Captain Fowler Weighs Vengeance and Guards for McLean
Captain Fowler ponders besieged Bessie McLean while racing to Atlanta to secure a guard detail for McLean's Maple Shoals factory amid Confederate war pressures. He reviews Allington Guards departing for Chattanooga and reflects on duty, gossip, and restraint as families bid farewell to soldiers destined for battle.
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John Nicks
Fowler
Allington
Bessie McLean
Quartermaster General
Atlanta
Maple Shoals
Bessie
James Fowler
Bragg
Chattanooga
Robert McLean
John Hicks
Pete
McLean’s
Bock
Confederacy
Quartermaster Department
Wilson
Perades
America
Chickamauga
Mission Ridge
Ee Fowler
Confederate tensions erupt over McLean factory flag
Capt. Fowler and Lt Hicks clash as Rangers threaten to pull down a Confederate flag at Maple Shoals. McLean refuses to yield cloth for uniforms, Hicks provokes with threats, and a drunken mob plans to torch the factory. Dinah's boy Jake escapes to warn Missie Bessie as the situation escalates toward violence.
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Rangers
McLean’s
Pete
Worthy
Tom
Dinah
Jake
Marse McLean
Marie McLean
Hicks
Fowler
Marie Cap'n
Mason’s
McLean
Maple Shoals
Allington
Atlanta
Hampton Factory
John Hicks
Black John
Matthews
Tim Lewis
Daddy McLean
South
Lewis
Tim
John
Smith
Carles Peerin
Robert
Confederat
Old Scoteby
Old Scotchy
Maffews
Scotchman
Missy
Notable Autograph Prices and Imperial Preparations
London autographs fetch modest sums with Twain at twelve shillings sixpence and Harte Lang Hag gard and Ward entries listed. The Czar allocates 100000 dollars for Moscow charities as coronation preparations light the Kremlin with 500000 lanterns and 14000 electric lights. Gladstone links to Demerara sugar estates and slavery defense appears in early parliamentary speeches.
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London
Mark Twain
Bret Harte
Andrew Lang
Rider Haggard
Humphrey Ward
Southey
Russia
Moscow
Old
Kremlin
Gladstone
British Guiana
Vreeden Hoop
Demerara
Schomburgk
Motor vehicles to reshape transit in second class cities
New York Evening Sun notes bad roads will limit early adoption to towns with good roads. The motor carriage, seating two to six, is seen as the coming transit for business and leisure, likely to boost trolley and rail traffic, with cheap competition spurring innovation and later motor farm equipment.
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New York Evening Sun
Fashion Revolutions Previewed For Spring 1896
The New York Commercial Advertiser reports rumors from abroad predicting dramatic new fashion trends for spring 1896. Paris already shows hoop skirts large bustles tight sleeves hip pads high heels oversized collars hats perched high over forewear Marie Antoinette curls at the back and other bold changes.
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New York
Paris
Marie Antoinette
Modern Cremation Arrives in Springfield At Cemetery
Springfield Mass Republican describes the cremation of Mrs Frost from Chestnut Street and the Forest Hills facility near Boston. Readers learn how the process works from hot retorts to metal removal, the roar of flames, and the distribution of about six pounds of ashes for a 100 pound body. The article notes the price of $30 and details spectator reactions.
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Springfield
Mass
Verdi opera page boy prank shocks audience
A sopranos bad temper after a dress rehearsal led to a staged revenge by the tenor’s wife. Bandaged needles concealed as banderillas pierced padding on the page boy as he bowed to the tenor, causing a loud disturbance and a vivid stage scene.
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San Francisco
Evolution of medicines boosts Syrup of Figs sales
The piece extols new medicinal agents replacing old herbs with Syrup of Figs from the California Fig Syrup Co as the true remedy. It notes the Jeffersonville shipyards' dull times and endorses Dr Watt's Magnetic Blood Purifier with a U S Health Report endorsement, selling at one dollar per bottle through druggists.
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California Fig Syrur Co
Jeffersonville
U.s.health Reports
Chicago
DR. Watt
Magnetic Remedy Coo
Indianapolis
Ind
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Texas
Mose
Marster
Hood
C.I Hood & Co
Lowell
Senet
Otnian Maleding Santos
Inna
Chicago Scale Co
Chirm
PaTrick O Farrell
LNU
Scott
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