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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1897
Page
7
An elderly veteran, his wife, and grandson George prepare for Independence Day in a rose filled cottage near a quiet lake. They raise the family flag in hopeful morning light as a cannon rings out, and the veteran suddenly falls silent, dies moments after his final command to run up the banner.
The article recalls New York’s Fourth of July as a busy holiday with firework mishaps and notable stories from figures like H. C. Du Val and Oliver Teall. It notes reactions from Delmonico, D. O. Mills, General Tracy, Abe Hummel, and Richard Croker, plus Americans abroad in London at Astor and Waldorf Astor events and the embassy banquet in London with long-standing England plots.
A story of Reginald Slowboy and Miss Cutting unfolds on a Fourth of July eve. Procrastination and shy longing lead to a tense moment alone on a dark piazza as a final cannon cracker looms, hinting at a fateful decision and a caustic remark about inanimate objects outsmarting humans.
The speaker Spoutem delivers nonstop remarks, insisting the title orator of the day implies continuous speaking all day. Residents listen as the elongated event continues with no clear end in sight.
Spooner vents about his sister's younger brother and Wilkins suggests removing him by practical means. Spooner reveals he has bought the boy a toy cannon for the Fourth, hinting at a plan to keep him occupied or away.
In Deerfield Massachusetts a new society organized by women aims to promote village industry and revive colonial and revolutionary era needlework. The Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework adopts a spinning wheel as its coat of arms with the letter D on the hub.
A New York World note describes a club dinner where women provided all entertainment beyond traditional roles. A humorous storyteller, a dialect reciter, a whistler, and a lawyer delivered speeches, illustrating expanding womens talents beyond millinery and dressmaking.
Laundry classes for young girls teaching washing and ironing are now established in London boarding schools. The school management committee reports they have proven thoroughly satisfactory in their first year.
During the 1843 Millerite fervor in an old New England town a crimson aurora above snow caused widespread fear. A woman fled toward a neighbor’s house from a cemetery while a husband claimed the dead were rising, only to be reassured when morning came and the world remained. The episode highlights mass superstition tied to apocalyptic anticipation.
Mr. Robinson recounts how cocoa trees require the shade of a larger companion tree in Trinidad. He notes the island's climate harms non natives who drink its water, leading residents to favor whisky with meals, a practice reportedly common among whites there.
A Detroit Free Press vignette describes a pale man railing that vegetarians are superior thinkers on a Woodward avenue streetcar. Passengers mock his claims with carrot and parsnip jokes as the crowd teems with taunts and a near clash.
A woman guest at a Durer collection in New York remarks that modern training has made figure drawing an exact science. She argues Durer's nude flesh appears to hang in bunches, as if afflicted with tumors, contrasting his art with that of today’s students.
A notorious itinerant cyclist who rode nationwide returns with a plan to travel the world and pocket $1000. The writer urges police to arrest him for vagrancy to curb such figures, arguing fewer such fellows would benefit cycling.
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