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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1886
Page
4
A narrative poem discusses generous gospel for workers, contrasts church care with working people's needs, and laments a wealthier sermon favoring the rich over plain bread for laborers. The prose interjects a dramatic scene of Will Gordon thwarting a predatory suitor, restoring moral balance.
Will Gordon confronts Henry Benner, rival for Alice Martin’s affection at a factory village. After Alice scorns his advances, Benner threatens payback for a perceived injury as tension erupts at the gate and inside the house where she waits by the window.
An emotional piece recalling Civil War memory. It asks veterans to narrate true bravery on stormy fields where the flag rose, contrasting the fallen hero with unknown graves and the grit of both Union and Confederate fighters amid smoke, cannons, and sacrifice.
A Confederate soldier Jim Gibbs and old Daddy Me of Live Oak Florida share a post on picket duty. Jim, fond of whisky, sleeps on duty after an eye opener. Daddy confiscates gun and bottle, then lectures Jim. Jim feigns wakefulness, hides Daddy’s gun, and returns to duty as Daddy returns unaware. Afterward Jim extols temperance to Daddy who remains unsure of the night’s events.
Letter recounts Civil War incidents involving Johnston's army in Mississippi. Sergeant Finny Morris guards sugar cane to keep soldiers from stealing it, while General Loring questions the duty. A Port Hudson anecdote describes three officers detailed to condemn unshocked corn meal from the Post Commissary.
During McClellan's advance on Richmond a foraging squad killed a hog near general headquarters. The Captain initially faced a duty conflict but was enticed by the smell of cooking meat. Colonel Van Wyck arrived and was invited to supper with the foragers, shaping the outcome of the startling wartime anecdote.
A fragment from Henry Nason of the Chicago Ledger recalls a Napoleonic humor scene where a French aide questions a hog at Colonel Van Wyck’s table, then shows deft timing as the hog is seized. It also narrates wartime forewarnings of death for Col Ellsworth and Col Baker with a sergeant’s warning to his wife.
In a Texas setting Bel lew recalls General Hancock waking in alarm for firing at the front. Or derly Shaw would rouse him, the general would fetch boots and staff, then ride out with exclamations about the time and readiness. The staff appeared later, sometimes missing a member, at Broad daylight.
In 1861 during a Virginia encampment near Washington, guards protected a four acre strawberry patch from three month volunteers. Rebels sabotaged the effort by nightly looting, yet only two gallons of berries, hulled and sugared, were found and sent to brigade HQ. The Brigadier General claimed he could not locate the missing acres.
A six year old girl in Harrisburg during the early war period spots a marching unit. She clutches her hands and cries that one soldier is her father, believing he may go off never to return, her innocent gaze fixed on the soldiers as they pass.
Colonel J C Black, then Commissioner of Pensions, halted his regiment for dinner opposite a cornfield during a corn season. With rations short he ordered two ears per man. Adjutant reports some men took four or five ears. The Colonel replies no one has less than two ears, so no disobedience.
A string of incidents across Ohio includes a bold residence robbery at Adam Kibler near Jelloway with $600 to $1,000 taken and keys to notes, a Cambridge oil strike with test well and gas flow, a Dublin or New Philadelphia carriage accident injuring Mrs Kennedy and daughter, shooting at Galion by a concealed assassin, a fatal train accident at Youngstown, a fatal fall in Leadville shaft, and the Holmes County soldiers monument contract. Additional items note children injured by revolver mishaps, corn pests in Licking County, a Cambridge widow’s accidental death, railway construction contracts, Heidelberg College hazing fines, a fatal buggy accident, Springfield fire at Funk & Co., electric street lighting in Zanesville, and Canton Masonic Temple fundraising.
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