Colored Troops and Their Courage in War
A Washington Post writer asserts that Black soldiers shared essential human traits with white soldiers, including courage and fatigue. The piece notes differences such as greater enthusiasm under excitement and stronger attachment to personal freedom, given slaves’ stakes. It highlights local knowledge and scouting abilities of Black troops, plus the higher personal stakes of family freedom influencing their resolve.
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Washington Post
Confederacy
Inch and Hairbreadth Measures in Early Standards
The text explains historical measurement basics, noting three barleycorns equal one inch, and that when standards were set, dried barleycorns laid end to end defined the inch. It also defines the hairbreadth as 16 hairs equal to one barleycorn, establishing a conventional infinitesimal space measure.
Great Question on Servant Girls Question
A 19th century note cites a Philadelphia North American remark on the so called great servant girl question. The quip frames gender work and domestic labor as a public concern among readers and humorists.
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Philadelphia
Maryland Tobacco Warehouses Scandal Exposed
A Maryland tobacco administration under Democratic control faced a sweeping audit revealing 60 useless employees and 20 fictitious names on payrolls. Col. John A. Tompkins found a disorganized system with paid but nonworking staff, including checks issued to individuals unmapped to the warehouses, and a misused state fund tied to Sydney Mudd's political campaign.
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Maryland
Lowndes
Sydney Kk. Mudd
House of Delegates
Min Mudd
George L. Wellington
United State
Mudd
Congress
Annapolis
Sydney E. Mudd
Naylor
Charles County
DuVal
Prince George’s
John A. Tompkins
Col
Tompkins
Mudd-Lowndes
State Treasury
Col. Tompkins
Fraud allegations murk the Wellington U S Senate bid
An investigation led by Col John A Tompkins contends at least 20 alleged officials were fictitious or created by a scheming operative to secure votes for George T Wellington. The accused evade clear explanation, while Tompkins, a renowned Republican accountant from Baltimore, pursues accountability.
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Secretare Oor Suite
Dalia
Tompkins
Eurlty
George T Wellington
U. S
Col
John A. Tompkins
Baltimore
Deathbed insurance scheme spurs broad backlash in 1882
A pair of young lawyers mocked deathbed life insurance for Guiteau after Garfield’s 1881 shooting. Reading and Washington figures chased the hoax, newspapers worldwide exposed the plot, and insurers faced lawsuits. The episode helped spark a decline in deathbed or graveyard insurance across the United States. Herve the French composer also began as an organist after a chance church encounter with the organ blower.
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Guiteau
United States
Garfield
Reading
Washington
Berks County
Jokers
Guilean
New York
New England
Pennsylvania
England
San Francisco
New York Sun
Herve
Satisfaction guaranteed Prices Reasonable G 26 tw
Readable fragments indicate an advertisement promising satisfaction guarantees and reasonable prices. The text resembles a classified ad offering goods or services with a claim of value and a reference code or price tag. Further context is unavailable in the fragment.
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Cooper
Denton, Mo
Wilmington
Philadelphia
New York
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Jonathan Ervitts
Denvox
James T. Cooper
Denton
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Lee B. Bolton
Bolton Bros
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Dickinson
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Wesleyan
University of Pennsylvania
Peabody Institute
Metropolitan School of Music
Drew Theological Seminary
Law School
University of Maryland
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Dover
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WM. Denny
Ageant
Greensboro
J.B. Fletcher
Preston
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John J. Barnes
Third St
J. Barnes
Reed
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Pia
Harry B. Mason
Richard Nichols, the Barber
Main St
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Honest John” Truss
R.J. Colston
Ridgely, Md
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NNS’ Mills
Talbot County
Mae
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Henry C. Conrad
Farmers’ Bank
Joan Hunn
Wyoming
William N. Boggs
Telter
Nat'l Bank of Delaware
Richard R. Kenney
Ganmeah Coma
Franklin C. Mault
Lewes
Charles H.ates
Delaware
Clarence D. Syeherd
Dever
Burton & Sypherd
Hiraam Reedy
del Merchant
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