Balloon Reconnaissance and Religious Demographics From Civil War Era
An excerpt describes a Civil War balloon recon mission near Arlington and Fairfax Court House with nightly observations of Confederate activity and supply lines. It shifts to census based religious seating data from 1870 comparing Roman Catholic and Protestant distributions in Massachusetts New York and the slave states.
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Arlington
Peirfax Court House
Lee
Blue Ridge
Jura
America
Count de Paris
United States
Massachusetts
Alabama
Arkansas
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Carolinas
Virginias
Tennessee
Texas
Mississippi
Kentucky
Missouri
Louisiana
Maryland
New York
Methodist
Mindrs
Wisconsin
Europe
H. N J Rogerson Establishes Board and Stable
Business card notes H N J Rogerson proprietor offering a boarding house with meals and stable connected to the house. Rates span from 35 to 86 per week depending on rooms and board level.
Terms of Subscription for Leslie's Illustrated Publications
Subscription terms for Leslie's Illustrated Publications outlined in the fragment emphasize user access, payment, and delivery expectations. The text references renewal options and service scope though details are incomplete due to truncated OCR.
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Leslie
Ss Illustrated Publications
The Secret of Staying Married
A lecture by Robert Collyer surveys marriage as a joint journey from courtship to old age. It stresses shared growth, mutual safeguarding, and the prayer Mercifully ordain that we may grow old together, with examples from Lucretia Mott and Audubon to illustrate enduring partnership. The talk ends noting lasting bonds in old age and suggests practical guardrails for couple harmony.
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Robert Collyer
Ganger
Sydney Smith
John Anderson
Jo John
John
James Mott
Lucretia Mott
Audubon
Ruskin
Gether
Oberlin
Bke
Lake Country
Wordsworth
Martineau
Jeffrey
Green Bank
Sarah
Heaven
Niagara River Glides Quietly After Weeks of Gale
A week of northern and northeastern winds altered the Niagara river so dramatically that during Sunday and Monday the falls displayed a sight unseen since 1848. Rocks normally buried by deep waters stood exposed, as visitors flocked to view the spectacle and locals spoke of walking the riverbed from the Shadow of the Rock to the Cave of the Winds.
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Table Rock
Street's Island
Suspension Bridge Journal
Niagara
William Glassbrook
Grocery outfit for two men bound for the Black Hills
The Cheyenne Sun lists supplies for two men and their pack animals including 200 pounds flour 109 pounds bacon 100 pounds sugar 50 beans 256 pounds Rio coffee 20 pounds butter 20 dried apples 10 bars soap 4 pounds tea 3 pounds pepper 6 pounds baking powder 8 pounds mixed nails mustard 1 gallon vinegar 1 pick 1 gold pan 1 shovel 2 pairs rubber boots 4 dozen screws. Also notes add four blankets and other cloth. Barnstable Pallertog offers marriage advice to Cape girls: Don't worry till you can support a husband.
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Cheyenne Sun
Black Hills
Colorado
Barnstable Pallertog
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Ee House
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David Leavitt
Deputy County Surveyor
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Sterling
Pioneer Saddle and Harness Shop
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R. E. Hart
OLD Colony
Main St
Greeley
A. H. Boughton
Fort Cousins
Fort Colling
Larimer County
B. A. Haynes
Pfaynes & Gipson
A. EB. Grvson
Colonano
J F. Sanborn
Life and Fire Insurance
D. Buckley
Weld County
Wil
F L. Childs
Justice OF the Peace
the Bakery
Greeley Weld Co
Florist
Grant and
Sherman Sts
J. M. Freeman
Attorney At Law
Jos
Ee & Shattuck
Anp
Denvar Packne
New Masonic Block
Colo
Mozelle
France
LAW & F
Greeley, Colorado
Lmes & Clapp
Frank Leslie
Chimney Corner
Ilustrarte Zeitung
Eaay
Journal
Young American
Boys of America
Jolly Joker
Family Herald
New York Journal
Jae Aes
Almanac
Yaddtone
Frank_ Les
Pearl Street
Bae A
B. Frothingham
Garden of Eden
Atlantic
Greece
England
Hood
Prof
Swing
Axe
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