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Some one has truthfully said that there are but three words of beauty in the English language, and they are: 'Mother, Home, Heaven.' All know that the love and affection of our dead President for his aged mother, who by the cruel shot of the assassin, will be the chief mourner at the grave of her dear boy.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

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Jacobs quotes a sentiment about the beauty of 'Mother, Home, Heaven,' linking it to the mourning of Garfield's mother.

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