today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!

Quote for today…  “The nineteenth of November was a beautiful day in Gettysburg, with a blue sky and a thermometer reading of fifty-two degrees.” – online link to a recent Master’s Thesis (Virginians’ Responses to the Gettysburg Address, 1863-1963 Jared Elliott Peatman).

First page of Lincoln’s first draft of the Gettysburg Address.
Library of Congress

• Partisan politics and the Gettysburg Address – Universal York Blog

• TINSTAFL – unless you’re in government: No such thing as a free lunch? There is for arena authority – “Board member says using tax money to pay for meals sets a bad example“ – Wilkes-Barre Times Leader

• Again, a trusted employee rips employer in theft – FOX 43 

• … and this attorney rips his clients for $3 mil – York Dispatch

• York County newspapers have different views of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address – Universal York Blog

• Ten companies paying Americans the least – 24/7 Wall St.