Soldiers Singers and War Songs Across American Conflicts
The piece recalls how troops in 1898 hid under fire at Manila while a regimental band played There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, influencing morale. It surveys American war songs from Yankee Doodle to The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Star Spangled Banner, Dixie, and Maryland My Maryland, noting origins and adoption across Civil War, Mexican War, and earlier battles. It contemplates how a 1916 army on the Rio Grande may choose a campaign tune, as songs reveal national spirit through history.
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Old Town
Rio Grande
the Republic
John Brown
Twelfth
Massachusetts Regiment
Julia Ward Howe
America
Francis Scott Key
Baltimore
Anacreon
Heaven
London
Ft. McHenry
Mundeen
Peor
Khey
McHenry
Boys In Blue
Johnny
Babylon
Georgia
Dixie
Maryland
North
South
Lorena
James R. Randall
New Orleans
Richmond
Confederacy
Worth a King's Ransom Origin Traced in Feudal Practice
A London Chronicle writer traces the phrase to days when rulers could be paid for ransom and soldiers held captives. The term likely stems from ransoms paid to kings for princes or great nobles, reflecting feudal practice of private captors delivering prisoners to royal hands for payment.
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London Chronicle
Richard Coeur de Lion
Uberty
Spring motor drives flexible shaft camera for smooth follow
A spring motor powers a flexible shaft to let a camera operator track moving targets with ease, achieving motion similar to a standard hand camera.
Nine French Soldiers Capture Li Anches Fort at Somme
Nine French soldiers led by a second lieutenant and four men tunneled through heavy fire to breach a Li Anches fortification. Germans surrendered after a bold bayonet charge, with six comrades arriving to complete the capitulation. The piece also recalls stokers in battleships and a stoic British stoker joking mid battle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somme
Lianches
Poilus
Neighborly Talk Sparks Hearing About Tolerances
In a brisk exchange the neighbors discuss music and noise, noting one man’s fondness for fiddling while the wife raises her voice. The scene hints that money can buy less than courtesy in late hours.
Cure pimples quickly with Cuticura remedies
Advertising copy promotes Cuticura ointment and soap for pimples with a five minute topical treatment followed by a hot bath. It claims ease upon rising or retiring and offers free samples by mail from Boston. Also advises remedies for chiggers including ammonia solution and bicarbonate of soda for relief, with iodine or colloid solutions for severe irritation.
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Dept. L
Boston
Department of Agriculture
Just a Trifle: Tiny Wool Doll Bookmark Gift
A humorous small bookmark crafted from half-inch satin ribbon with wool dolls on each end. The “dolls” are under an inch long, tied in tassel style with colored cotton eyes nose and mouth. A cheeky stocking stuffer or cheerful note idea for a youngster or invalid friend.
Mosquito Boom Triggers Bat Protection in Texas City
A Texas city bans bat killing after bats prove effective against a mosquito outbreak. The remark contrasts Gotham style concerns with Jersey conditions where mosquitoes outsize local bats. The item frames a quirky public health story and regional reaction.
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Church
Exas City
Gotham
Jersey
Aviation school mishap joke exchange
A classroom joke has a student asking about progress in aviation training. Another replies that they are not doing well, stating they were near the head yesterday and fell to the foot, a play on flight terminology.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redy
Grene
Hughes and Cromwell Jibe Recalled in Upstate Talk
A late 19th or early 20th century anecdote recalls Charles B. Hughes once called a modern Oliver Cromwell, prompting a heckler and a governor’s quip about a waiter asking a diner for soup with the punch line about oxtail soup.
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Charles Be. Hughes
New York
Lewis Stuyvesant Climler
Hughes
Oliver Cromwell
Mr. Hughes
Upstate
Word Painter and Sign Painter Echo in Roving Dialogue
A fragmentary dialogue contrasts Bacon as a word planter with Egbert who, though labeled novelist, is described as painting signatures on rocks. The exchange hints at artful branding of words and signs.
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Fac Simoile
Stoker
Juthind
Bacon
Egbert
Iowa
Kodaks
DES Moines Photo Material CO
Rast Dan Kodak Company
Locust Street
Des Moines
Low
Signa
Omaha
U.S.A
Defiance
Defiance Starch CO
Nebraska
Saskatchewan
Canada
Frank Crawford
Eer Creek
Philips de Sent
Terieson
Ridges
O'Lear
Fob Moriena Gt
Bariington
Pophani
Williams
Pip
Ree
Absorbine, JR
W.F. Young
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Springeld
Maas
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