Beauregard Praises Anderson Amid Fort Sumter Crisis
Fifty years ago on March 27 1861 General Beauregard wrote to L P Walker praising Union commander Major Robert Anderson as gallant and unlikely to tarnish his soldierly reputation while urging actions to force surrender at Fort Sumter.
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Beauregard
Fort Sumter
L. P. Walker
Jefferson Davis
Robert Anderson
United States Army
Sumter
Anderson
Pickens
South Carolina Considers Cutting Fort Sumter Supplies
Charleston convention debates Schingler resolution to cut off supplies provisions and mail facilities to Fort Sumter. Will be considered tomorrow.
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South Carolina
Charleston
Confederate Loan Authorized but Not Yet Sold
The Montgomery Confederacy has not offered the 15 million dollar loan. One third will be made available next month in amounts from fifty to one thousand dollars. The loan, authorized February 28 1861, matures in ten years with eight percent interest and is guaranteed by an eighteen and one percent export duty on raw cotton.
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Boston Post
Montgomery
Confederate Congress
Confederate States
Postmaster General Faces Virginia Mail Agent Turmoil
Virginia residents threaten tar and feather new mail agents. one agent resigns and others likely follow. Several Virginia Republicans seek vacancies and vow to serve at all hazards. If crowds interrupt mail service, routes may be cut off.
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Boston Post
Virginia
Texas Civil War Threat Linked by Houston Talk
A Texas gentleman reports a conversation with General Houston who, while deposed as Texas governor, predicted an inevitable Civil War in Texas and stated that Alabama would soon face the same dilemma.
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Boston Post
Texas
Houston
Alabama
Virginia Secessionists Grow Desperate Over Direct Vote
Virginia secession supporters show signs of despair as they confront difficulties in achieving a direct vote on secession. Analysts note internal divisions and political pressures mounting within a movement once confident of success.
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Boston Post
Virginia
Time for Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet to Work
A reading notes how quickly water dissolves sugar and compares the pace to the time a Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet takes to relieve indigestion after a meal. The piece emphasizes practical digestion relief and everyday remedy use.
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Stuart
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Offer Fast Digestive Relief
Advertises Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as rapid relief for overloaded stomachs. Claims they mimic natural gastric juices to digest food, relieve discomfort, and improve breath and tongue coating. Sold by druggists nationwide for 50 cents a box. trial package available by mail from F. A. Stuart Co., Marshall Michigan.
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Stuart
F. A. Stuart Co
Stuart Bldg
Marshall, Mich
Virginians weigh secession amid Arkansas plan vote
The article notes secession ordinances and Arkansas plan adoption being sent to a public vote while Unionists expect secession to fail. It recalls Virginia’s loyalty to the Union until Fort Sumter and reflects that fifty years earlier most Virginians likely opposed joining the Confederacy if war could be averted.
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Arkansas
Virginia
Fort Sumter
Confederate Tariff Proposal Reported by Charleston Mercury
The Confederated States have no tariff yet with consideration postponed to the next Montgomery Congress in May. A proposed bill, backed by a single congressman, suggests a tariff with lower schedules. The Mercury forecasts a likely return to tariffs with 5 10 15 and 20 percent ad valorem classifications, luxury items in high grades, essentials in low.
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Boston Post
Montgomery
Congress
Charleston Mercury
Among the Churches of Greater Boston
The noon service at St Pauls Tremont Street features Rev George Hodges. Rev Samuel S Drury heads Pauls School in Concord NH. The Second Church Copley Square held mercy services led by Rev Clarence W Rowley. Lucien W Rogers to enter his duties as Church of the Redeemer rector in May. George B Cross speaks to Baptist ministers on religion and Catholic church. Unitarian Union to hear Frederick N Cooke on Boy Scout Movement and Mary Bosle O Reilly on Our Girl Workers. Swift Memorial Church Sagamore dedicated. Rev Donald Browne reassigned to hospital duties in the MGH area.
