Recollections of General McClellan and Mobile Campaign
A memoir excerpt recounts Civil War events from early 1864 to 1865. It covers Lincoln’s reelection prospects, Grant and Sherman campaigns, the Mobile Bay siege, Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines actions, Farragut’s fleet, Banks and the Gulf Department, and the Blakely assault. The narrative threads through regimental life, marches through swamps and sands, and letters from the front. It highlights heroics of sailors, cavalry, and colored troops at Blakely, with ongoing notes on Spanish Fort and the broader Mobile Campaign.
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Lincoln
Cleveland
John C. Fremont
Friends of Lincoln
Baltimore
Jom C. Fremont
Harper's
McClellan
Grant
Richmond
Lee
Banks
Sherman
Joseph E. Johnston
Commodore Farragut
Mobile Bay
Atlanta
Sheridan
Bhenendoah
Fremont
Iowa
Wisconsin
Ohio
Illinois
Atchafalaya
White River
New Orleans
Mississippi
Spanish Fort
Mobile
W. T. Sherman
Thomas
Franklin
Nashville
Hood
Seaboard
Savannah
Confederacy
Les
Petersburg
Department of the Gulf
Red River
Department
Candy
Gulf
Wrnter
Port Morgan
Mobile Point
Ala
Fort Morgan
Fort Gaines
Dolphin Island
Eorly
Rust
Farragut
Fort Morge
Dr. Johnson
Franklin Buchanan
Tennessee
General Granger
Dauphin Island
Arly
Gran Ror
Thirteenth Corps
Gordon Granger
Theo
Thirteenth
Sixteenth Corps
Fish River
Francis Steele
Pensacola
Fis
Fort Blakely
Tensaw River
Blakely
Appomatox
Bresle
Payson Sees Public Lands Return to Market in Coming Session
Congressman E. L. Payson of Illinois predicts actions in the next Congress to restore 15 000 000 or 20 000 000 acres of public lands to market. He says the outlook is bright as the nation heads toward a Republican victory and better prosperity ahead.
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E. L. Payson
Lllinois
Congress
Payson
Trusts Target Markets for Price Control Across Industries
The article argues against rising prices from salt coal oil and other trusts and urges Congress to break up and pulverize market-dominating organizations. It highlights calls to end surplus and stop price manipulation by monopolies.
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Mordé Costian
Coal Trust
Standard Oil Trust
Congress
Democratic appeal in Iowa pressed by Sioux City Journal
The Sioux City Journal 1887 criticizes a Democratic bid for Iowa Republicans as ill-timed amid strong Southern sympathy for Jeff Davis. It argues Rebels’ commemorations in Georgia and Southern victory sentiment render Republican support to Democrats inappropriate.
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Sioux City Journal
Iowa
Solid South
Jeff Davis
Macon
Gas Demonstrations Show Practical Iowa Natural Gas
Report from Herndon describes a well at 1600 feet supplying natural gas via 3/4 inch pipe to an office. Demonstrations use Argand burners and a gasoline stove to reveal heat and light, with a 152 pound steam gauge reading and a strong odorless flame.
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Iowa
Herndon
Chamberlains Remedy for Summer Ailments
Advertises Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy as reliable and pleasant to take. Claims to cure cramp cholera morbus dysentery and diarrhoea in worst forms. Marketed for all families with 25 50 and 1 dollar bottle sizes.
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Chamberlain
New Pocket Atlas of the World by Lakeman & Co
A compact atlas with ninety one maps and one hundred twelve pages of terse information. It is up to date with recent discoveries and boundary changes and offered in an attractive binding for fifty cents with mail-order availability.
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Visuv
Lakeman & Co
Broadway
New York
California Excursions by Illinois Central and Southern Pacific
California excursions depart New Orleans Thursdays September 5 15 22 and 29 October 4 13 20 and 27 November 3 10 17 and 24 via Illinois Central and Southern Pacific with six month tickets. Chicago departures Mondays 8 30 p m offer one day in New Orleans and stopovers west to San Antonio Texas. Beaumont near Colton grows as a boom town with investment and permanent home prospects via the Fliness Central and Southern Pacific. Circulars rates and details from J F Merry Manchester Is, Gen West Passenger Agent. Chamberlain's Relic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy advertised as a universal cure.
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California
Illinois Central
Southern Pacific
New Orleans
Chicago
San Antonio
Texas
Colton
Beaumont
Central
Manchester
J. F. Merry
Gen. West
German Syrup praised for lung complaints and sales
Advertisements claim Boschee's German Syrup cures consumptions and throat lung diseases with three doses providing relief. It notes 8,000 bottles sold last year and urges druggists to recommend it to the poor. Also reports singer G Junnux Linp is dead at 66 and a physician endorses Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
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United States
Canada
W. A. Baldwin
Boonville
Dallas County
Iowa
Beng Chamberlain
Valuable Catarrh Cure Praised By Chicago Reader
Edward Silvey of Chicago credits Papulen Catarrh Cure with relieving twenty five years of catarrh while his wife struggled to breathe. He reports near immediate relief after Dr Streeter advised the remedy and notes continued use to feel entirely cured. Also advertised are Shiloh’s Cure options and local sellers.
