Reminiscences of war memories and funeral customs
The piece recalls Civil War era scenes including Confederate and Union soldiers honoring comrades, a Great Chicago Inter Ocean note on a funeral procession, and a Bolivar Tennessee cavalry raid account. It describes battlefield reverence, funerary rites, and a guerrilla pursuit with captured weapons and a local oxen incident during rationing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calumbus
Ohio
Ilidtiste
I Femchial
Seex
Orto
Chicago Inter Ocean
Colonel Shatw's Sister Tells An Anecdote Of Rank And Respect
The New York Times recounts a wartime street car episode involving NMers and Minturns sister, Mrs. Minturn, who sat beside a colored woman after a fashionably dressed passenger gave a disdainful look. Mrs. Minturn matched the action and sat with the colored woman, defending dignity and equality in a quietly bold, feminine gesture. High-minded cheerfulness and self-possession are praised as manly virtues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonel Shatw
Boston
Minturn
Colonel Staw
Asone
Battlefield Masonry Among Civil War Troops Recalled
A veteran recalls Wallace Military Lodge formed during the Civil War with Dan McCook’s brigade at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga. Meetings on Stone River and Lee Gordon’s mill, with Master Mason Dan McCook and officers cited. A Confederate soldier aiding wounded Masons is noted, plus Keifer’s sword legacy and Congress career.
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Iwigh
Five Forks
Sheridan
Petersburg
Aid
Army of the Potomac
Dan McCook
Army of the Cumberland
Grand Lodge
State of
Dhnois
Wallace
David D. Irons
Eighty-sixth
Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Alien ‘l L. Fahnenstock
Glasford, Hl
Jo Mudjo
Celone
Lee & Gordon’s Mill
Rons
Nashville
J. F. Thomas
Chickamauga
Atlantic
Dan MccCook
Stone River
Stone ‘River
Wallace Miliary Lodge
Batttlefield Lodge
Army of the
Johnston
Kenesaw
Dusen
Porhias
Pauid
Pauid] Wie- Gook
Doncaster Lodge
Lancaster
Peoria County
Alexander McD. McCook
West Point
A. T. Fairnestock
Afagor
Keifer
Congress
Springfield
Ohio
Volunteer Army
Lee
Seifer
Tucker
John Randolph Tucker
Virginia
Witness to Lincoln Assassination Speaks at Indiana Institute
Professor William H. De Motte, 75, inspector in the Indiana Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, recalls the April 14 1865 assassination from Ford’s Theatre. He witnessed Booth’s leap, Lincoln’s death, and the crowd’s reaction, sharing later accounts of the postwar era and his role as Indiana’s military and sanitary agent.
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Lincoln
Indianapolis
Hoosier
Abraham Lincoln
William H. de Motte
Science
Indiana Institute For the Deaf and Dumb
de Motte
Ford
General Grant
John Wilkes Booth
Grant
Dike
Sheet
Booth
de Mutte
le Wes
White House
Jje Matterazéis
Chaplain Miller's Sign About Mail Delays Triggers Grant Moment
Eliot M. Miller, a New Orleans civil engineer, recalls General Ulysses S. Grant forcing his father to swear. The chaplain, in charge of mail for Grant's staff, posted a sign warning he did not know when the mail would arrive. Grant read the sign, paused, then continued on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliot M. Miller
New Orleans
U. S. Grant
Miller
W‘khan
Gran
Surviving the Deadly Suitana Disaster of 1805
W. W. Goodrich of Menominee Michigan survived the April 27 1805 boiler explosion aboard the steamer Suitana on the Mississippi near Memphis. He was thrown into the river, clung to wreckage, drifted miles, and was saved by an eddy and overhanging tree. The memory of the horror remains vivid after decades.
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W. W. Goodrich
Menominee
Mieh
Mississippi River
Memphis
Tenn
Goodrich
Polish editors jailed and fined over five years of a paper
The retiring proprietor of Gornoslazak writes that over the five years of the paper’s existence the responsible editors have spent four and a half years in prison and $3,750 has been paid in fines.
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Gornoslazak
Liquor Traffic Warns of Widespread Suffering and Prohibition Rally
A 19th century prohibition plea laments liquor harm across families and communities. It argues liquor destroys homes, fuels crime, fires and accidents, and devastates the poor. The piece urges pledge signing, youth education, and united effort to crown prohibition nationally.
The Workingmans Friends Trailed by Salvation of Home Life
A Young People’s Weekly excerpt contrasts the saloon as a “poor man’s club” with the warmth of home. It argues the true friend to workers helps keep families together, stressing love and peace at home over clubbing or drinking.
