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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1904
Page
3
A fragmented, handwritten style note seems to echo a Valentine message or verse. The text references sentiments about love, family, and devotion, with lines about not hurting a mother or friend and urging study and neatness. The excerpt ends with a nameless signoff.
In Washington on February 12, 1865, young Madge Bennett helps her crippled father and sick brother Bennie by selling sandwiches on Pennsylvania Avenue. Congressman Chambers buys her a violets and change, as clerks and officials stop for her meals. Madge hopes to greet Lincoln and dreams of peace while a runaway carriage endangers her path.
The piece recalls a child Madge visiting the White House with a nurse and meeting President Lincoln on a bright day on the avenue. Lincoln consoles her after an injury, then passes amid fans and later sends gentle greetings as he travels Pennsylvania Avenue, before news of his assassination shocks all. It also reflects on Valentine tributes to presidents and a portrait of Lincoln’s early oratorical skill.
A fragmentary report suggests Curtis recounts a Lincoln tale at the White House. The anecdote involves Lincoln allegedly displaying powers before cabinet members during an early visit, with a focus on a median and the president’s reaction.
An 1860 campaign scene unfolds with a dramatic medium delivering quotes from historic figures like Henry Knox Napoleon Lafayette and Franklin to President Flo as a tester of leadership. The piece notes farmers weary of politics as ministers and lawyers spread abolition temperance writings to wider audiences.
A flood of valentines arrives at the White House as citizens nationwide mail messages to the President for St. Valentine’s Day. Most letters are opened by clerks and discarded for lack of merit, with only a few deemed worthy of President Roosevelt’s perusal.
Iowa items report Woodoon Reagan’s appeal from Appanoose County was denied by the Supreme Court, affirming the lower court verdict and sentence for murder in the second degree. The trial centered on Hila Clark’s death from a gunshot amid a prior quarrel.
The Iowa Legislature debates railway and livestock transport reforms as bills move between chambers. Measures call for free or affordable passenger transport to markets, prompt rail carrier service, nondiscriminatory handling of freight, and funding provisions for investigation and taxation of benefiting railway companies. Committees from both houses will reconcile differences and select key features for passage.
A Davenport area revival and school building proposal share the state's civic notes alongside bank failures and a Great Western engineer’s robbery. Solon store fire follows lamp blast. Davenport saloons close at midnight. infant interment prompts no prosecution. aging couple marks seventieth wedding anniversary. Macon City murder trial verdict appeal noted.
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