Night in Richmond 1865 a Confederate family awaits fate
In a moonlit Richmond home during spring 1865 a mother tends a dying son and bandsages while stories of loss fill the air. Wilfred Varney, eager to join the fighting, pleads to enlist as artillery roars nearby and the Confederate cause nears its last days. The mother promises to write to the father for consent, fearing the loss of her remaining sons as the war closes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Charles
Allen
Page
Burton
Martha
Mars Howard
Howard
Confederacy
Wilfred
Mrs. Varney
Seven Pines
Petersburg
Russell
Tom Kittredge
Eli Stuart
Steven
Laysan Island Expedition Ends After Eighty Days
Retired Commodore George R. Salisbury led a small science party on a U S government bird reservation mission to Laysan Island eight hundred miles northwest of Honolulu across eighty days. They collected 175 rare specimens and noted two unique birds the Laysan rail and the Laysan teal with five rails surviving the voyage back.
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Kansas City
Pacific Ocean
George R. Salisbury
United States Navy
Mark Salisbury
Independence
Jackson County
Laysan
Commodore Salisbury
Kansas City Star
Department of Agriculture
United States Territory
San Francisco
United States Revenue
Thetis
Island
Honolulu
United States
Sherman
Washington
Golden Gate Park
California
Porcelain Glazing Origins and Ming Dynasty Revival
A concise recounting of early porcelain discovery during Han times with potters’ oven trials, the development of monochromatic glazing, and the Ming dynasty revival under Tai-Tsu who centralized porcelain production. It also notes cedar and chestnut as pole woods with durability varying by soil, climate, and native timber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ming
Tai-Tsu
Tehua
Electrical Times
Bad Teeth as Crime Prevention Trial in Boston Jail
In Charles street jail Sheriff Quinn introduces a dentist chair and skilled dentist to treat inmates teeth. He argues malnutrition and poor teeth fuel crime and believes dental care in prisons will reduce recidivism. The plan views dental treatment as a preventive tool in corrections.
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Boston
Charles Street
Quinn
Woman Kills Self at Son’s Funeral in Brooklyn
Mrs. Mary Johnston fatally poisoned herself during her son Herbert Johnston Jr.’s funeral in Brooklyn. She drank poison while the service was about to start and died an hour later at a hospital.
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Kills Self
Son
Brooklyn
Herbert Johnston, Jr
Mary Johnston
1000 Settlers A Day Headed to Canada West
British Isles and European nations rush to Winnipeg as 1,000 settlers arrive daily from the United Kingdom Europe and the United States join the migration to Manitoba and Canada West. Germans and Scandinavians lead long lines while Scots recall old-town ties and hope to prosper on 160 acre homesteads with six months each year for three years before deed or patent.
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United Kingdom
Europe
Winnipeg
Prairie Provinces
America
Manitoba
Canada West
Germany
Scandinavia
British Isles
Old Land
Canada
Scotland
Dominion
Caledonia
United States
Transmissibility of Genius in Browning Relics Sale
Executors begin May 1 sale of Robert and Elizabeth Browning relics from the estate of their son Robert Weidemann Barrett Browning. The child showed no extraordinary genius, was an artist, and did not mirror parental talent. The piece notes uncertainty about genetic transmission of genius despite evidence for talent transmission in general.
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Robert
Elizabeth Browning
Robert Weidemann Barrett Browning
Judge Miller Recovers From Heart Trouble After Kidney Pills
Gray County Probate Judge Philip Miller of Cimarron Kansas reports six years of heart trouble, dizziness, and backache relieved after using Dodds Kidney Pills for about a year. He claims restored health, weight about 200 pounds, and no palpitations. Advertisement promotes Dodds Kidney Pills at 60 cents per box and offers free Household Hints and music.
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Dodds
Gray Co
Philip Miller
Cimarron
Kan
Judge Miller
Dodds Medicine Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Realist boast ends with village painter’s cork art claim
A countryman in the city hears artists boast of genius and bursts out with a humorous remark about Bill Simpkins who allegedly paints a cork 80 exactly like marble and sinks when thrown into water, like a stone.
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Bill Simpkins
Engineers Aim to Reclaim Garden of Eden Region
The article notes scholars place Eden between the Euphrates and Tigris and English engineers plan a dam on the Euphrates near Baghdad to flood irrigate the land as in Egypt and India. It also mentions the soil’s richness and briefly advertises Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething.
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Euphrates
Tigris
Bagdad
Egypt
India
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Richmond
Gillette
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Edgar Bert Smith
Coop, Mzao and Company
Chapter
Mars Wilfred
Benton
Chile
Bird Island of
Harper’s Weekly
Western Canada
Realism
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