Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge Battlefield Tale
An extended reminiscence recounts the Chickamauga battle near Ringgold and Chattanooga, its September 1863 fighting, Longstreet's and Bragg's commands, and the combined national park dedication. The piece blends battlefield description with musings on Civil War memory and Southern chivalry.
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Chickamaugs
Ringgold
Chattanooga
Town
Tila
Lemenses Line
Weat
Missionary Ridge
Walden's Ridge
Tennessee
Chickemaugs
River of Blood
Texasville
John Ross
Mpana
Longstreet
Gen. Bragg
Knoxville
Tenn
Bragg
Longatreet
Polk
Snodgrass Hill
Glenn House
Cheatham
Great Odde
Stepa
Chattahooga
Army of Tennessee
Confedente
Federa
Wobator
Big Rally at Oakway August 21
Farmers Union Rally at Oakway moves from August 16 to August 21 with Clem son speakers to guide crop growth and union speakers on farming methods. Expected large turnout includes prominent Georgia speaker. local leaders invite farmers and business people. ladies invited to attend for a profitable day.
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Oakway
Banket
John B. Harris
Woman Die After Premonition in New Jersey Field
In Egg Harbor City, New Jersey Mrs A Nichols, 60, wife of a farmer near Germania, forecast her death weeks earlier saying she would not live until August. She died in bed after a day in the fields. Physicians attribute natural causes. Includes a local patent remedy advertisement for kidney and bladder pains.
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Egg Harbor City
N. J
Aujgust
Mra. A. Nichols
Germania
Physiciana
Alway
Marys Little Walst and Fashion Walks Mire 10 Go
A fragment from the New York Sun parodies fashion movement with quirky wordplay on walks and Mire 10. The verse hints at trends and style as a playful social aside in an urban paper.
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Mary
New York Sun
A Woman's Aches and Pains Attributed to Weakness
An advertisement claims female weakness causes backaches headaches dizziness and vision issues with floating specks. It touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a quick remedy enhanced by forty plus medicinal roots and free of alcohol or habit forming drugs plus a 40 year track record. It promotes King Compositie as superior to competitors and plugs Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as the original liver pills.
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Pierce
Thorsby
Pleree
Atlanta Man Charged With Wife Murder Near Lookout Mountain
Ed Turner, who fled Atlanta with his 18 year old wife, is captured in Lee County Kentucky. Chattanooga sheriff seeks extradition papers for Turner as two Atlante men may testify. The wife, initially named Lillian Palmer, disappeared after being arrested for disorderly conduct and later found murdered on Lookout Mountain with throat cut.
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Ed Turner
Atlanta
Chattanooga
Tanr
Lookout Mountain
Lee County
Kentucky
Dispatch
Turner
Atlanta Constitution
Goulds Love and Divorce Rumor Tops New York Gossip
Frank Jay Gould near-divorce rumors unfold as Helen Kelly Gould confirms strains but expects reconciliation. The couple, long famed for wealth and society life, wed six years ago and share a lavish lifestyle amid speculative press coverage.
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New York
Frank Jay Gould
Gould
Newa
Helen Kelly
Frank Gould
Gould Railroads
Georgia farmer Dew Le Jackson claims first GA bale title
Albany dispatch reports Dougherty County farmer Dew Le Jackson, a former slave who rose from poverty to own 2000 acres and a thriving plantation. He sent the 823 pound 1907 cotton bale to the Savannah market weeks before expectations, selling at a premium and drawing attention as a self made, shrewd, and prosperous farmer with a formal reception at his Albany warehouse.
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Albany
Dew le Jackson
Daugherty County
Georgia
Jackson
Savannah
Dougherty
Staix
Pat Jackson
Ha Warehouse
Nelson County Confederate Veterans Benefit Offer
Thomas Fortune Ryan of New York, claiming Oak Ridge in Nelson County Virginia as his birthplace, offers to pension 200 Confederate veterans residing there. He would pay each veteran $85 a month or $1,020 yearly, totaling about $12,000 annually. A Nelson County veterans committee was formed to compile the veteran list for Mr Ryan.
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American
Arnold Godwin
Bramwell Godwin
Americus
Itla
Richmond
Thomas Fortune Ryan
Ryan
Nelson Cmp
Ten Years In Bed Gained Relief From Kidney Cure
R A Gray of Oakville writes that ten years of kidney disease left him bedridden at times. Despite care from top medical skill, relief was elusive until Fo ley's Kidney Cure was recommended. He calls it a Godsend and credits the remedy, alongside Dr J W Bell.
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Longstreet
Virginia
Bragg
Braxton Bragg
Tresecrana
Tongatreet
Polk
Fleet Corps
Kershaw
Tumphrey
Chickamauga
R.A. Gray
J. T
Oakville
J. W. Bell
Twenty Fifth Annual Meeting of the Giat Rifles Held
The twenty fifth annual meeting of the Giat Rifles Company D Hampton Legion Survivors Association will meet at Spring Park Williamston 8 C Friday August 2 at 11 a m. All Confederate veterans and their families and G A R veterans are invited to attend. Secretary Piedmont 5 0.
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Giat Rifles
Co. D
Hampton Legion, Survivors’ Association
Spring Park
Williamaton
8. C
Brad
Piedmont
Money order department shows rise in total 1907 business
Figures from the New York post office money order department report a total business of 440 407 209 for the fiscal year ending June 8 1907, an increase of 89 069 202 over the prior year or 267 10 percent. The total likely exceeds 479 000 000 when calibration figures are added.
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New York Post Office
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Nebraska
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Walhalla, S.C
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