Fitzhugh Lees Escape and Three Confederate Charges
A Civil War veteran recounts a stormy 1895 night near a Union camp in Virginia. An officer on horseback appears close, a picket fires, and three Confederate charges led by Fitzhugh Lee nearly topple the fort. The narrator moves ammunition to safety amid lightning and confusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judge Jenkins
Wisconsin
Bustern Congress
Union Artis
Ditzhugh Lee
Virginia
McClellan
Capu
Power of Song at Libby Prison Front and Chorus
Prisoners at Libby Prison recount a moment when a Massachusetts captain led singing of The Star Spangled Banner. Cheers from guards and hundreds outside followed as the song swelled, with some veterans recalling Old Glory and the Army and Navy Forever. The tale reflects morale through music amid wartime captivity.
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Stoneran
Richmond
Chancellors Is
Lible
Spearthsitt
Libbsy
Venice
Massachutts
New York City
Orestuar Tammany Thoroughbred
Army and Navy
Odd University of Chicago Discoveries Claim
A Bululo newspaper lists alleged Chicago University discoveries. Claims include kissing causes lockjaw, a dog obeys educated men, Ireland was once a lake, primeval man had a gizzard, music is antiseptic, and love is a disease of the medulla oblongata.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Chicago
John D. Rockefeller
Chicago University
Ireland
Sweden
Clubs agree on rules and schedules to avoid conflicts
New York and Philadelphia unions have adopted rules to regulate players and avoid conflicts as schedules are prepared each spring. In October battles for supremacy occurred with New York winning the National banner and Philadelphia taking the American League.
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Ner
New Jersey
New Yor
Philadelphia
New York
Worlds championship series gate split rewards Giants and Athletics
Under a prior agreement the first four games gate receipts were divided 60 percent to players with 75 percent to the winners Giants and 25 percent to the Athletics. Each Giants player netted about $1,200 and each Athletic player about $500. Philadelphia club leaders also shared nearly $9,000 from its pennant winnings in 1945.
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New York Giants
Athletics
Philadelphia
Fortunes Fox Ball Players Rise in Rival Leagues Labor War
A historical note recalls the fierce early 20th century clash between the National and American Leagues led by Ban Johnson. Star players fled big salaries, with legal injunctions and transfers affecting Lajoie Delehanty Wolverton Orth Townsend from Philadelphia to Cleveland and Washington amid the contract battles.
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Armerican League
Ban Johnson
National League
Chicago
St. Louis
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Lajoie
Delehanty
Wolverton
Orth
Townsend
Philadelphia Nationals
Cleveland
Washington
The Canada Goose and Hunter Tactics in Wild Flocks
A historical account describes Canada geese in flight forming wedges like football formations. It notes feeding habits on grass, sedges, roots, and occasionally grain, and explains hunting tactics such as pit blinds and approaches. It also mentions domestication, interbreeding with barnyard geese, and birds fleeing underwater when wounded, with hunters exploiting the chaos to bag birds.
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Fitzhugh Lee
Jenkins
Wooster
Jry
Poe
Fie
Neeling
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
Joan J. Tenkins
Hig
PT Teun
Libby Prison
Libby
Rockefeller
Copernicus
Galileo
Napoleon Buonaparte
Sfolier
Chiristy
Mathewson
New York “ Giants
Aurora
Ill
Jast
H. T
Cleveland, Ohio
Pensions
Philliam
Pension Bureau
Aet
Taber & Whitman CO
Warder Bid’g
Washington, D.C
Foster
Ernest
Haskell
The
Eugene Poyle, Jr
John Dinwiddie Driscoll
Maximilian
Mexico
Jacqueline
J. Louis Republic
N. S. Times Saturday Review
N. VY. Globe
Doubleday, Page & CO
East 16Th St
Fortunes Fox Ball Players
YALE
Lynch Meg. CO
Madison
Wis
U.S.A
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