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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1906
Page
3
The article commends recent appeals that toppled corrupt public figures and denounces lax business standards. It argues public opinion is the higher law guiding democracy and warns that many respected men became derelict when serving enterprises as dummy directors or decoy figures.
The essay argues that Congress should fund state road construction, viewing federal aid as a constitutional and patriotic necessity. It recalls past federal land and infrastructure support to justify continued cooperation with states to build roads, asserting good roads benefit farmers and national welfare and urging enactment of a Browne or similar measure.
The piece denounces thieves and liars in commerce including dry goods merchants with false weights and misrepresenting dealers. It argues for naming wrongdoing publicly, condemning boodlers turned politicians and urging clear accounts of how wealth is earned and spent.
Retired U S Army general Daniel W Benham died in Tiffin Ohio and was buried at Arlington in a tomb he designed and inscribed himself He selected a grave site and erected a granite monument with his own epitaph several years earlier beside the main west gate in the officer’s section
Loyal Woman's Scrap Book recounts crowded Jefferson City hospitals where a dying soldier received help from Hannah, a Black washer who moved him from the hard floor to her bed, bathed and fed him, and kept him alive until his furlough home. He wept as they parted at the steamboat, and the piece praises noble suffering.
A regiment's baboon mascot joyfully signals return home as infantry depart England for South Africa. A sergeant notes the animal understands the journey, contrasting with the mood of many soldiers.
A descendant of Gen. Shrapnel, inventor of the shell used in the Russo Japanese War, seeks a share of 30 000 awarded for his country. He petitions Britain’s government to obtain funds for his homeland.
A soldier of the Sixty-ninth German infantry received eight months imprisonment at Treves after picking up an apple and failing to drop it immediately when ordered by a sergeant during a march.
In the Chickamauga campaign Captain Lucius H. Drury of the Third Wisconsin battery was wounded when a rebel sharpshooter struck him just above the belt. Captain John J. McCook saved him, guiding their horses and shielding him, then Drury returned to duty within four weeks and remained active through the war.
Thomas Vernon of Honey Creek township Indiana is described as the only enlisted Civil War soldier never discharged. He enlisted early, cared for two families of seven soldiers, but a muster-roll error dropped his name. Sworn in yet never mustered out, he remains in readiness at over eighty, hoping for release that may never come.
Mrs. J. H. Faris of Smith Center Kansas possesses a Confederate flag seized by her brother Ira B. Whitney of Company B 127 Illinois at Arkansaw Post in January 1863. The silk banner measures about five by ten feet with blue field, white star, A R marking, Semper Fidelis motto, and white and pink silk panels. The flag bears bullet holes and bloodstains. two Whitney brothers later fell in combat.
During Servian preparation near Nish a regiment vanished for a day. Sighted finally, the troops were at the ravine bottom dancing to music supplied by a gypsy camp.
A collage of brief poems and reflections with multiple poets and lines. Themes span new year hopefuls by J M Lewis, Madison Cavein, and others, plus a Roger Haven Schauffler piece and Riley comic verse. Portraits of nature, love, and longing appear through crisscrossed stanzas and street corner musings.
A Dayton Virginia man recounts years of indigestion from irregular meals and night work. After using Dr Williams Pink Pills he reports rapid improvement, no post meal distress, relieved heart discomfort, and dizziness. Pills sold by all druggists and Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
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