The Iron Brigade A STORY OE THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
A long Civil War era opus chronicles the Iron Brigade and Rosalie Benton’s lingering loyalty. The narrative follows love, betrayal, hidden schemes, and postwar reflections among officers and families from Charlottesville to New Orleans, ending with quiet memories of Gainesville Gettysburg and the Civil War’s toll.
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the Iron Brigade
Army OF the Potomac
Elinor
Brother Jack
Rosalie
Hector
Jax
Nive Orleans
Charlottesville
Jack
New Orleans
Southron
Rofale Benton
Stanton
Aunt Blingr
Congress
McKinnon
Georgia
Mexico
Gainesville
Gettysburg
Chese
Not So Easily Fooled by a German Uniform Tale
The article recounts a Berlin-educated soldier and historian Theodore Ayrault Dade sharing a German military discipline quip. It tells of Lieutenant Swartz disguising himself in civilian black clothes to visit a relative, encountering his colonel, and narrowly escaping punishment before later donning his uniform again. The colonel warns that any further visits by the “brother from the country” would merit ten days in close confinement.
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Young
Squire
Elinor
McKinoun
Clinton
Lois
McKinnon
Jack
Squire Benton
Benton
Ladue
Lane
Outers
Lenton
Rosalie
Fuer Eara
Jacl
Jennings
Charlottes'ville
Georgia Scott
Beeng
Gan
Lee
Seal
Gen. Grant
Head
Spa
Georgia
Kate Falconer
Rosalre
Theodore Ayrault Dade
Berlin
Swartz
Swarts
A Voice in the Wilderness at a Montenegrin cave church
A hermit priest oversees a tiny cross shaped church dug from two rock caverns in Montenegro. He prays for 116 simple souls and offers solace to their sorrows, shared with an English visitor named Migs Marz Durham.
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Montenegro
Migs Marz Durham
Lasting caution as man recalls danger on lonely plain
A man recounts leaving with a woman after a warning in a wild lonely area. He describes armed men threatening them with guns at night and noting the danger of crossing the plain after dark. He said he stood firm and prayed for protection, and the assailants fled.
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la Alpania
The Dreaded Artist and Gladstone Cartoon Tale
Tollemache, author of Talka with Mr. Gladstone, recounts a stormy Biarrin visit where Gladstone walked umbrellaless. He quips that an inside out umbrella could have yielded a cartoon of him in distress for European papers.
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Jen
My. L. A. Tollemacke
Mr. Gladstone
Statesman
Biarrin
Mr. Tollemache
Europe
The Colonel's Waterloo Cure for Kidney Trouble
A Honey Grove Texas man, Colonel John M Fuller, writes that Electric Bitters cured his kidney and stomach troubles after failing with a family doctor. He praises the medicine as the best on earth and thanks the makers. Sold by Sexton Gros for 50 cents a bottle.
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John M. Fuller
Honey Grove
Texas
Sexton Gros
Colonist Low Que-Way Second Class Rates Advertised
An advertising notice outlines second class excursion rates from Chicago to many Pacific Coast and western points including San Francisco Los Angeles Portland and Seattle among others. Trips run March 1 to May 18 1903 with daily and personal Pullman tourist sleeping car service. round trip berth for two in a single car from Chicago, via Chicago and North Western Railway. Tickets and full information via agents of the Chicago and North Western Railway.
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San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
Tacoma
Seattle
Boise City
Spokane
Wella Walla
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Butte
Montana
Colorado
Utah
Nevada
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Union Pacffc
Norto- Western Line
Pullman
Boutle
Chicago & North- Western R'y
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Endorsed By Satisfied Consumer
A Dinner tagitation touts Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a thorough digestant and guaranteed cure for indigestion and stomach troubles. N Watkins of Lesbos Ky testifies after fifteen years of trouble that six bottles cured him, claiming the six bottles were worth $1,000. The ad also promotes Thelton Mountain Route as the shortest through line from St. Louis to City of Mexico with through sleeping cars and berth reservations through L D Knowles, Milwaukee.
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N. Watkins
Lesbos
R. J. Strauss
Mexico
Texas & Pacific
International & Great Northern
National Lines of
St.Louis
City of Mexico
St. Louis
City
L. D. Knowles
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Wis
Bucklen's Arnica Salve Heals Eye Injury Quickly
A Syracuse man treated his son's gash with Bucklen's Arnica Salve, claiming it healed the wound and saved the eye. The advertisement promotes the salve for burns and ulcers as well, priced at 25 cents at Sexton Bros drug store.
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Chas. F. Lemberger
Syracuse
Sexton Bros
Settlers' One Way Second Class Rates to Midwest and West 1905
Settlers may travel at reduced second class fares from Chicago via the Union Pacific and North Western lines to Minnesota North Dakota Dakota Territory Manitoba Western Ontario Saskatchewan Assiniboia and Wyoming. Tickets available from Chicago North Western agents. Travel dates include March 7 14 21 28 and April 4 11 18 25 1905.
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Minnesota
North Dakota
Santa Dakota
Black Hills
Wyoming
Manitoba
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Assiniboia
Chicago
Union Pacific & North-Western
Chicago & Morth- Western
Pleasant and Harmless Cough Cure Advertisement
An old advertised remedy claims to ease coughs by shrinking mucus and drawing inflammation from the throat and lungs. It promises quick cures for croup and whooping cough and notes sale by a local seller with odd spelling.
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Charles King
Morman Kole
Colemal Ecughar
Pyramus
Hit
Appomattox
Gordonsville
Big Chief
Mississippi Sound
Mobile
Carver
Hancock
Department of the Gulf
the Star
Paul Ladue
Pennsylvania
North
Alabama
Wictor Benton
Ewassers
DR. Turbin
Germany
Marshfield
Blodgett
Grand Rapids
Dixon Hotel
Doctor Turbin
Randolph St
Meilieine
Pocket Books
Henry Horn
Druccist
Chas. Mertle
Laemle Bld’g
Marshfield, Wis
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Iellen
Eckems
Lapure
Shunaith Boveld
Healadse v
Houieree Daco Company
Madison
Chichester
Rimini
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