Reveille Opens Thirty-fourth Grand Encampment in Chicago
Chicago welcomed 250 000 visitors as 30 000 veterans in blue paraded through rain soaked streets for the Grand Army of the Republic gathering. Survivors of the Federal army of 1861 to 1865 were feted with songs sermons and ceremonies at churches and the Coliseum with thousands of flags banners and portraits adorning State Street and Michigan Avenue.
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Reveille
Chicago
Grand Army of the Republic
Avenue of Fame
Court of Honor
Lincoln
Grant
Logan
Maine
California
State Street
Iowa
John Brown
Illinois
Shiloh
Business Poe
Michigan Avenue
White Court of Honor
Army
Navy
Old Salts in Line at Chicago Naval Veterans Parade
The article describes a large Chicago parade of Civil War naval veterans marching under arches with Stars and Stripes. Escorts include sailors who fought at Manila Bay and Santiago, honoring their storied service in the waning century.
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Navy
Chicago
Manila Bay
Santiago
Veterans Parade Lit Up by Sunlit City Streets
A Civil War veterans encampment opened with a July morning parade through Chicago. Veterans from Michigan Wisconsin Indiana Iowa and many western states joined as a brass band played and the crowd cheered. Sailors and detachments marched as heroes recalled Mobile Bay and the Mississippi defenses, while Gen Daniel I Sickles chaired the Third Army Corps Union formed March 10 1862.
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Canton
Lake Front
Chicago
Georgia
Ohio
Pap
Sherman
Michigan
Wisconsin
Indiana
Iowa
Third Army Corps Union
Daniel I. Sickles
Grand Army Facts and Figures
A compilation of Grand Army of the Republic data lists total enlistments, key dates, and leaders. It cites 288000 current members, 2320272 Union enlistments in the Civil War, 600000 Confederates, and May 30 Memorial Day first proclaimed by Gen Logan in 1868. It notes organizational milestones in Worcester Philadelphia Denver and Malden.
First G A R Post Organized At Decatur Illinois 1906
The first Grand Army of the Republic post formed in Decatur Illinois in 1860 under Maj B F Stephenson with Capt Jobs Paelpe aiding. It began with twelve members and later records show 43 meetings from 1860 to 1868. 80 comrades enrolled by May 1867. Other posts followed in Illinois and across the Midwest led by Maj Stephen Rod with staff Webber Snyder Woods Lightfoot and Phelps. Survivors in Decatur include Capt M F Konan Isaac W Coltrin and others now living in Bloomington and Oil City Pa.
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Decatur
Lil
Grand Army of the Republic
B. F. Stephenson
Jobs
Paelpe
Miihy
Springfield
Stephen
Rod
Webber
Snyder
Woods
Chris Reidsome
Bloomington, al
John T. Bishop
Oil City, Pa
State Posts and Members Distribution Across Departments
The report lists forty five departments with Ohio leading in posts at 695, followed by New York 688 and Pennsylvania 504. Illinois 573, Indiana 475, and Iowa 433 complete the top counts while Utah has five posts comprising 217 members. New Mexico has ten posts and 117 members. New York shows 34,333 members, the largest in any state, while Ohio has 28,501.
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Ohio
New’ York
Pennsylvana
Ilinois
Indiana
Iowa
Utah
New Mexico
New Yor
Soldier Life Easier: Protection and Provisions Improve in War
A Brooklyn Eagle summary notes that modern soldiers face stronger weapons yet enjoy better camp comforts. Innovations include sturdier clothing, portable cooking gear, aluminum utensils, and expanded rations with items like cheese and canned goods. Personal purchases now cover pipes and tobacco, towels, silk handkerchiefs, and more, while rum is discouraged in hot climates.
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Brooklyn Eagle
The Art Of Talking Well In Conversation
Practical guidance on speaking style and social conduct from Ladies' Home Journal. Emphasizes avoiding vanity gossip or pedantry, valuing natural speech, and offering others undivided attention. Encourages listening, direct eye contact, and restraint in humor, questions, and mannerisms.
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Eaid
Ladies’ Home Journal
TEN AGES OF WOMEN AND THEIR SEVEN YEAR STAGES
An essay outlines character stages in a woman’s life framed as multiples of seven years. It traces fancy, childhood, girlhood, mature womanhood, late youth, middle life, and age toward the end, noting embedded habits and social labels. It ends with a remark on real laughter at the theater versus audience tittering.
Market Trends and Wheat Drought Repercussions Across Regions
The week shows little overall change with irregular iron and steel price readjustments and a belief that values have touched near-term lows. Railroads report strong earnings, banks signal steady business, and bears are less certain about near-term market highs. Chicago wheat shows strength due to foreign demand and North Dakota drought recovery amid late rains, but excessive wet harvests threaten milling quality.
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New York
Bears
Chicago
North Dakota
Minnesota
Deadly raid on Dr Wright hospital ends in deaths
An all night confrontation by a constable and deputies attempting to arrest Dr Mrs Charlotte Wright at her Gilman hospital left two dead two fatally wounded and two seriously injured. Deputy Mike Ryan died from buckshot after the door was forced open. John Meyers, who lived with Wright, fired the fatal shots. The house burned and Wright was wounded as mob threats of lynching rose.
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Charlotte Wright
Gilman
Lil
Dessie Salter
Leonard
George Willoughby
Pete Haner
John Meyers
Wright
Meyers
Notable News Bits From A Mixed Era
A jumble of brief items reports deaths including John Lamb the New York doll doctor at 80 and a Missouri boy killed by a stone. British American union forms in San Francisco. England cold weather hinders festivities. Yellow fever cured in Vera Cruz with two serum doses. A Pacific coast telephone company merger effort valued at 15 million dollars. Philippine veterans in Denver form the Army of the Philippines. Seoul reports Corea allows Japan troop dispatches for emergencies. August Schimer, heir to 500 thousand, found living as a hermit in Lycoming County. Miss Zimmerman of Cincinnati, a millionaire daughter, to wed the young Duke of Manchester. War Dept orders four more Pacific transports to China. Daily costs run over 650 dollars per ship. Cincinnati may receive a new census count. Daily Post claims 500 more people than official figures.
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John Lamb
New York
San Francisco
England
Vera Cruz
Mexico
James Rogers
Wallace
Decaturville
Pacific
Denver
Society of the Army of the Philippines
Corea
Seoul
Japan
August Schimer
Lycoming County
Pennsylvania
Helen Zimmerman
Cincinnati
Ohio
Yong Duke
Manchester
War Department
China
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Gettysburg Battlefield
Union Ex-Prisoners of War Association
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Philadelphia
United States
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KE. Florence Barker
Malden
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