Honest Thrift Sermon For Clerks In Brooklyn Stores
Rev. Talmage preaches on honest thrift to clerks with Lydia of Philippi as example. He urges diligence, obedience, and integrity in mercantile life, warns against drumming and immoral shortcuts, and calls for Christian courage, fair pay, and loyalty to conscience amid temptations.
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Brooxion
Tabernacle
T. de Witt Talmage
Pekee Chiewaen
Tahoe
Lydia
Philippi
Thyatira
Oine
Valparaiso
Narrows
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
New York
Cincinnati
Chicago
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Jackson Refuses to Remove Veteran Postmaster
A Revolutionary War general, longtime Adams supporter Silas Wright, and Martin Van Buren plotted to oust the veteran postmaster of a New York town. The old soldier met Jackson at the White House to plead his case, revealing wounds from battle. Jackson, moved, refused removal citing the man’s lead-laden body and loyalty.
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Jackson
New York
Silas Wright
Martin van Buren
White House
Gen. Jackson
Old Hickory
Wright
Nashville American
Soda Water at Mono Lake Causes Dramatic Suds Scene
The Virginia City Enterprise describes Mono and Owens lakes as soda and mineral rich. wind blows towering suds inland, bleaching eastern shore vegetation. Waves create rainbow colored walls of foam, some as tall as ten to twelve feet, used as makeshift shampoo by the water itself.
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Mono Lake
Owens
Mono Lakes
Virginia City Enterprise
One Man in Europe Determines Blood Color by Tint
A medical authority explains a glass wedge instrument used to measure coloring matter in blood, matching shade to a scale to determine blood health. The device sits with vials and other delicate tools in an Orthopaedic Hospital room dedicated to physical research and cures.
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Europe
Philadelphia Press
War Reminiscences of the Sherman March Fragment
Veteran verses recount the Civil War march from Atlanta to the sea led by Sherman. The speaker recalls comrades, marches, and fires lighting the night as Union forces bridged rivers, moved south, and pressed toward the Atlantic.
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Atlanta
Sherman
Joe
Union
Liberty
Atlantic
Confederate take command of Maple Leaf in bold raid near Norfolk
A Confederate force seized the Union steamer Maple Leaf off Norfolk on June 13 1863 after disarming Federal guards. The vessel carried about seventy five prisoners and, after a tense exchange, the Confederates sailed toward Fort Delaware with the Federal officers paroled and the ship abandoned. One hundred cavalry pursued from Fortress Monroe but failed to halt the Confederate advance.
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Norfolk
Delaware
New Orleans
Fort Delaware
United States
Star of the West
Monroe
Chesapeake
Maple Leaf
Virginia
Fortress Monroe
A. E. Assbury
Higginsville
Pig Thievery by North Ohio Regiment on Island Corn
In fall 1863 the One Hundred and Eighteenth Ohio camped opposite Loudon, East Tennessee. Soldiers swam the Tennessee River to steal corn from a pig-guarded island, then captured a pig, skinned it, boiled it with corn, and cooked the mixture without salt or pepper before asking for seasoning. Named participants include Rube Timbers Peter Teagardner Allen Barrell and cook Richard Garner.
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Ohio
Loudon
East Tennessee
Tennessee
Rube Timbers
Peter Teagardner
Allen Bartell
Allen Barrell
Pete Teagardner
Richard Garner
White River
Elk Horn
Texas Cavalry
Salt and corn hash feast in East Tennessee memory
William Hatfield of Company D recalls raiding a salt chest and stealing corn hash to feed himself and a fellow soldier amid slim rations in East Tennessee. He describes the lock chest, using an old ax as a key, and the ensuing meal for the men and the Colonel’s cook.
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W.H. Taylor
Garner
Old Black Mart
Colonel Young
East Tennessee
William Hatfield
118Th Regiment
Reminiscences of Civil War Regiments at Cedar Creek and Beyond
A veteran narrator recalls the 1861 to 1864 campaigns in Virginia and Maryland. He details the march to Vienna, Jeb Stuart’s raiding, shell fire at Munson Hill, and the Cedar Creek battle where the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Pennsylvania and Sheridan’s forces held firm. The piece weaves in camp life, foraging, and quirky anecdotes from frontier duty to frontline combat.
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Third
Vermont Infantry
Washington
Bull Run
Corcoran
Sixty-ninth
New York
Chain Bridge
Potomac
Stevens
Seventy-ninth
Vienna
Jeb Stuart
Stuart
Munson
Griffin
One Hundred and Thirty-ninth
Pennsylvania
Sixth Army Corps
Sheridan
Cedar Creek
Ao Corps
Crooks
Eighth Corps
Sixth Corps
Little Phil
Cane
Chicago Ledger
Battle of Lewinsville Recalled by The Second Boys
A reminiscence recalls the Battle of Lewinsville with the Second boys who joined and later told others of the clash. The mention appears in a Chicago area context from M11.
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Lewinsville
W. H. Chicago
Henry A Wise Virginia statesman and Confederate general
Henry Alexander Wise born in Drummondtown Virginia on December 3 1806 graduated from Washington College in 1825 studied law and built a political career in Tennessee and Virginia He served in Congress from 1833 and twice reelected He was Brazil minister in 1844 Virginia governor in 1855 and a Confederate brigadier general later commanding in the Kanawha Valley Roanoke Island and other actions His son O J Wise was among the casualties at Roanoke Island and Wise died about ten years after the war ended.
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Henry Alexander Wise
Drummondtown
Virginia
Washington
Cox
Gauley Bridge
Roanoke Island
Burnside
O. J. Wise
Wise
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