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St. Paul's Church
Tremont Street
George Hodges
D. D
Cambridge Theological School
Samuel S. Drury
St. Paul's School
Concord
N. H
Second Church
Copley Square
Clarence W. Rowley
The
Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Lucien W. Rogers
Church of the Redeemer
Chestnut Hill
Newton
Baptist Ministers’ Conference
George B. Cross
Unitarian Ministerial Union
Frederick N. Cooke
Boy Scout Movement
Mary Bosle O'Reilly
Our Girl Workers
Donald Browne
Episcopal Church At
Marion
Massachusetts General Hospital
West End Troubadours Form Minstrel Club
West End youths form the West End Troubadours at a meeting last week naming officers John J. Dunn president John M. Maloney vice president Patrick J. Coleman secretary and William H. Cunningham treasurer. The committee plans a minstrel show and dance in May and smoke talks afterward.
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West End Troubadours
West End
John J. Dunn
John M. Maloney
Patrick J. Coleman
Willam H. Cunningham
Hen swims and catches fish in Belleville home
Henry Ude of 401 South Fair street Belleville Illinois owns a hen that swims like a duck and dives for fish as a hobby. The Indian game bird trained for ten months now acts as a decoy for ducks on shooting trips and recently caught a large mess of fish for the family dinner.
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Belleville
Ill
Henry Ude
South Fair Street
Ude
Woman sues car maker for 46000 after Vanderbilt race crash
Mrs Dorothea Roose of Fort Wayne Indiana sues a motor car company for 46000 damages claiming her car was struck by a Chevrolet driven machine during the Vanderbilt cup race on Long Island October 1. She says the crash caused serious spinal and head injuries and hair to turn white from shock.
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Forth Wayne
Ind
Dorothea Roose
Long Island
Louis Chevrolet
Little Eva Missing From Parade In Town
In Winsted Connecticut on March 26 a street parade for Uncle Tom's Cabin drew many celebrities except little Eva who was said to have gone to heaven. A crowd dark with concern learned she had visited a doctor for a cold before the event resumed.
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Winsted
Conn
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Thomaston
Little Eva
Eva
Barefoot children play on pond ice near Palenville Clove
In Catskill New York a 10 year old girl and a 9 year old brother ran barefoot on ice at the pond entrance to Palenville Clove. Washington J Saxe and his wife spotted them during a morning drive and the children said they only wear shoes at school.
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Catskill
N. Y
Washington J. Saxe
Mrs. Saxe
Carved gold ring ties murder to old Danville case
In Noblesville Indiana a trunk with skeletal remains and a carved ring is linked by a widow to Eugene C Woodmansee of Danville. Woodmansee vanished hours before his wedding to Sarah Wirt around 40 years ago, with a Civil War era roadhouse site and a rumored $500 motive.
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Noblesville
Ind
Eugene C. Woodmansee
Danville
Woodmansee
Sarah Wirt
White River
Cowitch Tickles an Entire Town in Pennsylvania
In Wilkesbarre on March 26, Conyngham residents suffered itchy rashes blamed on a practical joker. The mystery spread through schools, lodge rooms, the post office, and a horse sale after the culprit reportedly obtained cow itch by mail. The school board aims to identify and punish the youth behind it, with possible public flogging if caught.
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Wilkesbarre
Conyngham
Indian Film Show Turns Real as Patron Shoots Self
In Sharon Pennsylvania the Gem Theatre audience heard a pistol report during a cinema climax. John Schuster of Hamilton Avenue toppled to the floor with a thigh wound after he accidentally discharged a gun in his pocket while reacting to a fight scene.
Engagement of Marian Lander to Captain Burwell Announced
Miss Marian M Lander daughter of Mr and Mrs John E Lander of 7 Woodward Park announces her engagement to Captain Arthur N Burwell son of Mr and Mrs Herbert N Burwell of 85 Holden Street Den chester. Burwell is a 1907 English High School graduate and former track team manager.
