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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1902
Page
6
A 1782 letter shows Washington urging union and constitutional reform, warning against monarchy. After learning army discontent, he sternly rebukes officers seeking a king. He dies at Mount Vernon after a severe illness, aged 67, with Congress and the nation mourning.
After Washington returned to Newburgh at war’s end Congress sent for him at Princeton to discuss peace and public concerns. Congress unanimously voted to erect an equestrian statue of Washington at the site of Congress and to hire Europe’s finest artist under the supervision of the U S minister at the court of Verwaillag.
A frontier era portrait shows George Washington facing low officer pay and mutiny threats. He writes to the governor demanding equal allowances with British troops, rejects inferiority, and seeks to steady troops by appealing to honor and duty.
At the start of the revolution the New England delegates urged Col. Washington for chief command. Massachusetts led in suffering and army origins, while Adams moved to form a Continental army and hinted at a Virginian candidate. Washington was unanimously elected by ballot and he accepted when Congress notified him.
As peace arrived the officers and soldiers voiced discontent over pay arrears. With disbandment looming, hopes for settlement rose even as claims accumulated, signaling tension within the ranks before final demobilization.
After Washington's retirement his health remained robust though age brought some infirmities. On December 12, 1799, he rode to his terms and directed his managers despite rain and sleet. Returning soaked, he caught a cold but showed no fear of danger and spent the evening with family as usual.
A rare early edition of Olvn Coldsmiths Life of Shakespeare once belonged to Secretary Hay and reportedly came from George Washingtons library. The inside cover bears Washington family arms and the title page is said to bear the first presidents signature, claimed as recent as yesterday though written over a century ago.
New York endured the worst blizzard since 1888 as a gale and heavy snowfall paralyzed traffic. Streetcars stalled, ferries and tugboats limited, and 4000 workers cleared Manhattan while Brooklyn faced heavier blockades. Long Island and New Jersey towns were snowbound with drifts up to 25 feet in places.
Mrs Newlywed praises the butcher for generosity and quality meat after ordering a four pound roast, but receives a larger cut instead. The exchange reveals light domestic humor amid a Brooklyn Eagle snippet.
An amusing antiquarian snippet from Gentleman's Magazine recounts a quip about a spider spinning a web in jest and a French envoy De Morny, noting a Russian candle feat, a coup d etat, and a wry remark about choosing sides with the broom handle during upheaval.
A Kansas man in 1909 suffered five months of back pain and soreness until using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He started with six a day, improved in a week, then completed another box and has had no recurrence for over a year. A Philadelphia Press quip follows about a separate court exchange with a black eye.
A Brooklyn Eagle fragment questions Miriam and Misa Searleaf in a cryptic pastiche. It mentions infallibility, forty years, and a shifting identity as hats are worn, framed in a tersely surreal local-notebook style.
A scrambled OCR page shows patent claims by Patonts Lint of Tatentn and others from Minnesota and Chicago, listing devices like fly screens and leather stretching gear. Scattered lines mimic jokes and ads, with snippets about trousers, accounting statements, cold remedies, and a handful of city names and vendors.
An OCR fractured notice mentions Tol A. Sulzer Bead Co of Lacrosse Wisconsin and various vegetable items while a sugar company in Hawaii forecasts five tons per acre on a 4600 acre tract. The fragmentary text includes garbled phrases and quoted aphorisms about pity and kinship.
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