Algona Pioneer Press notes and Civil War dispatches
The Algona Pioneer Press reports turmoil and local notices from May 1861. It includes Ambrose A. Call’s call for a quarterly Algona Mission meeting, postmaster changes, and transportation updates. It covers telegraph news of Union and Confederate actions, a Virginia battle incident involving Ellsworth, and community appeals for clothing donations to aid the Ladies Benevolence in Algona.
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Fort Dodge
Dubuqne
Cedar Pally
Dellmond
Cedar Falls
Fort Dode
Descriptive Look at Massachusetts Camp Steam Gun
A Washington Star report describes a massive steam gun captured at Titivatl's Mills en route to Warren's Ferry. Capt. Pickering explains a five ton wheel mounted weapon with a nose sheath, a three inch slit mouth, and a centrifugal wheel firing balls at 850 RPM, resembling a shark nose.
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Titivatl’s Mills
Warren’s Ferry
Massachusetts
Pickering
Winans
Washington Star
Wanted Husband Stolen by Bashful Egyptian Bride
Jane Averett, a young woman from Typt, searched yesterday for her missing husband. She married a bashful Heyptian man she captured in a cornfield, then he vanished after a brief, comical marriage lasting only hours. She chased leads from rendezvous to barnyards, hoping to find his coat tail and his harbor of refuge.
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Jane Averett
Typt
Ward
William
Chicago Times
Unclear War Anecdote Ends With Iron Jackass Punchline
A political speaker recounts a World War era tale of a reckless soldier who survived many wounds until finally dying by being kicked by a jackass. The dying man laments not fear of death but the indignity of death at the hooves of a stubborn mule. Several resigned U S army officers seek reentry. General Cameron replies only partially.
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Pinion
tTis
U. S. Army
Cameron
Adventures of a Civil War showman in the South
A traveling showman recounts his chaotic Southern tour amid Union and Confederate tensions. He describes confiscation of his wax figures and tiger, arrest by locals, and a Montgomery jail episode with interviews of officials. The piece blends satire with vivid colonial humor and critiques Southern hostility toward his act.
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Montgomery
Iruns
Durana Via
Defforsan Davis
Uthern Conthtavcracy
Insinuapytus
Ward
Uberty
Davis
Gnet
Das Vis
Howe
Tam
Jefferson D
Roy
Betsy
Vanity Fair
A. Wann
Remarkable one inch bore cannon display near Thirty third Street
A New York Herald report describes a compact wheel driven cannon by Me Graty that fires one inch balls at about 480 per minute using centrifugal force. The setup includes a four foot diameter wheel with a hopper and crank powered feed, tested at a distance of roughly three quarters of a mile across the Hudson.
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Thirty-third Street
Pigi
Tirtuchin Street
Hudson
Venti Forge
Imachinery
LoNpleta Knueess
Me. McGraty
Colwell
West Twenty-Seventh Street
Washington
War Department
McLord Murphy
New York Herald
Government reports large army payroll and wartime actions
The government acknowledges 250,000 men are in government pay as patriotic Americans in England present a bats. Mail service has been discontinued in seceded states. United States naval squadrons have captured several prizes while blockading Southern ports.
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Tae
England
Ame Nnl
United States
Marriage Record for Andrew Shuley and Misa Align Bun
A marriage solemnized on the 50th inst between Andrew Shuley and Misa Align Bun, both residents of this township, with details of the ceremony recorded in the local clerical register.
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Andrew Shuley
Misa
Bun. R
Thia Township
Kossuth County Finances 1861 Summary Brief
A fragmented record outlines the January 1 1861 balance of Kossuth County Iowa assets and liabilities and the expenditures of the county through May 1861. It references delinquent taxes poll taxes and various tallies from the first Board of Supervisors session, with amounts shown in a garbled ledger format.
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Scoedule
Kossuth County
Iowa
Board of Supervisors
Thugh General Assembly
Boa
Trenency
Izex
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