ON THIS DAY IN 1852, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Model Artists. – An establishment, which for some time has existed at No. 598 Broadway, New York, as a model artist concern called the Temple of Graces, was broken into by the police last night, and the artists taken to the cells. The good time has not yet come when the restraints of clothing and other trammels of society can be dispensed with.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1865, the Eagle reprinted the following letter: ‘“Headquarters Army of Northern Virginia, April 9, 1865. Lieut. General U.S. Grant, Commanding U.S.A.: General: — I have received your letter of this date containing the terms of surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, as proposed by you; as they are substantially the same as those expressed in your letter of the 8th inst., they are accepted. I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, R.E. Lee, General.’”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1885, the Eagle published the following advertisement: “Cholera May Come to This Country This Year. The great danger, should it come, is in drinking impure water, which supplies our cities at the present day. Pure Poland Water is the best protection against cholera; being alkaline in its nature, it operates as a diuretic and neutralizer, carrying off all poisons from the blood, and keeps the system in a healthy state. Indorsed by the medical profession and the public as being the Greatest Medicinal Water in the World. And a cure for Bright’s Disease, Dyspepsia, Indigestion and all diseases of the urinary organs. Look out for imitations. There is but one Poland Water. Be sure and get the genuine by ordering directly from our depot, 164 Nassau Street, Tribune Building, N.Y. Send for Illustrated Pamphlet giving its wonderful Medicinal Properties. Hiram Ricker & Sons, Proprietors.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1939, the Eagle reported, “Washington, April 10 (U.P.) – Marian Anderson, Negro contralto who was barred from two Washington auditoriums because of her race, sang to more than 75,000 persons yesterday in a free, open-air concert beneath the statue of Abraham Lincoln. The halls from which she was barred seat 4,000 and 1,000 persons. The throng jammed the mall between the Shrine of the Great Emancipator and the Washington Monument. It was broadcast to millions of others. Miss Anderson almost wept when she thanked the audience for its applause. She had been introduced by Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, who arranged the concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughters of the American Revolution and the city school board had refused to let her hire their auditoriums. ‘In this great auditorium under the sky all of us are free,’ Ickes said. ‘When God gave us this wonderful outdoors and the sun, the moon and the stars, He made no distinction of race or creed or color.’ On the platform with Ickes were Associate Justice Hugo Black of the Supreme Court, Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Senator Robert Wagner (D., N.Y.) and many other officials.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1942, the Eagle reported, “General MacArthur’s Headquarters, Australia, April 10 (UP) – General Douglas MacArthur said today that the little army he commanded on Bataan Peninsula ‘went out as it would have wished – fighting to the end.’ … MacArthur sent word to the mothers of Bataan’s fallen heroes, telling them their sons gave their lives in never-to-be-forgotten valor. ‘To the weeping mothers of Bataan’s dead I can only say that the halo of Jesus of Nazareth has descended upon their sons and that God will take them unto Himself,’ he said. ‘No army has ever done so much with so little,’ said MacArthur. ‘Nothing became it more than its last hour of trial and agony.’”
