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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1920
Page
2
A snippet from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address dated November 19 1863 recalls the Civil War battlefield dedication. The passage emphasizes a nation conceived in liberty and a government by and for the people bound to a renewed birth of freedom.
Mrs. John Lyman Child, eighty two, recalls knowing Lincoln and hearing Lincoln and Douglas debate. She shares Abolitionist family ties, her father-in-law Stephen Child, and tales of fleeing enslaved people aided by the Childs. Describes Lincoln’s plain dress, Todd, and Lincoln’s state funeral scene in Springfield.
A new genealogical chart links four other Abe Lincolns to the president, placing Samuel Lincoln of Hingham, England, as progenitor who moved to America in 1637. The chart suggests Abraham Lincoln was nearly a Mayflower descendant, missing by about 17 years.
A Washingtonian recalls a Civil War era moment on Pennsylvania Avenue where Lincoln and Secretary Seward reviewed the first regiment in the capital. Lincoln joked that there were not a hundred men in the ranks who could hold their jobs, underscoring trust in leadership.
An elderly countrywoman visits Lincoln to present a pair of stockings she knit, a yard long. Lincoln expresses gratitude with tears, calling them unique and claiming Washington lacks such items. George Bentwell jokes that the woman made a precise estimate of latitude and longitude.
An Exchange note states Abraham Lincoln owned only three books in early manhood the Bible Acson s Fairies and Weems History of the United States The Bible shaped his simple literary style the fables gave him illustrations and the history acquainted him with national figures Excluding the Bible he might have been a moral wreck or fail to become the Lincoln the world admires today
Quotation on good citizenship urges promoting what is right and eradicating evil, attributed to Abraham Lincoln, stressing that virtue must be known and prevail through action.
Miss Jetske Cremer daughter of the minister from the Netherlands to the United States and Mrs Cremer has joined her parents in Washington. She is debutante age and already a popular member of the younger set.
A photograph depicts the symbolic document to be presented by France to the family or relative of each American World War Soldier who died in the conflict.
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