Eight Days of Death in a Snowbound Trek
McDermot, a discharged soldier and shoemaker, endured thirteen days in a wind driven blizzard after leaving Red Cloud with Gilbert Roycrooft. He faced hunger, freezing, wolves, and frostbite before discovery by a herder and removal to a military hospital where Dr. C E Munn amputated both legs below the knees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sipnzey Teleorapah
McDermot
North Platte Bridge
Sidney
C. E. Munn
James McDermot
Gilbert
Roycrooft
Red Cloud
Camp Robinson
Tives
Little Valley
Baker
Bidney
Munn
Ireland
Co. C
14Th U.S. Infantry
Camp Corlin
Roycroort
Naval torpedo vessel orders and Balkan fever reports
London dispatch notes orders for new torpedo vessels and 8000 torpedo sinkers being built for the navy with Woolwich storage and Russian boat production. Asiatic siege landings discussed and measures at the Bosphorus. In Bulgaria fever deaths rise in Constantinople typhus fades. Richmond report details Mrs Phebe Coratly of Chesterfield striking a man over a cow during a farm transaction. Cincinnati ex-chief of police Snellaker arrested over burglary tied to a breach of promise case.
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London
Thames
Royal Arsenal
Woolwich
England
Uinder
Sea of Marmora
Bosphorus
Bulgaria
Constantinople
Richmond
Chesterfield
Phebe Coratly
Corstly
Clover Hill
Alexander Cowdrey
Condrey
Col
Thomas EB. Snellaker
Cincinnati
Dr. McCarthy
Seventh Street
Anecdotes and Letters From Newspapers Retold
A compilation of humorous and pointed excerpts from old papers. It includes Widow Van Cott and Robert G. Ingersoll exchanges, a note from Ingersoll, a mock editorial on sensationalism at the Kearney Press, and a playful take on Chesterfieldian gossip about local figures and misprints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Ingersell
van Cott
Buffalo Telegram
Grace Methodist Church
Robert G. Ingersoll
Bub
Burva O
Madan
R.G. Ingersoll
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Sidney Telegraph
Oeeses
Ano, C. Damrow
Gseph B. Gossage & CO
Fditere and Proprietees
Ieee
Gdsey
Black Hills
Elosce
Setell
Rion Pacific Railroad
Nics
Goiyo Wkat
Ind
Savous
Sidney Bank
Sidney, Nebraska
VY. Bierbower
Notary Publioc
Nebraska
Ballou
Thos
Kage
Tm. W. Brist
Jieist & Kane
Attorneys - At - Law
Angel
Ons
A. M. Stevenson
Moore's Block
J. W. Fowler
Notary Public
Darrow & Stevenson
Front Street
J. H W. Surles
Tas
Second Street
Rose A
Grand Central Hotel
Omaha
GEO
Thrall
Propr
Olickauf
Arber
New York
Kidmey
M. Rouse
Itterick
Ovary Uth
Dasirgs Pisher & CO
Gen
Denver
A. Moore
Rio
Japan
Cove
Kirk
Lorillard
Long John
Crackwell
Durham Tobacco
Vanity Fair Tobacco
Frazer's
reParene
Just
C. A. Moore
Welf & McDonald
Farniuam AT
Rocky Mountain News
Pioneer Newspaper
Colorado
Address News Printing CO
Dexvax
Colorapo
How McDermot
Tion
Raycrooft
Platte
Uttle
Telegraphic
Torpedo Beata
William Armstrong
Whitworth & Co
Woolwich Arsenal
Defrees & Co
Kearney
Iike
Ing
The
Loup
County A
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