Painting Money and Frugal Home Repairs Lessons
A collage of snippets warns property owners against rushing to hire the cheapest painters and warns of hidden costs from low bids. It notes the role of reputable sources, like the National Lead Company, in guiding safe painting and leads from periodicals and ads on consumer cautions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oirner
Ache Fiske
Inex
National Jead Company
Trinity
Houty National ‘ Lead Co
Watignal Lead Company
Trinity Building
New To
Monument of the soldiers by Whitcomb Riley
A poem urging a monument built not of marble but of a people's love and faith. It envisions white, pure forms symbolizing sacrifice, with faces and tears sanctifying the land. The speaker asks if stone can bleed or truth be written, concluding the monument must stand as pure, brave figures guarding the country’s skies.
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Whitcomb Riley
The Raider Escape Across Virginia Mills Farmhouse
Union and Confederate forces clash near a mill and farmhouse in rural Virginia as a hard fighting Confederate rider evades capture by diving into water and slipping away. A startled young woman prepares fruit while Union troops search the house, barn, and outbuildings but find no trace of the rider.
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Virginia
Garret
Tinton
Perhiis
Kansas City Journal
Fragmented Civil War Vignettes and Landmark Moments
A Riverside-like collage recalls Civil War scenes with a Confederate escape, a Union officer misgiving, and gray troops fading from a dusty dawn. Lincoln and Grant share a solemn meeting, while a Confederate soldier contemplates defeat and resilience after two days on the run.
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Text From 1863
The excerpt presents Lincoln's Gettysburg Address noting four score and seven years since liberty founded a nation. It recalls a civil war, honors fallen soldiers, and urges renewed dedication to a nation conceived in equality and a government of the people.
The Grand Army and a Detained Baptism Tale
A Civil War anecdote recalls Colonel Gabe Bouck detaining an evangelist seeking baptism for troops. Bouck orders ten men for baptism, declaring no Massachusetts regiment shall bear pity in their ranks, as the camp rests after a first campaign.
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Gabe Bouck
Gabe
Massachusetts
Bouck
Medals Awarded for Civil War Valor at Valley City Action
Navy honors include John Davis who served aboard the Union steamer Valley City during an attack near Elizabeth City North Carolina. Davis reportedly sat atop an open powder barrel to keep from fleeing as the ship burned near the magazine.
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Navy Department
John Davis
Valley City
Elizabeth City
N. CG
Twin Birth Report From Oxfordville Headlines Army Assignments
A Conacript Father J M Leama of Oxfordville NL OH reports three twins. Two sons serve in the Fourteenth Massachusetts. The third twin, a girl, is in the Fifth New Hampshire.
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J. M. Leama
Oxfordville, NL
Massachusetts
New Hamipshire
Munyon's Paw-Way Paw Pills Claim Gentle Liver Action
An advertisement extolls Munyon's Paw W ay Pills as a gentle liver stimulant that avoids gripe and weak cathartics. It describes cleansing the bowels, improving digestion, enriching blood, and providing a tonic effect without calomel or dope, priced at 25 cents. It links constipation to biliousness, rheumatism, and kidney ailments, urging use for liver and complexion health.
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Seuss
Eds Munyon
Anecdote of Uncle Joe Cannon From Success Magazine
The piece recalls Uncle Joe Cannon as an engaging old despot who inspires both laughter and fear. It describes a partisan House scene where Democrats briefly gain a majority, a controversial third roll call, and a posthumous scramble for his seat. The tale ends with a quip about burial plans and succession.
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Ceydlid
Canonical
Uncle Joe Cannon
A. BE
Thomas
Success
Joe
House
Genlally
Peculiar Conversation From The Pringtote Issue
Penelope awakens as Mr Pipes recovers from a fall and recalls a tale of stolen chickens. Mrs Pipes suggests a diligent reader found the truth in Philander Unite pamphlet. The discourse touches on private property and social revelation in a Chicago Tribune context.
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Apsiir
Penelope
Pipes
Seracody
Philander
Mrs. Pipes
Chicago Tribune
Grape Nuts and Postum Lift Woman from Indigestion
A Pond du Lac Wisconsin woman describes severe digestive troubles four years ago and heart palpitations. After switching to Grape Nuts and Postum she reports relief within a week, weight gain, clearer skin, and regained strength, crediting the products amid a promotional note about reading Road to Wellville.
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Pond du Lac
Wis
Dircting
Wellville
Phos
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Antevidtig
Detroit Free Press
Lane
Igqny
Ric
Johnny
Boston ‘Transcript
Howard Bros
Buffala
Lommy
Marema
Wildrow
Rey Aura Pind
Snippem
Blackstone
Tare
Pot Laviig
Fou
Barclay EB. Cor
Success Magazine
Harry Stuckiey
March Chunk
RED’ Cross
Minacapelie
Linceln
Grant
Mae
Peputtiie
Jostiead
Peraotta
Themael
Lidcole
Lincosin
Lineol
Bint
bin Brent
General Grant
Hia
Nashville
Lincoln
Gettysburg
the Grand Army
Wallace Irwin
Collier'a Weekly
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