Columbus evening dispatch
Subtitle: Friday, February 12, 1909
Edition: Last edition.
Published: 1909
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Newspapers; Anniversaries; Lincoln Farm Association
Other titles: Columbus dispatch
Notes: In two sections.
Table of contents: title: How Columbus people are celebrating the Lincoln centenary.; title: Dedicate site for memorial to Pres't Lincoln, hundreds of visitors attend the services at Westerville on Friday ... Cleopas Breckenridge tells how Lincoln induced him to sign a pledge, Dr. Toward H. Russell of New York, makes principal address.; title: Splendid statue of Lincoln to be erected in Hodgenville [illustration].; title: Antioch president makes fine speech on life of Lincoln, Governor Harmon presides at noonday meeting held at Board of Trade, success of martyred president due to books he read when a boy.; title: Lincoln was the greatest man in world's history-President Roosevelt, thousands crowd around flower bedecked cabin on the old Kentucky farm, rain mars the notable event, Union and Confederate generals clasp hands at birthplace of Emancipator, Governor Folk presides at laying of cornerstone of the memorial building.; title: [Local] minister a relative of Abraham Lincoln by marriage, Rev. W.C. Holliday.; title: Says body was trown [i.e., thrown] into Potomac, revelation of long kept secret made by Illinois veteran.; title: Coat stained with Lincoln's life blod [i.e., blood], Ohio officer pillowed head of the wounded president on breast.; title: The maid Lincoln loved and lost, his courtship of Ann Rutledge who was betrothed to another, mistaken sense of honor, while she waited she died and Lincoln's life was cast in gloom.; title: Lincoln centenary stamps on sale today, only a limited supply sent to Columbus office.; title: 20,000 patriots subscribe to the Lincoln Memorial, subscriptions have been received all over the U.S. averaging about $1.40 each, is a farm of 110 acres, place is dedicated forever to the memory of the immortal war president.; title: Has kept pledge made to Lincoln for 62 long years, Cleopas Breckenridge, aged Illinois farmer, guest of honor at Westerville, tells his experience, was a boy of ten years when Lincoln made him a total abstainer.; title: The story of Abraham Lincoln / by Albert Payson Terhune.