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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1900
Page
6
In a Civil War escape tale, the narrator guides Margaret through woods and fields toward a frontier plantation. Dawn reveals sentinels, tents, and horses as they approach safety, while the moral strain of aiding the rebel cause weighs on them. Margaret faces consequences for her act and they press on toward dawn and danger.
Margaret Beach aids a Union plan to surprise Confederate forces by slipping past guards and guiding a bridge assault. The general orders a dawn march, assigns scouts, and prepares to trap the enemy while another column crosses the river under Wilton’s defense.
Wound around to the house we entered the grounds and heard a faint boom signaling a morning gun. The sound suggested an unexpected attack from a distant camp.
A Windsor Magazine report describes the 1866 Tarawera Rotomahana eruption that razed the white and pink terraces, buried a Maori village under lava, and left the landscape a barren carpet of volcanic debris nine miles across.
The oldest soldier in the army at Willets Point was executed by order of the War Department after 33 years of service. He spent years underground in the Hell Gate tunnel, grown frail on half rations before Washington ordered his death. A corporal’s guard carried out the firing as he faced his executioners, his eyes not blindfolded. Jack, the oldest male in the army, was mustered out.
A fragmentary exchange cites a 19th century bloom predicted to reappear in the 20th century. The German emperor and a royal official debate a concept’s future, noting possible punishment for lese majeste if no blossom by 1901.
The Canadian government under Commissioner of Agriculture Prof James W Robertson creates a three year seed grain competition funded by Sir William MacDonald. Prizes from 100 to 5 dollars for each pound of high quality grain produced on an acre, with events open to girls and boys across provinces and annual top prizes. The plan aims to boost farming via systematic seed selection, citing Meldrum wheat as a prior success from a Canadian farm.
A Transvaal mining tale discusses post blast checks to prevent cave-ins, an arrest of a mine foreman after a cave-in, and a controversial interpreter scene with Kaffir workers. Swiss tax and army service rules are noted, then a humorous exchange about marriage prospects ends the column.
A Perry Oklahoma dog pleads loyalty to the Butler children after the mother’s disappearance. The dog escaped a new master at the train, bit the men holding him, and chased the northbound train for miles, later trying to board another northbound train at Red Rock to stay with the children. The tale, from the St. Louis Republic, highlights canine devotion.
A legend explains the topaz as the stone of gratitude. Theodosius, hearing subjects through a gong before his palace, grants justice to a snake seeking help for a nest destroyed by a porcupine and a moth, then awakens to find his blindness cured by a grateful serpent.
A Vancouver Canadian goose bonds with a large dog after the dog saves its life. The pair share a kennel and travel together, seldom apart, until the dog’s owner departs leaving the goose to pine without its companion.
Artie Philips of the Twentieth Kansas returns home to Mulvane to a reception featuring a colossal square apple pie. The pie measures five by two feet and includes two and a half bushels of apples, ten pounds of flour, ten pounds of sugar, six pounds of lard, two pounds of butter, and other pastry ingredients. Philips wrote from Manila that he would trade four years of his life for such pies.
A description of a finger counting trick for multiplying numbers 5 and above. Thumb through little finger represent 6 to 10, forming products by counting joined fingers and the lower fingers. The method extends to higher numbers with 11 to 15 and requires adding 190 or 100 in some cases. Invented by Procopovitch, cited by Jean Ely.
Two harlequin dogs owned by Rickett of Deal street Frankford patrol his fowl yard to prevent cockfights. When cocks begin, one dog intervenes by standing between them and gazing away until the birds separate. The birds circle and return, but the dogs ensure fights do not occur. The trainer says this keeps peace among the chickens.
In honor of the four hundredth anniversary of Brazil's discovery in May 1900 a special stamp issue is announced. The set includes Discovery of Brazil 100 reis independence 200 reis abolition 500 reis republic 700 reis.
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