Grant's First Literary Effort on His Civil War Battles
General Grant agreed to write about Shiloh and the Wilderness for Century magazine after editors offered payment. He expanded a terse fragment into a detailed article, with input from his eldest son and editorial requests. The piece, published February 1885, marked his first major literary or historical work.
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Grants
General Badeau
General Grant
Eanvaea’ Grant
Century Magazine
Grant & Ward
Grant
Belisarius
Long Branch
Ime
Oil fuel gains traction for steam vessels and rails
An article from the San Francisco Chronicle reports growing use of petrol based fuel for steamships and locomotives. A Central Pacific request for fuel approval prompted a committee to test oil as safe, noting distillation yields specific gravity and a high fire test. The report endorses oil fuel for steam vessels. Separately banks and the public confront a shortage of one and two dollar bills.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Central Pacfic Railroad Company
Secretary of the Treasury
United States Inspector of Steamships
C. C. Beamis
John Birmingham
Mexican Steamship Company
Samuel [Ouckhaust
Pacfic Mail Steamship Company
Right to work and labor rights in strike times
The piece argues that earning a living by honest work is the essential right of every person and that governments must protect workers from mob violence and racial clashes. It also reports on the acting treasury comptroller suspending a claim by a man who says he should be paid as a wartime soldier, despite conflicting records, likely needing another bill to secure payment.
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Treasury
St. Louis
London
Samuel N. Brooks
Arthur Presier
Maxwell
Brooks
Convict’s Escape Plot Fails at Riverside Penitentiary
A Bradford County counterfeiter at Riverside Penitentiary staged a slick bid for release by hiring an attorney to pursue an alleged deceased New York relative leaving 830,000. The prisoner offered 1000 dollars for the attorney to obtain pardon and to keep a power of attorney, but the plan unraveled. He now schemes another escape.
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Riverside Penitentiary
Bradford County
Pittsburg
New York
Dispatch
Postmaster General to issue circular on special delivery use
Washington notes the Post master General will issue an additional circular to postmasters where special delivery is used. It urges accurate street addresses with house numbers or business indicators to distinguish similarly named residents in small towns and reminds the public of the option to request return of non delivered mail.
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Washington
Early US export totals rise year over year across ports
From January 1 to August 29 US ports shipped 348,220,698 gallons of refined crude and naptha, up 36,683,206 gallons from 1884. New York and Boston retreats noted while Philadelphia gains nearly 40,000,000 gallons. Baltimore holds. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, formed in August 1863, has distributed 1,751,000 dollars to widows and orphans of deceased members without fanfare.
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United States
New York
Bostoft
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Michigan Central Road
Montreal Riel meeting calls for subscriptions to appeal
A Montreal gathering on Monday afternoon backed a resolution for subscriptions to fund an appeal to the privy council in the Riel case. L. O. David praised Riel as saving French nationality and Catholic Canada, while Ontario Orangemen were urged not to fear French influence. The report mixes additional brief notes on world travel, literature, census data, and local laws.
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Riel
Montreal
Iquneil
iMti Fitzpatrick
Coneit
L. O. David
Orangemen
Ontario
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American Congress
Harriet Martineau
America
Greati
George Elliot
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Ingersoll
Macon
The
Times-Union
Jacksonville
Florida
Mount Desert
New Hampshire
James D. Macowan
Fraley Street
Kane, PA
Bey
Land. Office
E. D. Kane
Hurchinson
Magowan’s
Mount Jewett
Wetmore
Hamlin
Timper
Coan and Miverazs
Tfcklean and
Enix
Mt. Jewett
Ehzane
Pea
Wagons & Carriages
Spectauty
Cramer
Millat Matriciet
J. O. Mrens
Jas. Campbell
Prof
Ani
Courtland Buggis
A.D. Clapp Wagonma
Misses O'Day
Fraley St
Tam
J. A. Vollmer, Fraley St
Kane Gas Light
Turers
A Midsummer
de Daedase
J.T
W. Griffith
O. B. Lay
Henry, Bayage & Co
Wilcox, Elk Co
Adelphia Kitchen
G. B. Williams, Prop'r
Second ST
Warren, PA
Geo. Weller, Prop'r
M. Donacky
Fraley Mreet
Notre
J. L. Cousins & CO
John Fleming
P. A. Egelin
Hyde
Novelty Bazar & News Room
Jas. Hyde
Prop'r
Johnson & Siegfried
Variety Hall
T. Struthers, J.C. Wells
A. H. MecKrrvy, J. R. Jefferson
Struthers Tron Works
Struthers, Wells & CO
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