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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1903
Page
5
A ten year old Northern girl, her dying father poor and her mother dead, brings a white kitten to a Union regiment at camp near Staunton River. The colonel accepts the gift with pride, the kitten becomes the regiment’s mascot, and generous contributions follow as the child’s act is celebrated.
A customer buys a shiny derby while a clerk praises local hustlers and batter trade. The piece covers old hat salvage profits, a hashelman’s rounds for collecting bats, and how hats are cleaned and resold, then pivots to urging industrious town effort and warning against inertia.
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