Maine Man Designed Flag With 46 Stars For United States
Charles B. Tallman of Richmond Missouri a former U S N retired who proposed the 46 star flag arrangement adopted July 4 last His 350000 mile traveling record and army service are noted In 1864 he enlisted in the 19th Maine V I after brief army service he transferred to the navy serving aboard the North Carolina and Bienville at the Brooklyn navy yard.
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Boston
United States
Maine
Oklahoma
Statehood
Charley
State Department
Navy Department
Tallman
Mr. Tallman
Charles BE. Tallman
Richmond
J. W. Spaulding
Nineteenth
Maine Volunteer Infantry
I. H. Stairbird
Brandy Station
Navy
Brooklyn Navy Yard
U. S. R.S. North Carolina
S. Bienville
Edward Devotion House Opens as Brookline Museum
The Edward Devotion house on Harvard Street Brookline opened as a public museum. The building houses Revolutionary era artifacts donated or loaned by residents. Brookline commemorated its 203rd town anniversary with funding to restore the house. The Devotion fund funded a grammar school in 1762 now preserved near the old Devotion lot.
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Boston
Edward Devotion
Harvard Street
Brookline
Devotion
Sailor Tallman’s Long Navy Service and Retirements
The article traces the career of Mr. Tallman from early coast guard duty in the West Gulf squadron under Rear Admiral Farragut through multiple ships including the Richmond Estrella and Ossipee. He rises to sailmaker and warrant officer, serves in the Asiatic squadron, later works in storekeeping and gunnery training, and retires in 1897 with a final posting to the Vermont before a 1898 retirement due to disability. Separate item highlights Nellie C. Upham of Denver as a leading woman mine operator and sole woman delegate to a recent American Mining Congress session in Pittsburgh, known as the Hetty Green of mining.
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West Gulf
David G. Farragut
Gulf of Mexico
Mobile
Farragut
Mobile Bay
Mr. Tallman
U. S. S. Richmond
Hervey K. Thatcher
Richmond
U. S. S. Ossipee
Caribbean
Portsmouth
N. H
U.S. S. Ticonderoga
Tallman
Ticonderoga
United States
Vermont
New York Navy Yard
United States Navy
Arld
Pittsburg
Nellie C. Upham
Denver
Col
American Mining Congress
Upham
District of Columbia
Hetty Green
Far West
Bombay Schools Try to Curb Political Talk
In Bombay education advances but manners slip in schools and colleges. Government instructs primary teachers to enforce rules against political meetings and discussing politics, forbidding newspapers and outside talk in classrooms.
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Bombay
Government of
Jarkar
Alcohol as Food and Stimulant: A Critical View
The piece argues alcohol has limited food value and lacks storage potential. It cites medical tests showing abstainers endure fatigue better than those given alcohol, notes stimulatory effects are fallacious, and warns that regular moderate use harms skin, vessels, heart, and infection resistance. It calls for clear education on alcohol’s true status and risks.
Dress to Please the Men
Article argues women dress to please men and how marriage changes taste. It contrasts self styled individuality with conformity to husband tastes, notes women who imitate men’s preferences and the social pressure of appearances both at home and in public.
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Maud
Gladys
Mabel
Tey
Fred
George
Jack
Starch Advice and Odd Elephant Fact in One Bundle
A home laundry tip praises smooth starch for shirtwaists with less wear and a Fron finish. An odd aside notes elephants smell with the roof of the mouth containing a nostril and olfactory nerves.
Piles Treated Quickly with PAZO Ointment Claim
The ad guarantees cure of itching, blind bleeding or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days or money back. Includes price 60c and mentions Lewis' Single Binder cigars and Peoria factory contact.
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Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
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Charles Tallman
Richmond, ME
New England
Massachusetts
Charles E. Tallian
CMR
S. Nellie Capham
Fles
Molly
Simon Baruch
M. D
New York
Blanche McCarthy
Nliw
Dodds
Se eadtTo
Eas
Pair Piabet
Western Canada
Canada
Western
Ottawa
Cai
U. S. Crawford
Ninth St
Kansas City
C. J. Broughton
Merchants’ Loan 6 Trust Bldg
Chicago
Illinois
Aly
Kyon
Arnel Soto
Etree
Aes
Watson E
Coleman
Wastes
Patentington
D.C
Best Res
Thompson
California
Salt Lake
Overland Limited
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific Electric
E. L. Lomax
G. P. A. Omaha
Defiance
Roc
Defiance Starch Company
Omaha, Neb
Piso
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