Reliving Civil War Days by a Hermit Soldier in Fairmount Park
Maj James H. Warkman, a Civil War veteran, camps alone in a Fairmount Park ravine to relive battle memories beside a roaring campfire. Surrounded by imagined comrades, he endures winter in solitude while his wife and friends support his hermit pursuit of the open air life.
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Wiaesses
James H. Wark- Man
Bret
Major
Major Evenjares
Libby Prison
Carnate
Sherman
Grint
Fairmount Park
Philadelphia
New York Tribune
Rash’s Lancers
Ince
Lancers
Union
Inspiring Charge Across Lookout and Mission Ridge
A Civil War correspondent recalls First Brigade of Carlin’s First Division under Thomas in the Army of the Cumberland joining the Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge assaults. They formed after breakfast, charged under heavy fire, and swept Confederate forces from the ridge, with Hooker’s role limited to Lookout Mountain while Thomas’ troops carried the ridge’s ascent.
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Lookout Mountain
Mission Ridge
National Tribune
Carlin
Fourteenth Corps
Thomas
Missionary Ridge
Hooker
Ocen
Lookout
Army of the Cumberland
Gen. Grant
Ordera
Confederate Retreat From Ridge Under Dark Clouds
Soldiers describe climbing steep slopes to aid Hooker, carrying cartridges as dusk falls. Confederates pull back from the mountain during the night while the Union flag rises atop the palisades. The narrator anticipates the next move toward Mission Ridge and notes the blue lines extending northward.
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Hooker
Liine
Mission Ridge
Miljeu
Woman's rising power outsupplanting man says professor
Professor Charles F. Zeub Un of the University of Chicago told a Minneapolis audience that man’s supremacy is fading and women now rival or surpass men in mental and moral strength. He argued women are often physically weaker but mentally and morally stronger, with women approaching equal or superior status.
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Charles F. Zeub UN
University of Chicago
Minneapolis
Deeds Land to Government on Mt Tamalpais
William Kent of Chicago now Kentfield California deeded 295 acres of redwood forest on the southern slope of Mt Tamalpais six miles from San Se to the United States government. The tract is intended as a national monument known as Muir Woods after naturalist John Muir.
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William Kent
Chicago
Kentfield
Cal
United States
Mt Tamalpais
San Se
Mutt Woods
Jonn Muir
Silent Assyrian Wedding Ceremony Unfolds in Milwaukee
A rare Assyrian marriage took place in Milwaukee with bride Litsle Merraan Me errian Heide following a three day silent period as required by custom. The ceremony involved hundreds of guests, distinct gendered rooms, handkerchief lifting to the ceiling, and a banquet of forbidden Western foods, ending with separated dancing by gender.
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Milwaukee
Litsle Merra
Amy
Anayrta
Thromed Queet
Milwanker
Fifth Street
Wells
Cedar
Chicago
Excanaba
Mari Nell
Yrewento
Wichard Frenn
Platform Inspector Eggleston Faces Theft Allegations
William F. Eggleston a Great Northern railway platform inspector is remanded at Retford England over alleged theft of items including costumes cigars cameras and cheese from the platform his case involves multiple articles and suspect status awaiting further court action
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William F. Eggleston
Great Northern Railway
Retford
England
Widow Sophia Crotto in Old Quebec Feels Decline
Mrs Sophia Crotto age 105 residing in old Quebec is described as having good voice and appetite but failing faculties. She prays daily to le bon Dieu to take her.
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Sophia Crotto
Quebec
Poor Reward for Writers in London Bookman Motto
The London Bookman notes that pursuing letters for livelihood seldom pays. With talent and means, success may come in ten years, otherwise a modest clerkship awaits. It cites Euripides on goodness dying with the dead and contrasts the fates of the good and the bad.
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London Bookman
Old Settler of Virginia Finds Health Through Kidney Pills
A lengthy mixed-clipped item recalls an 87 year old man from Salem Virginia praising Down's Kidney Pills after long suffering from kidney troubles and other ailments. The piece also includes assorted anecdotes about education, epitaphs, eczema cures with Cuticura, and a Texas revival story featuring a humorous racial vignette.
The Doctor's Gift Food Worth Its Weight In Gold
A patient relates how a doctor prescribed Grape Nuts to cure chronic indigestion and biliousness. After starting the food, symptoms faded within four months, energy and mental clarity returned, and the patient felt renewed vitality.
Winter Wheat I6 Doing for Southern Algesta
Splendid crops on the Canadian West ranching plane show winter wheat districts now top yield ranges from 30 to 60 bushels per acre. Reports from Magrath and Lethbridge detail averages of 35 to 45 bushels per acre with strong per-acre values and rising land prices. Witnesses from several farms cite substantial profits from wheat, oats, and barley, with notes on improved yields and growing acreage.
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Casade
Ramching
Fray Bis
H. Howes
Magrath
Albey
Western Canada
J. F. Hayeork
J. F. Mendshaw
Meerath
Bicherod
Yar Uushel
North Dakota
Bradshaw
Mineritt
Bays
Ous
Spring Coulee
Alberta
W. J. Thompson
Reduced Colowist Rates and Tours Advertised
Reduced colowist rates listed for March on the North Western Line with special low fares from Chicago to destinations including Los Angeles and Puget Sound. Also promotes tours and sleeping car travel, plus a Rural New Yorker sales pitch and miscellaneous notices and advertisements.
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Coe Way
Vale
Aif Pofete
North Western
Francines
Los Angeles
Puget Bownd Jolnia
Chicago
Union Pacific
Mark S
Eave
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