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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1902
Page
7
An excerpted poem envisions peace after conflict. It urges rulers to lay down arms and nations to embrace harmony. Images of glittering hosts, broken helmets, and a future where all living beings enjoy rest and a deathless rose appear as hopeful, prophetic lines. The text blends prophetic call and pastoral vision, stressing restraint and renewal.
Lincoln’s telegrams and letters mostly dated from the War Department as he focused on military events. He spent much time near army headquarters with Stanton, guiding and shaping strategy while Halleck advised.
In Mc Clure's Magazine Captain W R Prentice recalls a Civil War episode at Dry Tortugas military prison near Florida. A plan to steal twenty four uniforms break out via a hidden board floor is foiled when a guard discovers an empty cell with tool smuggling.
In Kentucky a new field near Perryville is set for drilling by a New York syndicate. A Civil War era well near Danville yielded a small oil vein. drillers and promoters vanished after the 1863 conflict, believed to have joined the army or perished. Portions of machinery remain on site as farmers use the oil for machinery.
A Veterans' Reserve Corps member recounts how dust raised by about a hundred volunteers near Fort Stevens convinced Gen. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia reinforcements had arrived, helping to deter a potential Confederate capture of Washington.
Texas veterans of the Mexican War, about sixty strong, gather in Fort Worth for their annual reunion. The aged group includes men up to 85 and several in their seventies, with white hair and bent forms, recalling their roles in Texas independence and the fight to throw off tyranny. The Dallas News report dated May 2 noted the event.
The report says Cardinal Gotti, Genoa born son of a dock worker, is chosen as prefect of the Propaganda and likely Leo XIII’s successor. Vannutelli to replace Gotti as prefect of bishops and regular discipline. Gotti long regarded as prime papal candidate and linked to the reformist Carmelites.
Clara Barton the Red Cross leader dedicated her life to aid across nations while many recall her chiefly for peace efforts at home. Her tireless advocacy spanned continents, earning recognition beyond her own country.
An elderly Clara Barton, active in Red Cross efforts, travels from Russia where the seventh Red Cross congress convened under Empress Maria Feodorovna. The piece questions American recognition of her life of service and notes her 72 years. It reflects on international honors and domestic praise.
The passage discusses how new plants foster swarms of potential food creatures with their eggs and larvae, notably in the Sargasso Sea. It notes that vast shoals of fish can appear in supposedly barren Atlantic water, that whales rely on available prey, including small crustaceans, and that typical shoal fishes like prichards and herrings pose unique difficulties for understanding their abundance and feeding patterns.
A green artificial slate blackboard devised by A F Parshall is claimed to be easier on eyes and is said to soothe vision. Public schools in Little Rock Arkansas first adopted it with many cities following and eye specialists giving high praise.
Lord Alverstone, chief justice of England since 1900, has been protested in the Commons by Irish nationalists over his appointment to a royal commission on South Africa. Formerly Sir Richard Everard Webster, he became a baronet and queen's counsel in a rapid rise to senior judicial ranks.
A shopper overheard a counter clerk addressed as Mise by a man who remarket that the sixty year old Mrs Adella Patt still appears like a young miss. The exchange sparked a reflection on age and perpetual beauty.
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