Decoration Day Unity and Remembrance Across The Nation
A patriotic editorial on Decoration Day tracing its origin with women of the war, honoring soldiers from blue and gray, and urging national unity. It recalls Lincoln and Washington, underscores peace after strife, and calls for maintaining rights bought with blood and honoring the dead with enduring reverence.
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Republic
Lincoln
Washington
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Ocean
Fragrance of Spring Echoes Peaceful Gratitude
The quote reflects a New York Ledger sentiment praising the season’s gifts and a national hope for enduring peace, framing spring as a time of gratitude and tranquil progress in the land.
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New York Ledger
Arlington National Cemetery Poem of Peace and Remembrance
A quiet memorial verse by T C Harbaugh honoring Arlington National Cemetery. It reflects on tranquil camps, silent graves, and the yearly return of May flowers over the tombs, contrasting past battles with present peace beneath the Nation's dome.
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Arlington
T. C. Harbaugh
Dramatic life stage sermon on temperance and diligence
A Talmage sermon frames life as a stage where each person enacts charity and faith amid theater like applause and later hiss. It condemns drunkenness, indolence, and selfishness, praising steadfast parental faith and a family built on prayer as the true inheritance, while reflecting on worldly rise and fall.
Today as Fate and the Golden Stair
Poem by Annie L. Muzzey urging readers to seize the present day. It reflects on debts repaid today, the blessing of Now, and the idea that fate hinges on today. The verse emphasizes making the most of opportunities from sunrise to sunset and shaping destiny through current actions.
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Annie L. Muzzey
Memorial Day Tribute to the Gray and the Dead
A Memorial Day ode honors the Confederate veterans and the gray old guard. It recalls Cheatham Jackson and Forrest, praising their sacrifices under Mount Olive and at bivouacs, while acknowledging peace and remembrance as the living lay wreaths for the martyred.
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Oliver
Cheatham
Jackson
Forrest
Les
Adele BE. Shaw
Breezy Chicago Scene Stirs Curiosity at Dance Floor
In breezy Chicago a well-dressed man admires a brunetty woman in cream silk as he asks a bystander about her marriage. The lake breeze carries a hesitant joke about the couple, hinting at social gossip and nightlife.
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Chicago
Poignant Exchange Reveals Poignancy of Love and Poverty
Fragmentary dialogue shows Dirah pleading against contempt as a poor speaker asks not to be despised. The piece hints at social tension between wealth and affection, with emotional strain evident in terse exchanges.
Chotee Farming Lands Open in South Dakota
Chotee lands along the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul line in South Dakota are available on reasonable terms. Prospects are bright for a bountiful harvest this year with thousands of acres across twenty counties open for settlement. For details contact H F Hunter Immig Agent 295 Dearborn St Chicago. The text notes 3,700,000 soldiers in peaceful years with daily costs of nearly 2,500,000 for pay gear and sustenance.
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South Dakota
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
H. F. Hunter
Dearborn Street
Chicago
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Wall Street
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Lord Jesus Christ
Gray Old Guard
Gray
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RE. P. Hall & Co
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Lyon & CO. Tobacco Works
Durham, H. C
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Charles B. Hires Co
Jon Wastingten
Syre'e
Atty
Imperial Accident Association, Special Polices
van Soneah
Michigan Av
Lindsey
Thompson
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