Flag at Yellow Tavern a Confederate bravery tale
An account retells the Yellow Tavern assault near Petersberg on July 19 1864. General Hagood tries to retrieve the Regiment’s flag from a Yankee captain who refuses surrender, is killed, and the brigade retreats with heavy losses. The incident becomes a symbol of valor and later connects Hagood to Bailey who seeks a pension for the wound.
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Petersburg
Lee
Grant
Johnston Hagood
Hagood
South Carolina
Mexico
Cortez
Taylor
Yellow Tavern
Columbia
Capitol
Battle of
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Johnston Haccop
James Bailey
Fourth
Iowa Volunteer Infantry
Bailey
Captain Bailey
United States
McClure
Judge clarifies defense after deacon recalls sacred precept
A court session ends with the prisoner answering for himself. The piece notes school lunch baskets for Jennie and Jocky, stressing practical noon meals for pupils and the need for neatly packed lunches with sandwiches, crackers, jam, fruit, and hot drinks upon returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie
Jocky
Matrons and Maids On Care of Clothes and Lunches
Practical advice on preserving garments through care and storage, including stitching, hanging, brushing, and packing. Tips extend to baby lunch ideas with bread sandwiches, fruit, and napkin etiquette for school lunches, all urging neatness for lasting wear and appetizing repasts.
Things for the Baby and Hawaiis Useful Tree Featured
A homemaking guide outlines a baby coverlet from cheese cloth ribbons and sachet powder plus a belted pocketed perambulator bag with satin ribbons. Also poems on loss and a Hawaii note recount kukui tree uses from oil to ink indelible, gum, edible paste, and jewelry implications.
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Hawaiian Isles
Hawaiian Gazette
The
Pacific
Furs Restored by Rye Flour Method Examined
An old account explains a Russian method for reviving fur pelts using heated rye flour rubbed into the fur and then brushed or beaten to remove the flour. The text then shifts to a buyer and dealer exchange about a cheap suit deteriorating shortly after purchase and a lighthearted plea from a vendor offering pricier goods.
Village store serves as post office in New Hampshire hills
A Boston lady browses the country shop in a small New Hampshire village and asks for Browning. The attendant offers blacking blueing and a man for whiting with occasional pinking, explaining they do not stock Browning.
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Newlampshire
Boston
Browning
Rapidly Moving Serial Love Story In A Cottage Plan
A conversation discusses a serialized twelve part love story described as American pure clean and dramatic with rapid movement. The author notes the manuscript has been returned twenty five times in twenty seven days and jokes about needing a bicycle to save for a cottage.
Do you believe death ends at all in the car talk
A long haired man questions belief in death while riding in a car. The other man replies he is the coroner even when at home, hinting at fatal consequences or a grim mindset.
It isn’t the getting into difficulties that’s hard
A quip from a philosophical youth and Willie Wishington about hammock rest and recovering from trouble.
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Willie Wishington
Higher Education Doomed by a Young Lecturer
A fragment notes Miss Finemind who lectured on the higher education of women. The narrator doubts her influence while remarking she appears under twenty with pronounced wrinkles between her eyes, questioning her impact on converts.
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Miss Finemind
Mercy
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WAR
Chicago Times
Helen Hunt Jackson
Hawaivs
Tage
Hood
Ares
Kocu
Beecher
Lion
Woolson Spice Co
Huron &T
Toledo
DES Moines Nursery CO
Des
Ana & Jerry
Perkins & Brinsmaid
4Th St
A.R. Tickets
Texas
Nebraska
Burke & Blaise
Des Moines Wire
Des Moines
Frankel ‘Clothin Des
DRS
Searles & Searles
Walnut St
Cemetered College
Total City School of
West
Mehan & McCauley
Omaha Bus'ness College
Iowa Business College
Jennings & M
Schrage
Earth
Swanson Rheumatic Care C.O
Dearborn St
Chicago
Scotts
Scott
Scott & Bowne
N.Y
W. Baker & CO
W. Baker &Co
Dorchester
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