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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1900
Page
3
A vivid fragment evokes memories of past Fourths with lyric lines about silent lips still hands and wolves calling from the past. The verse speaks of deeds hopes and dreams cast into the mold of achievement and fading with the wind as drums echo and ghosts appear.
In 1776 Dorothy Sterling recalls a Flatbush childhood during the Declaration’s ratification. A midnight ride, a Hessian threat, and a sudden attack on a King George statue spur her father’s wartime retreat, tracing early American independence memories.
A wartime tale from New York Herald recounts Dorothy Stirling's brave act during Hessian pursuit. The ten year old deceives a wary German officer to guide his troops to her father, then is returned safely by the officer who praises her courage. Captain Stirling lives on as a respected figure, while Dorothy grows up to celebrate the Fourth with her descendants.
An old text fragment describes a perilous escape scene with a girl Dorothy hearing muskets and a German commander reacting to distant shots. It shifts to a reverent, extravagant Fourth of July celebration in Newark, recounting speeches, processions, bells, cannon, and prayers marking Independence Day.
Poem fragment calls for awakening a newborn world and freedom with flags lowered and guns ready to roar from shore to shore, urging a united, fearless stance in the name of liberty.
In a light exchange from the Philadelphia North American, Banks jokes about fireworks at home for the Fourth of July, Bings replies he can afford the display but cannot stand medical bills, while remarks hint at a larger wartime or postwar context.
April auction in London yields 57 000 pourids totaling 610 000 dollars for ostrich feathers. The page lists numerous ads and dubious claims for books, health tonics, remedies, and patent medicines. It includes promotions for Know Thyself, The Science of Life, counterfeit medical treats, and various patent cures.
In Yorkshire a visiting clergyman comforted a grieving poor man who had just lost his little boy. The man sobbed and declared that if the law allowed, he would have liked to have shoved the poor beggar corpse.
A testimonial from Annie Thompson of South Hot Springs Arkansas claims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured long standing female weakness including levorrhea womb inflamation and back pain. After ten bottles she regained strength sleep and appetite and now advocates the remedy for others in similar distress.
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