Sheridan Wins His Star in Bold Booneville Ride
The article recalls Ulysses S. Grant and Gen Halleck approving Capt. Sheridan for command after a daring July 1862 raid at Booneville Missouri. With only 400 men facing 4500 Confederates under Chalmers, Sheridan’s four saber companies attacked in rear and flank while he led a frontal charge, routing the enemy and earning his brigadier general’s commission.
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Corinth
Sheridan
St.Louis
Chicago
Col
George Thom
Gen. Halleck
St. Louis
Tennessee
Thom
Oregon
John C. Kelton
Malleck
Falleck
Halleck
Austin Blair
Michigan
Gordon Granger
Michigan Cavalry
Gov. Blair
Phil
Booneville
Chalmers
Ploo
Sherman
Hewitt Introduces Cheaper Gas Conductor Light
Abram S Hewitt’s son Peter Cooper Hewitt unveils a new lamp using mercury gas as conductor. The device emits bright blue white light from glass tubes and promises one eighth the cost of incandescent lamps and one third the cost of gas and electric lamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abram. S.newltys Son
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
West Thirtysfest Street
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Peter Cooper Hewitt
Abram §S. Hewitt
Mr. Hewitt
Flewitt
Hewitt
Domestic Reform and Backsliding in a Moral Tale
A Baltimore American snippet narrates a wife who reforms her husband making him abstain from drink, smoke, and swearing, only to find he loses his appeal. He backslides, she regains interest, and happiness returns with moral lessons about backsliding enhancing the narrative. The piece shifts to Captain Joseph Wigins urging Siberian waterways and a note on school funds amid rising costs, with a Mary E Wilkins marriage biograph suggested by the Chicago Tribune.
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Baltimore
Joseph Wigins
Kara Sea
Siberia
Russia
United States
Wigins
Markets Report Across Cities With Farm Prices
New York January prices show flour weak and grains mixed with wheat and corn steady to weak. Hog and cattle quotes vary by region with hogs around 6.25 to 6.60 and cattle to 5.50 to 5.75, while sheep and lamb values shift per market. Cleveland Poledo and East Buffalo reports list additional grain and livestock ranges and seed prices. Cincinnati notes hogs active and cattle higher with mixed sheep and lamb values.
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New York
Cleveland
York State
East Buffalo
Cincinnati
Saskatchewan Settlers Speak of Promising New Home
A 1900 letter from settlers in Saskatchewan Township 43 Range 6, Roshern, signed by John H Schultz and others from South Dakota, describes good crops in 1899 and 1900. They praise the land as fine, with wheat at about twenty bushels per acre and strong prospects for poor men starting anew.
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Roshern
Frank Pedley
Saskatchewan
Springfield
Bonhomme County
S. Dakota
Dakota
John H. Schultz
H. A. Coshen
S. Cors
B. H. Dirks
C.D. Unry
P. Unry
A. Ratzlief
South Dakota
U.S.A
Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Promoted by Editor Notice
An editorial notice promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a leading kidney liver and bladder remedy. It urges readers to mail for a free sample bottle and a booklet, noting hospital use and physician endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinton
Iowa
Igor
Swamp Root
Howe
Ov Hieband
Glatrudi
Warner Scott
Scott
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
Local singer promotes Peruna remedy in warm testimonial
Miss Maud Palmer of Cataraugi Ontario writes praising Peruna as a cure and preventive for winter colds and related illnesses. She recounts personal relief after using Peruna and notes access to a free catarrh book from The Peruna Medicine Co. and Dr Hartman offers free advice.
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Maud Palmer
United States
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Huartman
Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columburg
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West Point
Thirteenth Infantry
Wil Parishes
St. Ker
Samuel KR. Curtis
Illinois
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Shiloh
Henry W. Halleck
Pittsburg Landing
Second Michigan Cavalry
Blair
Grant
Granger
Chicago Inter Ocean
Mary TE Wilkins
Chicago Tribune
Saskatchewan Valley
The
Dominic
Boston Watchman
V.in
O. Hadsley
Vanburen, Ind
Hale
Pike
C. B. Newcomb
Putnam
Chicago Daily News
Druggis
Western
Canada
Ottawa
Jusseph Young
John A. Salzer
Seed CO
LA Crosse, Wis
North Dakota
Morton
Apringa
Ples
Uestiene
H. Brown & CG
Devils Lake
Lakalle St
Ea Oralebona
Spedagtodd Ghia
Ice
Brighton
York
Newrop
Ment and Investment Co
Industrial Bureau
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White Lead Co
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