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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1897
Page
8
A collage of 19th century clippings cites armor to be wed to Lilian Russell, shipwreck warnings, price squabbles, political barbs, and city notes. It notes arctic cold, charitable calls, and naval concerns, weaving political satire with weather and maritime fears across multiple papers.
California boxing circles hail Nevada as the likely site for the Corbett versus Fitzsimmons bout. Dan Stuart aims for Carson City with trains from Chicago, expecting 20 000 seats and 150 000 dollars gate receipts. Peter Maker may meet Choynski or Sharkey next.
A New York correspondent reports the Salvation Army used all its Chicago built shelters to aid New York’s homeless. Within six nights about 10,000 found shelter nightly, with over 2,000 on colder nights, receiving bread coffee or soup. Commanders Booth-Tucker and aides led the relief effort offering welcome to all regardless of creed or nationality.
The President approves withdrawal from certain criminal cases and a Supreme Court inquiry. William Price to retire under the forty years' service rule. The House committee plans favorable action on a metric system bill. Elections panel delays Georgia race decision. Perkins proposes a mining bureau. Public Lands panel favors entry and patenting of lands with petroleum. Survivors of the Franklin Bay expedition to be retired. Chandler pushes a single labor and census department plan.
An elderly narrator recalls Uncle Abe Lincoln and a young Billy who enlists to fight for liberty. The tale spans battlefield heroism at Vicksburg and Fort McAllister, Lincoln’s mercy, Billy’s color bearer role, and Lincoln’s grief after Ann Rutledge. The narrative intertwines passion, faith in liberty, and loss.
The article recalls Ann Mares Rutledge meeting Abraham Lincoln in 1882 when she was 18. suitors, notably Joan McNeill later revealed as McNamar, pursued her. engagement ended as she delayed marriage. Eventually Ann agreed to become Lincoln’s wife in New Salem before 1835.
A fragmentary OCR of Lincoln's inaugural address themes quotes the oath to preserve the Union and bonds of affection. It recalls civil strife, calls for unity, and envisions reconciliation as the better angels of our nature rally the nation.
Lincoln speaks on emancipation with a solemn sense of responsibility and says he trusts in God. He will not defend his actions with further remarks, stating it is for the country and the world to judge, and that the nation faces a difficult era ahead.
Philadelphia man William Flood recalls being first to reach President Lincoln after the shot at Ford's Theatre. He served on the steamship Teazer under Captain Silas Owen and describes entering the box, tending to the wound, and guiding crowds to safety before pursuing John Wilkes Booth through Washington streets and the Navy Yard.
The text recounts a youthful attachment of Talleyrand to a person named Jones around age ten. It notes Napoleon’s order to marry and select a wife, which Talleyrand explained as a childish affection scoffed at by the famed match-maker.
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