New Year's Day Battle to Retake Galveston by Magruder
On New Year's Day 1863 Confederate General Magruder recaptured Galveston from Union forces after two months of Union threat from a naval flotilla including the Harriet Lane Owasco Clifton and the ironclad Westfield aided by 300 U S soldiers. Magruder used a surprise land and water assault rising from improvised naval craft Neptune and Bayou City and old earthworks abandoned by retreating Federals.
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G. le Kilmer
Forty-second Massachusetts
Renshaw
Magruder
Neptune
Bayou City
Fortieth Anniversary War Story of the Harriet Lane
A long battle narrative recounts the December dawn clash at the wharf when the Harriet Lane and her supporting ships resisted Union forces. Captain Leon Smith and Commander Wainwright led desperate combat as barricades and cannonade tore the vessels. The Lane sank after a brutal exchange, with Lt Lea mortally wounded and Major Lea witnessing his son’s death. Commander Renshaw chose to immolate his flagship Westfield rather than surrender, perishing in the explosion that destroyed the ship and its magazine.
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Bayou City
Lang
Leon Smith
Magruder
Wainwright
Lieutenant Lea
Smith
Lea
Harriet Lane
Mrruder
Major Lea
Edward
Renshaw
Westfield
Black Kitten Favored by Cat Lands in Safe Nook
A white cat with four kittens, three white and one black, favors the black kitten over siblings. In a room with humans and a Newfoundland dog, the cat grasps the black kitten and hides it beneath furniture to protect it from the dog, while urging the others to follow. The note ends with a proverb about the black sheep.
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Soctr
Surgeon Amputates Own Thumb Under Ether
A Philadelphia Press reader recounts a surgeon who amputated his own thumb, noting his nerve and the terrible pain before administering ether. The anecdote highlights the surgeon's bold, self-inflicted operation and its remarkable context.
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Philadelphia Press
Profitable Holstein herd reports $122.78 per cow profit in 1900
N Wright of Kane County AL shares a detailed dairy income for twenty four Holstein Friesian cows for 1900. He lists 290,986 pounds milk, cash receipts of $2,946.96, and an estimated cost of $146 per cow, yielding about $116.75 profit per head. He notes strict culling of nonproducers and selective heifer and bull calf management.
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N. Wright
Kane County
Tme
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Wisconsin
The National Gnome and the Fair Maid Exchange Note
A whimsical item quotes a swain praising a lily white hand and a royal flush as a symbol of affection. The Baltimore American notes it is wise to gift flowers candy or a book to bring happiness, ending with an optimistic Exchange sentiment.
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Baltimore American
National Creamery Butter Makers elects H J Nietert president
At the recent annual convention in Milwaukee H J Nietert of Walker Iowa was chosen president of the National Creamery Butter Makers association. He succeeds George E Haskell who could not attend due to ill health and submitted his resignation at the opening day. The report also touches on milk souring lore and dairy practices highlighting bacteria growth, cleanliness, and cold storage as keys to quality.
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National Creamery Butter Makers’ Association
Milwaukee
H. J. Nietert
Walker, Ia
George E. Haskell
Lin
Sletert. Com
Neb
Afr. Nietert
Association
New York
New Jersey
Illinois
Paris
OH. E. van Norman
Bulletin of Indiana Experiment Station
Flooding the Market as Cattle Prices Collapse
The cattle market bears the weight of record early deliveries amid abundant pasture while a surge of feeders floods Chicago Omaha and Kansas City with fattening cattle. Analysts warn prices may drop to the lowest level in a year as buyers fear a continued flood of lean cattle and damaged corn feeds. Small, rapidly growing calves fetch better profits than heavy winter-stored stock, intensifying demand for lighter carcasses.
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Breeder's Gazette
Chicago
Union
Omaha
Kansas City
Dairymon
Milk fat value shifts spark dairy debate and trends
A wide-ranging digest notes the push toward paying milk by fat value, contrasting eastern resistance with western experiments. It cites price points, feeding and watering practices, and profitability studies from New Jersey, Delaware counties, and England, plus records from Calamity Jane dairy lines and local market contrasts.
Tick fever in cattle and notable herd reports across states
A bulletin outlines Mississippi State Station findings on Texas cattle fever spread by ticks, vaccination limits, and quarantine to prevent northern spread. It also covers Alamo Champion steers, White Polled cattle from Morton County, North Dakota, and Polled Albions in Pennsylvania, plus Texas turnips for winter feeding and a Chicago Angus sale showing strong cow demand.
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Mississippi
8. N. Doty
T. S. Hastings
Jackson County
Breeder's Gazette
Alamo Champion
John Sparka
Kansas City
McNamara & Marlow
Helena, Mont
Armour-Funkhon
Marlow
John Sparks
Armour Packing Company
Morton County
N. D
A. Boley
Mandan
Boley
Pennsylvania
Texas
Joseph B. Wing
Chicago
The Remarkable Family Fortune of a Local Resident
A prominent local resident hails from a family of twenty four siblings, sixteen living. One sister married, bore seven children, and died before his birth, making him an uncle before birth and a great-uncle at five. When told he was a great-uncle, he sighed and asked when he would become a grandparent.
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Aan
Abbor Times
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Massachusetts
Cook
Marruders
Captain Weir
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War Gud
Schneider
Arpad
George Edward Smith
Ixtropuers
Soi
Shep~berds
Beth
Seave Qut Nous Christ
the al
Tue
Gel’s
Elear Toll
Ged. Ed. Smith
Evangelical Reformed Church
Hix
Atchison Globe
New Yorker
Delaware County
Jersey
J. S. Woodward
National Blackman
Tennessee
Ter
Calamity Jane II
Dairy
England
United Kingdom
Canada
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