Miles praises six cavalrymen heroic Red River action
In Washington a letter from Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles honors five enlisted men of the Sixth U S cavalry for a 1874 engagement near the Red River Texas. Facing 600 mounted warriors they charged and broke the Comanches Cheyennes and Kiowas, sending couriers to Camp Supply for reinforcements.
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Ashington
War Department
Washington
Nelson A. Miles
Miles
Plains
Sixth United States Cavalry
Red River
Texas
Sixth Cavalry
Kansas
Fort Dodge
Biddle
Compton
Tule River
Sixth
Rein
Five Cavalrymen Battle Utes For Survival and Rescue
Story recalls Sergt Zacharias T. Woodall and four troopers defending a rock fortification in Colorado and New Mexico while outnumbered 25 to 1. Weir, Hume, and Hall stagger into the fray under constant fire, Hall sacrificing himself to cover allies, leading to a dramatic relief and Medals of Honor acknowledgment for Hall and the unit.
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Hall
Ant
Weir
Hume
Hail
Lieut
Military Secretary's Department
Washington
White River Valley
Whist Not Up To Conference In Ames Case
The Ames conference on September 22 failed to resolve the famous Douglas case from Adel. Mrs. Minnie Douglas, excommunicated for playing whist and attending theaters, did not appear in person, and the attorney for Mrs. Douglas only sought to prepare for a Perry conference next year. The case moves to a higher power beyond the Des Moines district.
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Ames
Douglas
Adel
Minnie Douglas
Perry
Adel Methodist Church
Des Moines
Father Lenehan Dies After Brief Illness
Fort Dodge Iowa September 22 Mgr B C Lenehan a member of the papal household and pastor of Corpus Christi church died at Mercy hospital after a short siege of diabetes.
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Father Lenehan
Fort Dodge
Mgr. B. C. Lenehan
Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church
Mercy Hospital
German Evangelical Synod Opens General Conference
The nineteenth general conference of the German Evangelical Synod began in Burlington Iowa with more than 200 delegates attending.
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German Evangelical Synod
Burlington
General Conference
The
Taft Visit At Atlantic Draws Four Thousand Supporters
President Taft stopped in Atlantic Iowa on September 22 to a crowd of about four thousand people. Seven hundred school children formed at the depot, drawing favorable remarks from the President during a brief five minute stop.
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Taft
Atlantic
Young farmer robbed and attacker pleads guilty
Martin Mayne was arrested and charged with slugging and robbing Henry Beech, a young farmer. He pleaded guilty and received an indeterminate sentence from one to ten years in Clinton September 22.
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Clinton
Martin Mayne
Henry Beech
Fast Races at Sioux City Exhibition Mile
Dan Patch and Minor Heir raced an exhibition mile in Sioux City under bad weather finishing in 2.10. The champion Dan Patch was injured four weeks earlier and had not started since.
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Sioux City
Dan Patch
Minor Heir
Missed It Aunt-Well Country Visit
A dialog where Aunt-Well jokes about Johnny's country trip. Johnny says he enjoyed apples peaches watermelons and other things, but the sojourn items werenot ripe yet.
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Johnny
Hall's Catarrh Cure touted as cure-all remedy
An advertisement promises a $100 reward for any case Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. It claims the medicine treats catarrh as a constitutional disease by acting on the blood and mucous membranes and building up the body. It urges readers to contact F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio for testimonials and availability from druggists at 75 cents.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
All Druggista
Standard Oil Property Value Surges in New Jersey Appeal
Standard Oil Wails. The Standard Oil Company's Bayonne real estate holdings, site of its eastern refinery, rise in assessed value from 7,360,000 in 1908 to 13,000,000. The company appeals the Hudson county board of equalization increases.
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Standard Oil
Standard Oil Company
Bayonne
N. J
Hudson County Board of Equalization
Important to Mothers Observe Castoria Safety for Infants
The notice urges careful examination of every Castoria bottle for safety and effectiveness for infants and children. It includes a humorous cartoon caption about Maud and Belle and ends with a selling line for Russ Blue laundry product and a quip about self-control.
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Cefate
Edward B. Clark
Zacharias T. Woodall
I Troop
Woodall
Sergt. Woodall
Little Prairie
Little Rampart
Texas Prairie
Old Plains
White River
Colorado
Fort
D. A. Russell
Wesley Merritt
Merritt
Ordnance Corps
Military Academy
Fifth Cavalry
Paul Hume
William H. Hall
New York Press
Shriners
Henry
Walnut Street
Ninth
Walnut
East Fifth Street
Shrine Temple
Locust Street
Beeston
Za-Ga-Rig
Cook
Peary
North Pole
T. Roosevelt
Theodore
Uncle Sam
District Convention of Methodist Church
Maud
Jack
Belle
Ethel
Dodds
Kidne
biLatl
DR. D. Jayne
D. Jayne
Carters
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