The Rise of Ulysses S. Grant From Poverty to Power
A portrait of Ulysses S. Grant from boyhood in Point Pleasant Ohio to West Point misnaming him Uncle Sam, through early poverty and failure in St Louis and Galena, to Civil War leadership and Lincoln’s praise, ending with a tale of a rejected job and a veteran’s persistence.
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Lincoln
Grant
Napoleon
Shakespeare
American Valhalla
Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
St. Louis
Gravois
Point Pleasant
Ohio
Ulysses Hiram
Hamer
Congress
Ulysses
West Point
Simpson
U.S. Grant
Uncle Sam
Sam
Military Academy
Academy
Searee
Dent
Gravois Road
Dent Farm
Galena
Springfield
Ill
Yates
Camp Yates
Thera
Mattoon
Twenty-first Illinois Infantry
Alton
Abraham Lincoln
Vicksburg
J. R. Ringwall
Cave
Cincinnatus
Virginia
Concrete Roads Favor Long Life and Low Repairs
The article outlines concrete road construction using local aggregates with Portland cement. It covers material quality, mixing ratios, grading, placement, crowning, finishing, jointing with tar paper dividers, and forming contraction joints every 25 feet to produce durable surfaces for motor traffic.
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United States
Europe
Mend Market Roads First Improve Roads to Help Farmers
Dr W H Waters president of Kansas Agriculture College urges upgrading the main public highways used by 10 percent of roads that carry 76 percent of traffic. He notes $11 million is spent annually to move surplus Kansas farm products to railheads and claims improving the ten percent of roads would save Kansas farmers about $3 million yearly.
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WH. J. Waters
Kansas Agriculture College
Kansas
Nlehway
Railway Staton
Fragmented local note from Goreville hints at public figures
A garbled clipping from Goreville references J. Mead and a 45 acre farm and includes aphorisms about deceptive voices and moral judgments. The readable bits point to a marginal community note rather than a clear event or announcement.
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J. Mead
Goreville
Peculiar Family Will Bribery Affects Courts
A private dispute over wills reveals a spouse using threats and bribes to override the other spouse's demands. The conflict centers on enforcing or avoiding provisions, with the parties navigating legal avenues and personal leverage.
Shakespeare and Bacon authorship debate persists
The article notes no proof that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays and calls attempts to prove otherwise failures. It discusses difficulties in attributing authorship and states no alternative writer is proven, leaving the Stratford man as the claimant to the glory.
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Shakespeare
Bacon
Stratford
Queen Maury and the art of conversation
A description of Queen Maury as a poor conversationalist who charms with initial calm and ease then falls silent. It notes her skill comes from concentration which may not endure the whole talk, leaving others unsure whether to continue or depart as she drifts into thought.
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Maury
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