Cure for eczema shows Cuticura's promise to a mother
A Baltimore mother recounts her infant daughter's severe eczema lasting from four weeks to three years. After trying doctors with no success, she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment and saw a marked improvement in a week, with complete cure and hair regrowth by last November.
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Eczema
Cuticura
H. E. Householder
Wilhelm St
Baltimore
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Columbus Ave
Boston
Fitzgerald and Foss Honor Ball Crowds at Sym phony Hall
Governor Foss and Mayor Fitzgerald attended the Scots Charitable Society ball in Symphony Hall, praised as the best event in 254 years of the society. Over 4000 people to the grand march led by James Pottinger and his wife, with performances by Cockburn and the Harvard Beethoven quartets.
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Scots’ Charitable Society
Symphony Hall
Governor Foss
Fitzgerald
Alexander McGregor
Wiliam L. Cockburn
America
Harvard
John Daniels
Jean Sherburne
James Pottinger
Robert BE. May
J May
W. H. Clarke
C. K. Vedder
William Kenney
W. H. English
C. B. Sweikhart
BH. D. Benner
James Lussier
Caledonian Club of
Lynn
John Ballantyne
J. Mathison
Highland Dress Association
W. Doig
William E. Grahame
James Michel, Jr
Forest Fire Battle in Western Massachusetts Expands
Blazing forests scorch 5500 acres across Clarksburg Williamstown and near North Adams as 400 fire fighters struggle through a three day effort. While the danger to settlements remains remote, outlying homes in Clarksburg lie about a mile and a half from the fire front as winds ease.
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North Adams
Clarksburg
Williamstown
Former Cambridge Professor Dies in Calais
Professor Peter Henry Steenstra, 78, formerly of Cambridge Massachusetts, died suddenly at Robbinston. A theologian and writer, he taught Old Testament literature at the Episcopal Theological School from 1867 to 1907 and was linked with Harvard faculty. His 1891 book The Being of God as Unity and Trinity was widely discussed among scholars.
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Calais
Peter Henry Steenstra
Cambridge
Mass
Robbinston
Episcopal Theological School
Harvard
God
War Time Post Excerpts From Boston Post 1861 Sidelights
The 1861 Boston Post extracts illuminate Civil War era daily life and events. Reports cover local sentiment, military mobilization, and public notices shaping early Union war effort.
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Boston Post
Grant’s First Military Role in Illinois Militia Fifty Years Ago
Ulysses S. Grant, then little known, joined Illinois Governor’s effort to form a state militia for war service. He offered his services to the U.S. Army Adjutant-General from Springfield but received no reply, leading him to accept the colonelcy of the 21st Illinois volunteers. The tale notes his later rise as conqueror of Lee and U.S. president.
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Ulysses S. Grant
Illinois
Grant
Lincoln
Galena
Springfield
Ill
Adjutant-General’s Department
Washington
IL. Thomas
U. S. Army
West Point
Lee
United States
21St Ilinois
From the Boston Post Refutes Civil War Slander
In a wartime editorial the Boston Post criticizes ex Governor Wise for urging Confederate capture of Fort Monroe and labels Alexander H. Stephens a “friend of the Union” while denouncing Baltimore’s Pig Uglies and Southern press claims to the Capitol. The piece vows to propose a cautious military course.
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Boston Post
Wise
Fort Monroe
Virginia
Union
Alexander H. Stephens
Lincoln
Washington
Baltimore
Capitol
Fort Monroe May Fall If Confederates Attack
The speaker argues that if the Union forces can siege Fort Sumter with 8000 troops and 100 defenders, then rebels would need time to take Fort Monroe with 200 artillerymen and 1200 Massachusetts soldiers defending, given modern siege engines and the defenders' resolve to protect their country and General Miller.
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Massachusetts
Fort Sumter
Fort Monroe
Miller
First Regt Called Up in Readiness With Full Regiment
The First Regiment of Infantry under Colonel Robert Cowdin is ordered to immediate readiness. The unit list includes Lt Col Isaac S Burrill Major Thomas J Perkins Adjutant George W Beach Quartermaster Sidney A Stetson Paymaster John S Blair chaplain Thomas B Thayer surgeon S A Green and surgeon's mate J Theodore Heard. The City Council committee votes to provide each soldier in Cowdin's regiment a complete uniform.
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Boston
Robert Cowdin
Isaac S. Burrill
Thomas JL. D. Perkins
George W. Beach
Sidney A. Stetson
John S. Blair
Thomas B. Thayer
S. A. Green
J. Theodore Heard
Colonel Cowdin
Heart of the South in 1860s Confederate mood
A letter from New Orleans to Boston, dated fifty years prior, describes Confederate era life with Zouave soldiers, Marseillaise tunes, and hostility to Union supporters. It warns that speaking for Lincoln or the Union would provoke ostracism and public hostility, underscoring tensions before the Civil War.
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New Orleans
Boston
Marseilles
Hardihood
Lincoln
Southern Secessionists and Northern Betrayal Exposed
A Confederate-stoked tone is challenged with denunciations of Lincoln and Davis. The speaker asserts Southerners will not surrender, warns of internal divisions, and predicts European recognition while condemning free black slaveholders in New Orleans and alleged Northerner traitors within the South.
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Washington
Jefferson Davis
White House
Ben McCulloch
New Orleans
Lincoln
Scott
England
France
Salem Battery Expanded and Corps Preparations
From Salem news we learn Captain Manning's Light Artillery has grown to a full six-piece battery and rifled cannon are being prepared for the corps. The Wield Hospital Corps for General Butler's Brigade is full and soon to be ordered for duty. Members pledge strict military discipline and abstention from liquor gambling and vices.
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Eostern
Salem
Manning
General Butler
Why Norfolk Navy Yard Ships Were Burned
A Concord man asks why ships at Norfolk navy yard were burned rather than towed north. The answer cites lack of time and men to move them before Southern forces arrived, risking capture by Confederates. Similar logic applied to the Harper’s Ferry arsenal. Northern authorities chose the lesser of two evils.
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Concord
Norfolk
Navy Yard
U. S
Harper’s Ferry
Treadway Foe to Income Tax at Royal Arcanum Banquet
President Treadway of the Senate spoke against the federal income tax and urged the Senate to oppose the House's resolution. He criticized amendments to Boston's city charter and noted aeroplane legislation could delay the Legislature. The Royal Arcanum banquet opened its 84th annual session with 177 representatives present.
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Treadway
Senate
Royal Arcanum
Ford Hall
House
Boston
Grand Council
Robert KE
Green
Uriah Tompkins
New York
Joseph A. Langford
Pittsburg
Foss
Fitzgerald
George WH. Wiley
Malden
Suffrage League protests Taft on education equality
The New England Suffrage League in Boston protests President Taft's remarks to The World in Boston. It condemns his stance as discriminatory against colored citizens, denying equal opportunities in education and threatening to push millions into a manual labor caste.
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New England Suffrage League
Boston
Taft
League
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