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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1874
Page
4
Winter brings cold and scarce resources. The poem urges compassion for the poor as nature freezes, rivers rise, and dangers mount. It envisions a future of salvation and unity when Christ is born, death is conquered, and the rich remember those in need.
General Cullen A Battle recalls a court martial during winter 1863 64 at Round Oak Church where Edward Cooper faced a desertion charge. The prisoner received a furlough letter from his wife Mary and child Eddie, describing hunger and danger at home, which moved the court to tears and influenced the defense.
A Confederate court martial convicts a husband and father, then the commanding general pardons him. The tale recalls General Lee’s influence and a final battlefield moment where a lone soldier asks if he saved the honor of Mary and Lucy as he dies at Cold Harbor.
Notes on Cull Times extol advertising as a remedy for dull times and an aid to memory. It argues a sign-board tells nothing and only ads convey information. While not all advertisers get rich, few prosper without advertising, and the world’s memory is short unless it is jogged frequently.
The grave of Edgar Allan Poe will be marked by a monument costing 1500 dollars. So far 625 dollars has been raised and 550 dollars more promised. A chaste design features a die-block with inscribed panels and a lyre cap crowned with bay laurel, a medallion of Poe on one panel, and other inscriptions from his writings on the remaining panels.
The Chicago Tribune editor Horace White, after nine years as editor in chief, plans a European tour. Beginning as a Beloit College graduate in 1854 he rose from a reporter earning eight dollars weekly to Washington assignments and eventual Tribune control with Alfred Cowles. The paper's profits and stock value reportedly surged. the Chicago Cor. NY Times notes a coup detat and rising shares.
Paris police are sued over a startling notice about an 18 year old bride with blue eyes and black hair. The country girl arrived with her fiancé for a church wedding, rode in a cab from the station, the driver sped off after a purchase, and the couple was separated with the bride found weeping in the cab.
The Nashville Union notes that only Jefferson in 1804 Morton in 1839 and Gaston in 1874 carried Massachusetts and each gap was 35 years. It predicts the Bay State will again vote Democratic in 1962.
Tilsonsure Ont Nov 27 A blaze last night destroyed about twenty stores and dwellings on the upper flats. Sufferers include Henneo grocery and liquors Short Co hardware Marrett general store McCullum drug store and the Montreal Telegraph Company office. Total losses range from 75000 to 100000.
On Thanksgiving crowded churches and theatres reported strong receipts. At Plymouth church Brooklyn Bishop Beecher prayed and thanked God for spiritual progress amid past afflictions. Charities aid fell short on Blackwell Island due to funding gaps for Thanksgiving luxuries.
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