First Division Ordered to Move Under Water Scarcity
Camp Alger VA Aug 6 Special to Scranton Tribune General Gobin orders move of First Division from Camp Alger to Camp Meade due to water shortages. Sixty Fifth New York first to depart, aiming for Middletown by end of next week. Thirteenth and Sixth Pennsylvania also slated for transfer with details on hospitals, nurses, and weather conditions amid storms and logistics.
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Middletown
Parke
Sisters of Charity
Scranton Tribune
Camp Alger
Dunn Loring
Gobin
Graham
Camp Meade
Pennsylvania
Penneyivania
Gretna
Devine
Division Hospital
Providence Hospital
Washington
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S among Pennsylvanian soldiers ill on hospital train
Philadelphia reports the sick and fever stricken Pennsylvania troops from Camp Alger resting at Medico Chirurgical Hospital. About sixty percent have typhoid camp or malarial fever. Seven are very critical and a dozen seriously ill. doctors warn of possible deaths without rapid care. Convalescents number about fifteen as of today.
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Co. R. Parke
Division Hospital
Devine
Parke
Medico-Chirurgical Hospital
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Camp Alger
Pennsylvania Hospital
Shoemaker
Informal Presidential Visit at Camp Meade Pa Details
Adjutant General Corbin informs General Graham that President McKinley’s visit to Camp Meade will be informal with no review. He will be escorted by Graham’s staff, tour division hospitals, and inspect feeding systems. Field ovens will be issued for regiments to bake their own bread. Troop arrivals from Alliance Ohio Thoroughfare Gap and upcoming units are noted.
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Camp Meade
Middletown
Corbin
Graham
McKinley
Allison
Pennsylvania
Alliance, O
Illinois
Thoroughfare Gap
Kansas
Davie
Indiana
New York
Geneval Graham
Phat Delaware Regiment
Hastings
Pennsylvana State Hospital
McCormick
Commonwealth
Martin
Frank Thomson
Pennsylvania Failroad
Dlvision
Dunn Lering
J. J. Phillips
Airst
Briscoe
First division from Camp Alger to begin muster outs
Colonel William J. Elliott of Philadelphia will muster out the Sixth Pennsylvania and prepare rolls before sending them to Mount Gretna for formal discharge. Orders also call mustering out First Rhode Island and Twenty second Kansas units. Typhoid deaths included Private Isaac Weasel and Private Otto Klinke. A Middletown resident was arrested for selling liquor to troops. Guards requested on passenger trains serving the camp. Water pipes being laid. by Saturday night every regiment will have pure water at their doors. Division hospitals fill with patients, few serious cases.
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William J. Elliott
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Mount Gretna
Rhode Island
Kansas
Isaac Weasel
Otto Klinke
Missouri
Division
Middletown
Pennsylvania Railroad
Echoes of the War Ninth Regiment Arrives at Wilkes-Barre
Sick members of the Ninth regiment arrived in Wilkes-Barre at 2 15 yesterday morning. Captain Miers is in serious condition. Ten ambulances received the sick and an extra car carried men to Fittston and Towanda. A long list of names follows. President’s informal camp visit noted. muster-out talks underway at Camp Alger. nurses dispatched to Chickamauga. more sick transport planned.
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Wilkes-Barre
Captain Miers
Miers
Fittston
Towanda
Gordon Scott
Pattick Devers
Charles Renis
William Klosser
Dan Baker
Claude Heberting
J. Harvard
Charles Brainerd
Grant Tuck
HM. C. Guile
EF .Francia
Joseph Joof
J. E. van Sickle
Litman Richards
H. EF. Bradley
C. R. Green
H. F. Vand Duser
Claude R. Grosser
Thoms Enertieh
Albert Houston
Fred Rentelhuber
Knight Sterling
Charles A. Hoyte
David Acuff
Silas Losteder
Fred Din
David Beven
Etta A. Roache
Sternberg Hospital
Chickamauga
Josephine Merre
Daley Bertels
Anni Stewart
Chickamauga Park
Ninth
Lytle
McKee
Lexington
Baseball scores across leagues with multiple matchups
National League results include Louisville beating Philadelphia five to three and Cincinnati topping Louis two to zero. Eastern League and Atlantic League games feature Montreal, Toronto and Buffalo in decisive wins, while Hartford routed Norfolk nine to zero and Lancaster triumphed over Reading eleven to ten.
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Cleveland
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Paterson
Richmond
Hartford
Norfolk
Martford
Allentown
Newark
Lancaster
Reading
Crescents Fall to Honesdale in Tight Amateur Bout
The Crescents lost to the strong Honesdale team on the litters grounds by 1 to 0. Pitcher James C. Bray, a five year old in the report, pitched a hotter game than the score suggested and impressed as a future Eastern league contender. He also contributed at the plate as a strong batter and base runner.
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Crescents
Honesdale
James C. Bray
Young Bray
Heo
Old Forge
Ivory use and elephant poaching in ancient to modern times
The article traces ivory from ancient Greek carvings to today’s demand for billiard balls and ornaments. It notes Africa as the main supplier, Indian elephants growing scarce, and fossil ivory exported from eastern Siberia. Prices, weights, and record tusks from Africa and central regions are listed, highlighting extinction risk without legislation.
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Siberia
England
Equator
Europe
Usanda
Tabora
East Africa
Niam Niam
Central Africa
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