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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1905
Page
7
An advertising pitch urges buyers to purchase Price & Teeple Pianos to gain happiness and success. It claims sellers are victorious and invites customers to visit, emphasizing tuning as a service and a cheerful mindset as a path to improvement.
In a country lane Bessie Hammersly helps a bloodied stranger who asks for water and warmth. She thinks him a bank robber, while the wounded man is actually Frederic Lyle, a pursed traveler who later reveals no grudge and returns to town with the posse.
Richard Gibson and his wife were notable seventeenth century painters in England. Gibson served as drawing master to the daughters of James II, who would become queens. Their marriage, arranged by Henrietta Maria, featured Charles I giving away the bride. Queen Anne placed a diamond ring, and court poet Edmund Waller penned a poem beginning with Design or chance makes others wives. Ah, Chioris, that kind Nature thus From all the world hath severed us.
Queen Victoria invites three young girls and a chaperone to Windsor. A girl asks where the queen lives and, in shy fashion, names a shop nearby. The queen replies that she lives near Gorringe’s, a nod to Buckingham Palace understood by adults.
A school board member recalls addressing pupils on Memorial Day then called Decoration Day. Students reply they decorate soldiers graves and one child add a stark reason that they are dead and others are not. The anecdote captures local tone and historical naming of the holiday.
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