Encampment Ends as New Grand Army Chief Addresses Members
In St Paul on September 7 the Grand Army of the Republic held the encampment closing event. Commander-in-Chief Clarkson spoke to veterans, stressing the group as a non political aid society for old soldiers, widows, and orphans. Officers were elected by acclamation with Major T S Clarkson named commander in chief.
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St. Paul
Loyal Legion
Mendelsohn Quartette
Modocs
Topeka
Clarkson
Grand Army
Associated Press
Grand Army of the Republic
America
T. 8. Clarkson
Omaha
John H. Mullen
Minnesota
OC. W. Buckley
Alabama
A. E. Johnson
Washington, D. C
Mark A. Taylor
Massachusetts
C. E. Burmeister
Congress
Nelson A. Miles
Lincoln
Ohio
Department of Minnesota
Brief Outline of Thaddeus Clarkson Career as Commander-in-Chief
Thaddeus Stevens Clarkson, born 1840 in Gettysburg, begins service after Lincoln's 1861 call, joins Company A Illinois artillery, serves under Grant at Cairo, becomes adjutant of the Thirteenth Illinois cavalry, serves with General Davidson, commands in Arkansas campaigns, helps raise the Third Arkansas cavalry and leads it as major through most Arkansas battles under General Steele.
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Omaha
Thaddeus Stevens Clarkson
Gettysburg
Antietam
Lincoln
Illinois Artillery
Cairo
Grant
Thirteenth
Illinois Cavalry
John W. Davidson
Helena
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Third
Arkansas Cavalry
Steele
Woman's Relief Corps Elects Officers in St Paul
The group chose national president Mrs Hitt of Indianapolis and senior vice president Mrs Marie Hasenwinkle of St Paul. A committee will pursue securing Aldersonville prison pen, $1700 raised today, and Charity Rusk Craig reelected to the Home board. Meetings decide to unite with the Relief Corps next year in Buffalo.
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St. Pau
Woman’s Relief Corps
Hitt
Indianapolis
Marie Hasenwinkle
St. Paul
Aldersonville
Charity Rusk Craig
Wisconsin
Woman's Relief Corps
Eghty Trains Leave St. Paul
St Paul, Sept 7. Fifty five thousand people left St Paul from the Union depot Friday. through trains alone counted 55 000 travelers plus suburban and lake trains. Eighty trains carried about ten carloads each, totaling 800 carloads. Some trains carried 100 or more passengers. the average was about 70 per train.
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St. Paul
St. Pau
Union Depot
Li Hung Chang Visits Niagara Falls Electric Plant
Li Hung Chang and his party toured Niagara Falls on September 8. At the Niagara Falls power company powerhouse he touched a switchboard with his walking stick, the ferrule closing a circuit and flinging the stick from his hand. He escaped with only a scare and no injury.
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NiaGara Farls
N. Y
Li Hung Chang
Niagara
Niagara Falls Power Company
Heavy Salary Cuts Hit Northern Pacific Officials
St Paul Sept 8 The Northern Pacific is slashing expenses across the system with reports of about a one third cut. Top officers reportedly reduce salaries and promoted officials take reductions up to $1000. Widespread layoffs follow, especially in freight and passenger audit offices as the railroad shifts to an economic basis.
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Northern Pacific Railway
St. Pacl
Northern Pacific
Sons of Veterans encampment to open in Louisville
The Sons of Veterans encampment starts in Louisville on Tuesday with unusually low travel rates attracting visitors and participants. A grand parade is planned for Wednesday featuring visiting camps and local uniformed groups in line.
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Louisville
Sons of Veterans
Big Concern to Dissolve in St Paul
Judge Otis signs order returnable Nov 14 requiring all interested in N. Nelson Lumber Company to appear and show cause why the business should not be wound up and the company dissolved. The petition by N. Nelson and 14 stockholders prompted the order, tied to the sale of property to the Weyerhauser syndicate.
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St. Pau
Otis
N. Nelson Lumber Company
Northwest
N. Nelson
Weyerhauser Syndicate
Government Seeks Kindergarteners and Industrial Teachers
The U S civil service commission seeks nine kindergarten teachers in the Indian service at 600 dollars a year and nine teachers of industries at 750 to 900 dollars annually. Eligible lists are exhausted, an examination will be held September 18 in all large cities to fill vacancies.
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Washington
United States Civil Service Commission
Indian Service
Swedish heir in line for $20 million fortune
Peter Johnson of Mitton California is named as next of kin to a fortune once left by a Swedish relative who settled in the California gold fields. Authorities in San Francisco are confirming his identity as the rightful heir to the $20,000,000 legacy.
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Mitton
N. C
Peter Johnson
Peter
Sweden
California
San Francisco
Knights of Ak Sar Ben Parade Dazzles Omaha Feast
The Knights of Ak Sar Ben celebration in Omaha culminated with a grand reception and ball as part of the Feast of Olympia. A Thursday parade featuring mythical floats drew about 150000 spectators, capped by a spectacular evening ball.
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Knights of
Omaha
Olympia
Petition of Seven Million Signatures in London
The Chronicle reports that the exen has agreed to receive a petition containing seven million signatures from women against liquor and opium traffics. The signatures were gathered by the Worlds Woman's Christian Temperance Union with Miss Frances Willard and Lady Henry Somerset at the top of the list.
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London
the Chronicle
Ex2en
The
Worlds Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Frances Willard
Henry Somerset
Express hold-up attempt ends with two killed near Sacramento
A failed robbery west of Sacramento led to an engineer shooting one attacker and pursuing the Overland Express into Sacramento. The engineer survived as authorities investigate the bold crime acted eight miles from the city.
