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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1904
Page
6
Franklin views the Louisburg field after battle as a grim horror. He witnesses the dead, young and old, among entrenchments while a somber procession of Louisburg’s grieving women approaches. Annie Laurie weeps as trumpets recall former joys and Annie Laurie prays.
Col Henry Battersleigh, veteran rider for the Rise Irish, writes in a rough tent on the Western Plains. Once a New York fixer and editor’s figure, he survives on small means, neatness, and military pride while awaiting action and recalling a war’s toll.
Capt Ed ward Franklin returns from war to a changed world and a narrowed horizon. Disillusioned and restless, he longs for the West and its vast, unsettled opportunities. Reading law and watching wagons head West, he sees a shared urge among former East Coast friends to seek new life beyond. To be continued.
Jacob Gittel of Southington Conn faced trouble after a deranged plan to stop his wife’s chatter. He tried to pull her tongue out to end the nuisance but failed, leaving him jailed while the wife remains free to talk, despite public sympathy.
A motor cyclist on a remote hillside speeds into a roadside ditch after a Chinese puzzle view incident. A farm laborer rushes from a nearby field hears the cry Help and, grabbing a stone, asks where to strike the vehicle as both rider and machine suffer damage.
A Washington Star quip mocks education for men as futile as giving a Fiji Islander a bank check. Uncle Eben quips that having money does not guarantee use or gains, highlighting a humorous cultural contrast.
Miss Geraldine Farrar of Melrose Massachusetts has drawn approval from Berliners after a German newspaper accused her of improper relations with the crown prince. Her father secured a retraction from the article's writer. Farrar, famed for singing Marguerite in Faust at the Royal Opera, is in Berlin as Kaiser shutters the house until safer exits are installed.
Gossip in New York society center alleges a famous matron wears a tiara of imitation diamonds. The bejeweled piece, six inches high and styled like an antique crown, was made in Paris about two years ago. The wearer is in exclusive social circles, with a lawyer husband and modest means.
Mme Mettellier, a thirty year box opener at the Comedie Francaise, receives a gold medal from the Parish Society for the Encouragement of Well-Doing. She served through the 1870 war, aided in ambulances, and remained at her post during the commune while stars like Coquelin, Bernhardt, and Got admired her dedication. Edouard Thierry was early manager when she joined.
Grover Cleveland has lived through eighteen administrations from Martin Van Buren to Theodore Roosevelt, not counting his own two terms. He has witnessed six vice presidents ascend to the presidency, three by assassination—Johnson, Arthur, and Roosevelt—while Van Buren, Tyler, and Fillmore also briefly held the office.
Col Will Hays a Kentucky figure and songwriter, aged 68, is recovering from a slight stroke that affected his left side and speech. Doctors are hopeful for full recovery as he regains use of his left limb and expresses himself more clearly today. He has suffered from kidney disease for over a year.
Rev J B Toomay tied the knot for a black couple in a Carthage Missouri shoe shop. After the ceremony the groom asked how much he owed. The minister asked for a price and the groom offered one dollar, which the minister pocketed without change.
The octogenarian Earl of Leicester on his deathbed reportedly holds a unique British peerage position. He has eighteen children, fourteen survive, and his sons-in-law include four earls a viscount and a baron. He is a great-grandfather several times over and father of a ten year old boy. His marriage to Miss Georgiana Cavendish occurred exactly one century after his father’s marriage.
The Philadelphia street railway magnate William J. Elkins dodged a persistent young reporter who pressed for personal and financial milestones. When asked about his first $1,000 and his happiest moment, Elkins replied with terse, wary answers and a final jab that such questions never end.
The French minister of war General Andre faces heavy criticism for promoting equality in the army and abolishing presenting arms. He is accused of socialist influence and religious and political persecution, including sentencing sixty Polytechnic students to two years of hard service. The general remains popular with ordinary soldiers.
Congressman Williams led a delegation described as the new Democratic leader and a party with English noble heritage touring Texas. In a small town the local magnate showed them the best saloon and introduced the bartender, who remarked on their noble titles with a sharp, humorous reply.
At a meeting of the Low Beesit era Association the nominating committee and officers were arranged, naming Shane Frasident Professor Diane Wright State Normal School as Vice President City Superintendent, K Stevenson Iowan City Second Vice President, Mattie Stah Simpson College Third Vice President, and other officials including A B Storms Amen County Superintendent Anna White. A Rock Island line freight rate cut to about 7 to 8 cents per bushel for Iowa corn was announced, intended to boost shipment from Kansas and Nebraska. Capitol fire victims listed with injuries, and State Labor Commissioner Brigham attended a Kansas City conference on a free interstate employment bureau for harvest hands across five states. New York Life filed an Iowa report showing $1.4 million in business and $25,109 in state taxes. state auditor appoints John Emory as examiner.
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