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Fragmented Civil War Era Notice Recalls Courts and Enlistment
A garbled manuscript recalls court authority over disability in civil process, a Canadian debt case, and a Washington dispatch on wartime prosecutions. It weaves in a hospital relief story about carpet shoes for convalescents and a domestic scene of Edith and Aunt Grace amid draft anxieties, with reflections on currency and a telegraph signal corps anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Dispatch
Lisigner
Chestnuts Street
Ninth Street
Evans
Eighth Street
Loig
Helen
Aunt Grace
Edith
Ste
Elich
Katy. Dawes
Grace
Padie
Katy
Philippis
Edicracs
Armand
Roth
Edlith
Lota
Hgr.svork
Eliah' As
Oria
Thas
Awaelk
Yale
Edich
Therae
Lot
Fiean Irick
Ae ‘T
Paleigo
S& Ag Tovansit
Sundek
Stong
S.A
Tymer
Potomas
Signal Corps
Cat
Charlestown