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Newspaper
Weekly Wisconsin
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1886
Page
9
A Wisconsin tribute poem extols patience and persistence. It promotes gradual progress toward achievement, with lines on following advantages gained and self-mastery as a path to victory, urging readers to begin right and stay right.
Elsie Ward schemes to spy on Howard Eliot by posing as a sewing woman in Mrs. Ruggles’ household. Betty reluctantly aids the ruse, arranging a disguise and shifting the stage to the Ruggles residence where Miss Helen Smith works for fifty cents a day, under Mrs. Ruggles’ approval.
In Chicago at a bustling riverfront mansion, Elsie Ward, a seamstress known for blue glasses, is mistaken for a thief after a missing solitaire diamond rings casts suspicion on her. A cascade of accusations, arrests, and revelations leads to a dramatic rescue when the true culprit is exposed and Elsie’s romance with Howard Eliot is vindicated. The couple eventually wed in September.
The Grant prospectus previews incidents from Belmont to Shiloh, including a daring river crossing, a near capture by enemy fire, and coordinated campaigns across the Cumberland and Tennessee theatres. It details orders to Rosecrans and Thomas, the Wilderness and Shiloh fights, and Lincoln’s role in Grant’s rise to lieutenant general.
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