End of the Wire Signals in Confederate Defense News
In a Mobile telegraph room Mrs. Peyton and family listen as the first Union fleet moves to breach the bay forts. The message log details monitors, gunfire, and救 casualties, including the Tecumseh’s loss and the Tennessee’s peril, with the room sharing fear, hope, and grief.
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Mobile
Fort
Tempe
Pleasants
Tennessee
Tecumseh
Hartford
Walt
Brooklyn Heads
Monitor
Union
Peyton
Boyd—Feyton
Boyd Boyd
Fragmentary Military Dispatch From Mobile Front
A garbled OCR fragment describes a telegraphed news report from a military site in Mobile. The text mentions watching fighting from a vacant embrasure and waiting with futility, conveying confusion and danger in a wartime setting.
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Mobile
Nebraska Set For Historic Wheat Harvest Says Burlington
Reliable estimates at Burlington Route offices project Nebraska's wheat crop near 80 million bushels, mostly winter wheat, with acreage 20 to 25 percent higher than last year. Historical comparisons show growth from under 10 million in 1830 and about 30 million in 1899 to the current anticipated burst in production.
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Burlington
Nebraska
Syrae
Rev T B Willson Reports Atlantic Crossing and Wireless Dawn
The former pastor details a Cunarder voyage powered by Marconi wireless, noting ship-to-ship messages and reduced signaling to land stations. He comments on ship dining, ice cream cravings, sea conditions, Edinburgh and Glasgow sights, Loch Katrine, bowling greens, and American tourist presence as he travels toward London.
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Atlantic
Cunarder
Marconi
mid-Atlantic
Coleridge
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Burns Country
Scott
Loch Katrine
Ellen
Europe
Melrose
Abbey
Fish Lake District
Shakespeare Country
London
T. B. Willson
Carl Bohman Explains the Brooklyn Bridge Vast Structure
New York July 22. Carl Bohman describes the Brooklyn Bridge’s massive piers 268 feet high, four 16 inch cables, and a length over a mile. He notes its 85 foot width, two railways, two electric streetcar lines, sidewalks, and heavy traffic averaging a million passengers weekly.
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New York
Far East
Moline
Brooklyn Bridge
Jos
East River
Brooklyn
Oll Towers
Another Merchant to Enter Business Here
A. J. Kuchemans will occupy the new store near the first of August. Construction is nearing completion and he plans to stock dry goods and nations as well as gentlemen's furnishings boots and shoes. He will travel to Chicago next week to select stock and aims to be a leading addition to Moline's mercantile scene.
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A. J. Kuchemans
Kucheman
Bellevut
Iowa
Moline
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Cyrus Totwunsend
Brady Auther
Hohensellern
Lia
Carl Bohman
Londo
Paris
Chicago
Beare
Park Row
Brooklyn Navy Yards
Blue Hills
Staten
Ccreiteatel
Zeeak
Blackwell's
A. J. Racha
Bellevue, Sr
Dry Goods
Gente’ Furnishig
New Coyne Block
TME Saadfield Regulator CO
Atlanta, GA
Tuegwirr CO
Atlanta
Gas
Publican
Inter Ocean
New York Sute
New York World
Inter - Ocean
Associated Press
Moline Review-Dispatch
NEW York Tribune-Farmer
Farmer’s
TRIB
Review Atch
Maline
Bane Farrer
New York City
California
THE
Rock Island
San Francisco
Sierra Nevadas
Los Angeles
John Sebastian
G. P
Illionis
Atk
John Deere Blow
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