Graceful tribute to Wheeler in Boston Memorial Day event
Maj Gen Joseph Wheeler drew the Grand Army of the Republic veterans in Boston as Edward W. Kinsley Post presented a costly Damascus steel sword with gold etching and silver scabbard to honor him as the first ex Confederate invited to speak on Memorial Day. Miss Annie Wheeler plans Manila nurse service with support from Daughters of the American Revolution and Alabama women.
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Joseph Wheeler
Boston
Grand Army
Edward W. Kinsley Post
Crack Veteran Organization
Grand Army of the Republic
Gen
Damascus
Department of Massachusetts
Annie Wheeler
Gen. Wheeler
Manila
Daughters of the American Revolution
Philippine
Miss Wheeler
Capital
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Spain
F. H. Elmore
German jury verdicts hinge on vote split and outcome
In Germany a six six jury result leads to acquittal for a prisoner while seven five leaves the decision to the court. An eight four vote convicts the prisoner. This explains how varying jury tallies determine legal outcomes.
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Germany
Census shows millions of young girls married in India
The latest government census reports 6 016 759 girls aged 0 to 9 already married with about 170 000 of them widowed.
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India
Lithuanian women form Imperial Mounted Volunteers regiment
Five hundred Lithuanian peasant girls in Prussia volunteer to guard and serve Kaiser William during his Rominten hunting visit. They will garrison the castle, scout trips, and attend the Emperor on horseback, forming the Imperial Mounted Women Volunteers. Counts and district officials approve. recruits supply horses and pay for oats, with red mounts for officers.
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Prussia
Emperor Wiliam
Rominten Prairie
Gumbintin
Koenigsberg
Baltic
Russia
Poland
Parsons
Bismarck
Sohla
Trakehnen
Madison Square Garden
Lismarck
Hegel
Gumbinnen
Digtrier
Imperial Mounted Women Volunteers
Amazon Regiment Uniforms in National Prussian Style
The article describes a Lithuanian mounted volunteers unit with five squadrons, each identified by skirt color blue violet green red and yellow. Uniforms feature long accordion pleated frocks, black velvety capes, decallette sleeves, colorful epaulettes, and josta belts with mottoes. Hair braids reach spurs and hats are avoided, with taisztis caps worn instead.
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Old Prussia
Germany
Defending a Horse Thief Wins Early in West
An old lawyer recalls going West after law school and defending a horse thief. Despite clear guilt, he relied on friendly testimonies that placed the theft forty miles away. The jury found the defendant not guilty and recommended his attorney.
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Morace Greeley
Remarkable Picture Snap Shot in Fearful Fatality
A faded ornate prose fragment precedes a local water column observation. The writer notes a peculiar water flow in a 6 feet pipe with daily rise and fall patterns starting at 8 am and ending at 1 am, debating tides or Earth’s rotation as causes. Representative McCandless seeks a satisfactory explanation.
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Kaual'a
T Shaw
McCandless
Remarkable Picture Captures Tragic Blacksmith Shop Scene
An American amateur photographer recalls a Georgia blacksmith shop moment where a flask of liquor turns deadly when carbolic acid is revealed. The image shows the smith and two helpers, one holding the flask, their horrified expressions frozen as the camera clicks.
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Georgia
New Orleans Democrat
Moving Mountsho a traveling mountain near Cascades
A long dark brown basalt mass six to eight miles long near the Columbia Cascades is reported to move slowly toward the river. At nearly 2,000 feet high, it pushes the railroad line and floods the base forest as geologists note soft subsurface strata under heavier rock.
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Cascades
The
Columbia
Dalles
Apes as Money Inspectors in Siam
In Siam merchants rely on a remarkable tactic to detect counterfeit coins. An ape cashier tests each coin by tasting it, declaring good money by placing it in a proper receptacle or flinging bad coins to the floor with dramatic disgust. The method, praised for its accuracy, remains a closely guarded secret.
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Apes
Independent
China
Siam
Mags
Berks County Spooks Stir Reading Ghost Reports
In Berks County Pennsylvania tales of phantom trains and spectral sightings resurface after the Exeter railroad wreck. Readers recall a former spook department in Reading newspapers and reporters watch for phantoms at the wreck site amid revived interest in occult lore.
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Erks
Berks County
Pennsylvania
Reading
Philadelphia& Reading
Exeter
Speok
Tima
New York
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