Boone's Cabin by a Springfield Spring and Frontier Route
A historically rich sketch recalls Daniel Boone and family near a spring that drew game and supplied water, bees and food at a pioneer settlement. It traces Boone across Ohio Indiana and Illinois to the Missouri, noting Spanish welcome in St. Louis and the Femme Osage valley name from an Osage tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aim
Boone House
Mississippi
Boone
Pemmn Osage
Northwest Territory
Kenawha
Atlantic States
Daniel M. Boone
Louisiana Territory
St. Louis
Senor
Zenon ‘Trudeau
Colonel Boone
Louisiana
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri River
St. Charles County
Kentucky
The
Nile
Daniel Boone
Femme Osage
Virginia
Mason County
West Virginia
Pleas
Daniel Boone and the Femme Osage Era Home
The article recounts early Bois Boone governance at Femme Osage with a whipping post under the Judgment Tree. It notes Boone’s stone mansion built around 1813, claims its prominence, and details room layout and finishes. It also mentions Boone dying in 1820 in the northwest room where a modern telephone now hangs.
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Femms
Clar “Owalivyiaid
Th &Ae
Daniel Boone
Boone
Mississippi
Aittle
Ile
The Real Captain A P F Lucas in Sunny South
A long biographical sketch portrays Captain A F Lucas, Austrian born, American southerner, famed oil discoverer in Texas. It details his life from youth in Austria to marriage with Carrie Pitzger, travels Europe, move to Washington, and pioneering petroleum work across Louisiana Texas and California. It ends with his dramatic discovery of crude oil in southern Texas and the birth of a vast operation, signaling success after years of study and travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dima
A. F. Lucas
South
Texas
Lucan
Rhine
Austria
Ying
America
Georgia
Phiy
Jadiea
Carrie Pitzger
Goa
Europe
Elso
Captain Uneas
Washington City
American Institution of Mining Engineers
Louisiana
California
Set
Fig
Snthons
Stacia
Wealthy Captain Lugo Wea Defies Patent Schemes in Rise
A historical account contrasts Captain Lugo Wea with speculative stock schemes and heartless corporations. It praises his merit based wealth creation through long disciplined labor, avoiding watered stock and widow’s losses, and delivering prosperity to thousands of homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aladdin
Rewd
Lucag
Petersburg Sharpshooters Raid Fort Stedman Tribute
The narrator recalls Civil War duty with the Petersburg sharpshooters, detailing General Gordon’s order to take Fort Stedman, the brutal assault under heavy fire, fatalities including a captain, and the escape from the fort to rest among graves as songs honor fallen comrades. The piece ends with a soldier’s reflection on memory and sacrifice.
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Sunmr South
Manila
Petersburg
Battle
Alabama
Gordon
General Evans
Evans
Divisiona
Storute
triSen
Ralinas
Hort
Stedman
Gener Gordon
Hilton
Wild Man John Starnes of South Carolina Captured in Box Home
John Starnes a reclusive South Carolina hermit living five miles northwest of town has sheltered for 38 years in a box house beneath a weed-covered hideout. He avoids people, accepts no money, bakes bread on a rock, and hunts rabbits and recovers, surviving since a wartime incident that frightened him into seclusion. A unique photograph by A. Gold of Blacksburg records the man, who remains wary of outsiders and displays wild behavior when approached.
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United States
John Starnes
Starnes
8.C
Old scrap book poems and Civil War relics reignite memories
A 1862 era poem calls women to knit socks for soldiers and a patriotic tone echoes through wartime clippings. The piece notes a Cincinnati Gazette paragraph on secession and recalls graves of Confederate generals near Columbia. It ends with an Apt Reply about a woman praying while a man goes to fight.
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Eral Evans
Port Hell
Goregi Mags
Les
Bibert
Gorston
Hla Piana
Thaloridan and Journal
St Toollanassee
Ohomyr
Cincinnati Gazette
Memphis
Montegomery Advertiser
The Cause of Many Suuan Deaths
A health notice argues kidney diseases cause many deaths and other organ failures. It promotes Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney, liver and bladder issues, claiming easy cures, samples, and free literature via mail from Dr Kilmer & Co in Binghamton NY.
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Kidnay
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N.Y
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South Sea
Augusta
Nerth
Muyers
Emzontecturer
Ami
Missouri
Hie
Daniel M
Fern White
Wisainggton
Oussiana
Osage
New Orleans
Congress
Femme Osage Valley
Nathan Boone
Femmespge
Sibted
ACA
PF Lucas
Sunny South
Beaumont
Wea
O F Lucas
By J Fowler
Renae
Ofd
Fort Stedman
G F Agee
Glass Cn
Spey
South Carolina
Wilkie
Sones
Bunny South
Gomg Erals
Columbia
Macon Confederacy
Charles T. Quintard
Cleburne
Ashewood
Carolina
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