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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1905
Page
3
A Narrator recalls Marian Ames, a spirited rich wife who dies young. Marian confides a plan and asks the friend to mail a sealed letter after death, without reading the address. She dies within a year and the narrator mails the letter to an unknown recipient.
A historic manuscript found at the Iowa Masonic library recounts how Burlington editor James G Edwards and others proposed the term Hawkeye for Iowans in 1838. The name, linked to Ohio Buckeye, spread from a Burlington paper to state and national usage, making Iowa's people known as Hawkeyes.
Montreal Star reports on the Allahabad Women’s Hospital showing two letters of gratitude. One husband thanks staff after his wife’s cure while another note reveals the wife’s death on the night of the 27th. The exchange underscores emotional responses to medical care in colonial India.
A household tip explains applying a starch and water mixture with soft flannel to a blackened whitewashed ceiling. Let it dry and brush lightly to remove the dark stain, leaving no marks.
In a tenement neighborhood Mrs. Pell saves 12 cents a week to buy white roses for Decoration Day. When neighbor Mrs. Wilkes asks for the money to visit a dying sister, Pell gives up her plan and helps, then learns flowers arrive late as others decorate two lonely graves with the roses Pell had hoped to place.
A Civil War veteran recalls strict Sherman era foraging rules and a feisty pig escape. He and a fellow soldier chased a fat pig from a garden, then dodged two officers as they pretended to study the animal’s speed. The ruse paid off when the officers left and the men captured the pig.
The report recounts women who disguised themselves as men to join Union regiments. Charles D. Fuller in Company D, Forty-sixth Pennsylvania was exposed and discharged. Frances Day, under Frank Mayne, became sergeant in Company F, One Hundred Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania before deserting and later being killed in another regiment. Miss Seelye fought as Frank Thompson in Company F, Second Michigan, deserted after several battles. Congress later cleared her of desertion due to prior good service.
Ida Moray, a sixteen year old girl, rejects Guy Hardwick's proposal. Hortensia Carey, the beautiful rival, accepts a marriage proposal from Hardwick but later returns his ring. Hardwick realizes his true love is Ida, and they wed, while Hortensia remains with wealth as her reward.
Washington Post notes the beef trust has one edge in the clash with the government as consumers bear the cost of the defense.
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