Mystery Officer at Kenesaw Armies Narrative Sparks Reunion
Excerpts from the Chicago Inter Ocean recount a veteran tale of a mounted officer near the dead angle at Kenesaw Mountain on June 27, 1864. Survivors of Col. Dan McCook's brigade recall a mysterious rider whose identity remains unresolved after a cratered charge.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Spottsylvania
Kenesaw Mountain
Dan McCook
Nashville
Atlanta
Spencer Eakin
Harker
McCook
Maj. Eakin
T. J. Holmes
Ohio
Col. Holmes
Sherman
Thomas
Col
Allen L. Fahnestock
Illinois
Kenesaw
Eakin
J. G. Mitchell
Mitchell
Ennessee
Dan McCool
Chicago
BicCook
Maj
Col. McCook
Fifty-second Ohio
Rilea
W. J. Whithorn
First Tennessee
Maney
Cheatham
John G. Mitchell
Jo Swan
Col.Holmes
Brides for South Africa on Transatlantic Ships
A London dispatch notes that many England to Cape Town voyages carry brides for awaiting sweethearts in South Africa. Mariners view brides as lucky, with weddings by license on arrival and rice tossed at the gangway. Some arrangements sour, as engagements shift and crews tempt. Increasing numbers of English girls travel as domestic servants to upcountry towns, risking later marriage prospects.
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England
Cape Town
London
South Africa
Cape
Canada poised to export paper over pulp due to water power
The London Telegraph notes Canada’s vast spruce forests 450 million acres and abundant water power. With rising wood and pulp exports, Ottawa may shift policy to taxing pulp and exporting paper, boosting domestic manufacture and strengthening Canada as a major paper supplier to the United States.
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Canada
London Telegraph
Dominion
Great Britain
United States
New York
New York Families Form Cooperative Boarding to Solve Servant Problem
In Holly New York Orleans County thirteen families and twenty nine persons join a cooperative boarding movement to tackle the servant girl shortage. The Buffalo Commercial reports the plan uses nitric oxide procedures and simple safes as part of the enterprise.
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New York State
Holly
Orleans County
N. Y
Buffalo Commercial
Monument to Phineas G. Wright in Putnam Cemetery
A notice recalls Phineas G. Wright the wealthiest man in Putnam Conn who recently erected a monument in his memory within the local cemetery. The inscription notes his birth in Fitzwilliam New Hampshire on April 3 182% and his noncommittal remark on life’s direction.
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Phineas G. Wright
Putnam, Conn
Ell
Mr. Wright
Vatican Fire Briefly Damages Library and Gallery
A Vatican blaze in Rome caused alarm for the library and Pinacoteca gallery where rare manuscripts and paintings are kept. Firemen from the Vatican and city department contained the flames with outside aid, some water damage and partial flooding reported but key works including Rafael and Titian pieces reportedly spared. The Vatican library, begun under Sixtus V. and expanded by Leo XIII, houses Codex Vaticanus among 225000 books and 26000 manuscripts.
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Vatican
Rome
Belvedere
Sixtus V
Fortana
Central i
Fon
Europe
Vatican Palace
Rafael
Vasari
Vatican Library
Leo XIII
Father Ehrle
Leo
Pinacoteca
Domenichino
Titian
Baroccio
Mary
Jesus
St. Francis
John
Baptist
St. Jerome
Jerome
San Niccolo de Frari
Christ
Pe Tugino
Fra Angelico
Pinturfccchio
Monteluce
Guilio Romana
Francesco Penni
Federigo Barocci
Mount Calvary
Household Humor From Comic Panels And Jokes
A collage of syndicated quips and cartoons features jokes about sleep talking spouses, a French instruction gag at a window, club etiquette losses, a poodle inquiry, a judge and witness banter, and light education and love verse. Notable lines involve father figures, a butcher, and a self made man remark, with brisk punchlines throughout.
Walking Cure for Consumption Draws NY Attention
Charles Norris, 62, arrived in New York with a claimed cure for consumption based on walking. He began Aug 8, 1901, weighed 96 pounds, now 137, after 8,299 miles across North America. He spent two years walking from San Francisco to New York, funding travel by odd jobs and printing work.
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Charles £. Norris
New York City
San Francisco
Canada
New Orleans
Printer's Devil
Norris
New York
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P. H. Mell
University of Georgia
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Housekeeping Syndicate
Post Office Department
Washington Star
London Athenaeum
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Weimar
Holland
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Altenburg
Germany
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Cardinal de’ Medici
Chicago Daily News
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Kansas City Journal
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Atlanta Constitution
Chicago Record-Herald
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Waller
Boston Transcript
Quickstep
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Smithinski
Cincinnati Enquirer
Willie
Chicago Post
Potts
Mr. Potts
Fermez la Fenetre
Mrs. Spiteful
Cincinnati Times-Star
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Chicago Journal
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
Miss Caustique
Softun
Atlants Constitution
Detroit Free Press
Progress OF Education
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Shortleigh
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Combine
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Judge
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