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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1906
Page
7
An Ohio State Journal verse honors an aged veteran bearing a button on his breast. It recalls his youth in the Union cause the battles at Gettysburg Chickamauga and Shiloh and his steadfast fight to crush secession and defend liberty. The poem pledges lasting comradeship among those who wore the blue.
A Vielona Lambkin recalls a moment of restraint during a roving camp meal as a lamb roast is discovered near a stolen fence rail fire. A soldier explains the lamb was taken near the outpost picket and killed in self defense amid orders forbidding pillage. Other anecdotes note General Joe Wheeler's pride in literary work and a visitor’s joke about a hollow tree trunk war relic from Hemlock Creek battles.
In a Creekville setting Uncle Wilson Flanders and Mrs Flinders discuss veterans, pensions, and the new post office change that will send General Delivery letters from multi offices six times daily. The dialogue contrasts a veteran’s rough service with modern city life and railcar difficulties.
Washington Star outlines General Wade Hampton's elite stock of horses during the Confederate era. It details Beauregard, a sixteen and a half hands horse noted for courage and endurance, wounded at Gettysburg, later dying outside the hospital tent after following Hampton to the field.
Ex captain recalls Civil War era Libby prison revolt described to a Pittsburg Dispatch reporter. He recalls 800 Union soldiers singing patriotic airs, hiding a flag, rallying around a pole, and facing guards ready to fire. Prisoners endured starvation and were punished with four days of zero rations and coarse meal.
Prairie State Incubator Company in Wet Homer City Pa offers Zerta Quick products and various chicken feeds, eggs from prize stock, and breeding fowl. Niagara Falls prepares for $20–$30 million power and industry projects with 6,000 jobs as real estate promotes Indiana Pa area, and J A Campbell of Indiana, Pa advertises store property and land for sale along the CG&CR branch with leased buildings and 40 acres.
A tribute in Cookrory Pennsylvania dated May 22 1906 honors John D Meekins born October 9 1840 in Bromicham England. It notes his emigration to America in 1842 arrival in Pittsburg Green Township life and seven children two wives civil war service with wounds at Gettysburg and Cold Harbor leading to leg amputation and lifelong crippled state. He was a German Baptist church member and praised for patriotism steadfast character and Christian life. The piece closes with elegiac lines and local notices from area advertisements.
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