Civil War Veterans Recall Chilling Near Front and Odd Pranks
Veterans recount a cordwood shell misfire near a Chattanooga hospital, foraging misadventures across the river, and carrying the flag at Perryville. They also tell of Old Ned the famed war horse, camp camaraderie, and a Georgetown prisoner tale of a shirt and a wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WB Rter
Chicka‘agit
Sam AV
Gen. Grant
Chattanooga
Dan McCook
Cleborn
Jerene Auher
Company C
Fifty-second Ohio
Thad
Louisville
Perryville
Chickamauga
Indiana
Courage of a Girl Stopping Runaway Bus Horse
Ada Mayo Railey of Lexington Kentucky earned praise in New York after climbing from an omnibus window to seize a runaway team led by a drunken driver. She steadied the horses until help arrived, a feat witnessed by three friends and a male escort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada Mayo Railey
New York
Charles TL. Bailey
Lexington
Miss Bailey
Sunday Robes and Gowns Roil into Civic Reform
The article describes Mr. Hubbard’s public appearances in biblical robes on holidays, introducing the 8. O. G. G. or Sunday Order of Gowns and Girdles. It also surveys a historical educational report detailing pupil counts, state and territorial education funding, and school enrollments in Alaska, the Philippines, Porto Rico, Hawaii, Cuba, and the United States around 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Hubbard
Daniel
St. John
Criculture
Mechanic Arts
Bar
Mainlaln
Alaska
Philippines
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Manila
Cuba
Mare
Educat
Porto Rio
Hawai
Heat Your Upper Rooms with a Hot Air Drum
An Atlanta designer John Beck introduces a hot air drum installed between opposite fireplaces to heat upper rooms. The drum circulates air through a back and forth path, drawing fresh air from a basement window to vent smoke and heat efficiently. In a separate item a trial ends with a guilty verdict and a $100 fine for the defendant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John I’. Beck
Atlanta
Advertising pays when you advertise in right papers
It pays to advertise if you live up to your advertisement. It pays if you have for sale what you advertise. Money spent ignorantly for advertising is wasted. It pays if ads reach subscribers who will pay. A. M. Rothschild & Co. of Chicago spent $98,445.95 on the Chicago Record last year.
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Fifteenth “Army Corps
Logat
Chicago
Irish Legion
Fifteenth, Army Corps
Ridge
Logan
Knoxville
Tenn
Burnside
Burnstite
Memphis
Charleston
Stevenson
Als
Twentieth Army Corps
Pllars
Twerntieth ‘Corps
Twentieth Corps
Nindtieth Illinois
U. S
Tam
Trish
Georgetown
Washington
Leutenant
Louisiana
Paris
London
A. M. Rothschild & Co
Substantial Justice Adopted by An Old Town Magistrate
A story told by lawyers in a city restaurant recalls a former Sioux City justice of the peace and a petty larceny defense. The attorney confronted a strong case and took an unusual step involving the magistrate's approach to justice.
Mark Twain Home Again After European Years
Mark Twain returns from long residence in Europe and London. He is 65, still writing, in good health and solid finances. He was feted in Vienna in 1807 and 1898, sometimes addressing crowds in German. Reported adventures include a Japanese assault on a fort and Mexican business closures in a midday lull.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clemens
Europe
Mark Twain
London
Vienna
Chicago 8 registration revision and campaign chatter
The report lists 402 833 votes and mentions Bryan with sixteen speeches in Illinois ending in Toliet, plus seven in Maryland ending in Baltimore. It notes arrests in New City for illegal registration, Spooner of Wisconsin campaigning in Kentucky, and Kentucky legislators failing to fill a vacancy. It covers the National Civil Service League, Indiana Attorney General William L. Taylor addressing workers in Wabash, and Republican claims of Melinley’s plurality in Minnesota. It cites Towne of Minnesota at Centralia in support of the Democratic ticket, and speeches by Hopkins, Warn, Bartlett Lripp, and Hanna dismissing or commenting on moneyed interests. It references Yale students, John Wanamaker’s political return, Alfred Moore Waddell withdrawing, Beveridge speaking in Library Hall, Bourke Cochran at a Bryan speech, Frye warning Republicans, and a Yates parade. It notes a shift of support toward Democrats in Chicago and mentions various figures and locations including Martinsville, Sistersville, Parkersburg, and Kingston.
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Chicago
Bryan
Ilinois
Toliet
Maryland
Baltimore
New City
Senator Spooner
Wisconsin
Kentucky
Wis
National Civil Service
Ai League
Carl ‘Schu
William L. Taylor
Indiana
Wabash
Ind
Melkinley
Minois
Will
Cook County
G. A. Towne
Minnesota
Centralia
Hopkins
Warn
Bartlett Lripp
Clinton
New York Tribune
Pinks
New York
Hanna
A. Towne
Republica
Charles Smith
Yale
New
John Wanamaker
Postma
Alfred Moore Waddell
Candi
Marion Butler
North
Lina
United States
Albert J. Beveridge
India
Bourke Cochran
William P. Frye
Camdei
Henderson
Yates
Springfi
Nebr
Jones
Bae
Sosi
Wheding
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St Paul
Pees
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Sergeant Crawford
Dixie
Crawford
Harrisburg
Blake
Soho
O’brien
Balai
Sayin Rock
Father Hubbard
Jonn M. Mubrard
Sioux
City Journal
Mexico
West
Atkinson
Krior
Republ
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