Dillon Red Cross welcomes troops after Pacific voyage
Volunteers recount warm receptions from Red Cross women in Red Rock Lima Wadsworth and San Francisco while marching to camp in the sand Jota. The unit praises Montana crowds for the best reception and notes sand footing and ongoing “grab” hardships as health improves.
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Red Rock
Oo. E
Dillon
Truckee
Calif
Idaho
Pocatello
Co. E. Stock
Pacific O
Spanish Fleet Praise and Boston Echoes in Local Gibe
The piece mocks Spanish victories over American gunboats and cites a local newspaper’s spoofed Armada tale about Boston. It notes Schley with a "pop" bottle joke and jabs at a Boston editor who misreads Colonial history, ending with a quip about an Oregon state election delay.
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Boston
Cubs
Philippines
Bunker Hill
Camp letters from a Company E boy in San Francisco 1898
A Corps E soldier writes to his sister from San Francisco after arrival in camp near the Presidio. He describes travel through Idaho Utah Nevada and California with cheered towns and free lunches from Reno and Wadsworth. He notes sights like the Great Salt Lake Sutro Baths and the Sutro cliffs and mentions letters from schoolchildren and a red brick bat prank.
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Oo. E
San Francisco
Mipnie
Montana
the Presido
Lima
Loughridge
Idaho
Utah
Ogden
Great Salt Lake
Lake
Great American Desert
Lovelock
Nevada
Wadsworth
Reno
Nev
Dewey
Sampson
Sierra Nevadas
California
Sacramento
Benicia
Oakland
Bay
Butte
Cliff House
Butro
Missouri
Goon
Jonnsron
Reiling Returns with New Dredge Venture Plans
Mining news from Dillon reports H J Reiling and partners including J E Yard and H H Yard heading to Bannack and Salmon City Idaho to develop the Cope placers on Grasshopper creek with a new Pacific Mining Company of Idaho. A dredge boat factory will follow as Reiling forms three strong companies to operate dredges in Oregon Idaho and California.
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Enon Petriate
J. E
H. H
Chicago
Grasshopper
Reiling
Dillon
Montana
Cape Placers
Trisunt
Grasshopper Creek
Triponz
Salmon City
McNutt Placers
Pacific Mining Company of Idaho
Bedrock
Bannack
Reilingto
Oregon
Idaho
California
W. W. Tracey
J. F. Rhodes
E. W. Gillett
Gillett
United States
Tracey
New York
Salmon
Sinking of the Merrimac in Spanish Victory Claims
The Spanish claim sinking the Merrimac as a splendid victory and report the vessel as an auxiliary cruiser. Germany seeks to show US neutrality, while Capt. Sigsbee states he saw Spanish ships near Santiago harbor as Schley did. Lieut. Richmond Hobson, from Alabama, led the volunteer crew that sank the Merrimack, a feat praised beside Cushing’s Civil War attack.
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Germany
United States
Sigsbee
Washington
Santiago Harbor
Schley
Lieut
Richmond Hobson
Merrimack
Alabama
Cushing
Albemarle
Veteran surgeon recalls Civil War service and recovery
The narrative follows Dr. L. J. Clark a Civil War veteran who served in the mortar fleet at Vicksburg and in the Army of the Potomac later becoming a Chicago surgeon. After years of weakness pills for pale people restored his health and he remains active at Hatch Post G A R and lives at 4935 Ashland Ave.
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L. J. Clark
Lincoln
Clark
Porter
Vicksburg
Warren
Lee
ar &@ company
Chicago
Peoteaien
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