Brevet General’s Troops in a Civil War Escape Tale
A Confederate pursuit thread unfolds as Union soldiers Rodgers and Hoover flee toward safety under Sher idan’s army. They elude raiders, sleep in a colored family cabin, and reach Union lines near Winchester. The narrative honors Sergeant Loover and recounts battles, captures, and a wartime romance ending with Jane’s marriage to a former rebel colonel.
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Judday
Lizeth
Soret
Toover
Rodgers
Liga
Liza
Peg
Tluover
Soreaworthy
Tlaover
Pennsylvania Cavalry
Kelly
Sergi
Sharper’s Ferry
Sheridan
Old Winchester
Jane
Stodgers
V Scout
Fragmentary historical notes on rails beer and social items
The text fragments reference railways cement ties and wooden ties in Britain It mentions cork processing and a bottled beer context The piece notes Adolphine Jxsok as the first woman admitted to the Wuteh bar and touches on gambling tones and German butter salt experiments Names and details are garbled but show mixed topics from transport to social milestones.
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Britain
Adolphne Jxsok
Parrister
Great Britain
Witers Mme
Moseley
Germany
Charles Picken
Ing
Short Temperance Sermons on Delirium Tremens
The article discusses delirium tremens from excessive drinking, noting onset after long sprees, lasting two to five days, with trembling and violent delirium. It contrasts whisky with supposedly harmless liquors, cites Dr. Dana’s survey of 200 patients showing whisky, beer with whisky, and malt liquors as common, and claims wine-drinking inebriates are rare.
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Mr. Wilburn
Bergens
Holt
Charles L. Dana
Bellevue Hospital
Going Home Drunkard Loses Dignity and Calls for Compassion
A Chicago American opinion piece portrays a drunken man staggering home, insulted by onlookers, and urges empathy to prevent such suffering. It links the scene to a moral call for civilization, criticizing public cruelties and the desire to laugh at the inebriated man.
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Hice
Amd
Chicago American
State Hospital Plan Aims at Treatment for Addicts
Dr I Ju Utis superintendent of the State Hospital at Osawatomie Wan proposes a state hospital for drunkards and drug fiends. In his biennial report he urges inmate work and that wages go to their families, a plan met with favorable comment.
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Inchiiate
I. Ju Utis
Osawatomie
Wan
Avork
Temperance gains mark in Oregon election noting prohibition trend
Oregon voters show temperance gains with at least six counties supporting no license. The Anti-Saloon League is credited for swaying the vote and enforcement prospects. Cleveland campaigns to end bar maid service face ordinances and possible convictions. A Kentucky paper traces a bushel corn profit split, highlighting distortions and societal harms.
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Oregon
Anti-Saloon League
Yeoman
Cleveland
Kentucky
United States
Fragmentary language note from a 19th century text
The readable fragment appears to discuss language questions about who does what in Spanish and what one ought to do, but provides no clear event or identifiable persons or places. The snippet lacks context and verifiable facts for a fuller summary.
Temperance Tales and a Drunken Tragedy in Wisconsin
A Wisconsin farmer near Jesup, Iowa, was found dead by suicide after a masked abduction and forced drinking by four men in a liquor raid linked to temperance activism. The victim, once active in the Anti-Saloon League, left a note citing ruin from the event and its mental strain. Police have not identified the four attackers.
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Wim
Jes
Sup
Towa
Ikwits
Hite
Vetla
Anti- Saloon League
Vite
Waylard
Caplors
Illite
Cour
St. Paul
Coal firms oppose wholesale saloons in western Pennsylvania
A dispatch from Pa reports that four large coal companies threaten to crush saloon operation in the region. They claim liquor sales harm property rights and mining output, arguing saloons drive workers to drink and idleness, harming business and prosperity. The German Times is cited on beer’s impact on athletic prowess and general health.
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Omerged
Poennsymiia
Intoxican
Juvenile Abstainers at UK Band of Hope Conference
Lionel Mundy, chairman, announced at Bristol that last year the Band of Hope Union gained about 27 000 members and added around 400 societies. The total Band of Hope and allied groups reached 20 430 with a membership of three and a deduction unitions. At least forty MPs were formerly Band of Hope boys.
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Band of Lope Union
United Kingdom
Bristol
England
Lionel Mundy
Jnesout
Band of Hope Boys
Abstinence push backed by German Insurance Dept
The German Imperial Insurance Department promotes abstinence with a circular to employers urging temperance. It links alcohol use to more industrial accidents and earlier disability and offers free temperance leaflets for distribution to workers.
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Germany
Nes
Ths German Lieperial Insurance Department
Prohibition Enforcers Hit Kansas Speakeasies
Prohibition officers in Cofferville and Cherryvale seized and jailed operators of five Cofferville bars and one Cherryvale bar. All bar fixtures were burned along with forty cases of beer and a quantity of whisky.
