West Point Centennial Honors a Century of Military Tradition
West Point marked 100 years of nation’s premier military academy. The piece chronicles its origins in 1802, early growth, notable superintendents, and evolving training from plebe to graduate. It highlights the disciplined system, hazing evolution, gray cadet uniforms, and the academy’s pivotal role in educating leaders for Mexico, Civil War, Spanish American War, and beyond.
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West Point
Texas
Gen. Grant
Brother
Grant
Sherman
Sheridan
McClellan
Halleck
Meade
Thomas
Schofield
Rosecrans
Hooker
Buell
Innovative steam locomotive hauls logs in Maine woods
A Maine inventor A. Lombard and his brother Samuel test a steam engine designed to haul logs to landings, using an attached sled system and external chain drive. The machine, weather protected and capable of pulling loads far beyond 40 horses, operates on snow and rough roads, requiring a horse team for steering. If successful, more units will replace horses and expand winter operations for major operators in the state.
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Maine Woods
A. 2
Boston Herald
Kansas City Belle Teeth Offer Sparks Odd Pact
A Kansas City visitor praised a local belle’s fine teeth and offered $100 for two missing teeth plus travel expenses to have them extracted. The offer was said to be accepted, highlighting the unusual exchange reported in Chandler Oklahoma.
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Chandler
Kansas City
Hearts Courageous and Other Historical Fictions Reviewed
A literary critique surveys Hearts Courageous a Revolutionary era novel set in Virginia with a French hero and a patriotic heroine. It notes vivid action, notable figures like Patrick Henry Washington Lafayette and Rochambeau, and compares it to other historical fiction while praising its romance and historical illumination.
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Virginia
America
Philadelphia
France
American Congress
Lord Howe
Halifax
Patrick Henry
Washington
Lafayette
Rochambeau
Hallie Erminie Rives
A. B. Wenzell
Bowen-Merrill Company
Indianapolis
Forces in Fiction by Richard Burton review
A concise critique praising Forces in Fiction for its practical focus on novel structure character work and craft. The reviewer notes the essays largely reiterate known ideas but value the work for helping readers understand why to like good books and for tracing shifts toward action and incident over psychologic analysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Burton
Burton
Bowen- Merrill Company
Indianapolis
The Honor of the Braxton and Ellen Olney Kirk Book
A fragment notes Fosdick and his fire etching art from Ndtmad village with murals in notable homes and museums. Ellen Olney Kirks new novel A Remedy for Love from Houghton Mifflin offers a sentimental old fashioned love story with suspense and delay.
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Paul Leicester Ford
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Ndtmad
Fosdick
Goulds
Havemeyers
Lewisohns
Ellen Olney Kirk
Prize speaking at Barnard foundation in Pinehard school
Andover's prize speaking event under Principal Baldwin crowned Flora B. Lindsay first, Harry Davis second, and Alice G. Barker third with judges Henry W. Boynton Walter Y. Durand and Mrs. Matthew 8 McCurdy. Exeter defeated Andover 5 to 3 in baseball Saturday. Seminary anniversary services led by Prof. Platner. next week Phillips Academy events begin. Children’s Sunday observed across churches.
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Barnard Foundation
Pinehard
Baldwin
Flora B. Lindsay
Harry Davis
Alice G. Barker
Henry W. Boynton
Walter Y. Durand
Matthew
Platner
Theological Seminary
Phillips Academy
Bromfield school to hold graduation exercises and reception
Harvard figures Richard Sheafe and Fred Poole vacationing from Boston Tech. Bromfield school graduation will be held Wednesday June 18 at the school with an evening reception at the hall. Baccalaureate sermon at Unitarian church next Sunday. Mr and Mrs Small moved into the Murphy house. Charles Brooks Hersey of Chelsea visited Mrs Emeline Hersey. Local interest hotel project met at the town hall with another meeting set for Saturday June 14. An arrocumulus cloud was noted traveling at 198 miles per hour, called mackerel sky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Sheafe
Fred Poole
Boston Tech
Bromfield School
Unitarian Church
The Matter With Courier Citizen Want Ads
A short note praises the Courier Citizen want ads, deeming them reliable for finding goods and services while urging readers to try them for effective results.
Middlesex County Leaders Discuss Widening Roads
County commissioners and town officials in Billerica debated widening Lowell street Talbot avenue Pollard street and the Boston road after street railroad track locations were requested. Action was deferred.
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Board of Selectmen
Town of
Billerica
Billerica Centre
Lowell Street
Talbot Avenue
Pollard Street
Boston Road
Town Schools Close For Summer Vacation As Baseball Rivalry Heats Up
The town closes primary, intermediate and grammar schools for summer. Centre school will host a short exercise. Tewksbury's baseball nine faces State hospital doctors Saturday in a promised good game. Mr. Geo. T. Carley of Providence visits his father, Thos. Carley, for a few days.
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Tewksbury
State Hospital
Geo. T. Carley
Providence
R. I
Thos. Carley
Drowning of John J Regan in Charles River near South Natick
John J Regan 24 of Newton Upper Falls drowned Sunday afternoon in the Charles River near Dearthsbridge while boating with three companions from Bailey's hotel. He pitched from the stern as the boat underway. companions and Natick police searched and recovered the body at 7:15 p.m. Regan had lived in South Natick eight months and belonged to Newton division A O H.
