War Echoes From the Civil War Era in a Rural County
The narrative recalls 1861 62 in Missouri and nearby regions, detailing the Bull Run and Wilsons Creek battles, General Lyon and Grant, camp Jackson, shifts in public mood, currency changes, and vivid local recollections of enlistment and life on the home front during the early Civil War years.
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Congress
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Bull Run
Bullie Run
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West
Missouri
Fremont
Department of Missouri
Wilson’s Creek
Springfield
Lyon
Rolia
Sigel
Camp Jackson
St. Louis
Union
Frost
Lowey
Manet
Nathaniel Lyon
United States Army
Jackson
Captain Lyon
Illinois
Indiana
Wilson's Creek
Buckten’s Arnica Salve For All Ailments Guaranteed
Buckten’s Arnica Salve advertised as the best in the world for cuts bruises salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands corns and skin eruptions It promises to cure piles or no pay and offers a 25 cent price Pickett & Co drug store sells it.
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Pickett & Co
Democratic journals favor Richardson for governor
The Philadelphia Press notes Mr. D. N. Richardson as the leading gubernatorial candidate. Prof. Fellows, a noted state thinker, is reported to have declined the prohibition nomination for state superintendent.
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D. N. Richardson
Felllows
President of Union At Odds With Veterans
A New Haven Palladium snippet notes a president at odds with veterans who fought to save the union, describing the rift as significant and portentous within the ongoing spectacle.
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New Haven
Remembrance of Union Soldiers and Rebel Prison Camps
A statement urging restoration of arms and legs to Union soldiers and to blot out the horrors of Andersonville and Libby prison. It calls for raising up the fathers sons and husbands who perished in treason and promises to return captured rebel flags once the war ends.
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Andersonville
Libby
Tuelowa Homestead Targets Opponents in Eighth District
The agriculture paper backs Republicans no longer, exposing campaign papers from last year and now aiming at Phil Schaller of Sacramento. The piece notes the paper’s shift from nominal independence to a thoroughbred democratic organ.
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Tuelowa Homestead
Phil Schaller
Sac
New York Heat Wave Buries 196 Citizens in One Day
A New York paper reports a severe heat wave that settled over the city with smoky odors from many chimneys. It states 196 New Yorkers were buried from heat in a single day, highlighting extreme suffering.
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Prople
New York
Demands for a National Veteran Association split in G A R ranks
The Des Moines Leader and state legislators press democrats to join a National Veteran Association. They claim a democratic majority among old soldiers and G A R members, while critics call the tactics absurd.
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Des Moines
National Veteran Association
Toledo Blade Readers Favor Republican Ticket In Poll
The Toledo Blade asked Republican readers to vote for president and vice president. Of 21 390 responses the results show Blaine 11 010, Sherman 6 684, Lincoln 2 237, Allison 384, Edmunds 117 for president. For vice president Lincoln 3 786, Depew 1 256, Harrison 1 114, Sherman 983, Allison 987, J ingalls 597, Evarts 528, Foraker 496, Hawley 272, Blaine 254, Edmunds 242.
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Toledo Blade
Blaine
Sherman
Lincoln
Allison
Edmunds
Depew
Harrison
Jingalls
Evarts
Newspaper Word Mass From St Louis Globe Democrats Specials
The St Louis Globe Democrat reported that by 11.20 PM the specials had reached 26 211 words and continued arriving at a rate requiring ten telegraph operators. The next morning all material was printed after sorting and arranging under classified headings.
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St. Louis Globe Democrat
Monument Spots Mark Key Civil War Battles World War
The article notes Crrrvorpuna and Vicksburg as decisive Civil War battles marking a turning tide. It mentions over four hundred thousand dollars appropriated by state legislatures for regimental monuments and describes a highlighted area marking where Armistead and Lieutenant Cushing fell.
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Vicksburg
Armistead
Pickett
Cushing
DuBuque Times Warns Gambling Curse Across Society
A DuBuque Times editorial denounces gambling as a national vice corrupting morals and social life. It laments its reach from church altars to fashionable gatherings and business avenues, claiming it breeds poverty and ruin.
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Dubuque
Speech by PowpDERLY Advocates Education and Immigration Rules
Honorable PowpDERLY of the Knights of Labor is praised as a wise leader who champions abstinence from alcohol and urges education for workers. In Scranton he argues a dollar spent on education beats armor plate and calls for immigrants to prove self support for one year before entering the United States.
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T. V. Powpderly
Knights of Labor
Scranton
K of L State Board elected officers and measures urged
At the K n L State Board session W T Wright was named State Master Workman and Thomas O Meara treasurer. Mrs Drummond became worthy foreman and Wheat Colfax and Wilmot Boone to general assembly delegates. Wheat, the incumbent, narrowly lost to Wright. The legislative committee urged text books, lower interest rates, weights and measures inspector, railroad fare cut to two cents per mile, opposition to convict labor, and miners bill akin to Cassett bill.
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K. of L. State Board
W. T. Wright
Oskaloosa
Thomas O'Meara
Davenport
Worthy Foreman
Their Business Booming at Bosworths Drug Store
L M Bosworths Drug Store reports a surge in trade driven by free trial bottles of Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption offered to customers. The remedy claims to cure coughs colds asthma bronchitis croup and lung ailments with a free trial bottle and a large size priced at 1 and guaranteed.
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L. M. Bosworth
Dr. King
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