War shadows on Fort Morgan as two brothers bear fate
Admiral Farragut tends wounded Tennessee lieutenant Willis Peyton whose brother Boyd lies near death aboard the Hartford. The Tennessee’s fate and a ferry of mercy unfold as Farragut authorizes a river crossing and Willis seeks to bring home his wounded kin.
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Hartford
Farragut
Peyton
Watson
Buchanan
Young Air
Willis Peyton
Tennessee
Willis
Whiting
Metacomet
Dr. Palmer
Palmer
Lfe
Peytons
Mobile
Mary Annan
Quan
Nas
Fort Morgan
Goodby
Boyd Peyton
Angy
South
General Peyton
Boyd
Pleasants
Moassis
Picnic honors split as plans for tug of war and ball game
Two hundred employees and families joined a D M Sechler Carriage Co picnic at Fisk farm. Morning events included track races and field events won by the planter and buggy departments, with the planter team losing 18 to 4 in baseball yet winning the tug of war. Notable winners were Albin Youngren and T Abrahamson plus several relay and race victors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. M. Sechler Carriage Co
Fisk Farm
Sixth Street
Fifteenth Street
Prospect Park
Planter
Albin Youngren
Virginia Tunnilcliffe
T. Abrahamson
Wm. Berndt
Peter Cropp
Sam Pfleiger
Conrad Meanen
N. Perkins
Roy Kracke
Florence Lindahl
Yaura Lukins
Vets of 12th Illinois to Meet in Galva Sept 22 1903
The 38th annual reunion of the survivors of the 112th Illinois Volunteers will be held in Galva on Tuesday Sept 22 1903, marking the 41st anniversary of the regiment's muster into U S service. All members and their families and friends are invited.
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Ansue
Spain
Thomas J. Henderson
Princeton
George W. Peat
Sunny Hill
B. Fompson
Toulon
A. W. Albro
James Gaster
W. O. Shurtliff
Galva
Adj
Gilbert R. Woolsey
Cambridge
Milo D. Dalley
Co. I
Coon Rapids
Henry Stacy
Council Bluffs
Edward Woolever
Erie
Ill
Illnois
United States
His Fate Casey O Rafferty Suffering from Heart Disease
A Kansas City Journal report notes Casey O Rafferty has a heart complaint and consumption as a slow illness. It states he will die from the heart trouble about a year before dying from the consumption.
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Casey
O'Rafferty
Murphy
Kansas City Journal
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsed by Local Worker
J D Oslund of 1015 Fourteenth Street testifies he suffered headaches from kidney issues and back pain. He says Doan's Kidney Pills, bought at Clendenin's drug store, cured his last attack and advises others to use them. Fosten Milburn Co Buffalo NY is sole US agent. price 50 cents per box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Clendenin
Fosten Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Doan’'S
Peoria Maker Buys Record High Grade Tobacco
Frank P. Lewis of Peoria Illinois paid forty eight thousand dollars for a fancy lot of high grade tobacco to supply his Single Binder cigars. A written guarantee ensures the entire purchase consists of fancy selected tobacco. The deal is described as the largest tobacco purchase ever made in the West and may establish Lewis as a leading US tobacco holder.
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West
Frank P. Lewis
Peoria Ill
Lewis
United States
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Quiberen
Cte
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Buck
Loyall
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Sechlershopper
Rock River
Planter Department
Illinois
Citi
Zens
Moline
Testi
J. D. Oslund
Fourteenth Street
Thmense Tobacco Purchase
Ingurante
Olwascek
California
Best
Chicago
THE
Greatrock Island
Licaas
Inter Ocean
Associated Press
Inter - Ocean
Newa
New York Sun
Seeoral
New York World
Apsojal
Moline Review-Dispatch
NEW York Tribune-Farmer
Farmier’s
NEW York Weekly Tribune
Union
NEW York Tribune Farmer
Hache Farmer
Molind
Pas Ee
Sar
Eta
Isd
John Deere
IDR
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