End of the War Food Shortage and Lee’s Army
Veteran reminiscences recount hunger and scant rations during the retreat from Richmond and Petersburg. Benning’s brigade, after surrender at Appomattox, travels through North Carolina toward Georgia, receiving meager coffee and pork while later encountering generous college hospitality and plentiful food in Lynchburg and Charlotte. The narrative reflects on supply failures, brief boons, and the burdens borne by Lee's forces as they sought subsistence and safety with limited transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo
Grant
Richmond
War’s ruinous toll and a plea for universal peace
A stark meditation on war’s brutality describes soldiers marching through fields while civilians suffer, homes burn, and mothers mourn. The piece argues money and effort would better serve education, religion, and peace, proposing global schools and academies as a kinder substitute for battle’s wreckage.
Prickly Ash Bitters Promoted Against Small Pox Exposure
An Evans Pharmacy notice urges using Prickly Ash Bitters as a tonic to purify blood aid digestion and strengthen kidneys and bowels to resist smallpox exposure amid a widespread outbreak. It claims the remedy prevents illness and supports the body during festive seasons and heightened exposure.
Are Some Rep Ten Cats of Firois and the Devil
A cryptic fragment mentions cats and the devil in a terse, unreadable line. No clear event or names form a coherent news item.
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Firois
Do Fish Ever Sleep Do fish sleep
A New York Sun report notes the U S Fish Commission scholars debated whether fish sleep. Experts offered theories on physical rest and activity, with some claiming sleep requires eyelids while others argued rest may occur without visible eye closure.
Do Fish Sleep With Eyes Open Says Scientist
Among the funny tribe he and it might be confined to their efforts to resist the temptation of swallowing the bait offered them by the angler. He avoured the idea that fish did not clone their eyes. In support of this Position he ar gued that human beings have been known to sleep without dropping the eyelids. And among animals it was no Uncommon occurrence for them to sleep with their eyes wide open. Continuing, the expert said that he had observed fish in an Aquarium which gave avery evidence that they were indulging in sleep. They would re main for a long time at the bottom of a tank, resting in an upright position upon their taila, which, while at a comfortable attitude, was not unlike that of certain human beings at times. Tnother forms of repose fish lay on their sides and also rested their bodies upon moxs and shrubbery in the tank. The habits of catfisd, bullhead and Sunfish were mentioned as another illustration of sleeping fish. During the winter season these species go to the bottom of the water and flounder about until they become encased in mud and there remain during the cold period. This was certainly sleep in dulged in by them, and it was a natural inference that other specimens of fish were compelled to obtain rest in the nature of sleep. This was the general conclusion reached, said the scientist, by ichthy ologists who had given this prese of fish life a careful study.
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United States Fish Commission
New York Sun
Wish Commission
Gorge M. Bowers
United States
Fish Commissioner
Bowers
Commission
Potomac
West Virginia
Avery
For Stomach Troubles Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets
Sia has tried many medicines for stomach trouble and constipation but finds better relief from Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets. Sold by Orr-Gray Drug. The ad notes modern improvements since the time of Adam and Eve and promotes the product.
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Sia
Mra. S. Goier
Dunkerton
Iowa
Chamberlain
Orr-Gray Drug
Eve
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Lee
Atlanta Journal
Petersburg
Lynchburg
Appomattox
Havernacks
Appomattoz
Benning
Custer
Santer
Onradlyea
Aimilar
Aleout Appomattox
Benalog
Georsts
North Carolina
Charlotte
Johnson
Lincoln
Doad
Ling
Alain
W. Buna
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Virginia
Carolina Chemical Company
Charleston, S. C
Richmond, VA
Atlanta, GA
South
Cirsinia
Carolina Chemical Co
Virginia-Carolina
Alminac
Vandiver Bros
Anderson
Vandiver Brothers
Vandiver Brothers & Major
C. A. Reed Music House
Evans
Evans Pharmacy
D. Anderson & Bro
Hayes Block
Bransford
Clifton
C. M. Buchanan
Masonic Temple
Landreth
Orr-Gray & Co
Acme
Acme Paint & Cement CO
F. B. Cr Ayton & Co
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