Fortieth Anniversary War Story of Wilson Raid Across Weldon
George L Kilmer recounts General Wilson and Kautz cavalry raid against the Weldon railroad in June 1864. The column crossed south of Petersburg, destroyed sixty miles of track and depots, faced Lee’s counterattacks, and drifted 300 miles in ten days with scarce supplies. Union losses were heavy, but Grant noted the raid severed Richmond’s rail link for weeks.
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G L. Kilmer
Fitz-Hugh Lee
Sheridan
James H. Wilson
Army of the Potomac
Ale Sean Lui
Luinjaaruer
James River
Wilson
Kautz
Butler
Petersburg
Lynchburg
Richmond and
Danville
Richmond
Weldon Road
Lynchburg Road
Vetersburg
Danville Road
Staunton River
W. HF. Lee
Hts
Nottoway River
Prince George’s Court House
Meade
W. W. F. Lee
Robert E. Lee
Hampton
Reams Station
Weldon
Chambliss
W. H. F. Lee
Mahone
Bampton
Whitaker
Army Headquarters
Wren
Tur
Lim
Hne
Blackwater River
Nottoway
Kentz
Stony Creek
FiteHugh Lee
City Point
Grant
George L Kilmer
Anathemas Against Animals in the Middle Ages
The Rhenish and Westphalian Society of Popular Studies notes medieval curses on animals as protections against future evils. It cites 1124 Saint Bernard cursing mosquitoes and 1559 Dresden pastor cursing sparrows, with a remark that a business worth running should be advertised.
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Rhenish and Westphalian Society of Popular Studies
St. Bernard
Dresden
Margaret Severin's Bold Teaching Brings a Proposal
Jane recounts Jim Severin's daughter Margaret, a harum scarum girl who becomes a schoolteacher in rough mountain country. After facing threats from locals, she defends the school with birch rods, earns respect, and a strong suitor, a town youth, asks for her hand in marriage.
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Mirandy
Jim Severin
Margaret
Jane
Oy Gewin
Miranda
Childern
Lucy
Mary
Net
Nan
Wil
Sims
Jimny Severin
Jin Severin
Jin
Severin
Hite Childern
Allus
Stirandy
Harum Scarum
Strampin
Margeret
Chinese Vast Trust In Business Contrasts With Japanese
The article asserts Mongolian and Chinese merchants are reliable when bound by word, even at personal cost, while Japanese traders are described as crafty and deceitful, said to abandon contracts at the first sign of loss and seek cover before a financial crash.
Where Wives Are Cheap and Unusual Marriage Customs
The article notes Tartary fathers refuse daughters without butter payments, Indian regions demand rupees for marriage, the Mishimais require twenty oxen but some pay with a pig, and in Unyoro a suitor may buy a wife on credit but cannot share her until debts are settled.
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Tartary
India
Unyoro
Moonlit Veranda Proposal Ends With Kiss
In a moonlit ballroom scene a man named Jack proposes to a woman who refuses citing logic and contract. He argues with calm shrewdness, but confession of love breaks the stalemate as he kisses her and she admits she loves him, asking why not earlier.
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Mike
Supreme Court
Tru
Jack
Early Gasoline Combustion Engine Invention by Drake
The article describes a gas machine using gasoline to create combustible air for lighting or heating. Oliver P. Drake of Boston devised a cylinder device with a water meter wheel powered by clockwork to pump air and expose it to gasoline vapors via a rotating evaporator. Maxim later reported these machines in Harper's Weekly.
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Oliver P. Drake
Boston
Drake
Sir Hiram Maxim
Harper’s Weekly
If You Could Live Life Again Would You Marry
A reflective piece questions whether marriage should change with hindsight. It weighs the value of experience and warns against blaming elders for past choices, suggesting that advice is cheap and often ignored. The tone mirrors a moral essay from a Pittsburgh Gazette critique of wedlock and learning.
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Pittsburg
Weather prophets and the ram in an old tale
A Springfield Republican correspondent recalls Dudley Leavitt the longtime New Hampshire almanac maker, who predicted rain after a roadside meeting with farmers. A sage from Winnipesaukee explains that an old ram scratching its ear forewarns rain, while Leavitt’s almanac often signals the opposite.
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Weather Bureau
Springfield Republican
Dudley Leavitt
New Hampshire Almenac
Nottingham
Boeing
Leavitt
Northwood Narrows
Winnepesaukee
Never abroad man’s Alpine vision in paper craft
A cottage hostess recalls her late husband who never traveled but created a painted alps scene from imagination. The brown paper mountains with toy trees and mirrored dots stand as a poignant, fragile art piece born from longing rather than travel.
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Halps
Alps
Macmillan's Magazine
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Aetanane
V. W. Hines
Sis
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