Mystery at the Hospital Gate Unfolds in Mayhem
Anita reunites with Alice at the hospital after a frantic search sparked by news from Joe Balfour. Chaudron, Vance, and Duke hide their fears while Victor Labouisse’s plot lingers and Joe brings Dr. Anderson toward answers in a tense post carnival scene.
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Chaudron
Joe
Duke
Anita
Chandron
Vance
Dr. Anderson
Mardi Gras Smallpox Plot Unfolds Across Labouisse’s House
gathered bystanders question Joe Balfour as Labouisse’s scheme unravels. The inspector’s room shuffles, a nurse Arthemise tends the sick while Labouisse shifts blame and furniture to avert a town scare. Duke learns he was a scapegoat, not linked to Vicksburg.
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Joe Balfour
K Alston
Anita
Joe
Ae Chaudron
Alice
Mrs. Chaudron
Celeste
Douna
Vance
Mr. Chaudron
Lars
Mother
Ale
Pedro
Jimmy Fitz
Labouisse
Board of Health
Laboussa
Mrs. Ashton
Dron
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Noel
Duke
Daan
Civil War Captain Keeps Silver Watch After Bullet Strike
Capt. C. W. Foster of Council Bluffs Iowa captained company D seventy sixth U S C I in Hawkins division aiding Gen Canby at Mobile. In the April 9 1865 assault near Spanish Fort a Confederate bullet shattered his silver watch and lodged in his ilium while he kept two guns silent and led his men under heavy fire.
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C. W. Foster
Council Bluffs
Hawkins
Steele
Canby
Mobile
Ala
Barnacas
Fila
Pensacola
Florida
Tensas River
Alabama
Spanish Fort
Fort Blakeley
Foster
National Tribune
Captain Rescued From Mud After Bay Battle
A captain was knocked by a ding into the bay mud and nearly drowned. Two of his men pulled him to safety two miles to the rear hospital. He bears a watch and a bullet wound to prove the ordeal and asserts the colored troops would fight.
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Ding
Sherman and the Irish Servant Skinned Ross
A tale recounts General Sherman ordering his servant to skin the horse Ross after a cannon ball killed it. The servant asks questions and learns it took hours to catch the horse, not skin it.
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Gen. Sherman
Ross
Sherman
Mike
Widow of Revolutionary Soldier Dies at 93 in Vermont
Esther S Damon widow of Noah Damon, last surviving widow of a Revolutionary War soldier, died in Plymouth Union Vermont at age 93. She married in 1835 when he was 75, and he only received a pension 14 years later. Congress passed acts aiding remaining Revolutionary widows, with two in Pennsylvania, one in Connecticut, one in New York.
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Esther S. Damon
Plymouth Union
Noah Damon
Damon
Spebidi
Congress
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
New York
First Use of Side Saddle Fashion Claim
A London Mall correspondent reports that women rode astride until Queen Elizabeth on a state occasion rode sidewise to display a magnificent dress and thus set the fashion.
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London Mall
Romance of the great gun Lady Davis
A Confederate tale centers on Alphonso Dubreil the gunner of Lady Davis a cannon named for Jefferson Davis wife. His lover Amelia Chartrand wedding at Port Hudson ends with her death from a shell during May 27 1863 assault while Dubreil returns to his post amid the bombardment.
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Davis
National Tribune
Alphonso Dubreil
Louisiana
Chartrand
Alphonso
Amelia
Port Hudson
Vitality Restored by Dean's Kidney Pills
Capt J W Hogan former Indianola postmaster now in Austin Texas says years of kidney trouble with back pain headaches and night sweats vanished after using Dean's Kidney Pills. He reports being as well as twenty years ago and sight restored. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a bar Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Indianola
Austin
Tex
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Convict Seeks Pension After Long Band Service
An Andaman life convict claimed a pension on release, citing long and faithful service as a government servant while noting his time in the band. The report highlights his peculiar claim and the older pension idea amid fresh cases.
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Andamans
Madras Mail
London Lawyer Turns Novelist With Lawful Detective Tale
A. Fox-Davis, a London lawyer and author of 54 volumes on peerage and law, ventures into fiction with a detective story proclaiming that the law is all right. He states he wrote the book after finding the law wrong in one of the best of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
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Fox-Davis
London
Hints for the Pipe Lover from a Canadian Journal
The Canadian Cigar and Tobacco Journal offers pipe smoking tips. Time is a keynote and gentleness matters. Do not crowd the bowl or heat the pipe. keep it cool and relight if needed, but do not refill a heated pipe after finishing.
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Canadian Cigar and Tobacco Journal
The
Journal
Cure of Severe Eczema by Cuticura Ointment in 1906
A man recalls a decade of chronic itching and widespread scaly eruptions starting in childhood. After trying arsenic salves and various remedies, he finds relief with Cuticura Ointment, with hair regrowth and full cure after fourteen years and significant expense. He offers to correspond with interested readers.
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Hiram Mattingly
Vermillion
S. Dek
Grand Trunk Pacific backs 1907 crop movement to Prairie provinces
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway president Hays says the line will help move Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba grain to markets for 1907. He reports a Prairie trip to Edmonton and notes Canada’s wheat crop could reach about 125 million bushels next year with expanded transportation aiding settlement.
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Canada
Seaboa
Addy
Wes
Hays
Trank Pacffc Railway
Alberta
Katchewan
Manitoba
Haya
Ia Prairie
Edmonton
Grand Trunk Pacific Road
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days by Pazo Ointment
Guaranteed relief for piles within six to fourteen days or money back. Advertises cure for itching burning and protruding issues with Pazo ointment. Claims fast results and refunds if not satisfied.
Fragmented Proverb and Quack Remedies Spark Readers
A fragment cites Heraclitus on injustice and lists ailments and patent cures. The items mention Garfield Tea described as a mild laxative and a claim of quick recovery from bilious issues under the Pure Food Law.
Prefer Their Own Way and Home Laundering Starch Advice
The brief urges men to choose their own path while noting many do not want to be widowed. It promotes using smooth iron and Def Starch for home laundry to achieve proper stiffness and finish with less wear and tear, recommending a starch that does not stick to the iron.
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Howland
Sixty Years a Lamplighter
Timothy Boldra of Yarmouth England spent over six decades with the local gas company. He began as a youth lighting street oil with a flint and steel before later serving as a lamp lighter for the town’s gas works.
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Timothy Boldra
Dhe
Yarmouth
England
Head shaping theory shocks at Ge naturalists convention
Dr W4 of Stuttgart outlined a sensational theory on infant head formation at a Ge naturalists and doctors convention. He claimed artificial molding could alter head shape by resting a baby’s head on cushions or hard surfaces, citing a case of a short headed mother and long skulled child to support his view.
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Stuttgart
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