East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Linville River Table No. 77
Railway timetable note from 1917 shows trains Nos 1 2 2 and 4 daily. Now 7 and 8 daily except Sunday. Nos 1 and 4 carry parlor car. Connection at Shulls Mills with automobile line to Blowing Rock NC seven miles. G Bo Hardin vice president and superintendent.
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East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad
Colinville River Railway Company
Lme
Central Standard
Shulls Mills
Blowing Rock
N. C
News and Comment from Mountain Branch Veterans
Local notes for veterans and friends discuss transfers, rumors, and humor at the Soldiers Home. P Carlton moves to Dayton Branch. Jim Sargent becomes quartermaster sergeant as Harry Johnson resigns. Melvin Hand named property clerk. Social events include a Saturday game at Soldiers Home field and a wedding between Milles and Cornelia Davis. Comments reflect veteran life, humor, and debates on finances and welfare.
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Jim Sargent
Vhce
Harry Johnson
Melvin Hand
Soldiers’ Home
Austin Springs
Veterans to converge on Boston for G A R encampment
Feeble with age yet sparked by past zeal the boys in blue of the Civil War will gather in Boston from across the country for what may be their last major encampment. Allied groups join them as the city prepares to host several thousand visitors in a historically notable reunion amid strong war era enthusiasm.
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Boys In Blue
Boston
New England
Barrack Tales Company A
Col W P Williard has bought a blooded Jersey holfer and a Shetland pony. Joe Evans leaves for 99 days to pick berries and drink homemade wine. Charley Kline goes to North Carolina for a change of scene. Jake Reaver visits his son in New York. Aaron Sullivan enjoys the local climate. Michael OByrne works in a machine shop. Kenney acts commander of this company.
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Col. W. PL Williard
Joe Evans
Charley Kline
Jantar
North Carolina
Jake Reaver
New York
Company B personal notes from the Home
Capt Wentworth s colored santingent shows early sleeping sickness symptoms and a quick recovery thanks to guaranteed hookworm eradication. C J Wilson in Chelsea Homes faces heated terms under Barracks 1 while Charles Poole heads to Nashville for his daughter s illness. Isaac Huntsmner, ex mayor of St Cloud Florida, visits with his wife at the Home Hotel. Corporal Hobbs buys a West Main St residence from Sam Burchfield. The company brags of wealth with large bank deposits. Paddy Donahue visits New York relatives. Henry Anschutz is janitor of the Machine Shop. Ben Murphy on furlough as Louis O Connell grows younger and friendly. Joseph Leon the Kentucky tailor repairs clothes at D barracks. Brother Fish still wears a halo.
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Capt. Wentworth
Isaac Huntsmner
Soldier Town
St. Cloud
Florida
Veteran notes and tales from the Ohio journals
A mosaic of military veterans and local characters, praising Captain Rogge and Harry White while recalling Edward McClellan, Harry Veatch, Captain Eaton, and Sergt Wood. The piece humorously cites Tom Whittaker and Hermagen’s trade lineage, and wittily reflects on a year of diary entries and misadventures as war news fades.
Community founder James Austin dies at Hamp ton Branch
James Austin, who left the Community some time ago, died at the Hampton Branch last week. The fragment notes he was mistaken for a preacher twice and a capitalist zero times, mentions a bath taken, panhandling amount of 14.76 dollars at the start, 12 quarrels, 1728 arguments, and cash on hand of 8 cents on July 15.
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Bath
James Austin
Hampton
Hospital transfers chief surgeon to National Home branch
Dr. Henry P. Dulaney moves to the National Home in California and is promoted to chief surgeon of the branch. Vice Dr. Hayden resigns. Veterans note life is short for love and misadventure as Joe Baker paid $18.50 for a new revolve and a near crime is thwarted. Hospital Steward Bob Hailey’s car is damaged by an amateur driver during street evolutions. Harry H. Knight remains kitchen man, an industrious Civil War veteran.
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Henry P. Dulaney
California
Hayden
Joe Baker
Baker
Bob Hailey
Harry H. Knight
Increased Pensions and a Doomsday Pamphlet Attacks Evangelists
The column lists veteran pension increases from Patrick Carroll to John W. Creaxon with new amounts, then rebukes a pamphlet from evangelists at the Solneys Home predicting doomsday events on August 4 and August 7, detailing a sequence of catastrophes and dates, and argues for a nationalist purge of Prussian influence before a predicted cosmic finish.
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Solneys
Beelzebub
Jerusalem
New York
Berlin
World Confederaes
Globe
Junkers
Quartermasters Department Personnel At Depot Building
Captain Milburn runs an efficient quartermasters team noted for thoroughness. The depot gathering includes Capt. Tom Maher John BE Comstock E S Harrington Iasq Johnny Chandler QM Sargt. James Sargent Dad Bucher Mel Hand Billy McCoy A Beott and Billy Daugherty among others.
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Milburn
Tom Maher
John BE
Comstock
Administration Building Notable Aides Highlight War Office Staff
Harry Mooney adjutant's orderly. Lord Chesterfield Hoyt and Doc Briggs lead in waistcoat displays. William Hart record clerk helps adjutant's force. Major Charles Troutman assesses newcomers quickly. Major Rosenbaum inspectors report December OK for the Home. Jim Donnelly, Capt. Matchett, and clerks McCutcheon Good prove busy balancing past year books. Lena Belle comments on a stout stomach man. Benj. R. Eaton died yesterday at the Hospital annex.
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Jim Donnelly
Matchett
McCutcheon
Good
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