Indiana G A R Elects New Officers After Encampment
John D. Alexander of Bedford elected Department Commander for Indiana G A R at the twenty ninth encampment. Milton Bell Kokomo and Wilbur E Gorsuch South Bend named senior and junior vice commanders. Women’s Relief Corps officers chosen, with Mrs. Anna Tucker as president and Mrs. Pearl Wright as department president for the next year. Admiral Robly Evans slated for duty with the Navy General Board. Mayfield Ky suffers a large fire. Chicago box plant fire causes $400,000 in damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Alexander
Bedford
Department of Indiana
Congress
Crawfordsville
South Bend
Terre Haute
Milton Bell
Kokomo
Wilbur E. Gorsuch
S. I. Brown
Knox
F. M. Elliott
Hammond
J. R. Fesler
Indianapolis
Joseph D. Galleher
Williamsport
T. B. Wilkinson
Knightstown
G. A J West
Pearl Wright
Logansport
Wright
Indiana
Etta Lee Toby
Chicago
Logansport. Mrs. Toby Is Past National President of the Ladies of the G. A. R
Rebecca Hammel
Monticello
C. Graves
Lafayette
R. E. Hollis
Washington
Grace Carnahan
Oxford
Olive Allison
Richmond
Alice Kramer
Jennie Ervine
New Albany
Professor Leslie A. Lee Dies After Operation
Bowdoin College professor noted for Labrador and South America expeditions died in Portland following intestinal surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie A. Lee
Bowdoin College
Labrador
South America
Portland
Three Men Burned In Farmhouse Gas Plant Blast
Three men were painfully burned when an acetylene gas plant exploded at Frank M. Great’s farmhouse northwest of Mt. Vernon Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank M. Greathouse
Mt. Vernon
Ind
Annapolis Student Crowna Drowned at Annapolis
Midshipman Arthur Linford Lucas of Cleveland drowned at Annapolis Maryland while graduating classmate Midshipman Carl D. Hibbard of Northfield Minnesota who tried to save him nearly lost his life. Dr Robert Goldbeck a once noted pianist and composer died at his St Louis home at 73. He was famed as a Prussian virtuoso who performed before monarchs.
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Annapolis
Crowna
Arthur Linford Lucas
Cleveland
Carl D. Hibbard
Northfield
Minn
Robert Goldbeck
St. Louis
Prussia
Goldbeck
Trade conditions and bank activity in mid autumn report
Dunn's Review of Trade notes mortality in business lower than a year ago while bank deposits grow. Pressure from coal labor troubles and freight tariff debates rise. Industrial demand weak, costs uncertain, but interior merchandise consumption improving. Weather hinders distribution and retail, but wholesale road sales hold. Transportation shows declining freight, building activity rises, and Chicago district failures drop from last week and last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Dunn
Review of Trade
New York Markets Improve Amid Mixed Weather And Trade Signals
Weather, trade and crop reports show irregular warm days and heavy rainstorms with fluctuating retail demand. Cotton goods appear to have bottomed on price, woolen orders rise, and carpets plus silk ribbons see large auction sales. Pig iron quota talks fail, prices ease, and debt obligations allow more business. Week ending May 14 saw 281 failures, matching prior week and similar years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Northwest
Market Report of Grain and Livestock Prices Across Cities
A dense market roundup lists cattle hogs and sheep prices in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit New York Milwaukee Buffalo Toledo and more. It includes wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and hay ranges with varied grade designations and per bushel or per hundredweight quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ste
Timothy
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
New York
Toledo
The Grand Army Day of Remembrance Poem
A elegiac verse by Elsie Florence Fay in Success recalls dwindling regiments, the silent march of veterans, and a nation united in honoring the dead. It praises living troops, laments loss, and invokes May blooms to crown fallen heroes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie Florence Fay
Memorial Day Retrospect in Civil War Campaign
A memorial day reminiscence notes fresh beef salt hard bread coffee and sugar for a marching unit. The account states both Colonel Kellogg and Small are dead and describes the swift pursuit and the discovery of rations to sustain the famishing army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonel Kellogg
Small
Maybey
Book That Saved a Life and a Diary's Echo across War
A youth named Andrew French enlists as Andrew Page in the Union Army and is later identified as Page by comrades. A diary given to a comrade saves a life at Gettysburg era, when a bullet pierces a towel stuffed in a breast pocket. The tale underscores wartime bonds and future peace ambitions.
