Letters From Adjuntas Describe Health, Rum, and Troop Life
F. H. Mills reports from Adjuntas Puerto Rico that the Sixth Mass hospital unit moved to an upper story of a coffee dry house. Illness expands to four more on the sick list, typhoid claims Sgt Trask, and Priv Dignon dies from malaria. Mills notes food, fuel, and clothing shortages, native habits, and a shift toward homeward hope as rain, mud, and rumors persist.
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Spaniards Fate in War Reflected in Soldier Letter
Lieut Frank F. Moore of Company K Sixth Regiment sends a reflective diary from Utuado Puerto Rico Aug 26 recounting camp life hardships comparing Civil War veterans to the current campaign. He details rations hardtack conditions natives, local crops, and hopes of returning home by November 1.
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Royal Baking Powder Advertising Dominates American Markets
A newspaper item notes Royal Baking Powder Co as the nation’s largest advertiser. It argues high quality and strong advertising jointly drive success, claiming ongoing newspaper presence keeps the product before households nationwide.
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America
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Middlesex Republicans Set Oct 5 Convention in East Cambridge
Middlesex county Republican committee met at Young's hotel Boston and fixed the fall convention for East Cambridge on Wednesday Oct 5 at 10 am. Fifteen or sixteen members attended. Officers James Pierce Malden president H W Pitman Somerville secretary and A Pollard Lowell treasurer were reelected. The convention moves from Lowell after years. Three sheriff candidates: Sheriff Cushing Chief Parkhurst Somerville and Councilor Shaw Chelmsford.
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Concord officer doubts Sixth Regiment discipline in Porto Rico
Lieut Joseph S. Hart of company I, home briefly for his wife’s illness, comments on rumors about the Sixth Regiment in Porto Rico. He cites Col Rice’s discipline measures and says the regiment was in good order, while dismissing exclusive Boston Journal reports as nonsense. He supports returning soldiers home now that the war is over.
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Ron Wild
Lieut Hart
Col Rice
Utuado
Concord
Col Rico
Porto Rico
Edo
Frederick Roy Martin
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