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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1864
Page
1
A funeral toned verse recalls an empty cradle in a Woodland class room. A baby's pillow bears a print, the bed remains pristine, while a missing infant's hands, lips, and eyes linger in memory. The poem centers on loss and sorrow connected to a child once cherished.
A young girl Lula and her family exchange letters with Civil War soldiers. The notes reveal bravery, care packages, a hospital visit, a captain’s sword gift, and a poignant death in Baltimore, ending with a veteran’s memory and a community lesson on duty.
The article lists Alexander the Great Hannibal Caesar and Bonaparte as history’s four greatest figures. It summarizes Alexander’s conquests ending in a social downfall, Hannibal’s Alpine crossing and Rome’s ruin, Caesar’s rise and assassination, and Napoleon’s terrorizing rule ending in exile.
The Lancaster Haraminer reports no votes for soldiers in Lancaster township where ex President Buchanan resided. Only two votes were anticipated against them, Buchanan and his Irish coachman. Buchanan left sudden to Bedford Springs, the coachman appeared but did not vote, leaving the soldier count unchanged.
The Connecticut vote on a soldiers voting amendment was small in turnout yet produced a large majority in support. Maine voters will on September 12 decide a constitutional amendment to allow soldiers to vote for Governor and Senators.
General Averill has been promoted to Major General for gallantry at Moorefield and successful operations during the last month.
Mr Toby, a youthful president of the Hudson River Railroad, rose from steamboat clerk to wealth under Commodore Vanderbilt. Ordered to collect fares and keep strict schedule, he once charged Vanderbilt on the first trip and left him aboard the next morning. He later became Vanderbilt’s confidential agent, built wealth through Harlem, and earned a vast fortune.
A British officer visiting the Kearsarge in Deal joked about boarding, prompting a Yankee sailor to boast that they had been boarded by sixty at Cherbourg, signaling wartime humor between allied forces.
A humorous collage of printer’s jargon and apparatus names rendered as tiny misdeeds and misfortunes. The spoof catalog cites feet, bones, and tools like the wheel from a royal chaise and a candle from printer’s fat, finishing with hopes debts from delinquent subscribers will be paid soon.
The Chicago papers report the great tunnel at that city reaching out into the lake has progressed about three hundred ten feet from the shore and is moving forward at roughly nine feet per day.
The decision states that assistant provost marshals in the several states are not exempt from the draft by virtue of their office and are not considered part of the military service of the United States.
A wounded western soldier describes how rebels nearly hit him in the leg and arm while another soldier with a blown-off nose recalls they came close to missing him. The vivid account captures peril and perilous close calls amid combat.
A playful quip notes a vessel is cap sized and thus smaller than a bonnet. The joke hinges on size comparison and wordplay without further factual details or context.
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