Contested Era Shifts From Warship Talk To Daily Quirks
A collage of late nineteenth century observations ranges from tax and tea consumption to fashion and public policy. Notes touch on Edison style inventions, Peruvian Bolivia tensions, and the role of women, with light jokes about diving into social trends, crime, and education. The piece reflects a diverse snapshot of society, politics, and culture with a satirical tone.
Records of Peace and Heroism on Navy Vessels
A historical reflection on non wartime service stories in the U S armed forces. It recalls the Puritan explosive tests on a monitor and the extreme heat and hardship aboard ironclads. It honors Lieut James E Bell and others who stayed to tend the sick during yellow fever at Fort Jefferson in 1873.
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War and Navy Departments
Army
Navy
Willard S. Isham
Isham
Langdon
Fort Jefferson
Special Ordnance Board
Puritan
Captain Knight
Ordnance Board
Knight
Admiral Down
Cook
Panama
Taft
Washington
Havana
Cuba
New York City
Naval Academy
United States Army
Constitution
Jamestown
Commodore Perry
Japan
United States
Hampton Roads
Edmund B. Underwood
United States Navy
Underwood
Ossipee
Virginius
Snaniards
Spain
America
Virginia Capes
Virginias
Samoan Islands
James E. Bell
Tortugas
Battery M
First
United States Artillery
Bell
L. L. Langdon
Vermont
Department of the Gulf
Holly Springs
Miss
Miraculous Phenomena Reported At Mayo Convent
Dublin correspondent describes extraordinary marks on a 13 year old girl in Kiltimagh Mayo with cross I H 5 letters crown of thorns and host with a chalice. clergy and doctor examine but offer no explanation. a separate Granard case shows Irish credulity as Australian swindler claimed tooth nerve cure with a needle and caterpillar.
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Kiltimagh
County Mayo
Dublin
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Christ
Father O’hara
Madden
Ecclesiastics
Unien
Ireland
Granard
Thomas Kiernan
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Mr. Edison
Peru
Polivia
South
New York
Weehawken
Hoboken
Hacken
New England
the Courier-Journal
Bank Hiers
Mateur
Chicago
Uist
Russell Saze
Iowa
Philadelphia
Dr. Wiley
Alanis
Sam
Seward
Vassar
Italy
Dertin