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Marian M Lander
John E. Lander
Woodward Park
Arthur N. Burwell
Miss Lander
Dorchester High School
My Burwell
Herbert N. Burwell
Holden Street
Denchester
Four Thousand Attend Immaculate Conception Retreat Opening
Large turnout fills both the main church and St. Valentine’s Chapel for the retreat’s start at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Sermons by Rev. Joseph N. Dinand and Rev. Arthur J. McCaffray focus on the theme The End of Man as attendees reflect on life, faith, and purpose.
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Church of the Immaculate Conception
St. Valentine’s Chapel
Joseph N. Dinand
St. Andrew’s
Hudson, N. Y
Arthur J. McCaffray
Calvary
Is Preparing for Blindness
London reports General Booth faces possible blindness as surgeons plan an autumn operation to clear the remaining eye. He has already lost sight in one eye and writes by touch due to the other eye’s severe weakness.
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London
Booth
Salvation Army
Adamson's Balsam Promoted as Safest Cold Remedy
The notice touts Adamson's Balsam as the safest remedy for coughs and colds, emphasizing its proven efficacy and safety for general use.
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Adamson
Notable guests enliven Boston hotels during flower show
Guests at Lenox Essex Puritan and other downtown hotels mingle chatter about fares and fortunes. F R Pierson of New York and Arthur Westbrook of Cleveland share remarks on coins and aluminum tokens while Sir John Murray hosts tea. Jack Rice of Indianapolis recalls 1906 motor crossing. Charles B Ramsey of Buffalo laments Niagara Falls tourism. Willim H Avery of San Francisco notes post quake San Francisco. Maine natives spreading across the country are praised for their influence.
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Tom Johnson
Cleveland
Arthur Westbrook
Cleveland, O
Essex Hotel
Little Known Facts About Well Known Persons
Victor Herbert is Samuel Lover’s grandson and Maurice Maeterlinck studies bees and owns a large apiary. Lee Shubert once worked as a Syracuse newsboy. Allen Upward is a lawyer, playwright and poet. George V collects stamps. Sarah Bernhardt enjoys fishing boating and tennis at her Bretagne summer home. Thomas Lipton is an Italian crown officer and English colonel. Albert Chevalier has French Welsh Irish roots. C H Bijerregaard leads Orientalism and mysticism authority at Astor Library. Henry Holt gardens as a hobby. General Edward M Hayes, born 1842, had Civil War Spanish-American War and Indian War service.
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Victor Herbert
Samuel Lover
Maurice Maeterlinck
Lee Shubert
Syracuse
N.Y
Allen Upward
King George V
England
Sarah Bernhardt
Bretagne
United States Army
Dorchester Daughters of Maine Plan Vendome Party
The Dorchester Daughters of Maine with 150 members will hold a party at the Vendome on Thursday afternoon. The group is noted as a special haven for Maine women.
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Dorchester
Daughters of Maine
The
Dorchester Daughters of Maine
Vendome
Wife Seeks Divorce Over Red Hair Clue
Emma B. Mason won a divorce from Howard I. Mason a Kansas City real estate man and president of the Safety Rail & Joint Lock Co. The case cited red hairs found in his hairbrush matching his secretary with auburn hair as part of the motive. The couple met at a rail station with the secretary present and business matters followed.
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Kansas City
Emma B. Mason
Howard I. Mason
Safety Rail & Joint Lock Company
Nose Shapes Hint At Matrimonial Fate Say a Professor
Chicago march 26 professor Alfred E Wills of New York urged Northwestern University students to judge marriage prospects by facial features He claimed a broad nose is aggressive a long nose with a hump signals a conquering nature and advised breakoffs if both partners share such traits
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Chicago
Alfred E. Wills
New York
Northwestern University
Wills
John Wanamaker
Andrew Carnegie
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