Maj George H Priest Elected Major of Sixth Regiment
The portrait of Maj George H Priest, elected a battalion commander in the Sixth regiment M V M, highlights his Fitchburg service and rise from private to captain. Born in Hillsboro New Hampshire he spent most of his life in Fitchburg where he runs a lumber business. He is the second captain in seniority and expected to be an efficient and popular major, with only Company B regretting his promotion.
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George H. Priest
William J.M Willams
Boston
Chaffin
Company B
The Mysterious City of Copan and Prehistoric Dentistry
George Byron Gordon reports discoveries at Copan including isolated tombs beneath courtyards and house foundations. The tombs show inlaid front teeth with jadeite gems among upper-class burials, while skeletal preservation is poor. Paris fashion notes describe plaited materials, violet accents, and elaborate gowns with velvet and lace detailing.
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George Byron Gordon
Honduras
Copan
Gordon
Paris
Russian deerhound saves drowning boy and rescues rescuer
In Paris along the Canal d Ourcy two gendarmes find a Russian deerhound named Dimitri. When a child falls in, Emil Nolle dives in to save him but becomes entangled. Dimitri bites through his rope and saves both, guiding rescuers to safety as the crowd forgets the dog and the boy and man are pulled to shore.
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Canal d’Ourcy
la Gazette
Dual de la Marne
Emil Nolle
Dimitri
Chicago Decorator Ida Burgess Gains Noted Fame
Miss Ida Burgess, a Chicago house decorator and mural painter, marks her rise with the Illinois state building reception room at the World's Fair. Her evolving work includes Evanston’s Lunt library, amid studies with Oliver Merron in Paris and a Paris salon exhibit during her second year abroad.
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Ida Burgess
Chicago
Lunt
Evanston
Miss Burgess
Oliver Merson
Paris
Why Mrs. Jefferson Davis Chose New York Residence
A friend quoted in the Macon Telegraph says Mrs. Davis left Beauvoir because floods and low cotton prices made living there impossible. She and her daughter turned to writing, finding a northern market for high quality literary work. They moved to New York for a steady income.
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New York
Jefferson Davis
Macon’ Telegraph
South
North
Beauvoir
Fashion Hats and Biblical Reflection In Sunday Notes
The piece discusses revival of large fashionable hats with plumes and notes an upcoming wave of French flowers for millinery. It then shifts to a Sunday School lesson on Herod, John the Baptist, and the fate of John, with commentary on temptation, truthfulness, and martyrdom. The sermon urges righteousness and faith in Christ.
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Gainsborough
New York
I Married My Mother-in-Law in a Joke War
A Chicago Record humorous piece tells of a young husband who vows to expose comic writers after a year of marriage. He recalls a tense start with his mother-in-law visiting, how she defused fights by siding with the wife, and how the mother-in-law’s good nature won over the home.
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Chicago Record
Purists Debate Phrase Origins in English Philology
The Academy notes that expressions like no sort of kind reveal Saxon Norman French fusion. It cites truth and honor and voice as a verb as bilingual relics, while warning purists against insufferable pedantry and endorsing none as plural in Shakespearean usage.
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Academy
I Will Not Worry Any More Says Man of 50
A middle aged man reflects on life’s brief span and chooses to stop worrying though small issues still tempt him. He notes a potential twenty years left and critiques the waste of time spent in fret in a quote from the New York Sun.
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Cracky
New York Sun
Horace Tuttle
Paris Trees Bloom Twice a Year Horses Chestnuts
Paris hosts thousands of horse chestnuts and buttonwoods that reportedly bloom twice yearly. Trees die back in July then regrow leaves and flowers after a month, a phenomenon linked to a sap-filled response after a fungal attack, explained by scientists.
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Paris
Remark Delayed As Speaker Corrects The Record
A brief, clipped exchange shows a speaker asking for permission to repeat a remark while addressing an audience. The moment captures a pause before a comment about Judy is clarified or reconsidered.
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Judy
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Jerry
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Westerly
Quincy
Othe
C. S. Fowler
Maynard
H.S. Richardson
Victor Hub
W. Henderson
South Acton, Mass
Maynard Sr
WM. *. Hale
Acton
Ernest Hosmer
D. D
So. Acton
Vice
Ek, H. Maker
Coneford Mass
T.F. Sheehan
Barrett’ S Mill Road
Concord Junction
Mas
Maynard’s Block
Eor Sale
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Hapgood
Stow
Walden Street
Concord
J. C. Friend
Ss. K. Humphrey
640 Exchange Building
Mass
J. F. Meade
Spring Farm
Barrett Mill Road
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