Campfire tale and veteran reunion at Thanksgiving feast
A Pennsylvania regiment veteran recounts war days during a Thanksgiving town hall gathering. Old soldiers share memories, a tearful refugee veteran recalls prison hardships, and comrades offer hospitality while a testament with a Gettysburg link surfaces in Hanover. The scene blends humor, grief, and reverent tribute to fallen comrades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diration
Libby
Andersonville
Castle Thuder
Tim
Hira
American Tribune
Sporting Notes From The Annual Meeting And Various Contests
Sporting notes summarize the American Canoe Association decision to deict racing rules for handicapping. Reports of Bullard match plays, Caquet and Hotdirer racing, a 200 bird game for $500, and a Nashville 1:70 event. Plus billiards opening night, Chicago and MIT football tie, a Dublin government critique, a Japan earthquake tragedy, Brazil president elect inauguration, and pirate island savage attacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Canoe Association
Tres
Schacter
Hight
Bullard
Noling
Clacquet
Hotdirer
San Veantisdo
Osmany
Capt. Dt
Brewer
D. A. i. Dalliott
Metropote
Trith
Fan
Nashville
Schaefer
Tyes
New York
Chicago Athletics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston
St. Petersburg
Diblin Corporation
Japan
Saruta
Moraes
Brazil
Ids
Sussell Island
Mul
Miscellaneous 19th Century Crime And Public Figures
A hodgepodge of notices and anecdotes: Myron Bi. Welent from the Wittesrth district dies in Trenton Calf. Wallace T. Phelps known as Whistling Dick, a Chicago fireman since 1866, is dead. Rifus N. Hamagy ex Illinois treasurer dies in Carlyle with Gov Altgeld present. William Stites in the Sturges Portwell case collapses under strain at Goweo N Y. Judge W. Scoggan, horseman, dies in Louisville. Hobters, who killed Detective Olvens, pleads guilty in Warlegan Circuit Court. Ex-Banker A A Cadwallader pleads guilty to elibos cement and gets five years. Verdict and three to five year sentences in Little mine riot at Hekin ML. Moaty Smythe flees Chicago merchants after wife drugs keeper. Jack the Strangler resumes work in Denver, targets a Japanese girl. Bil Coole and gang rob Missouri Kansas Texas train near Muskogee, fail to enter express car but loot valuables from passengers.
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Myron Bi. Welent
Conertesiain
Wittesrth
Pennsylvania
Trenton
Cnlt
Wallace T. Phelps
Whistling Dick
Chicago
Fie
Rifus N. Hamagy
Tllinois
Carlyle
Altgeld
William Stites
Sturges-Portwell
Sid
Gwego
N.Y
Tudge
W. Scoggan
Hove Ient
Louisville, Iy
Griswold
Tite
Olvens
Warlegan
A. A. Cadwallader
Superior
Wis
Oteer
Jack the Strangler
Denver
Bil Coole
Muskogee
Consular shifts and political fights marked 1890s trade and elections
Consular reports note tariffs stirring commerce with Europe and South America while John Karel is named consul general at St. Petersburg and Carl Jonas to Prague. Secretary Carlisle seeks bids for 50 million dollars in five percent ten year gold bonds as court indictments and senate probes unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Karel
Chicago
Pragua
St. Petersburg
Carl Jonas
Wisconsin
Prague
Carlisle
Cole
Vetter
Senate
Schofield
Lenapah raid linked to Columbus man and Fargo murder case
The Cook gang raided Lenapah wounding a man and killing another. Oscar Peters a prominent Columbus businessman is reported confined in a Danville sanitarium. Citizens National Bank at Oberlin was robbed of 4600 by unknown thieves who could not forge the vault door. N S Villars in Fargo jail confessed to killing a farmer and wife near Jamestown.
