Gettysburg High Water Mark and Memorial Day Significance
This passage recalls the Gettysburg battle field and its high water mark where Pickett's men breached the Union line and fell. It links the victory to the fall of Vicksburg and Lee's retreat, marking Gettysburg as a defining moment in the Civil War and a perpetual Memorial Day reference. It notes key figures like Reynolds Hancock Warren Meade and the strategic line on Cemetery Hill.
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Gettysburg
Pickett
Confederacy
Vicksburg
Lee
Pennsylvania
Marathon
Tours
Orleans
Lutzon
Yorktown
Waterloo
Shiloh
Bull Run
Malvern Hill
Chambersburg
Seminary Ridge
Cemetery Hill
Reynolds
Hancock
Meade
Warren
Little Round Top
Robert BE. Lee
Emmitsburg
Buford
Caval‘ry
Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Legacy and Burial Grounds
The article discusses Gettysburg as a defining Civil War site comparable to Waterloo, highlighting strategic lessons and its enduring visibility through monuments. It notes David Wills founding the national cemetery idea, Gov. Curtin’s role, and Pennsylvania purchasing seventeen acres for Union dead with other states contributing to the cemetery’s preparation.
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David Wills
Gettysburg
Battlefield National Cemetery
Antietam
Chickamauga
Missionary Ridge
Bull Run
Curtin
Pennsylvania
Wills
Gettysburg Cemetery
Battlefield Park
Milk Extinguishes Oil Fires
A historical note suggests milk as an effective extinguishing agent for burning petroleum. It forms an emulsion with oil and disrupts the blaze, unlike water which cannot.
Telegram Briefs Reflect Medical Crises and Political Tidings
General Maximo Gomez ill in Santiago from pneumonia. A czar grants property and educational freedom to Poles and others. Ullin merchant T. M. Hileman shoots a burglar. Miles favors colonial era militia dress. George Schneider gravely ill in Kansas City. New York City building boom reaches 250 million dollars. Edward C. O’Brien expelled for misappropriation. Japan wary of German troop reports at Haichon. Excavations near Breslau reveal bronze age graves and dwellings. Baptists in St. Louis urged Missouri as model state for law enforcement. Chicago pastors blame both employers and unions for the strike. R. M. Case named chief clerk of Western Passenger association. Aunt Patty Allen, born a slave, honored at Columbus dinner. Hyde speculates Cortelyou to Equitable presidency. Young, 82, remains patient of homeopathy founder Hahnemann. US Express wins Pere Marquette business, expelling American Express from Michigan. British municipal traction expert invited to Chicago. Farmington insane asylum board named. Venice artistic congress committee appointed with Berenson and Taft as American reps. Memphis circuit court sessions move to opera house. Terranova sails to Tromsoe en route to Franz Josef Land. Paul Morton may resign as secretary of navy. Metcalf may take over. Prince of Wales to enter turf. net winnings exceed 500,000 since 1886. Oklahoma attorney general Simons, Huston, and Cotteral eyed for First Judicial district post.
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Ullin
Cairo
Ill
General Miles
Massachusetts
George Schneider
National Bank of Illinois
Kansas City
New York City
Edward C. O’brien
The
Gopher
University of Minnesota
Japan
Haichon
Berlin
Breslau
Prussia
B. C
R. M. Case
Western Passenger Association
Patty” Allen
Virginia
John G. Deshler
Columbus
Ohio
Patty
Deshler
James H. Hyde
Cortelyou
Equitable
Alexander
John B. Young
Homeopathic Physicians
Iowa City
Iowa
United States
Samuel Hahnemann
United States Express Company
Pere Marquette
American Express Company
Michigan Field
Vanderbilt
Andrew Crawford
Dunne
James Dalrymple
Glasgow
Chicago
Campania
Governor Foll
State Hospital For the Insane
Farmington
Paul P. Hickey
Desoto
B. C. Jones
Poplar Bluff
John A. Hope
Prince of Wales
Edward
P. C. Simons
Oklahoma
John H. Burford
A. H. Huston
John H. Cotteral
Guthrie
Dust and Death From Trailing Skirt Fashion
A Woman's Journal moral tale warns that dust from a trailing gown spreads tuberculosis. The story follows a fashionable lady whose skirt harbors germs that drift to a child, leading to diphtheria and fatal illness. It urges women to wear sensible skirts clearing the ground to end TB invasion.
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Wong
Tuberculosis Warning and Home Hygiene Advice
An editorial urges stringent public health measures in American cities to curb tuberculosis spread. It warns against long skirts spreading germs, promotes patient education, and notes that even clean streets harbor germs. Includes wholesome recipes for Vegetable Soup Roast Imperial Scalloped Potatoes and Macaroni with Tomato Sauce.
Dinner Menu Card from Imperial Era
A vegetarian dinner menu lists Soup Vegetable and Entrée Roast Imperial with vegetables including scalloped potatoes chopped cabbage and macaroni with tomato sauce. Stewed vegetable oysters breads cream crisps and dessert of steamed fig pudding with lemon sauce plus graham bread.
Rising American heart disease linked to lifestyle
The piece notes a rapid rise of heart weakness in the United States linked to tobacco and alcohol use, sedentary living, and extreme exertion. It cites army rejections and public deaths from heart failure, pneumonia, and typhoid fever, attributing growth to cigars cigarettes pipes and neglect of exercise plus overeating and excesses.
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America
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Philip H. Sheridan
Winchester
Maximo Gomez
Santiago
Graham Bread
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