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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1899
Page
4
The speaker laments each passing year as colder hearted and lonelier. Recollections of past loves friendships and faded blooms haunt the present. Though time shifts and mortality nears the burden eases and a dawning immortality appears.
In a tale from the frontier, a desperado who robbed coaches near Flagstaff and Pittman Valley is found sheltering a youngster after a pivotal rescue. A cavern hideout becomes a home where the man reassesses his life, cradling the child and praying for forgiveness as the sheriff and posse look on.
Agent Willard vows to hunt down assassins of passing stagecoaches after a daring robbery. A baby named Helen Grace Morris arrives hidden in blankets as a Christmas gift to her father, who abandons the theft to chase the bandits. The culprit escapes on an elk with a money box, sparking a Pittman Valley posse pursuit.
Adventurer Rodríguez Aries proclaims the Republic of the Acre, a rubber rich region along the Amazon border claimed by Brazil and Bolivia. He names Antiméiri as capital and envisions revenue from rubber royalties while the fate of this new state remains uncertain amid regional disputes and historical parallels to the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
Eight year old Jimmy Tully, son of J. J. Tully, a Chicago plumber, runs a miniature dray business. He built a wagon, bought a burro, and earns his own money hauling wood, trunks, or laundry with a license and his own saved funds. He has started a bank account from his earnings.
British forces under Wingate defeated the Khalifa Abdullah’s Dervishes near Gedil south of Khartoum on November 24, ending the Dervish threat in the Sudan. Abdullah, Mahdi’s successor, led brutal attacks and issued no quarter. his death marks a major step toward civilizing northern Africa. The article also notes anchor theft profits in New York and Windsor Chapel spur money, concluding with social witticisms.
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