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John J. Regan
Charles River
South Sherborn
South Natick
John Wilson
William Butler
Isaac Stuart
Bailey's Hotel
Dearthsbridge
Regan
Natick
F. P. Caswell
Newton Upper Falls
Newton Division
Arlington Leader Samuel H Smith Dies After Illness
Samuel H Smith a prominent Arlington figure and Suffolk bar member at Lowell Smith and Lowell of Boston died at 41 Academy Street after a brief illness and post operative complications. He was about 39, born in Arlington, son of the late Rev Samuel Abbott Smith. He married Helen Horton of Attleboro and leaves a daughter and several relatives including three brothers and a sister. He served on the school board and engaged in Democratic politics during the Cleveland era.
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Samuel H. Smith
Arlington
Academy Street
Suffolk Bar
Lowell, Smith & Lowell
Boston
Samuel Abbott Smith
Arlington Unitarian Church
Harvard
Harvard Law School
Helen Horton
Attleboro
Abbott Smith
St. Paul
George Smith
Thomas Strahan & Co
Nellie Smith
Dracut Woman Dies Suddenly in Tremont Street Lowell
Mrs Bancroft a well known Dracut resident died suddenly yesterday afternoon at 1 o clock in Tremont street Lowell. Her husband Mr Bancroft conductor on the Lowell division of the Boston and Northern street railroad identified the body at Molloys undertaking. She leaves a husband and two children Annie and Irving. A stone drain is being built on Sladen street from the Fox homestead to the post office. Children day will be observed at Centre Congregational church and Collinsville mission June 22. Lumber for repairs on Parker avenue bridge has arrived and work will begin shortly. The Sladen street embankment will be replaced by a large stone wall. A strawberry festival was held at Hillside church last evening with the Hutchinson orchestra and local residents among participants.
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Bancroft
T. F. Connors & Co
Tremont Street
Lowell
Boston and Northern Street Railroad
Molloy
Market Street
Annie
Irving
Sladen Street
Fox Homestead
Centre Congregational Church
Collinsville
Concord
N. H
Nashua
Pepperell
Hollis
North Pepperell
Pepperell Centre
Fitchburg
J. B. Thrall
Salt Lake City
Henry W. Lakin
Main Street
Bath
Maine
F. M. Dunton
Prescott Grange
Grange
American Metal Casket Company
Shelburne Falls
H. W. Smith
Lawrence Hall
Edward VII
J. E. B. Jewett
M. EB
Henry F. Tarbell
Neponset
A. Provencher
Bradstreet’s
West Chelmsford Social Notes Mark 50th Birthday
Mrs. A H Saunders celebrated her 50th birthday at her Nabnasset home with 22 Ladies Club members present. Janet Walker presented a silver bread plate. A 5 o'clock tea was served on the lawn. Also notes on marriages and travels of local residents and upcoming Children’s Day observance.
Acton Church Council Deliberates on Pastor’s Dismissal
An ecclesiastical council met on Wednesday afternoon the 4th to advise on the dismission of Rev. Bernard Copping from the Congregational church in Acton. Rev. George A. Tewksbury served as moderator and Rev. W. W. Campbell as scribe. The council reviewed proceedings between Rev. Copping and the Evan-.
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Gelical Congregational Church and Society
Acton
Mass
Bernard Copping
Evangelical Congregational Church and Society
Copping
Jesus Christ
Congregational Church and Society
George A. Tewksbury
W. W. Campbell
Hearing on Nashua to Pepperell electric railroad at Concord
Concord New Hampshire hosts a June 19 hearing on an electric railroad route from Nashua through Hollis to Pepperell and a potential junction near Pepperell Centre if the Fitchburg line extends. Hollis residents have hired counsel and push for the line.
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Joseph G. Swift
Massachusetts
Simon M. Levy
Maryland
Congress
United States Army
Maj. Williams
Castle Williams
Harbor
New York
Alden Partridge
Sylvanus Thayer
Academy
Col. Thayer
Thayer
Jackson
Rene E. de Russy
Richard Delafield
Henry Brewster
Robert E. Lee
Brewster
John G. Brainard
Maj
Delafield
Maj. Delafield
John B. Floyd
P. G. D. Beauregard
Floyd
Joseph Helt
Lincoln
Beauregard
Bull Run
Alexander B. Bowman
Zealous B. Tower
George W. Cullum
Memorial Hall
Thomas G. Pitcher
Cullum
Thomas H. Ruger
John M. Schofield
O. O. Howard
Wesley Merritt
5Th Cavalry
John G. Park
Merritt
John M. Wilson
Oswald H. Ernst
West Foint
Albert L. Mills
1St Cavalry
McKinley
Cuba
White House
Corps of Cadets
Congress District
District of Columbia
United States
Hawaii
New York Evening Post
John
Mrs. Kirk
Levi L. Paine
Banger Theological Seminary
New England
Professor Paine
Holbrook
Yale
Forum Publishing Company
Forum
Frank Lewis Nason
New London
Wisconsin
Vermont
Frank
Amherst College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy
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New Jersey
Missouri
Honduras
British Columbia
Mexico
West Haven
Conn
American Institute of Mining Engineers
Tetlow Geological Society of America
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Forces IN Fiction
Lire
Oouscios
Andover
Couriercitizen
Middlesex County
Sherborn
Dracut
West Chelmsford
A. H. Saunders
Nabnassett
Ladies’ Club
Janet Walker
Saunders
John Toye
John Ernest Toye
Ellen Alice Muzzy
Acworth
Manchester
Virgin
Worcester
Butterfield
M. H. Winship
Hiller
W. C. Brown
Ethel Brown
Minneapolis
East Pepperell
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