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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1904
Page
6
A Thayer poem notes Samuel Adams rests not in a cathedral but guards Boston’s bustle. It recalls his call for liberty and questions about public schools, courts, and the fight for freedom. The verse asks whether modern society still values freedom amid wealth and power.
Stephen Portway and a poor Frenchwoman Mile Lemoine form a fragile bond in a London garret. He helps her through poverty and danger while questioning her past as she battles despair and fear. In time they reveal love and mutual dependence, with a proposal and a shared future briefly hinted.
Magistrate Cunningham quotes a Philadelphia Press tale of an Irishman who wins a raffle for a horse and sleigh. He plans a grand outing to Fairmount Park with family but forbids his son from riding on the front seat, declaring the back seat is his.
The anecdote recounts Edmund Burke showing a painting to Sir Joshua Reynolds and Reynolds doubting its promise as a calling, calling it a cleverish thing. The painting turns out to be Reynolds' own work from years earlier.
A Kentucky veteran recounts a Civil War raid from Camp Enyart on the Kanawha to Rolla West Virginia. He describes ambushes near Coal Creek and a dangerous escape through laurel, a Confederate pursuit, and his reception by loyal West Virginia unionists led by John George. He recalls leading troops and meeting John George again on Lookout Mountain.
David Wilson recalls a small ravine near Augusta where Jefferson Davis slipped into a ditch during a march to Savannah. He and Col. Pritchard named the spot the Confederacy's Last Ditch, a boastful phrase tied to the doomed retreat and Davis's final movements.
Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady portrays George Armstrong Custer as a fearless fighter and rapid rise officer. From Bull Run to Appomattox he advanced from second lieutenant to major general by age 24. His cavalry division seized 111 guns 65 battle flags and over 10 000 prisoners with no loss of flag or gun.
The Tennessee Confederate pension list is full at 2,202 names with new entries limited to replacements for pensioners who die. Last year the state paid $200,229 in pensions, with recipients divided into four classes of $300, $120, $100 and $60 annually. Most pensioners, 1,536, are in the third class.
A mile south of Phoenix beside the Salt river, one of America’s oddest farms grows every cactus variety found in Arizona. Each kind is cultivated under native-like conditions and thrives under the southern Arizona sun, tended by experts.
A brass band at a large New York beer garden played a Wagnerian set loudly enough to drown out conversation. A shrewish wife shouted abuse at her husband until the music halted and she screamed insults, then the husband calmly told her to shut up until the band began again.
Mrs Betsey A Clawson of Middlesex New York says she was crippled by inflammatory rheumatism for five years and relieved after two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills Within two weeks she could wait on herself dig potatoes and tend a garden The ad attributes her recovery to Dodd's pills and claims the pills remove uric acid from the blood by improving kidney function
In a brief exchange from the Milwaukee Sentinel the speaker Mrs McCall notes no poms pous butler remains, while Mrs Nuritch confirms discharge stating he didn’t battle to suit them. The item captures a curt workplace dismissal moment.
An early 20th century ad promotes Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease. It claims to cure painful swollen smarting and sweating feet and makes new shoes easy. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores with a free sample offer from A. S. Olmsted of Le Roy New York.
An ad notes Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer cures fits after one day. It offers a free $2 trial bottle and treatise from Dr. Kline at 931 Arch St Philo Pa. Also mentions soldiers Corporal Shotts and Private Shotts setting records at target practice.
An 1900 notice from N W Samuel of Ocean Grove New Jersey promotes Piso cure for consumption as an infallible medicine for coughs and colds. The item also contains a quotation about how the average man would like to reap trusts from the inside after a New York press remark.
Miss Nellie HowlmeEs of Buffalo New York credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing years of menorrhagia back pain and headaches After trying two doctors she improves her health appetite and weight and urges others to use the product The letter includes a $5000 forfeit if the original cannot be produced.
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