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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1887
Page
7
A veteran's wartime reminiscence narrates a single skirmish where Corporal Cyrus Drew falls silent after the roll call and Hero Herbert Kline and Hiram Kerr are wounded, as Ephraim Dean carries colors. The river runs red and the company suffers major losses, with only twenty answering Here from a hundred who went into the fight.
In 1862 after Fort Donelson the narrator recalls living at Jacksons Mills with a hutched grist mill and a saw mill beside a creek. With insufficient funds they stitch a flag from scraps and raise it to the mill as Confederate and Union patrols loom. A midnight warning from a neighbor prompts the family to hide horses and take to the woods as Colonel Nappier attacks nearby, while a child jokes about being Union every time.
A Civil War memoir fragment recalls Union loyalists confronting Confederate terms, the torn flag in front of their mills, and a guarded return home. It also recounts Pine Bluff Arkansas 1863 battles, cotton-bale fortifications, shifting winds, and a later reconciliation among ex-soldiers who now call themselves Americans.
The article chronicles Nathaniel P. Banks born in 1816, his rise from crafts to politics and Civil War commands, and details a perilous Port Hudson night march on June 14, 1863. It recalls Major Dimond of the Second Louisiana and Private F Davis of the One Hundred Sixty-first New York in a near-suicidal attempt to spike a gun near the Confederate works.
John O Neal, a drummer in the regiment, left to the guard house due to constant whisky fueled chaos. Marches dissolved into quicksteps and dirges, drums and fifers clashed, and the drum major dismissed him with a final quip about their damnable disturbance and little music.
Eye witness account of a First Corps march toward Gettysburg on June 30 1863 and the opening battle July 1 with heavy Confederate fire. The narrator details regimental losses from 324 to 50 officers, a defense on Cemetery Hill, and the brutal bombardment unlike Fredericksburg Antietam or Chancellorsville. The recollection ends recalling the march on July 3.
W. W. Joszin of Company C, 104th New York Volunteers recalls a sweltering Gettysburg day. He details battery support, sunstroke, sharp-fire losses, and the brutal front line as he watched comrades die and civilians plead for water. He ends by noting the Union troops as “monarchs of all they surveyed.”
A Royal Navy medical officer writes to the London Family Doctor praising Warner's Safe Cure for kidney disease. He cites decades of practice in England, India, and South America, claiming it purges blood poison and restores health when standard methods fail. He faces professional censure from the College of Surgeons and Queen's College but defends his actions as honest and effective.
A New York Sun note reports a photographer’s claim that a portrait revealed skin eruptions days before visible to the naked eye, suggesting the camera saw illness earlier. Other items include Dr Morse praising Red Star Cough Cure for children, Baby Facts, and humorous exchanges about wine, with no Opium in Piso's Cure for Consumption.
A woman who chased her runaway husband across half the country says she has not found John but the journey aided her. She expresses fondness for travel. In Tezac Siftings a quip compares Cleopatra's Needle and New York officials, noting both have lost their characters and were imported.
When visiting or leaving New York City, travelers are urged to save on baggage expressage and carriage hire. The Grand Union Motel near Grand Central Depot offers 613 rooms, costing about one million dollars to furnish, with European plan and elevator. A restaurant serves Ost Horses cara and connected elevated rail depots. The note claims families can live better for less money here than at any other first class hotel.
A San Francisco Chronicle account details obsidian cliffs towering 150 to 250 feet, extending 1000 feet. Col Norris used fires and cold water to fracture the volcanic glass into a usable roadbed. The glass, nearly black and razor edged, yields arrow-heads and tools and may be an inexhaustible local resource within the National Park.
The piece argues daily mental exhaustion damages nerve and brain tissue and claims Hostetter's Stomach Bitters replenishes mental energy and tissue. It asserts the tonic mitigates fever rheumatism dyspepsia constipation and kidney and uterine weakness and is praised by physicians as a stimulant and remedy.
A Boston visitor to the Capitol sought the ladies gallery and was turned away for entering only with Indies. He claimed his wife would be inside, and was allowed in to find a well dressed colored woman alone. The doorkeeper inquired about the wife as he exited.
The text contrasts liver disease causing lung decay with the idea that restoring liver function can prevent consumption. It mentions Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy and includes an orchestra anecdote about a trombonist timing his stop just before the conductor nods, from Tid-Bits.
The item touts Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets for detecting calomel or other mineral poisons and harmful drugs. Described as mustard seed size with painless action, it claims to quickly cure biliousness headaches and jaundice. Also references Tobogganing and a quip about a breach of promise suit in a New York Sun excerpt. It ends by noting Brown’s Bronchial Troches as authentic, warning imitators.
An assorted 19th century newspaper fragment bursts with quips about a city man and a hen, stray lines about piles remedies, health tonics for men and women, and a remark on cabinet dynamics in England. It blends humorous local chatter with pharmacy and grooming ads from the era.
The text denounces women who use cosmetics and harsh substances such as white lead bismuth powders and arsenic to beautify the complexion. It claims these products damage the skin permanently and urges stopping their use in favor of Dr Harter's Tron Tonic which allegedly restores vigor and loveliness of youth.
A school scene highlights teachers and pupils misreading difficult terms. The Superintendent tests pronunciation and usage while a pupil writes a sentence with heroine and herrings, illustrating gaps in word comprehension. The Journal of Education reflects on language learning and literacy.
A traveler from Palestine sent a keg of River Jordan water to Windsor with a note offering it for the baptism of Princess Beatrice's baby. The Queen accepted the gift and replied with an autograph thank you letter.
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