Old Tony and Sophie in a Victorian love tragedy
In a Philadelphia style tale, Tony a pennsylvanian Dutch shoe maker shelters a foundling girl Sophie in his decaying three story home. As Sophie rises to fame in opera a wealthy suitor arrives and Tony, after arranging a life for them, ends by destroying his gifts and returning to his solitary room. A memorial anecdote and a note on luminous shrimps conclude.
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Tony
Hermann
Providence
Sophie
Arthur
Chelmsford’s Milestone Century The Oldest New England Settlement
Chelmsford Massachusetts celebrated a quarter millennial since settlement. The article outlines early colonization from Concord, the Pawtucket Indians, and the growth toward Lowell and Westford, with forts, garrison houses, and military service in French and Indian War, Revolution, and War of 1812 era. It notes mills, manufacturing beginnings, and historic houses including Fletcher, Emerson, and Dalton properties.
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Chelmsford
Mass
Middlesex
Concord
Billerica
Tewksbury
Lowell
Westford
Pawtucket Falls
Lowell Mills
Stony Brook
North Chelmsford
East Chelmsford
Middlesex Village
Wamesit Power Company
Concord River
Moore Spinning Mills
Woman crafts finest violins in San Jose workshop
Grace Barstow, the sole woman violinmaker in America, operates under an old San Jose eavesdwelling. Granddaughter of Judge A L Rhodes, she has completed six violins, with the latest praised for rich yet brilliant tone. Her redwood stained first violin and the violin head scroll design draw acclaim.
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San Jose
Cal
Grace Barstow
America
A. L. Rhodes
Santa Clara County
Miss Barstow
Bonds of friendship and battle memory in Civil War era
The article recounts shared experiences at Manassas and a May reunion address by Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis praising Civil War heroes, leadership, and national ideals. It notes the Confederate general officer casualty rate versus Union losses, with detailed casualty comparisons and notes on regimental kill rates during key campaigns.
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Miles O'Reilly
Hillis
Manasgas
Newell Dwight Hillis
Brooklyn
Society of the Army of the Potomac
Manassas
Bull Run
Grand Army of the Republic
London
Westminster Abbey
Vatican
Louvre
Lincoln
Fuster
Republic
Peculiar Starry Flag on Shaw Perkins Mansion
The New London Globe notes a specially arranged national holiday flag on the Shaw Perkins mansion, with thirty seven stars on the blue field unlike any other. Miss Perkins says it was given by her brother, a major, in 1865 during the Tenth Connecticut Volunteers before Richmond, but offers no explanation.
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Shaw-Perkins
Washington
Lafayette
New London
Memories of Andersonville’s lasting ache in Milwaukee
Postmaster Stillman recalls a poverty case in 1893 when a worn veteran begged alms and claimed to have been at Andersonville. The remark drew the postmaster to aid him, a vivid memory of the notorious southern prison and its enduring pain.
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Andersonville
Postmaster Stillman
Stillman
Miwaukee Sentinel
Urge Post for Father Olmstead Chaplain Candidate
Father William A. Olmstead a sol dier physician and priest is recommended for appointment as chaplain of a National Soldiers home. He served as brigadier general of volunteers in the Civil War commanding the First brigade of the Second division of the Second army corps at Gettysburg. After war he studied medicine practiced for thirty years then entered the priesthood and has long been active in W. S. Hancock Post No 259 New York.
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Confederacy
War Department
Ainsworth
Manchuria
Far East
Bliss
Grant
Gettysburg
Fredericksburg
Probaly
Williamsburg
Arkansas Post
France
Army and Navy Journal
Father Olmstead
William A. Olmstead
Hencock
New York
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Inuxois
Galen
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J. Paul
Milwaukee
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Peaul
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Pinar Expresa
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Omaha
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Ontana
Oregon
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Goorado
Pacific Coast
T. L. McDenmarr
Daily Story Pub. Co
Marie Tom
Darkey
Atlanta Constitution
Prince of
Monaco
Mediterranean
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Pene
Soree
Colummne
Cleveland
New England
Quebec
Crown Point
Nova Scotia
Reading
Fort William Henry
Bunker Hill
Shay
William Fletcher
Samuel Adams
Russell's Mills
Chelmsford Center
Beaver Brook
Emerson
King Philip's
Asa Swain
West Chelmsford
Robins Hill
Maine
Massachusetts
J. Adams Bartlett
Joseph Adams
John C. Bartlett
Dalton
Simeon Spalding
Tennessee
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Harper's Weekly
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Baltimore American
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