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Sacrament 10
Cal
Overland Express
Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills Promote Nerve Health
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as the best nerve tonic and blood purifier. It claims pure blood nourishes nerves and prevents prostration, and praises Hood's Pills as prompt, efficient, reliable, and easy to take.
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Hood
Mob hangs two killers of Sheriff in Minnesota
Dorman Musgrove and Henry Dingmars were seized from the jail by a vigilante mob and hanged from a Buffalo River bridge in Guexcot Minnesota. The killings followed their murder of Sheriff Rogers during an arrest attempt on June 24. The mob acted after a second‑degree murder verdict and concerns of a lenient sentence. Musgrove is from Alabama and Dingmars’ parents live in Wisconsin.
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Guexcot
Minn
Dorman Musgrove
Henry A. Dingmars
Rogers
Hicb
Buffalo River
Musgrove
Cingmars
Miller
Allen
Childs
W. W. Erwin
St. Paul
Cadwell
Erwin
Ben Matthews
Glencoe
Matthews
Democratic Platform Under Fire From Silver Plan Claims
The article critiques the Chicago Democratic platform's silver and monetary proposals, arguing they would debase the currency and trigger widespread ruin. It contrasts platform claims with constitutional facts, labels the plan revolutionary and repudiative, and warns of national bankruptcy if enacted, ending with signature Wappen Grauam.
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Congress
House
Senate
France
Germany
Austria
Italy
Belgium
Switzerland
China
India
Mexico
Japan
Chicago
Wappen Grauam
Goode, Smithsonian Fish Authority, Dies at 45
Dr. George B. Goode, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and likely the nation’s leading authority on fish and fisheries, died in Washington from bronchial pneumonia at age 45.
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Washington
George B. Goode
Smithsonian Institution
United States
Increased Wheat Yield Reported in England
London reports rain hindered northern harvest while southern England ended harvest with a 2,000,000 quarter excess over last year. The boost in yield contrasts with slow northern progress.
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England
London
Warning to Young Men About Distressing Diseases
A blunt appeal describes early aging and mental fatigue in young men, warning of wide social harm from prevalent illnesses. It promises a complete scientific treatise sent in plain sealed envelope for ten cents, enclosed with this notice to World's Medical Association at 663 Main St.
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World’s Medical Association
Main St
Minor items of interest from early 1900s notes
Count Szecsen de Temerin dies at Aussee. Li Hung Chang sails from Southampton aboard the St Louis for New York. Slayden Clarkson Robards file a deed of assignment with assets around 20 000 and liabilities 150 000. Captain John Fitzgerald dies. Bishop Spalding to Europe to settle Baron von Zedwitz estate. Drowning death of Herbert B Cook at Briggantine Beach. Buroness Tennyson dies. Irish land bill passes Lords third reading. Congress nominee S S Barney re nominated in Wisconsin. Choynski ready to fight Greggans. Mrs Sanford B Dole aboard Peru. All items are reported with dated context and named individuals.
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Szecsen de Temerin
Aussee
Chamber of Deputies
W. B. Holten Manufacturing Company
Indiggapolis
Agricultural Implements
Li Hung Chang
Southampton
American Line
St. Louis
New York
S. S. Barney
Wisconsin
John Fitzgerald
Milwaukee Ship Yards Company
Lakes
Slayden
Clarkson & Robards
Texas
T. T. Haydock Carriage Company
Cincinnati
Union, Savings and Trust Company
Bishop Spalding
Peoria
Ill
Europe
Baron von Zedwitz
Albert George Whitehead
Portland
Herbert B. Cook
George Harvey Cook
Briggantine Railroad and Transit Company
Briggantine Beach
N. J
Harper's Weekly 1896 Preview Promises Notable Arts and Politics
The 1896 Harper's Weekly announces wide coverage of world events, arts, literature, and drama. It highlights new departments by W D Howells and Caspar Whitney, political cartoons, an independent stance on good government, and forthcoming fiction including Howells’ novel and Crockett’s serial about a Scotch feud.
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Julian Ralph
China
Japan
Richard Harding Davis
Rufus F. Zograum
Frederick Remington
Poultney Bigelow
Kiel Canal
W D. Howells
Lirr
Lervers
E.S. Martin
Worup
Transportation Commission
Caspar W. Whitney
SLORT
W. D. Howells
8. R. Crockett
Harper’s Weekly
Harper's Periodicals Listing for Subscriptions
Advertising notice outlines prices and start times for Harper's magazines and publications. It lists Harper's Magazine, Harper's Weekly, Harper's Bazar, and Harper's Round Table with annual rates and postage terms for subscribers in the United States Canada and Mexico from Harper & Brothers New York.
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Harper’s Magazine
Harper's Weekly
Harper’s Bazar
Harper's Round Table
United States
Canada
Mexico
Harper & Brothers P.O
New York City
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Objects of the Grand Army
Thaddeus S
Auxiliary Societies
Woman's Relief Corps and
Ladies of the G. A. R
Niagara Falls
Nelson Lumber Company
Glencoe, Minn
the Democratic Platform
Ivy
Innsylvanes
Ste
Wdar. Oe
Bat Petia Pe
Joe Choynski
Alexander Greggans
Pacific Coast
Peru
Yokohama
Honolulu
Sanford B. Dole
Hawaiian Republic
Buroness Tennyson
John G. Polhill
Macon
Sar Mahone Rao Hs
Bradfield Regulator CO
Atlanta
Erie Medical CO
Buffalo
Harper & Brothers Harper's Periodicals
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