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Clarke
Streeter
Aie
Edward Silvey
Chicago
A. Papillon Company
L. M. Bosworth
Scott's Emulsion advertised for rickets and wasting disorders
The advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites as rapidly improving rickets marasmus and wasting disorders in children. It quotes Dr J M Main of New York praising the product for long standing cases and marked improvement.
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Scott
J. M. Main
M. D
New York
Don’ t Experigess Warns About Consumption Comforts
A pasted health advisory warns against cheap imitations of Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption and throat and chest affections. It urges ensuring genuineness, noting relief claims and offering trial bottles at L M Bosworth Brug ores and Pickett Co. It ends with a friendly urge to write about hometown improvements.
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Dr King
Dr. King
L. M. Bosworth Brug
Fall's Catarrh Cure Promoted by Toledo Firm
There is more Catarrh in this region than all other diseases previously deemed incurable. Doctors once called it a local illness but science now treats it as constitutional. Fall's Catarrh Cure, by F. Y. Cheney & Co., claims to cure constitutionally and offers $100 for any case. Sold by druggists for 5 cents.
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Spanish Fort
Yankees
Bebile
Secon
Fair Daughters of the Fair
F. Y. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Nurserymen Seek Canvassers for Stock Sales in Minnesota
We seek dependable men to canvass for sale of nursery stock including fruit and ornamental varieties. Good salaries or commissions and permanent positions offered. L. L. May & Co. Nurserymen and Florists of St. Paul Minnesota offer a free catalogue by mail on request with references.
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L. L. May & CO
St. Paul
Minnesota
For Sale or Trade 160 Acres in Franklin County Iowa
110 acres under cultivation with a good house barn and well. Price 30.00 per acre with a 1600.00 mortgage. Will exchange for good city property or stock of merchandise. Also two story brick store building in a good Iowa town on a best corner lot. Price 4000.00 with a 1000.00 mortgage. Will exchange for stock or merchandise. Robert Cairns Jr Ames.
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Franklin County
Iowa
Robert Cairns, Jr
Ames
Wasteful household habits noted in old guide
The text lists wasteful practices such as discarding scraps of meat and sour potatoes, leaving corks in jars, letting soap dissolve in water, coal wasted by unfilled ashes, lights left on, damaged pails, and tossing soap suds away instead of using them to enrich garden soil.
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Waat
SANT
Vaolens
Maitre
Choice Groceries
Michigan Stove Company
Garland” Agency
Bingham&co
Loughran Machine Co
YA. Aneurs
M.D
Oxford St
Brooklyn, N. Y
Fulton Street
City Drug Store
B. Johnson
A. N. Kellogg Newspaper Company
P. H. Sheridan
Lake Port
Lake Ponchartrain
Prave Boys
Maury
Spring Mill College
Springhill College
D. A. Mowry
Stk
Springhill
Portraf
Harper's War Volumes
WM. Lahi
BEE
John A. T. Aull
Supreme Court
Gifford 8. Rubinon
Henry Sably
Ististrict
D. B. Davidson
the Dist
Oley Nilson
Minneapolis
Supreme Court of the United States
Ben. Culbertson
Burlington
Western States Passenger Association
State University of Iowa
Charles H. Maxson
State University
Iowa City
Des Moines
Lowa
Shakespere
Bacon
Shiloh
J. H. Pickett & Co
Anne
West
Chamberlain & Co
Junnux Linp
Wm. J. Conley
Elk Point
Akota
Reu Mn
Raby
Castoria
Miss
Itoh
Pickett & Co
Wasx
HALL
Stick
Howse
Stabiec
John H. Queal & Co
SouLiIerr
Bartletts
Opera Hall
J. L. Bartlett
Clark
Wallace L. DeWolf
Papillon Company
Geo. H. Thayer
Bourbon
Indiana
J. I. Pickett & Co
E. T. Sheparst
la Fayette Township
Story County
Co. G. McCarty
ARES
Harter Medicine Company
Gt. Louis, Mo
Lite & Soda
GALE
Daruggists
WM. Allen
Frank Stearns
Main St
Maxwell
Gobles
Harness Shop
Michigan
Dakota
Nebaska
Wyoming
Ividen Northwes
J. Id. Daytha
Ane
J. M. Whitman
H. C
Tnd
VY Ang’. Erat
P. Wilsore
Veral
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