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Rael
Young People’s Weekly
Prohibition Spreads Across Arkansas Counties
Prohibition now applies to fifty six of seventy five Arkansas counties. The state population is 1,311,564 with 893,370 under prohibitory laws. Prohibition benefits cover eleven twelfths of the territory and two thirds of the people. Votes on license occur each general election every two years. A community may ban the saloon by petition under the three mile law. Officers failing to stop illicit selling forfeit commissions.
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Arkansas
Temperance Notes on Prohibition and Moral Degradation
The piece notes anti liquor campaigns by Washington Anti-Saloon Leagues preaching in 325 state churches since August 1905. It tells of a poverty stricken man seeking a license and quipping about character needs to sell rum. It ends with a metaphor of a stone falling in a cavern to illustrate drink’s generational ruin.
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Great Trunk
Washington
Auag
Luray
Margaret Meredith
Temperance Topics and a Saloon Keeper's Confession
A旧long excerpt traces temperance progress since 1875, praising Mrs Mary A Thunt for promoting compulsory instruction on alcohol and tobacco. It notes fewer intemperance levels, sobriety benefits, and relates a Pennsylvania saloon keeper's voluntary surrender of his license amid denounced adulterated liquors and social harms.
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United States Congress
Unio
Mary A. Thunt
Lum
Friends of Temperance
War Looms in Central America As Nations Clash
Telegram indicates Honduras declares war on Guatemala amid upheaval led by Cabrera in El Salvador. Reports cite General Bonilla repelling Guatemalan forces near Matapam and protest over Cabrera’s leadership. Guatemala claims support from El Salvador as revolutionists push into borders.
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Panama
San Salvador
Honduras
Guatemala
Salvador
Bonilla
Matapam
Central America
Republic
Revolutionista
Mexico
Cabrera
M. I. Barritas
Temperance in British Army Praised by Royals
At the Royal Army Temperance Association annual meeting held at the United Service Institution with the Duke of Connaught presiding the group reported 213 branches and 47 065 members of whom 24 899 were in India. Of the rest 39 065 were total abstainers and the Duke noted War Office cooperation and the association’s role in soldier morals and post service life.
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Royal Army Temperance Association
United Service Institution
Duke of Connaught
Association
India
War Office
Temperance Ideals in Law and War Across Nations
The piece cites Dr. Herrick Johnson rejecting the idea that drinking can improve vice. It notes General Kitchener enforcing abstinence in Sudan and mentions Holland's ban on liquor trade in public buildings. It also reports the Texas Liquor Dealer urging dealers to monitor and oppose temperance leaning lawmakers.
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Herrick Johnson
Upper Nile
Kitchener
Holland
Texas Liquor Dealer
San Antonio
United States-Venezuela tension over arbitration ultimatum
The article recalls John Hay's March 1905 ultimatum to Venezuela demanding impartial arbitration and redress for harms to U S citizens. Venezuela affirms no pending questions and questions U S nobility, rejecting further consideration and leaving no room for renewed ultimatums, Bowen notes.
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Washington
State Department
Venezuela
Red Book
John Hay
Brown
United States
Hay
Bowen
Nearly Buried by a Cave-in at Nebraska Pump Pit
GRAND ISLAND Neb George Harris of Upperman Leiser pump department was nearly buried when cave walls collapsed as he dug a fifteen foot pit without supports. Rescued after about an hour of digging he emerged unharmed apart from being encompassed except for his head.
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Grand Island, Neb
George Harris
Upperman & Leiser
Death by drowning at Elkhorn River headgates
West Point Neb. Joan Acker man, son of former County Treasurer Chris W Ackerman, drowned at the Elkhorn river headgates. He was nineteen, bathing when he slipped from the timbers. Companions tried to rescue him but failed. The young man showed great promise.
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West Point
Neb
Joan Ackerman
Chris. W. Ackerman
Elkhorn
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Bascoud
Selis
Gader
Nev
Hegro
Reading
Bolivar
National Tribune
W. I’. Masier
Sixth Tennessee Cavalry
Alvord, Tenn
Feeling Horse
Lurse
Aulsbury
Tavas
Flo
Collemeé “Hixsse
Web
Tereb
Old Soul Street
J. Randolph Tucker
Kelfer
J. Renwolph Ticker
Chicago
Ocean
Bricht
Demon Prink
Pennsylvania
William Burnes Lower
D. D
Guiateama
Chala
Kussala
Elkhorn River
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