Savage traps and heroics in Samar island fighting
Civilians and soldiers recount brutal defensive tricks used by Samar insurgents against a small U.S. column. Pitfalls with spearheads smeared in poison, planked vines that whip soldiers, and crushed river crossings submerge the troops as steadfast confrontations unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samar
Brier-Crown
Ek Ie
Calbayoc
Downs
Hughes
Waller
Rey
Pambouhan
Baiangiga
Iir
Downe
Rioting and labor strife roiled Chicago and California
The passage recalls widespread unrest with 18 teabers across the West, heavy rioting in Chicago and California, and state militia deployments. Pullman workers returned to old wages on Sept. 27 after walking out June 24, with multitudes of wage and property losses totaling millions. It also discusses the deodand law for deadly accidents and its abolition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
California
United States
Pullman
Banking in Babylonian tablets at University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Albert T. Clay and Prof. Herman V. Hilprecht study 740 Murashu tablets from Nippur Babylonia. About 120 deciphered, revealing mortgages, deeds, leases and merchant guarantees dating before Christ. New volumes will publish more records and illuminate life under Artaxerxes and Darius II. further tablets await publication as excavations continue in Constantinople and with Turkish consent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University Bulletin
Albert T. Clay
Herman V. Hilprecht
University of Pennsylvania
Murasha Sons
Nippur
Babylonia
Hilprecht
University
Clay
Bel-hatin
Belnadinshumu
Murlashu
Artaxerxes
Darius II
Christ
Murashu
Constantinople
Abraham
Over Napoleons Route Lodge in Scribners Magazine
Senator Lodge surveys Napoleon route from Warsaw to Moscow as rail line mirrors the grand army path. The flat monotonous landscape, birch and pine forests, and marshes frame a reflection on Napoleons military genius and the enduring aura of his campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Lodge
Scribner's Magazine
Warsaw
Moscow
Napoleon
Grand Army
Caesar
Alexander
Hannibal
United States
Canadian North America
Russia
Europe
Asia
Peter the Great
America
Also Mentioned on This Page
Glhond
Pacific
Sendas
Brialmont
Francis Schoeffel
Ninth Infantry
Schoeffel
Lang
Balangiga
Calbany
Wallace
Gandara
Lucban
Little Dog
Diosdios
Calhayor
Smith
Lukban
Manila
Questions and
Sempere
C. E
Takahira
Oliver Goldsmith
The
Hermit
Ajax
B. B
Shakspeare
W. C. Shakspeare
William Camden
Nashville
L. A
England
Order of Victoria and Albert
Sa ‘Hake Order of the Garter
Darboy
Alaska
Dickens
Scott
Friederich Wilhelm Hacklaender
Canada
Bertha M. Clay
Bertha M. Cley
Victoria
Edward VII
Edward
Joseph H. Choate
London
Charlemagne Tower
St. Petersburg
New York
J. M
Queen Alexandra
King Edward
Dagmar
Denmark
Alice
Hesse
Cecil Rhodes
Lord Rosebery
Berkeley Square
Earl Grey
Howick House
Lesbury
Northumberland
Lord Milner
Government House
Johannesburg
Transvaal
South Africa
Alfred Bell
Park Lane
W. London
B. F. Hawksley
St. Swithin‘s Lane
E. C. London
L. L. Mitchell
Standard Bank
Cape Town
Dr. L. S. Jameson
United States Circuit Courts
China
Swedish Academy of Sciences
Caroline Institute
Stockholm
Stockholm Academy
Storthing
Ea T—W.om. A
Pullman Company
American Railway Union
Eugene V. Debs
Pullman Care
Ued
Lie
the “Gibson Girl
Ferris
Just Wright
Oxfords
Washingtons
Geo. J. Marott
East Washington ST
Babylon
Indianapolis Journal
Cram
Atlas of the World
Morocco
Atlas Department
Indianapolis
Ind
the Journal
Indianapolis, Ind
Sinal Allegretti
Seoiel Orrine
Huder
Washington
Pennsylvania
School OF Magic
William A
Seuwers
C.aneshaensel & CO
Ohio Street
Wegman Pianos
Carlin & Lennox
East Market Street
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!