Distinguished United States officers receive commissions for distinguished service
The article profiles Maj. Gen. John R. Brooke and Col. Charles F. Humphrey among a select group of officers honored with commissions for distinguished service. It recounts Brooke and Miles at Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Antietam, Gettysburg, and later campaigns, and highlights Humphrey’s bold Cuban transport actions and long, storied career from private to brigadier general.
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Second Army Corps
Cold Harbor
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Pine Ridge Agency
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Spottsylvania Court House
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Theodore Roosevelt
Charles P. Humphrey
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Oyster Bay
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Talks on beauty in business spark debate in Philadelphia
Philadelphia theater star Sattle Whhiaims argues beauty drives business as shops use attractive female clerks to lure customers. He cites Chestnut Street window displays with a pretty sewing machine girl and blond confectionery models, claiming beauty boosts initiative and sales for both genders.
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Philadelphia
Sattle Whhiaims
Sparkes
Garrick Theater
Paris
Chestnut Street
Bertha
Thanksgiving Day in Canada Reflected in Prosperity and Gratitude
The piece notes Canada's Thanksgiving was celebrated earlier due to favorable harvests in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. It highlights record grain yields and rising wealth, with wheat and oats prospects described as strong and farm costs modest. The Toronto Globe remarks on nationwide gratitude, cheerful industry, and renewed national spirit.
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Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Toronto Globe
Causes of Truancy Discussed by Boston Lecturer
Miss Mary Boyle O'Reilly secretary of the children's Institutions department lectures on truancy juvenile courts and related topics in Boston She says many homes breed weaklings and that many children skip school to earn money, mistaking money value for education.
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Mary Boyle O’reilly
Children's Institutions Department
Boston
Belgian marriage welfare figures from 1827 show few happy couples
In 1827 a Brussels editor found 3021 wives left their husbands and 5042 couples living in conflict at the same roof. Only three couples were truly happy and 1022 comparatively happy, suggesting human nature remains similar across the world.
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Brussels
Belgium
Stones and cairns frame Pike farmer tale and rail death
In a Duluth gathering Jerome S Mc Wade cites celebrations benefiting cities while recounting a Pike County farmer tale about removing stones by building cairns in memory of Lincoln. In Middletown a sister’s farewell ended tragically when Annie Markham was killed by a moving train as she crossed the tracks after saying goodbye to her brother Robert.
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Pike County
Pike
Lincoln
Wall
Phosphorescent Forest Spirits Astonish Engineers in Borneo
A party of English engineers surveying a lowland tract in Borneo faced fear from native superstition. Night workers reported spirits on trees warning of danger, later revealed as brilliant phosphorescence from agaries on dead limbs. The glow extended across vast forest stretches, so bright that readers tested its brilliance with papers held to its light.
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Borneo
101-year-old local raises town pride tale
A Boston visitor in a Maine town learns a native has reached 101. The Hubbite quips the town might boast, but a local retorts that the man has done little besides aging, a long task in this community. The exchange frames a humorous reflection on aging and local pride.
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Boston
Maine
the Sunday Magazine
Mrs Caudle At The Pole
A humorous exchange shows Mrs Caudle urging her husband home after six months away while he fears returning in the dark, highlighting domestic comedy and occupants' safety concerns.
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Mrs. Caudle
A NURSE'S EXPERIENCE With Dean's Kidney Pills
Nurse Minnie Turner of Oklahoma credits Dean's Kidney Pills with rapid improvement from backache and kidney discomfort. She says five boxes rebuilt her health and urges others to try the remedy. Sold by all dealers at 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Minnie ‘Turner
K. B. St. Anadarko
Okla
Knigker and Katy Stir Curiosity at Harpers Bazaar
In the Country column readers ponder what Katy did as Mrs. Knigker asks what occurred. Mrs. Rocker replies that Katy left, a pointed exchange reflecting society chatter in the Harpers Bazaar context.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Adpledge In To Lead Town
Frank J Cheney and Co of Toledo swear to pay $100 for every Catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason dated December 6, 1886. Ads claim internal cure and blood mucous action with testimonials. Also references Hall's Family Pills for constipation and a Dickens quote.
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Frank J. Cheney
A. W. Gleason
Tina
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
All Drugelsty
Luke Hall
Pettit's Eye Salve Ad Promotes Quick Eye Relief
Pettit's Eye Salve offered for 25c claims to alleviate tired congested inflamed and sore eyes quickly. Ad urges purchase from Howard Bros. druggists of Buffalo New York and warns against imitations and substitutes.
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Pettit
Howard Bros
Buffalo
N.Y
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