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Cook
Lenapah
Oscar. Peters
Columbus
Ohio
Danville
N.Y
Oberlin
N.S. Villars
Fargo
N.D
Farmer
Jamestown
Editor and townsfolk clash over small items in local paper
A fragmented tale shows a newspaper editor pressed by a caller to fetch stories while the editor’s assistant and a state candidate offer hints. A bizarre notice about a cat and a reputation story about Mr. Smith fuel gossip in Ward Nord’s shop. The piece notes readers’ appetite for local sensationalism and hints at broader political overtones. Also cited is an article claiming early French missionaries discovered coal in America, citing Father Hennepin and McFarland’s Coal Regions of America as sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Weaver
Uniontown
Hanover Fair
Smith
Hanover
Louisa Vandersloot
Ldntontown
Weaver
Marvy
Samuel Vandersloot
Gettysburg
Adams Conoaty
Pegail
Wuavee
Samuel Vandersfoot
Tonisa
Smith of
Hanever
Bool
Goth
Gorrilla
Tina
Mwell
Tenwa
Nabraskin
Furst
Buss
Ward Nord
Nhe
Earity Party
Texas
America
Col
McFarland
Lind
Hennepin
St. Louis Republic
Suffer and Strengthen Through Stomach Bitters Health Ad
An advertising note promotes Tostettar's Stomach Bitters as a cure for rheumatism and related ailments. It claims to ease rheumatic pain, calm nervous symptoms, and assist kidneys, heart, and digestion. The copy touts fortitude and quick relief, warning of serious consequences if untreated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tostettar
Mats
Bert
Life's Problems Solved by Wayfaring Worker Narration
A fragmentaryrow presents Wayfaring William claiming he seeks steady labor on a farm. He asserts he is not a tramp and asks why not work, noting families offer acceptances when he seeks employment. The text reflects social pressures around work and stability in uncertain times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayfaring
William
Lesson in humility from a hat maker’s tale
Anecdotal fragment recounts a craftsman’s memory of his mother’s buses and a long-remembered lesson about making a hat in knickerbaskers. The text shifts to a whispered exchange about identities, then pivots to a medical advertisement asserting catarrh is constitutional and requires systemic treatment, promoting Hall's Catarrh Care by Federal Chaney & Yaledo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watta
Potts
Hall
Chaney & Yaledo
Glija
Jaifor
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Tompida Biacipiiné
Uati—Loegan
Atlanta
Sykes
Hadus
A. H. Nickerson
Tuttle
Coronel
Leventor
Golos
Washington
George G. Bykes
Hese Vewulara
Tanet
Balan
Hood
Logo
Army
Toran
Atul
Logan
Geen
Harel
Agi
Lili
Pinla
Walla
Heybert
Fuera
Waoldier
Iman
New York’s
New York City
Atlantic
Georgine Campbell
Kilisas
AL Bute
Republic
Cullen
Michigan ‘Supreme Court
St. Louis
Hoogk-Shipping Gendes
Coun
Mary
Pyesthy
Pete
U. W
Neatsno
J Whity
Carter
Sy. Louis
Neale
Bastery
AL Bakr
Robbie
Offlag Lesker
Teannot
Hoyle Aeven
Gould
Borie
Vroe Mass
Purge
Pal
Gribe
WOOLEON S#ice Co
Huron St
Tolambo
Grr
Des Moines
At Moines Muerety CO
Des
Palos
Milinga
Jown Busines Cotege
Lea Moines
Ortulo
Aennings & Mook
PoHarel
Napoleon
Wurylorss Mahomet
Paul
Om Sizion
Bersy
Loring
Nuryvo Vonie CO
Kianwad City
Deman Gaines Chiake
Burbank
STARK
Orton
Louisiana
Rockport
DRS
Searles & Searles
Varnum St
Omaha
Neb
United
D. D
Hauarances
Bonn
Wieteen Sporting Goods
Main Street
Tunsas City
Ely
Naval Paysagoe
Palfi Informatien
Soren
Raatores
Hinell
BLY Brothers, KG
Warren Atvect
Colchester
Beslin
Vasily
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