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Newspaper
Freeport Republican
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1882
Page
3
A battlefield romance unfolds as a sentry paces in the tent and a lonely soldier awaits. The countersign Mary is whispered by love as a rider returns, the beloved journeying across miles to comfort him. The night ends with the couple reunited on a bleak prairie.
In Oakley a quilting circle debates gender and fate as Mrs Peek recalls fifty years with her late husband and the burdens of memory while neighbors laugh and query women's roles. A Beech er tale recounted mocks religious immersion and ends with a husband switching churches in uproarious fashion.
A massive cyclone battered Grinnell and Malcolm Iowa on the 17th and 18th of June, killing an estimated dozens in Grinnell and injuring many more. Homes, schools, and businesses were leveled, with property losses running into hundreds of thousands of dollars. A relief train arrived with doctors and supplies as Governor Sherman urged nationwide aid to the stricken towns.
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