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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1911
Page
7
A great aunt recalls a Civil War–era romance sparked by a sergeant who courted her at a well near a field camp. She cherishes a bullet carried from Antietam, learning the lover died in battle as a messenger brings the fatal evidence.
A narrator recalls an aging aunt who mourned a forbidden romance tied to a soldier cameraded by memory. She reflects that each Memorial Day makes the past seem dreamlike while her late lover’s words haunt and shape her long life.
Poem recounts wartime memories with gray widows and veterans, reflecting on tolls of years and flags at half mast. Stacy E. Baker is cited, and the verses evoke both Union and Confederate histories as drums beat.
Thomas Welton Stanford brother of the late Senator Stanford offers Stanford University a $100000 gift to establish a chair for the study of the occult with half of the funds to support investigations into psychic phenomena. He aims to fund further up to $1000000 for spiritism research, urging trustees to allow impartial inquiry free from impostors.
In 1861 notables fell as Union officers Ellsworth Greble Winthrop Baker Cameron Slocum and Lyon. Ellsworth led Zouaves and died defending a flag at Alexandria. Other losses included Farnham Lowe and Tillinghast, with Lyon acclaimed for keeping Missouri in the Union after Wilson Creek.
Paris crime bureau captures four masked burglars after a maid spots a top hat during a break in at a country house. The group fled by motorcar. one suspect was found drinking at a Paris bar. All three accomplices, and the ringleader, are in custody.
Nagasaki is described as the oldest port in Japan where early foreigners including Portuguese merchants first landed. The text notes it as one of the five mesima ports.
Paul Graynor, 37, serving a 40 year term for murder in the Texas state penitentiary, refused a pardon saying he can do more good inside. Sixteen years ago he quarreled with a woman he shot dead. At least fifteen former inmates he mentored became converts and leaders, with four in responsible roles including two court stenographers.
A brief quip from the Cleveland Plain Dealer frames Sauntering Sam as a veteran tramp asked by a farmer's wife if he ever thought of working. He answers with a playful vow to work, saying he was too lazy at the time.
A narrator recounts visiting Johnson's Island in Sandusky Bay to locate the grave of his Confederate-commander uncle. Guided by a newspaper diagram, he finds his name on a marble headstone among hundreds marked by the wartime burial plot, honoring a fallen Port Hudson battery commander.
A description of the smallest honey bees, Apis florea, found on East Indian islands and Hindustan mainland. Their honeycombs fit a child's hand, cells resemble pinheads, and the bees produce excellent honey and wax. They build on low tree branches and work year round without winter provisions.
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