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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1914
Page
7
The piece reflects on Lincoln with reverence, exploring vision, leadership, and moral striving. It contrasts desires for fame with devotion to truth, while lamenting vanity and the burden of stone-faced sorrow in a sculpted likeness. The poem mourns humility and seeks inner resolve.
Kansas City resident Haworth shows a cane and a gavel said to be gifts from Abraham Lincoln. The cane is carved from black walnut with German silver band and an inscription claiming Lincoln presented them when Haworth chaired a local county committee.
A fragmentary anecdote describes Col W H Crook at a fort night wake and a door knock from Ten-?len? Colonel Crook and President Lincoln discussing a permit with Stanton present. The tale suggests new, previously unprinted details and rumors from the era.
A wry reminiscence recalls a chair labeled Uncle Abe and a cane given to keep order. The speaker recalls Lincoln and Douglas riding through Paria Illinois, Lincoln's uncertain early status, and Douglas as a small man in a long linen duster.
In Maine a farmer, unable to work, sought Lincoln’s aid to discharge one of his two sons from the army. He told Stanton he could claim Congress’ power, but not reveal it to lawmakers. Lincoln agreed, discharging the son while Congress remained unaware of the privilege.
A fragment discusses Abraham Lincoln’s use of stories to soften refusals and rebukes, framing storytelling as a tool to reduce friction while delivering point. It notes a censure for past excess and quotes Lincoln’s view that stories aid his purpose rather than define him as merely a teller. Includes a Lowell quotation about creation and virtue.
Lincoln refused a burial permit for a colonel’s wife who died with the regiment, despite the colonel’s grief. Veale recounts the president’s blunt reply that such requests cannot be entertained, and Lincoln’s consolation that sadness is a shared heritage.
The piece recounts Lincoln's calm reply to England over the Confederate commissioners Mason and Slidell seizure. It notes his phrase One war at a time as calming a nation stirred by protests and a looming conflict with a British vessel on the high seas. Lincoln understood human nature and patience.
An odd Civil War anecdote recounts Lincoln listening to soldiers, weighing rank and pretension. A picket questions a secret party, and the president visits Major Charles H Houghian, tears flowing as he consoles the dying boy, pledging to live for them. The tale pivots to a California politician and a barber joke, ending with Lincoln’s reflective humor.
In a hot dusty scene, Lincoln comments that Douglas cannot be president because voters will not elect a man with a long coat tail. The remark causes much laughter and lifts the mood of the crowd.
A naive applicant sought the White House doorkeeper post. Lincoln, in a cautious, kindly manner, questioned the man about any experience or instruction in doorkeeping and elicited a hesitant answer, exposing his lack of qualifications without offending him.
In a terse exchange Lincoln questions the applicant’s fitness for an important post. The man replies that he has qualifications, then takes leave humbly and almost gratefully amid the conversation.
Lincoln's quote proclaims persistent effort and steadfast resolve, asserting that personal outcome determines reputation more than criticism. The message emphasizes perseverance toward a chosen end, with a notable Lincoln attribution stating endurance defines legacy regardless of external judgment.
A sweeping 19th century portrait tracing Abraham Lincoln from his Kentucky birth in 1809 to his rise, political battles, and assassination in 1865. It highlights family roots, early reading, career shifts, slavery debates, and Lincoln's distinctive appearance and somber temperament.
In Decatur during court week Judge Davis presided as Abraham Lincoln arrived with a piano. Lincoln helped unload a plane in a wagon, assisted by Leonard Swett and Mr. Linder, then oversaw piano setup and played Rosin the Bow before a crowd. He enjoyed the judge’s concert, later praising the song He Doeth All Things Well.
A tribute to Abraham Lincoln as a life that inspires nations and races. The piece contrasts his humble origins with his enduring wisdom, leadership, and moral resolve, arguing philosophy and science pale beside the living example of his achievements and humanity.
A plain drawing explains constructing affordable durable cow stanchions for small scale dairies. It details 2x6 lower rails, top rail dimensions, 2x4 uprights, bolt fastenings, and spacing of holes with runs for both top and bottom rails.
Instructions describe assembling a stanchion with bottom pieces, stationary uprights, top rails, and an 11 inch 2x4 spacer between rails. The movable part is held by a lock between the top rails. one stationary upright extends to the upper joist for rigidity, with possible nail or pine to the floor and posts set before concrete on a concrete floor.
The guide says keep butter good from the start and cold. Pack in scalded glass crocks, fill within an inch of the top, cover with salt, muslin, extra cloth, and brown paper, then store in a cool dry icehouse or cellar. A brine of water salt and egg whites is poured cold over the crock to preserve butter for a year or more.
Sharar and Mar A Bazaar stock valued around 3000 dollars sits in a 1200 resident village as the only store of its kind. It proposes trade for city property and land, including an eighty acre farm, equity in a twenty acre chicken and truck farm, and a house in Alma. Other items include a fourty acre farm, a country grocery stock, a three story brick block, a hotel, and a bar doing about 50 dollars daily, all offered for sale or exchange for land or city property.
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