Double Significance of This Memorial Day
Memorial Day this year unites past and present wars from Maine to Oregon as volunteers who served in the Spanish war and the Civil War are honored together. The piece highlights shared grief, national bonds, and the enduring call of liberty as families and communities reflect on heroism across generations and regions.
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Maine
Mississippi
Oregon
Florida
Southland
New
Denison
Washington
Sam
Memorial Day Tribute to a Blue and Gray Hero
A child recalls a fallen soldier, asking which flag he fought for as the Blue and the Gray lie sleeping together. The poem invokes memories of "Somebody's Darling" and a hero who died for the old flag, while a cypress hooded path bears quiet grief.
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Mars
Enlistment Sparks Family Struggle and Heroic Farmhouse Resolve
In Allentown, Thomas Hines and Edward Wilkinson urge enlistment as their families weigh duty, debt, and a town bounty. Amos Wilkinson, a farmer, chooses to serve to keep the place afloat while illness and mortgage threaten the farm and a boy’s future.
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Nellie
Thomas Hines
Captain Wilkinson
Thomas
Tom
Edward
Edward Wilkinson
Tom Hines
New England
Mrs. Hines
Allentown Company
Creatures from an Artesian Well Reach Texas Fish Hatchery
Two living Typhlo molge Rathbunn specimens arrived at the Texas fish commission from an artesian well near San Marcos. The blind salamanders, about four and a half inches long, have larval features and include a larger and smaller individual. Scientists ponder whether these subterranean forms represent arrested evolution or degeneration.
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Texas
Fish Commission
United States Fish Commission
San Marcos
Richard Rathbun
Smithsonian Institution
Memorial Verse For Two Soldiers Of The Lost Cause
Poem recalling two brothers from allied armies who died at war. It speaks of twilight memories, military sacrifice, and a funeral scene with May blossoms and lilies laid on their graves. The speaker asks divine guardians to watch over the resting heroes, aligning with Confederate memory.
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God
A Romantic Career of an American Viscountess in England
The life of Virginia Bonynge, Illinois-born heiress from Fulton County near Farmington, who rose to become Viscountess Deerhurst after attracting royalty and the Queen’s presentation. Her suitors included a titled nobleman. rumors of her origins nearly ruined her engagement, but she wed and enjoyed a happy life thereafter.
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Miss Bonynge
Bonynges
Virginia Bonynge
William Daniel
England
America
Daniel
New York
Farmington
Illinois
Viscountess Deerharet
California
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Slope
Bonynge
Virginia Daniel
Virginia, Bonynge
Viscountess Deerhurst
Europe
Fulton County
Peoria
Virginia Bon- Yynge
London
Great Britain
Princess Christian
Viscount Deerhurst
Misa Bonynge
Deerhurst
Fishing Interest in Four States
The United States Fish and Fisheries bulletin details Maryland Virginia Delaware and Pennsylvania fishing industries. Maryland employs 42812 with 5821610 dollars invested in taking flat and oysters in Maryland waters. Virginia employs 28216 with 2891536 dollars invested. Maryland oysters total 7254034 bushels and product value 3617308 dollars. Virginia product value 3107866 dollars. Maryland eel and shad catches include alewives 17180459 pounds perch 1321280 pounds shad 5799563 pounds crabs 9500000 pounds. Virginia leads with menhaden 178656302 pounds. Delaware and Pennsylvania fisheries are smaller but Pennsylvania invests 1001528 dollars and Delaware 407460 dollars.
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Maryland
Virginia
Delaware
Pennsylvania
United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries
New York Evening Post
Lightning Flash Time Calculated by Photograph
F H Glen of London used a vibrating lens and multiple image photographs to calculate a lightning flash duration of one nineteenth of a second. The method relies on the specific flash photographed and the lens vibration rate. The article notes that education often rests on fault finding rather than learning.
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F. H. Glen
London
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Old Town
Amos Wilkinson
Allentown
Alexandria
Lee
Martindale
Cold Harbor
Hines
Col. Wilkinson
Army of the Potomac
Richmond
Earth
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