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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1896
Page
3
A first person Civil War tale by Col Gilbert A Pierce recounts a son Billy’s enlistment, his court martial and Lincoln’s pardon, and a father’s journey from grief to pride as Billy earns glory as a color bearer and falls in battle while carrying the flag. The piece blends battlefield memory with a tribute to Old Abe and the cause of liberty.
Robert T. Lincoln, son of a president, lives in Chicago and works as attorney for the Chicago Gas Company. His salary is estimated at $25,000 yearly. He served as minister to England when Bizine was secretary of state. He married a Honore sister and resides on Lake Shore Drive in a marble faced mansion. His sister in law is Mrs Sertha Honore Palmer, president of the board of woman managers of the World's Fair. Mrs Pallathur was a longtime client of Auvranam Lincoln.
Dr Max Wolf describes discovering minor planets by photography in Nature using a six inch portrait lens and a thirty inch focal length telescope field of about seventy square degrees. He doubles exposures of two hours and stacks positive and negative to confirm trails and uses a stereoscope to view planets in relief. The text ends with a unrelated moral remark about hypocrites.
The United States shifted from the English system to dollars and cents by 1792 act of Congress establishing coin names and values. A national coinage plan began in 1785, with silver as the standard until 1873, and currently a discretionary double standard with gold as the de facto standard.
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