Clara Barton poised to lead railroad hospital car service
Clara Barton at over eighty launches a new relief drive to organize hospital corps on all railroads to speed aid to wreck victims. The Red Cross heroine, famed for Civil War and Franco Prussian relief, opens headquarters in Massachusetts with Mrs. John A. Logan beside her.
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Red Cross
Clara Barton
Massachusetts
John A. Logan
New England
Patent Office
Washington
Army of the Potomac
Cedar Mountain
Second Bull Run
Antietam
Fredericksburg
Wilderness
Urg
Paris
United States
Mississippi
Ohio River
Louisiana
Texas
Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan
Missouri
Kentucky
Sionary
Oxford
Mass
Congress
Johnstown
Cuba
Galveston
America
Colonel Henderson's Poem Yes or No Reads at Des Moines Meeting
A poem by the late Col. D. B. Henderson titled Yes or No is quoted from a Des Moines reading at a memorial event. The verse contrasts sacred texts with worldly doubt and the inner whisper guiding virtue and choice, ending with a dramatic No.
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D. B. Henderson
Des Moines
Lowan
Krakatoa Eruption Described By Sir Robert Ball
The article recounts Krakatoa’s 1883 eruption from Sir Robert Ball’s perspective in The Earth’s Beginning. It details ash clouds, sound travel to Batavia, atmospheric waves circling the globe, and the vast destructive power affecting Sumatra and Java. It notes observers and exaggerated forecasts of worldwide echoes and the global atmospheric impact.
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Ollowing
Bir Robe
Krakatoa
D. Appleton & Co
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Java
Batavia
Great Britain
Straits of
Sunda
Rence
Edward
Windsor
Moscow
Constantinople
Nile
Equator
Mecca
Siberia
Persia
Atlantic
United States
Pike’s Peak
Colorado
Pacific
Florida
Alaska
Indian Ocean
North America
Central America
Earth
Awful Balloon Voyage Over Baltic Ends With Swedish Snow Bank
German Aero static Corps members Wolff and Brand survived a five hundred mile balloon ordeal from Berlin to the Baltic, then Sweden. Blown by a gale for three days they clung to rope and cut free, landing near a Swedish village and walking two miles through snow to reach a cabin.
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Baltic Sea
Aerostatic Corps
Wolff
Brand
Berlin
Sweden
Europe
State Adopts Sequoia Name For New Indian Territory State
The convention at Muskogee Okla the decision names the new state Sequoia to honor Cherokee leader Sequoia the inventor of the Cherokee alphabet who cut eighty six characters from pine bark He helped establish Cherokee schools and Bible translation California and England also honor Sequoia with the Big Tree and Wellingtonia Sequoia is the first Indian name proposed for a state in the union with several states already bearing Indian titles.
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Indian Territory
Sequoia
America
George Gist
Tribunal Council
California
England
Union
Lord Dale Warr
Pennsylvania
William Penn
George Washington
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Scranton
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Mo Ae Wige Meer Mining Engineer
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