Mobilization test shows French corps d armee ready in days
The article details a 1887 mobilization experiment in Toulouse for the Seventeenth corps d armee. 40,000 volunteers assembled in 24 hours, railways and telegraphs placed under military control, and training accelerated to ready for a campaign within a week.
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Corps D’armee
Boulanger
France
Toulouse
Paris
Seventeenth Army Corps
Breart
Africa
Italy
Prussia
Seventeenth Corps D’armee
Corps D'Armee
Ferron
le Monde Ilustre
Gen Roger A Pryor A Virginia Native and Confederate General
Gen Roger A Pryor a Virginia native now 58 aided efforts to save Chicago anarchists. His career span includes Hampden Sydney College graduate 1845 law practice quit for health, journalism with The Washington Union and The Richmond Examiner, special commissioner to Greece 1855, founded The South, editor/newspaper man, Virginia representative to the Thirty sixth Congress, Confederate congress member and brigadier general captured in 1864 and released, later spent much time in New York.
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Roger A. Pryor
Chicago
Virginia
Hampden Sidney College
Washington Union
Richmond Enquirer
Pierce
Greece
the South
Washington States
Confederate Congress
New York
Rear Admiral Mullany Dies After Forty-Five Years in Navy
Bryn Mawr obituary notes Rear Admiral J R Madison Mullany died aged seventy after a long naval career beginning as a midshipman in 1832. He commanded multiple ships during the Civil War, captured eleven blockade runners, led the ordnance department in New York, commanded the Richmond and the Mediterranean squadron, and served as governor of the Naval Asylum before retirement in 1879.
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Bryn Mawr
J. R. Madison Mullany
Wyandotte
Supply
Oneida
Bienville
Philadelphia
Ordnance Department
New York
Admiral Mullany
Navy Yard
Richmond
United States
League Island
Naval Asylum
Henry B Lovering Massachusetts governor nominee hero
Henry B. Lovering was born in Portsmouth New Hampshire in 1841. A lifelong labor advocate he became a Lynn shoemaker unionist Knight of Labor and served as private in the war losing a leg. He entered politics as a labor representative in the Massachusetts legislature in 1872 and 1874, was mayor of Lynn in 1881, and served in Congress in 1882.
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Henry B. Lovering
Massachusetts
Portsmouth
N. H
Lynn
Congress
Lovering
The Work of Manuscript Making Explored
Browne argues manuscript making is hard and precarious but no rarer or nobler than common trades. He dismisses the romantic view of writers as uniquely privileged, comparing it to law, accounting, and grocery selling in profitability and status. He suggests sympathy but not special regard for manuscript makers.
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Cially
Paris
Pinsaquel
Plutarch
Pyrenees
United States
Boulanger
Junius Henri Browne
Lippincott’s
Athens
Eleusis
Corinth
Temple Bar
New York wine merchant notes brandy decline
A New York wine merchant says consumption of brandy is steadily dropping while whisky use rises. He argues Americans fear a more harmful beverage yet cannot resist whisky due to economic limits.
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New York
Chicago News
Waiters in St Louis Waiters From Oxford Earn Big Fees
A St Louis hotel head waiter describes the fraternal and profitable world of waiters, noting graduates from Oxford and other elites who work as waiters, their multilingual skills, and the social networks that support unemployed colleagues. He cites food larders, drink, and the rapid rise of roving European labor into Western hotels.
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Oxford
Saratoga
Oxford University
Europe
St. Louis
New York
West
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Architecture as Moral Sin in New York, Avid Eye of a Reporter
A observant artist argues New York’s skyline embodies depravity with grotesque rooflines and abandoned blocks. He attacks Fifth Avenue and Broadway as moral monstrosities, urging reform and a home mission to salvage decayed buildings amid a broader social warning.
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New York
Texas
East Side
Boston
Washington
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
Tents Street
Harlem River
Home Missionary Society For the Salvation
St. Patrick's Cathedral
New York Mail and Express
Farmer protection group scheme cited in Chicago News
The piece reports a fraudulent scheme titled to prevent bird killings. Amey fights against the rural home and speaks of what birds would do for farmers. He ends by asking for a pledge not to kill a bird for a year, which is later revealed as a manipulated promissory note.
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Paris
London
Bayswater
Chicago Times
Amey
Chicago Newa
Varied Textile Lot Prices and Discounts Listed
The notice lists cashmere jersey coats with back and cuffs, military style black jerseys with gold fronts at 2.00 and 55e, boucle jerseys in all shades at 55e, and a cheap blanket sale featuring a white 104 blanket. It also advertises ladies and gents wool undergarments at 25 percent below city prices, cotton cashmere fabrics at 64 cents yard, and robe calico at 5 cents.
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Rear Admiral
Mullany
J. IK. Thompson
East Greeley
Ely
EAM Balls
Lea
Drugaista
ELY Bros
Greenwich St
Cart Emporium
J. Max. Clark
J. J. Stevens
Denver
Golden Eagle
Express
Eacle
Lawrence
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