Betances the West Indian Autonomist and Patriot Leader
Special letter profiles Eleuterio Betances a Puerto Rican born physician and philanthropist who, while practicing medicine in Paris, became the central figure leading anti Spanish efforts in the West Indies. The narrative traces his education in Toulouse and Paris, medical career in Mayaguez and Haiti, extensive studying of Caribbean conditions, and his role as representative of Cuban rebels in 1868 78 and in later uprisings. His stature as a famed oculist in Paris and his charitable funding of insurgents are noted.
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Leuterio Betances
Paris
Betances
Cabo-Rojo
Mayaguez
Porto Rico
United States
Toulouse
Spain
West Indies
Haiti
Europe
Evans
How Grant Ran In September 1875 Army Reunion
The note records a September 1875 reunion of the Army of the Cumberland, highlighting events or leadership details around Ulysses S. Grant’s involvement or oversight during the gathering.
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Army of the Cumberland
Betances and Slavery Opponent Reveals 19th Century Tensions
The text portrays Betances as a medical reformer who aided the poor, opposed slavery in Spanish Cuba, and bought a baby slave monthly to free the child with the mother's papers, provoking official scrutiny and suspicions from authorities and jealous physicians. It also recounts a later scene in Utica with Grant Sherman and other generals, highlighting humorous exchanges and political rivalries, and notes the Rhind manuscript as the oldest deciphered mathematical work in the British Museum.
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Gery
Betances
Spain
British Museum
A Sad Picnic Party The Luseheen Story in Berkshire Hills
A lavish party ends in comic disaster as a planned woodland picnic collapses when a wagon wheels and supplies vanish along a mountain road. The hostess cries, the husband swears, and the party discovers the missing luncheon amid innkeeper’s sorrow and a mountain dew toast.
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I Tess
Berkshire Hills
New York
Sylvan Dell
Piccnickers
Striking An Average In A Jury Verdict
A Chicago Times Herald anecdote shows jurors reach a damages verdict by averaging individual figures. Foreman recalls each juror wrote a figure, then they added them to strike an average, producing an $8,687 sum deemed excessive by the judge, illustrating simple arithmetic in juror decision making.
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Chicago Times-Herald
Greatest Woman of the Age Court Testimony
Counsel questions a witness in a courtroom sketch noting her age and marital status. The witness confirms being forty seven and single and adds she has worn false hair for nearly thirty years. The examiner commends her candor and says there is no use shaking her direct testimony.
Mrs Pinkham Invites Women To Write For Advice
Mrs Pinkham offers free private guidance to women with any form of female weakness from Lynn Massachusetts. The letter asserts her experience, borne of years of work with Lydia E Pinkham and a national correspondence, as proof of helpfulness to women of all means who seek attentive support.
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L. B. Pinkham
Pinkhass
Lydia
Pio
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Eleuterio Betances
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Grant
Utica
N. Y
President Grant
Sherman
Hooker
Slocum
Seymour
Arrose
Gen. Grant
DR. Betances
Tate
Harding St
W.N. U
Denver
E. B. Burlingam Assay Office
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