Sherman Biography Highlights A Storied Military Career
The obituary sketches William Tecumseh Sherman born February 8 1820 in Lancaster Ohio. Adopted by Thomas Ewing he entered West Point in 1836 and rose from second lieutenant to captain before resigning to banking. He led the Thirteenth at Bull Run and earned fame for his march to the sea becoming lieutenant general in 1866 and later commander in chief before retiring in 1883 and dying February 1891 in New York.
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William Tecumseh Sherman
Lancaster
Thomas Ewing
West Point
Bull Run
Grant
Sherman
St. Louis
New York
Miss Grace Howard Educates Crow Creek Indians in South Carolina
Miss Grace Howard daughter of the prominent New York journalist Joseph Howard Jr. has taught Indians at Crow Creek South Carolina for about four or five years. She earns $1000 a year and should receive rations for twenty Indians. when these fail she buys food herself. She is of medium height slender with an earnest intelligent face.
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Grace Howard
Joseph Howard, Jr
New York
Crow Creek
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New York Sun
Cardinal Gibbons
America
Woman's Journal
Wyoming
Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania
Paris
Pennsylvania
Charles Teter
Roger A. Pryor Weaves Career From Journalist to General
Roger A. Pryor, born July 10, 1828 near Petersburg Virginia, pursued journalism before entering politics. He served in congress, joined the Confederate cause, became a brigadier general, was captured in 1864, and after the war settled in New York to practice law.
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Roger A. Pryor
Petersburg
Sidney College
Hampden
Washington Union
Richmond Enquirer
The
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Richmond
Congress
South
Charleston
Sumter
Confederate Congress
Fort Lafayette
New York
The New Senator from Kansas Peffer Biography
W. A. Peffer elected United States senator from Kansas is 50, born in Pennsylvania. He moved through Indiana Illinois Missouri and Tennessee as farmer teacher soldier and lawyer. He edited The Kansas Farmer and was a Garfield elector from Kansas in 1880, later linked with the Farmers' Alliance.
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W. A. Peffer
United States
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Ilinois
Missouri
Tennessee
Kansas Farmer
Garfield
Farmers’ Alliance
Warner's Our Italy to portray Southern California
Charles Dudley Warner completes a richly illustrated volume Our Italy describing Southern California climate physical features and resources. Harper & Brothers plans to publish the work soon.
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Charles Dudley Warner
Italy
California
Harper & Brothers
Female diplomats and their shadowy power across Europe
A detailed profile of unofficial female diplomatic agents in major powers, highlighting their influence, secrecy, and operations from Russia to France. It recounts famed figures like Princess Lieven and Mme de Novikoff, their salons, reports, and impact on policies, plus remarks on gender roles in diplomacy.
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American Press Association
United States
Great Powers
Secret Service
Russia
de Lieven
Great Britain
Lord Palmerston
John Russell
Lord Grey
Lord Aberdeen
Duke of Wellington
Egeria
Lise Troubetskoi
Paris
M. Thiers
Mme. de Novikoff
London
England
Gladstone
Chamberlain
Morley
Labouchere
Mr. Gladstone
Europe
Mme
de Cissey
Berlin
Mme. de Kaula
Seine
Countess de Castiglionne
Duchess de Litta
Tuileries
Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Dresden
Vienna
Mme. de M
Brussels
Marquise de P
Wassilier
Bucharest
Imperial
St. Petersburg
Dracomat
Giza Apeduart Cony New Neckwear for Men
Fashion notes from Haberdasher on spring neckwear choices. Men should favor moderate height collars with white wings or straight cuts, turn down styles reserved for summer. Two and one fourth inch fourt-hand ties decline, Ascot scarves in moderate width preferred, with light textured silks and refined patterns.
Woman's World In Paragraphs Why We Keep Before the Public the Achievements of Women
A discussion on why newspapers highlight women's achievements beyond traditional roles. It argues that women breaking old bounds deserve public recognition and should be judged by merit rather than gender. The piece asserts value in reporting women's successful work as part of public discourse.
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Sorosis
Wendell Phillips
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