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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1864
Page
1
Luella Clark writes of a pale pink blossom, born of New England May beauty. The speaker recalls distant valleys, hills, pines, birds, and winds that shaped the flower from dew to radiance, ending with the bloom’s serene arrival in hand today.
In a story from a rural summer, Tom Thorne frets about heat while a letter reveals his brother Fred has lost a leg in battle. The family counsels resilience, Kate’s reading, and Tom’s brave journey to Washington to join Fred, as Susie faces hardship and the war’s toll.
A&A train from Ascot Mugland collided with another, killing several and wounding many. Passenger John C. Heenan leapt from the carriage before impact, receiving a severe spinal injury. Heenan had suffered frequent fits prior to the accident.
A five year old girl questions a preacher’s loud prayers. Separately a Pinto Indian body was found embedded in rock salt four feet underground in Sand Springs Nevada, preserved and dried by brine, like a mummy.
A Michigan family named their last child Finis then added Adden da Appendix and Supplement for two more. A Pennsylvania man named his son James Also and the third William Likewise. A Boston woman had needle fragments removed from her thumb after an injury years earlier. Andrew Johnson is 56.
An old farmer, returning with a load of wood, rode astride the cart tongue and nodded off. The oxen halted to rest, wagging bystanders unhitched them and let them head home. Waking, the farmer cried out asking who he was and where his oxen were, joking he had found a cart or lost his yoke.
An Iowa paper inflamed readers by publishing a claim that a soldier’s wife bore an African infant, then ncreased fury when the next issue noted the father and mother were both Negro.
The bill appropriating funds to reimburse Penylvania for expenses related to Tallasian was killed in the Senate after adding amendments benefiting other states. It may become unfinished business next session and involve potential multi million dollar impacts.
A witty exchange unfolds about a dog barking at a puppy in boots, sparked by a fop whose polished boots exceed his ideas. Brentice notes Bennett from Herod once thanked God only when sharp-toed boots and shoes were changed.
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