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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1901
Page
8
On a hillside a mound bears the inscription to a soldier boy Unknown. The verse recalls a village legend and honors the fallen youth who never spoke or claimed a name. Through spring violets and blossoms, the unknown soldier rests, loved by children who recall a tender day.
Two soldiers in a Luzon jungle reflect on past wars and shared humanity. One, Wilson, recalls Gettysburg and a North American comrade who saved his life. The exchange with Private Jarvis reveals enduring bonds across enemies and generations as they brace for a final charge.
Memorial Week item recalls the May 24 1861 death of Colonel Ephraim E Ellsworth at Alexandria Virginia during federal assault on the city. He led the Eleventh New York volunteers to seize a southern flag atop a tavern and was shot by hotel owner James T Jackson as Brownell confronted him.
A London Spare Moments vignette follows a bride and groom waiting on a busy platform. They clash with an impertinent crowd and quarrel with a station master as an express train speeds by without stopping, leaving the couple stunned and tangled in awkward humor.
A London note describes quails fattened by exposure to electric light in a dark cellar so they wake to breakfast each morning. The birds, convinced morning has come, repeat the meal several times a day, sometimes six in one afternoon. The Philadelphia Record adds Bavarian law regulates beer glasses to hold exactly half a pint, or nearly nine-tenths of two pints.
A veteran recalls a November 1863 raid during the Gettysburg aftermath in Virginia. A sergeant and a corporal plan a theft from the artillery commissary, seizing a ham, a barrel of sugar, and a barrel of hard bread as they dodge guards and move supplies back to camp. The narrator reflects on Union soldiers looting both enemy and own stores amid war.
A battery camp anecdote recounts a corporal slipping a barrel of sugar from brigade stores and hiding it in the woods to the delight of the narrator. Major Mandeville orders a strict search, only to find the culprit had fled, leaving the camp with a comic misadventure and a wary mood among officers.
The lesson discusses Acts and 1 Corinthians linking Christ’s resurrection with Pentecost and the Spirit. It traces how the disciples received the Holy Ghost, spoke in many languages, and spread the gospel, highlighting unity, prophecy, and the spreading of God’s works through the apostles.
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