Dying American Soldier Boy Fights On in Cuban Battle
A wounded American youth bleeds in the tall Cuban grass after a brutal San Juan hill charge. He recalls home and loved ones as the sun beats down and comrades fall, while battle noise fades into silence and his final hours approach. The tale closes with a dog’s grieving howl and a boy’s farewell to family and love.
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Santiago
Island
San Juan Hill
Spain
Goodby
Bill
John
Helen
Detroit Free Press
Origins of common phrases exposed in old sayings
The article cites etymologies for cut and run from Egyptian embalming scenes and for dun a man from a debt collector Joe Dun in Henry VII times. Hobson's choice allegedly comes from Hobson who rented horses and offered the only option at the stable door, the one already taken.
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Dun
Lincoln
Joe Dun
Hobson
Chicago Tribune
Hunt House
Gainesville
Atlanta
America in Old World Eyes
The Chicago Times-Herald notes a major expansion in The Statesman’s Year Book with 282 pages and four maps on the United States. It highlights a new independent index and a comprehensive review of U.S. government, politics, commerce, industry, social condition, resources, and progress reflecting recent stresses and expansion.
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Chicago Times-Herald
United States
Statesman
Turkey
Castor Bears The Kind You in Fan Bought Signature Coffee
A fragment notes Castor bears the kind you in fan bought signature coffee. The snippet mentions a fan purchase linked to a signature blend associated with Thea.
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Castor
Thea
Local residents attend lectures and commencements
Mr. B. A. Franklin traveled to Lithia Springs for the State Dental Association while continuing lectures at the University of Maryland. Numerous guests visit through the week including Miss Cassie McWhorter Greensboro Ga Miss Sallie Lou Holmes Flovilla and Miss Hixie Spruce. Col. Gwyn Zebulon and Merritt Thurman return from Athens and Raleigh respectively. M B Earle hosts summer guests at Liffeys hotel.
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B. A. Franklin
Lithia Springs
State Dental Association
University of Maryland
Merritt Thurman
The
University
Athens, Ga
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New York
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Blood Mountain
Virginia
Cedar Mountain
North Carolina
Daily Mail
Montgomery
Macon
Wm. J. Cox
Barnesville
H. P. Farrow
Porter Springs
Henry P. Farrow
Gainesville, Ge
Cassie McWhorter
Greensboro
L. E. Veal
Sallie Lou Holmes
Flovilla
J. A. Hunt
Floella
Emma Swint
Orchard Hill
Hixie Spruce
J. J. Thompson
Lumpkin
City
A. M. Lambdin
John T. Boifeuillet
J. M. Pound
Charley Currey
Key West, Fla
Capt. L. E. Veal
Mattie Madden
Concord
Edna Madden
Annie Pound
Lois Hunt
Milner,Ga
Maie and
Maude Legg
Molena, Ga
Nannie Howard
Forsyth
Jessie Myers
Marshallville
Charles R. Gwyn of
Zebulon
T. J. Watts
Raleigh
M. B. Earle
Liffeys
J. H. Bate & CO
Barnesville, Ga
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