East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Time Table No 77
Time table notices for the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad and Linville River Railway No. 77 in effect May 27 1917 CST. Station at Fing lists daily Nov 1 2 3 4 service and Nos 7 8 daily except Sunday with Nos 1 and 4 carrying parlor car. Connection at Shulls Mills with auto line to Blowing Rock NC seven miles. Signed G H O and W Hardin vice president and superintendent.
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East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad
Colinville River Railway Company
Central Standard
Shulls Mills
Blowing Rock
N. C
Gho
W. Hardin
News and Comment from the Mountain Branch
A column from the Mountain Branch offering veterans and friends a personal take on wartime life and its challenges. The piece emphasizes avoiding quarrels over war during isolation and notes the fleeting nature of life amid changing months and simple pleasures like oysters.
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Mountain Branch
Barrack Tales and Veterans Notes From Arlington Camp
A long, fragmentary column recounts veterans news at the Union convalescent camp in Arlington Virginia. It notes retirees, furloughs, pending discharges, pension details, letters uncalled for, and social life including drum corps performances and past camp life memories.
Pension Nation and a Snuff Matrimonial Bureau Flash
An eccentric war era column rails against pension charity while railing about postwar reforms. It notes a fictitious Snuff Matrimonial Bureau courting widows and veterans, and reports officers and an ex bootlegger seizing a trunk with contraband Third Rail liquor amid a quiet night scene.
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O'Woods
Hampton
Maj. Boyle
Johnny Greenlaw
G. Wash
Fish
Joe Justice
Nat Arnow
Charley Pole
Georgie Nicholls
Post Ponch Store
Powder Monkey Walsh
Canada at War A Canadian letter from Montreal July 30
A former Co. D member writes from Montreal describing wartime conditions in Canada. He notes daily injury and death lists, streets crowded with khaki uniforms and cripples, crowded convalescent homes, and mourning bands. He recalls two cadets, one Canadian and one American, killed near town last Friday and mentions rationing of bacon beef bread and meals.
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Co. D
Montreal
Can
Veterans notes and obituaries from a war era roster
The page records obituaries and notices for Owen Farrell muster and Josiah Crews, Co I First Regt Ind Inf, aged 76, plus George W. Johnson and Griffith M. Robinson, both aged 76 and 93 respectively. It recalls Crews as a familiar Home figure from Kentucky and Johnson as a veteran and writer, with Robinson noted as a former Henderson editor and poet.
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Josiah Crews
Ind
Crews
Kentucky
Griffith M. Robinson
Co. B
First Ark
Robinson
Henderson
Tennesse
The Cold Storage Branch Togas Maine Veterans Leaving
A fragmented local column notes veterans plan transfers to other Homes as cold weather looms. It contrasts rising whiskey prices and wartime shortages with nostalgia for prohibition era prices and critiques patriotism, then mentions Capt. Frank Wentworth taking annual leave and travel plans.
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Togas
Maine
Frank Wentworth
Knoxvlile
Ahe
Louisville
Philadelphia
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Anaka National Bank
Johnson City, Tenn
Southern Railway Company
Sks
Tvor
Lege
Liereated
Sally Diatiyr
Ture
Carolina Clinchfield
Ohio
Cincinnati
Fordtown
Kingsport
Tenn
Waycross
Va-Tenn
Speers
Perry St. Paul
Dante
Elkhorn City
Louisvi
Ashland
Catlettsburg
Jenkins
Louisa
Paintaville
Pikeville
Shelby
Charleston
Muntington
Renova
W. Va
Port
Erwin
Unaka Springs
Toccane
Burnsville
Pensacola
Marion
Spartanburg
8. C
Unico
Chas, T. Mandel
General Massenger
Jounson City
Eastway
Westwar
Ly. Jonhson City
Milligan College Point
Watauga Shoals
Sycamore
Elizabethton
Valley
Hite
Mountai
Shell Creek
Elk Park
Linville River Ry
A.M
Enenpolis
Vale
Newland
Fib
Fontexumi
Pinedla
Osm Linville
Soldier's Home
Barrack Tales
David Davis
Florida
B. OH. Lea
Red Cross
Bill Abney
Joel H. Whitehead
Green Valley
Alexandria County
Arlington
Soldier Home
Themelves
Express
Johnson’s Tank Town
Albert McKinney
B Co
Robi. M
Willian
Youngstown, Oho
George W. Johnson
U. 8. C. Inf
Fd Hart
John Strowbridge
Bath, N
Geo. R. Weaver
Patrick Curran
Co. A
John R
Scotty) Saunders
Ohio Ind
Cleveland
Co.f
John Connery
John Crotty
John Orr
Thomas Underland
Turtle
Tom Walker
Pension Day
Louis J. Simpson
Dick Deadeye Sweeney
Home Post Office
Patrick Mahon
W. T. Williams
Wm. Harington
John Smith
A. Solomon Lea
New York
Dayton
Henry Manypenny
John L. Johnson
Col. Griffin
Knoxville
Geo, Scott
Co. E
Rock Falls
Connecticut
George ‘Loyd
Tennessee
Ambrose Charles Nevin
Cant Wentworth
Maj. Troutman
Kaiser Gartritis
O. K
D Company
Soldier Boys
Capt. Hart
Chas. A Keegin
Mass
Boston
Lowell
Lawrence
Haverhill
Albany
Little Did
Navy
Williamsport
Potomac
Canada
Leon
Bouy
Company D
America
Post Fund Hotel
Arlington Pressing Parlor
Earl C. Campbell
W. Main Street
Johnson City
Ontario
Veteran Owls
Doc. Briggs
Oweny Farrell
Earth
Southern Express Company
CY H. Lyle
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