Decoration Day Parade at Graceland Cemetery Honors Soldiers
A large crowd joined the Decoration Day exercises at Graceland cemetery. Soldiers from the Civil War and Spanish American War were honored as the parade led by the Mitchell band and local militia marched to the cemetery. Comrades Nash Tillotson and Moore conducted wreath ceremonies, taps sounded, and graves were decorated by Relief Corps children. Community attendees afterward enjoyed a well patronized dinner at the Carnegie library post rooms, yielding a notable sum for the relief fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graceland Cemetery
Lower Main Street
J. S. Moore
Marshall
J. B. Wolgemuth
Mitchell
Mitchell Band
G.A. R
Williams
Glenn Rowley
Blaine Scriven
Fred Porter
Mitchell Fire Department
McCurdy
Twe
Sixth Street
Nash
Tillotson
Moore
Rathbun
Relief Corps
Carnegie Library
Patriotic Decora tion Day Exercises At Opera House
The Decora tion Day program filled the opera house with a large audience. Comrade Welgemuth led, Rev Bowdish gave the prayer, music was provided by a local quartet, and students performed drills and readings. Mayor Silsby delivered the address and the crowd heard Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech and a full reprinted speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opera House
Grand Army and Relief Corps
J. B. Welgemuth
A. Craig Bowdish
Congregational Church
Windle
Bras
Kintigh
Scallin
Messrs Boggs
Welch
Kratz
Milne
Maude Silsby-Nichols
Walter Seaman
Lincoln
Gettysburg
F. H. Hoff
Geo. A. Silsby
Pilgrim Fathers
Plymouth Rock
American
Mmore
PIANO TUNERS A MASTER OF HARMONY OR NOT
A memoir-like vignette shows a plague tuner tuning a piano with skill yet admitting he cannot play written music. Household members debate whether harmony expertise equates to music mastery, while a man explains tuners rely on ear for notes and their harmony, not reading scores.
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Africa
Jefferson
South Carolina
Georgia
England
Bancho
Stephen A. Douglas
Democratic Party
Baltimore
Richmond
John ©. Breckenridge
Kentucky
Douglas
South
Abraham Lincoln
Republican Party
Chicago
Lincoln
United States
Gist
North Carolina
Floyd
Confederacy
Sumter
Brother
Winfield Scott
Robert E. Lee
West Point
Annapolis
Bull Run
Union
West Virginia
Virginia
Chase
Jair
Missouri
Seward
A Japanese Legend Of A Ghostly Insect In Himeji
Lafcadio Hearn recounts a curious tradition from Himeji about a ghostly maid named O-Kiku who mourns ten golden bowls. Her spirit allegedly inhabits an insect with a head like a ghost, linked to the ill omen of cultivating chrysanthemums in Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafcadio Hearn
Himeji
Japan
O-Kiku
The Dieting of Pet Dogs and Privilege
A pet doctor from the New York Press mocks women who overfeed dogs and claim poisoning. He prescribes a milk and water diet for two weeks and charges $25 for the owner’s home prescription, noting women refuse to believe him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
New York Press
Nature and Woman Dialogued Quote Exchange
A brief exchange centers on age and nature with Bar low insisting nature never grows old and Hawkins replying that she can conceal age effectively. The dialogue frames aging through gendered commentary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barlow
Hawkins
Also Mentioned on This Page
Philadelphia
Washngton
Ollie
Beral
Jefferson Davis
Celestial Heights
Kort Sumter
Buchanan
Ethiopia
Instea
Antietam
Maryland
Delaware
Tennessee
Jehovah
Appomattox
Lee
Grant
Joe Johnston
Sherman
Raleigh
Johnston
Durham
Hardee
Gicers
Jeff Davis
Federal Congress
Porto Rico
Cuba
Manilla
Shiloh
Chica
Chancellorsville
Lookout Mountain
Missionary Ridge
Atlanta
William T. Sherman
Tecumseh
Steven
America
Chas. H. Powell
Episcopal Church
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