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Newspaper
Flora Enterprise Sentinel
Location
Flora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1905
Page
3
A nostalgic verse recalls a mother awaiting her son returning home. The speaker cherishes the baby grown into a man, reunions under moonlit skies, and gratitude for family harmony. It celebrates motherhood, memory, and enduring love as the son comes home.
A hungry Yankee soldier and a French-leaning companion hide at a farmer's house. The widow feeds them and lends clothes taken from a dead husband before warning of approaching danger as soldiers converge.
In Chapter XII, D'ri and I drop our disguises and flee into a damp cellar. A sneering English officer taunts a woman above us, asking for a kiss while we listen to her struggle. We climb the ladder as the scene tightens with danger and secrecy.
In a perilous London frontier scene, I restrain a British captain while D’ri disarms him. Captured, we are jailed in a dungeon under a British fort as a hostile crowd jeers outside. A cryptic guard’s cipher hints at a plan.
Two travelers discussed free luggage and tested trunks with a measure, costing one a five franc fine for an invalid measurement. The other, posing as a royal official, warned of a fifty franc penalty for a missing stamp and demanded the man’s name and address.
A waiter in Hot Springs Virginia amused colleagues by a near sighted Senator John T. Morgan mistaking a waiter’s thumb for a chocolate eclair. The tale, told by a colleague, recalls the Saturday Evening Post anecdote about the Alabama statesman’s dessert mishap.
A courtroom exchange quoted from Smith's Weekly features the witness giving precise measurements of seven yards three feet four and a half inches to justify a distance claim. The dialogue shows Sir Frank Lockwood pressing for certainty and the witness admitting he anticipated the question and measured accordingly.
Specially prepared lesson from John 14 1 14 and Galatians 6 13 on humble service. It explores Jesus washing the disciples feet at the Passover and the call to love one another with self sacrificial care, urging daily cleansing and spiritual humility. It closes with practical points urging action today and reliance on Jesus Spirit for victory.
Wisconsin governor cites a crowd of mess men from Duckwater as a cautionary tale of bargain culture. The piece threads in anecdotes about Duckwater’s supposed price mindset and contrasts it with a drummer’s quest for a discount. Included are assorted clippings on health remedies and public notices in a bustling, fragmented newspaper page.
Mrs Willadsen of Manning Iowa writes to Mrs Pinkham praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and credits it with saving her life. The letter expresses deep gratitude and thanks for timely relief.
A reader describes relief after two years of treatment and urges other women with menstrual and uterine troubles to write for help. The notice touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the reliable remedy for symptoms including irregular menses, weakness, backache and nervous debility and invites letters to Mrs Pinkham at Lynn.
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