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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1897
Page
7
A Memorial Day tribute portrays peace spreading across the nation and honors soldiers who died for freedom. The poem invokes spring scenery and national renewal, urging citizens to remember the sacrifices of the Civil War era while praising democratic ideals and civic virtue.
In June 1864 near Spottsylvania Court House, Sergeant Norton discovers German recruit Oberholtz about to shoot from a ravine. He encounters a frightened young woman nearby, steadies her as she collapses, and feels a surge of sympathy as he tends her at the edge of danger.
In the Virginia woods, Sergeant Fred Norton escorts Edith Madden, 17, daughter of a Confederate officer, to her father’s house and marries her with Chaplain Whitaker officiating, after aiding her amid famine and danger. Oberholtz, the German recruit, and a white haired veteran accompany them. SQUARED ACCOUNTS.
Marshall P Wilder recounts his early life and path to fame in humor, detailing moves from New York to Hartford to England and back. He recalls beginnings with a jailer’s red headed son, gigs on the scaffold, time as a Bradstreet’s fire boy, and his rise through free entertainments before charging fees.
A Philadelphia suffragist has prepared a flag she calls the woman's flag. The blue field bears four white stars, each representing a state where woman suffrage prevails, signaling a banner for the movement.
Edward S. Martin, writing in Scribner's, argues that a distinct Harvard spirit exists among faculty and students. It is a force promoting veracity, honor, and good manners, influencing conduct in deience and philosophy and underpinning Harvard’s law.
A critical note from the American Medical-Surgical Bulletin condemns glorification of excessive eating and drinking. It cites a well known boniface praised for gastronomic feats, who died young after defying medical advice by dining on his hotel porch. The piece warns newspapers catered to gluttony and mocks epicurean heroes who live to eat.
Mrs T Rover in Ladies Home Journal describes an oyster cocktail made with six tiny oysters a few drops of tabasco a pinch of salt a teaspoonful Worcestershire sauce a teaspoonful tomato ketchup and a tablespoonful lemon juice for serving.
A benevolent old lady asks what was the hardest work ever done for a living. The answer is startling Stealin. Detroit Free Press notes a remark. The piece also mentions M Maiigault an anatomist who showed that forcing air into a dead animal larynx can produce sounds similar to living voice.
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