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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1907
Page
3
The speaker critiques race focus on grievances and urges broader work. He cites Tuskegee teaching that aiding the less fortunate elevates a people and supports establishing schools to divert attention from injustices. He stresses overcoming wrongs with the old remedy of good.
The public school system bears duties born from neglect at home. Parents fail to provide care, clothing, feeding, and moral guidance, so society and schools intervene. Schools supply books, fuel, uniforms, and even meals, while aiming to equalize opportunity and address health and welfare needs.
A piece arguing for nightly sleep in short cycles with a late midnight to dawn work window. It cites Pierre Loti and Napoleon as examples, claiming creativity and planning occur after waking from sleep during the quiet night hours.
In a Kansas tale of hardship and recovery Ezra Williams recalls the 1880s drought and Typhoid fever that tested his family. Local merchants helped with credit while a Chicago catalog was burned as a choice to support nearby shops. Governor Folk denounces mail order commerce, urging support for town merchants and papers.
Dramatist Louis N Parker was born in France to an American father and English mother. He grew up with Italian as his first language and received education in Germany.
Capt C W Foster of Council Bluffs Iowa kept a sil ver watch wounded in action near Mobile on April 9 1865. A Confederate bullet pierced the watch rim and lodged in his right ilium while he helped his men during a charge with Hawkins division of Canbys army. He survived after being carried two miles to safety and still has the watch and bullet scar to prove it. The tale also notes his belief in the fighting of colored troops.
Esther S. Damon, widow of Noah Damon, the last surviving widow of a Revolutionary War soldier, died in Plymouth Union Vermont at age 93. They married in 1835 when she was 22. Her husband received a pension 14 years later. Congress has special acts for other Revolutionary widows still on the pension roll, with two in Pennsylvania, one in Connecticut, and one in New York.
A National Tribune correspondent recounts the romance around the Confederate great gun Lady Davis. Alphonso Dubreil, a brave sugar planter turned officer, marries Amelia Chartrand amid siege at Port Hudson. She dies at shellfire. he later mourns and returns to civilian life, eventually reuniting with the surgeon’s daughter who survived by ammonia aid, and they wed on the plantation. The tale notes other Yankee–Confederate marriages after the war.
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