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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1887
Page
7
A memoir style piece by John Dixby recounting Civil War memories from Manassas to Virginia, with verses on marching, camp life, and conflicts. The author, a former Confederate, reflects on battles, losses, reunion with the Union, and lingering grudges, concluding with mixed nostalgia and reconciliation.
James Franklin Fitts recalls the April 1865 aftermath from Summit Point Virginia to Washington as Union soldiers mourn Lincoln. He describes the移 rapid march, the funeral train, and the emotional scenes among troops gathered at Fort Saratoga while guarding the capital’s approaches.
Thousands gathered as two hundred thousand veterans marched past the President’s house in a solemn, extended review. Citizens cheered, flowers rained down, and the nation mourned four years of conflict while war’s long shadow finally shifted toward peace.
In summer 1862 near Helena Arkansas Union scouts report Confederate flag of truce bearing a four mule wagon arrives in camp. After friendly exchanges the Johnnies attempt to take supplies but are driven off as drill and discipline restore order. Crvarr recalls the episode and questions why plunder was permitted.
Private Paul H. Rives of the Twenty third North Carolina and J Y Jones of the Twelfth Massachusetts meet at a reunion where both recount losing limbs at Devil's Den. They recognize each other and share astonished disbelief over the remembered injuries and the rock wall confrontation.
In a St Louis Globe-Democrat report Colonel J B Gandolfo contrasts battle dress with parade neatness. He notes artillerymen shed jackets collars and shirts as heat rises, leaving powder and blood stains, yet they erase traces by next day and look pristine again.
A Civil War camp near Chattanooga experiences a provost marshal inspection for stolen supplies and a clever soldier hides items beneath his bunk. Sergeant Mouser of the Fourth Ohio Volunteers earns acclaim for a daring raid thwarting Confederate cattle rustlers, later dying of fever at Cumberland, Md.
A promotional note for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters urging travelers by steamboat rail or ship to carry the remedy to prevent nausea from motion. It claims relief from sea sickness and brackish water effects, aids digestion, and acts as an antidote to malaria, headaches, heartburn, and rheumatic symptoms.
English scholar Mr. Cuzon found a striking Abyssinian library in a Cairo area monastery. In a 26 by 20 foot room fifty manuscript books hang on wall pegs bound in red leather or boards. Monks store books three or four to a peg with leather straps for carrying. The space also held prayer staves, giving it the look of a guard room.
A sickroom memory contrasts the nauseating effects of bitter medicines with Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets described as small sugar coated and vegetable. The ad notes the product costs 25 cents a vial. A man in St Louis dies of heart disease while sawing wood, while in Chicago his wife supposedly wood sawing avoids the risk.
Claims Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil with hypophosphites offers immediate relief and lasting benefit for consumption scrofula bronchitis and debility. The Medical Profession calls it highly valuable and palatable with testimonials from doctors and patients cited, alongside unrelated ad copy about whisky and heel stiffeners.
Esther's fiancé is labeled a flirt but she marries him, proving him a model husband due to her sunny temper health and tact. The piece credits Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for maintaining Esther's vitality and beauty, then teases new ad content and ends with a quip about honesty and bankruptcy.
Offer No 170 a three foot French glass oval front show case free to merchants apply at once R W Tansmu Co 55 State street Chicago Relief.
Round trip hunting tickets priced at $12.50 for Wisconsin routes to Ellis Junction Wausaukee Pike and Pem Bing Rivers and $13.10 to Ivoy Mountain Michigan. Return validity until December 31. Obtain from W W Tabberner General Agent Milwaukee and Northern Railway 55 Clark St Chicago.
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