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Andrew French
Andrew Page
Third
Maryland Infantry
Baltimore American
Chancellorsville
Andrew F Dpe
French
Page
J. M. Ludsburg
Willim H. Walter
Wannall
Busts of Franklin and Washington Staged at London Embassy
Fire at Jamestown exposition grounds destroys the arts and crafts village and other buildings. Kurdish raids in northern Persia report a massacre of 2000 and pillage of 36 villages. New York City selects a design for a skyscraper to house most municipal departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Persia
New York City
Memorial Day and Decoration Day tribute to fallen soldiers
This article reflects on Memorial Day and Decoration Day as unique national rituals. It praises reverent observances, wreaths for graves, and parades while urging reflection on the Civil War and Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. It calls for colors at half mast and condemns trivial or selfish celebration.
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Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg
The
Republic
Lee
Feeding Confederates Three Days Rations After Appomattox
Lee asked for his army to be fed after surrender terms were agreed. Grant instructed the chief commissary to feed the Confederate army, estimating about 25 000 men. Commissaries of Sheridan and Ord teams confirmed they could provide rations, directing a three day supply to the Army of Northern Virginia.
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Grant
Lee
Appomattox
Michael Kk. Morgan
Washington Post
TI O
Lim
Kellogg
Sheridan
Virginia
M. P. Small
Spinner’s pledge to fund world war effort and social reform
Charles Spinner declares a grand promise to spend all war costs on conquering poverty and inequity. He vows to purchase land worldwide and clothe every person from abundant resources. He pledges to build a schoolhouse on every block in every city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Spinner
Admiral Schley Visits Bangor After Spanish War
Crowds gather as Admiral Schley is hosted by General Joseph Smith in Bangor Maine. An Irish woman, Mrs Casey, presents a bronze Manila medal and asks Mrs B to read its inscription To the Man Behind the Gun, claiming the medal honors her son for safety at Manila.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiral Schley
Bangor
Joseph Smith
Bible Found With Confederate Soldier Among Richmond Dead
On one battlefield near Richmond a young Confederate lay unburied for days. Worms had begun to consume his flesh while a Bible rested beneath his skeleton hand, the fingers pressing the Twenty third Psalm “Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Cleveland street car strike erupts in dynamite violence
Rioting and dynamite damage hit Cleveland street cars as 300 men attacked routes near Woodland and Broadway. Passengers suffered serious injuries including a broken jaw and head lacerations. a deadly explosives box was found on tracks as linemen repaired damaged lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Detroit Avenue
Woodland
Fourteenth Street
Woodland Avenue
David Benjamin
Benjamin
Mre
Woodlawn-Lorain
Elizabeth Meiser
Broadway
East Fifty-fifth Street
Striker S
Municipal Traction Company
Tilles
Olm
Snow slide kills forty Japanese laborers in Calgary
A Canadian mountain slide sent two boarding cars down a slope trapping forty Japanese laborers who perished. The accident is reported amid a broader wire service digest covering international diplomacy and events including Aruba and Persia tensions, and cultural appointments.
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Calgary
Alberta
Caracas
Castro
Venezuela
Roosevelt
Russell
la Guayra
Tacoma
Asia Minor
Tripoli
Turkey
Italy
Porte
Tokio
United States
Japan
Persia
Catarrh vanishes after twenty five years of cough
Miss Sophia Kittleson of Evanston Illinois writes of a twenty five year bout with catarrh and a long failed search for relief. She says Peruna cured her chronic catarrh and improved her health. The ad notes Peruna tablets available as an alternative form. Manufactured by Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company Columbus Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophia Kittleson
Evanston
Ilinois
U.S. A
Persna Drug Manufacturing Company
Columbus
Ohio
The Benedict, the Bachelor, and a Frugal Wife
A depositor mocks a bank receiver about comforting suggestions. A Benedict laments marriage costs after one year, while a bachelor consoles him. The blue husband notes that no wife is expensive but she lasts a long time.
Lemon Pie Recipe Ad Provokes Navy Pocket Grievance
A Kansas City Times reader endorses OUR-PIE lemon pie preparation and mocks old methods. The piece also notes navy recruit J R Rose complains the absence of side pockets in uniform trousers, describing the habitual habit of thrusting hands into pockets and frustration with pocketless attire.
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J. R. Rose
Navy
Kansas City Times
Great Nerve Restorer and Dream Phases Mentioned
A fragment discusses Dr. RM Kline's Great Nerve Restorer and a Sea for FIV bottle and treatise amid mentions of Vitus Dance and Nervous Diseases. It also references a scientist describing sleep phenomena and a hostess recalling waking by a husband’s key. A note on Red Cross Ball Blue lingers beside security details for a dangerous chemicals area and strict entry checks at a plant, with 590 female workers supervised by matrons.
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St. “Vitus
Kline
RM. Kline
Philadelphia
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Wintermeyer
Twenty-seventh
Throop Streets
Ill
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Bradstreet
Milwaukee
Northern
the Grand Army
Old Union Solidiers
Franklin
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Behner
Harry . Ingersoll
James Patasey
Richard Strauss
Royal Orchestra of Berlin
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Strauss
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NPT
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