The New Orleans item
Subtitle: Friday evening, February 12, 1909
Published: 1909
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Newspapers; Anniversaries
Table of contents: title: Centenary of Lincoln's birthday is celebrated throughout the nation.; title: "He never wavered in devotion; the goal was never dim to him," Roosevelt's tribute to Lincoln.; title: Lincoln farm, two miles from Hodgenville scene of most notable ceremonies, President Roosevelt chief orator of day, flower-mantled log cabin, where martyred president was born, center of interesting scene.; title: Lincoln's assassination is described by 2 living actors who witnessed the tragedy: Harry Hawk, famous old comedian, and W. J. Ferguson, then a prompter, tell what they saw at Ford's Theatre, Washington, on the fateful night of April 14, 1865.