Australian received a long letter from manager William A. Brady inviting Frank Slavin to compete in the United States with promises of a tidy bagful of dollars. Slavin, then sparring with Jem Mace in Glasgow, said it seemed good business and considered the offer seriously.
Mrs. Ballington Booth of the new American Salvation Army unveils a stylish bonnet for assistants, a subtle alteration that may puzzle officials at English headquarters, as noted by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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