Col Ware's Pension Offer Ties to Education Effort
The National Tribune notes Col Eugene F Ware ex pension commissioner and Kansas veteran who earned a captain’s rank in the Ninth Infantry began a pension to aid Laura Mary Ramsey a 12 year old neighbor’s education. Ramsey plans to bank the funds until completing Topeka school.
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Eugens F. Ware
Kannan
The
National Tribune
Colorado
Eugene FP. Ware
Zauram Ramier
Wilson's Creek
Ware
Laura Mary Ramsey
Kansas
Philippines
Scott
West Point
Ninth
United States Infantry
Laura
Topeka
Furlough Tales and Other Civil War Anecdotes
A collection of brief items: Maj. Hamilton's note on restricted furloughs during Civil War times, featuring Dalgetty who misinterprets questions about his grandmother's death, a Spanish American War fern seller mocked for not joining the army, and a Cambridge professor Charles Eliot Norton celebrating his eightieth birthday at Shady Hill. Also mentions William KR Smith, a longtime Washington garden superintendent.
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Hamilton
Dalgetty
Lewistown
Charles Eliot Norton
Shady Hill
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Archaeological Institute of America
William KR. Smith
Washington
Ite
Carpenter of Missouri Civil War surgeon writes memoir
The eighty two year old Col Seymour Carpenter, veteran surgeon and medical director for Missouri, releases a history of the Carpenter family in America and his Civil War recollections. He recalls service in the Army of the Potomac, the duel with Fayetteville and Prairie Grove battles, and a striking account of Maj Ezra Fitch at Fayetteville, along with other wartime scenes and the family lineage.
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Adam
Chicago
Zearng
Col
Seymour 0
Carpenter
Department of the Missouri
Republic
Missouri
Minsouri
Mississippi
Washington
Bull Run
Fayetteville
Prairie Grove
Cabell
Col. Harrison
First Arkansas Cavalry
Ezra Fitch
Maj. Fitch
Mr. Carpenter
Waling
Flanders
Ine
Pattern No 456 and 0957 Children and Women Suit Details
A pattern page describes Pattern No 456 A pink and white silk dress with pink satin trim deep tucks and a brow sailor neckline options high or V cut open sleeves with bows. Materials include French flannel cashmere China silk dimity and a note on yardage. Pattern No 0957 shows a little boys white serge suit with a trimming band and deep plait along the front.
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Patinen
Aize
Palwrn
Pattern Pattern and Carnegie Joke Feature in Waste Page
The article describes a child’s garment pattern with measurements and fabric options and notes pattern pricing and ordering. It shifts to a humorous quote from Andrew Carnegie about a joke during a visit to Bidbe Castle, recounting a motorcar outing with a Montenegran prince and Highlanders. It ends with a brief incident of a man strangling a wildcat with a dinner plate.
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Mr. Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Pittsburg
Bidbe Castle
Carnegie
Poverty in English Cities Versus American Slums
A critique contrasting England’s London slums with New York and American wealth. It laments brutal poverty visible in estates and streets, noting how affluent areas overlook misery as it spills into parks, squares, and airports of English cities, and cites Edinburgh Glasgow and Dublin as examples.
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England
New York
London
East End
Mayfair
Fifth Avenue
Long Island
New Jersey
Park Lane
Bond Street
Strand
Piccadilly
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Dublin
American Magazine
Martyr to Home Cooking in Royal Magazine Snippet
A humorous Royal Magazine fragment depicts a young housewife and husband debating desserts and recipe mishaps with playful misprints. Jokes about cooking expertise, confessional notes on recipes, and domestic banter reflect light social satire of home life.
Five Months in Hospital Told by York City Man
Tevi P. Brockway of Second Ave Avoka Minn says after five months in hospital he was discharged as incurable and given six months to live. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills for restoring health and cites dramatic prior kidney and eye issues, with testimonials and other assorted notices and jokes following.
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Artilery
Tevi P. Brockway
Dean
Foster-tiburn Co
Buffalo
J. B. Renaud
Montana St
Montreal
Que
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Col. Ware
Balgetty
Wade
Col. Carpenter
Pall Mall Gazette
Starunia
Worsley
Lord Ellesmere
Worsley Hall
Worsley Village
Duke of Bridgewater
Our Pattern Department
Ladies’ Morning Jacket
Frank Snellen
Shamoki
Market Reports
Cincinnati
Louisyiter
Hay
Timothy
Milny
America
Noth
Royal Magazine
Mr. Hayseed
Willie
Vinece
Chicago Daily News
Diplomat
Tommy—Solomon
Tommy
Mia
Eczema
Cuthura
Hvery
Breddy
Clemente” Soreunde
Reuben Broomie
Sint Capital
N.W. Was
Jackson
Wilson
Gricet
Briges
N. Y. Sun
Henry Clews
Union Club
Anander
Mr. Clews
Boyd
Ficheney
Toledo
Alfa
Kaven F
Chiney
Kelieve
Mletint
Watpne Kinnan
Mawii
Olen
Setlig Streety
Bold Eye
Mim
Martha Higgins
Marxley
Horaukhs
Sydney
Fic
Indy
Traup
Humanity
Romo
Wiettughagain
Golden Silence le
Dodds
Lemay
Auldiers
Sun
Nebraska
Zeit
Borax
Pacific Coast
Dorax CO
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