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Kansas
Cofferville
Cherryvale
Curious Trivia From Around The World
A column surveys diverse quirky facts from long ago: animals lifespans and reproduction, decorative coins, a rain-predicting frog barometer, Sumatra widow customs, and European wedding fashions. It also covers Russian honors, Buddhist and Kaffir anecdotes, and debates on shore leave for sailors, urging humane, practical policy.
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Russia
St. Andrew
Germany
Switzerland
Sumatra
Europe
Parma
Observance of Sunday and the Sunday recreation debate
The piece analyzes Sunday recreation and automobiling amid expanding liberal views. It notes that while some concede further leeway, a limit exists where liberty clashes with others rights and public order, warning the debate will intensify as the point of license remains undefined.
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New Haven Register
Soil Fertilizers and Station Trials Save Farmers Money
The American Illustrated Magazine notes annual U S fertilizer expenditure around 850 million dollars and cites station tests in the East and South. It highlights in New Jersey how co op buying cuts costs 25 to 45 percent and saving farmers 75 to 100 thousand dollars yearly.
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United States
American Dlustrated Magazine
New Jersey
New York
Philadelphia
Cannibal Black Bass Allegations From Field and Stream
Field and Stream recounts cannibalism among black bass from a Pennsylvania hatchery trial. Twenty thousand fingerlings fed six times daily with three times their weight each day. by October only 11,000 remained, with under 200 sickness deaths, implying about 9,000 died at the mouths of stronger fish.
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Pennsylvania
Secrets of Success Through Smart Work
The quote urges embracing efficient methods rather than fleeing tasks. It frames easier paths as a key to lasting achievement and personal growth.
Man Prefers Red Paint Over Small Trifles
A man who becomes blue over minor issues tends to change the color scheme by painting things red, illustrating a quick temper and penchant for bold reactions.
Merchants Hear Shaw and Bryan At Trans-Mississippi Congress
Secretary of the Treasury Milton S. Shaw and William J. Bryan spoke to a large audience at the Trans Mississippi Commercial Congress. Bryan led a committee of ex-presidents to escort Shaw to the platform as the pair emphasized expanding the United States foreign market and a merchant marine. Shaw advocated support for merchants through subsidies or other means to secure a robust U S trade fleet.
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Kansas
Guy
Leelie M. Shaw
the Treasury
William J. Bryan
Bryan
Congress
Shaw
Root
United States
Bryan Speaks at Evening Session on Valley Interests
Mr. Bryan was the sole speaker at the evening gathering, focusing on commercial interests of the Mississippi valley. Morning and afternoon talks covered river and levee improvement, freight rates, water transport from lakes to the gulf, a national department of mines, livestock needs, Pacific coast shipyards, irrigation, reclamation service trainage, forest resources, and imagined Colorado ills.
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Bryan
Mississippi Valley
Gulf Water Transportation
National
Department of Mines and Mining
Southwest
Pacific Coast
Colorado
Prohibition Suits Target Mayors in Kansas
Kansas Attorney General files suits to oust Pittsburg mayor A B Kirkwood and Junction City mayor O Donnell for failure to enforce the prohibition law and to bar their cities from collecting licenses from illicit saloons. Similar actions target other cities, with Wichita Leavenworth Fort Scott and Topeka named as flagrant violators.
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Topeka
Kas
A. B. Kirkwood
Pittsburg
O’donnell
Junction City
Kansas Supreme Court
G. G C. Coleman
Rose
Kansas City
Coleman
Goodlander
Fort Scott
Wichita
Leavenworth
Fire Ravages Toulon Dock Yards in France
Fire destroyed major portions of the Societe des Forges et Chantiers dock yards at Toulon. Foreign warships under construction were saved with difficulty. Loss runs into several million francs.
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Toulon
France
Societe Des Forges, Et Chantiers
Fire in Factory Building in New York Kills Two
A blaze at a six story factory on Seventy fourth Street and Second Avenue in New York City killed two workers and injured four others. An explosion was reported by police as the fire swept through the shirtwaist factory noted for flammable materials.
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New York
Seventy-fourth Street
Second Avenue
Seventy-High Street
First and
Second Avenues
Traveling salesman jailed for treating in DorchesterNebraska
A Kansas City liquor firm salesman, Mitchell, was arrested under the anti treating law in Dorchester and fined 59 dollars plus costs. He had solicited orders and treated Dorchester men to liquor samples, prompting the town marshal to file the complaint under the prohibited treating statute.
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Dorchester
Neb
Kansas City
Court of Justice Butin
Mitchell
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