The South's Antebellum Might Remains in Memory
A Times-Democrat recap shows 1860 South led national cotton, rice, and sugar output, supplied most molasses and tobacco, and held rail and industrial gains. It highlights J Hays era veterans, economic feats, and how southern leadership shaped postwar development across markets and law.
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New South
Old South
Times-Democrat
New Orleans
United States
South
Mason and Dixon
North
West
Baltimore
Kitten Attack Tops Newcastle Child Leaves Scars
Five year old Iva Willis of Newcastle Delaware was bitten and scratched by a pet kitten while playing. The incident ended with the mother driving the animal away as it clawed the girl’s head and neck.
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Iva
Charles Willis
Newcastle
Del
Memories of War and Alaska Gold Findings
The article recalls a Texas rifleman Billy Anderson targeting General Taylor amid banshee curses and pent up emotion. Capt. Skinner notes Mexican women risking punishment to feed prisoners. It also reports a Alaska gold find with a glacier fed lake and sand assays suggesting substantial yearly yields.
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Billy Anderson
Texas
Sam Houston
Gen. Taylor
Skinner
Mexico
Rio Grande
Dallas News
Alaska
Seattle
Wedding Crown Rites In New York Brings Bride’s Wreath to Maiden
A German styled wedding in New York features a blindfolded bride and a wreath ceremony. After six spins she crowns the bridesmaid touched, signaling the next marriage according to tradition. A Joliet convict, though sane, laments a low mood joke about using his head as a drinking cup, doctors say impossible.
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New York
Joliet Penitentiary
Drifted fortune hunter found in New York hotel
After making and losing another fortune he drifted to New York and lived at the Colonial hotel on One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street. There he was found by friends including Richard Lamb, eldest son of Col. Lamb of Fort Fisher. They struggled to help him due to his pride.
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Waco
Texas
James Skinner
Ross
Skinner
Jack Hays
Zach Taylor
Boundary
Iver
Taylor
New York
Woodlawn
Alexander Collie
Wilmington
N. C
Fort Fisher
Collie
George McNeil
Alexander Collie & Co
Egypt
Austria
South America
Collie & Co
England
Barcelona
Spain
White Sulphur &Rs
Colonial Hotel
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street
Richard Lamb
Col. Lamb
Proverb Wit and Historical Oddities in a Turbulent Era
After elections and amid subdued cheer, the piece cites proverbs to comfort readers and notes sharper reading than news. It recalls German court representations by a dead man and Bancroft’s 1867 credentials as U S minister in parts of Germany, highlighting diplomatic oversights.
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Memphis
Germany
United States
Bancroft
South Germany
Price's Cream Baking Powder Wins Highest Award
Price's Cream Baking Powder receives the World's Keir Highest Medal and Diploma in a prestigious international competition, acknowledging its quality and superiority among self-raising powders.
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Vr. Price
Keir
Republican programme aims to do as little as possible
The text criticizes the Republicans for doing as little as possible and banking on Democratic dissensions. A recruitment notice offers travel work in Texas for a steady position with $780 pay and expenses, asking for a reference and self-addressed stamped envelope to The Dominion Company in Chicago.
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Texas
Dominion Company
Omaha
Chicago
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