15 Jul 1865
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1865
Page
1
A poetic meditation contrasts life as a misty dream with the call of a nobler choice. The speaker questions whether life is merely an old monotone or a force to live grandly before dying, urged by a voice toward purposeful action.
A family remembers their daughter Isabel nicknamed Birdie Bell who died after a brief illness. The narrative blends tender memories with sorrow, detailing her beauty, purity, and the grief-stricken household. The piece closes with brief notes on Civil War era news and public notices.
In the Executive Chamber Mr. Lincoln recounts to Seward how, at about eighteen, he earned a dollar by sculling two men and their trunks to a steamer on the river. They paid with silver half dollars, a moment that widened his world and boosted his hope and confidence.
General Grant and party attend the dedication of Spring Garden Street M E Church. Grant contributes 500 for himself and 100 for Mrs. Grant toward the church, then a $1,000 pew is raised for the family.
The 111th Regiment is stationed at Capitol Hill Washington guarding the old Capitol and Carroll prisons. They are comfortable and paid, not expected to muster out until fall. Col. Thomas Walker commands the unit, now reduced to a few hundred men from earlier mergers, with many officers and men on furlough in town.
The dialogue features Bill Tompkins and Bitt discussing the meanings of widow and widower. A playful mispronunciation prompts a clarifying explanation about a widow being a married woman whose husband is dead and a widower being a man who has lost his wife.
An elderly Charleston woman asserts she possesses the table used for signing the Declaration of Independence and refused to loan it to let South Carolina’s secession ordinance be signed, a tale framed with local pride. A Titusville clergyman reportedly invested in oil and referenced scripture about the Acts during a sermon, joking about oil in the last chapter.
A fragment notes a biblical moment about Lot and his wife with a curious question. The text references a “young lady's toilet” and a humorous juxtaposition to ancient tale, implying a moral or satirical overlook.
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