Mother's Wedding Card Sparks Jersey City Social Scene
Thomas E. Grossmith invites prominent guests to the marriage of his mother Marie Louise to Cyrus Mettler at 167 Summit Avenue Jersey City Heights. The bride’s gun was sent with invitations, a promise linked to her late husband, with Mrs Grossmith a noted Jersey City society figure and rose-industry entrepreneur. The event is expected to draw wide attention and be among the era’s largest Jersey City weddings.
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Thomas E. Grossmith
Marie Louise
Cyrus Mettler
Summit Avenue
Jersey City Heights
Jersey City
N. J
New York
Hetty Green's Husband Edward Green Dies at 1821 Birthplace
Edward H. Green husband of Hetty Howland Robinson Green died at his home in Bellows Falls Vermont after months of illness. Born February 6 1821 in Bellows Falls he worked with Dean & Co Boston later London Manila with Russell Sturgis & Co. He married Hetty in 1867 and had two children E H R Green and Sylvia A H Green. He held railroad leadership roles including president of Louisville & Nashville and later Texas Midland. A Washington Star note described prison life contrasts and his comment on prison conditions.
Not 80 Badge Place. A noted crook who recently finished a sentence in the prison at Mounds.
A reformed criminal known for past offenses has completed a sentence at Mounds prison and is now facing unknown future plans. Local officials declined further comment.
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Mounds
Penitential Pillar Raised in Tokyo Temple
Amataro Na gai of Akasaka Ku Japan built a twelve foot high stone pillar costing 1000 yen at the Shounji temple in Tokyo. He created the monument to appease the rats after a citywide hunt and massacres. sleepless nights and nightmares led him to attribute the terror to rat spirits.
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Amataro Nagai
Akasaka-Ku
Japan
Tokio
Work of Electric Plow at Moscow Electric Congress
At the electric congress just held in Moscow an electric motor plow was exhibited which turned a furrow 12 inches deep.
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Moscow
House Once Occupied by Stephen A. Douglas in Chicago
A small frame house on Thirty-fifth Street behind Douglas Monument Park recalls Stephen A. Douglas and possibly Abraham Lincoln visits. It stands out among nearby mansions as one of Chicago’s remaining historic cottages from the era.
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Stephen A. Douglas
Thirty-fifth Street
Chicago
Douglas Monument Park
Abraham Lincoln
Veterans Watches of the Night and Civil War Regimental Tale
A fragmented wartime poem recalls night scenes and a guard’s duty amid shellfire. It later recounts a reunion tale of the Fifty-eighth Massachusetts, detailing brutal Civil War battles from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, with casualties, hardships, and dwindling numbers.
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Massachusetts
Spottsylvania Court House
Read
North Anna
Cold Harbor
Fifty Eighth
Aunt Becky of Civil War Nurse Fame From Des Moines
Des Moines resident Mrs. Sarah Young known as Aunt Becky led a life of Civil War nursing starting at age seventeen. She joined the One Hundred and Ninth New York Volunteers as a regular army nurse, earning the respect of surgeons and soldiers alike from the Wilderness to Petersburg.
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Des Moines
Wilderness
Petersburg
Rebs
Becky
French
Ham
Anne Graham
David Young
Canada
Young
New York
Miles and a Civil War wound recital near McKinley incident
In a Buffalo office discussion on recovery from abdominal wounds General Miles recalls his 1863 Civil War injury near Chancellorsville. He was told he had about forty eight hours to live after a minie ball pierced his abdomen, yet he recovered fully in about three months and was back on his feet. The account is cited from the Medical History of the Civil War via the Philadelphia Ledger.
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President McKinley
Buffalo
Miles
Anderson
Hooker
Chancellorsville House
Philadelphia Ledger
Army Service in Germany Returns to Reichstag
A recent Reichstag return shows 1,645,846 young men were nominally available for German service last year. After deductions for emigration, absences, deferments, voluntary enlistments, and medical or disqualifying reasons, only 222,667 were drafted into the army and 6,184 into the navy.
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Germany
German Empire
Army
Navy
Medal of Honor Hero Recalls Jonesboro Battle
The colonel recounts Sergt Grimshaw earning the Medal of Honor at Jonesboro Georgia for capturing a rebel flag. He notes 135 brigade casualties but reports capturing Gen Govan's brigade with battery and staff. He describes guarding prisoners back to Atlanta and meeting Gen Govan again in peaceful postwar times.
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Sergt. Grimshaw
Jonesboro
Georgia
How Shafter Joined Regulars
After the Civil War, Gen Shafter sought a first lieutenant post in the reorganized army. A congressman with limited army knowledge claimed the rank was full. He offered Shafter appointment as a lieutenant colonel, the next best option, to which Shafter presumably agreed.
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Shafter
Kansas
Airship challenger from Chicago seeks Paris race entry
A Chicago Flying Bird Airship Company head sent a challenge to Santos-Dumont in Paris to enter an airship race as a preliminary to the St. Louis $200,000 aerial Steeple chase of 1903. The Chicago craft, named Chigiko, measures 26 feet, with 12 foot wings, and carries a gasoline motor.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Sintos
Dumont
Deowe
Chateur
Will Labor in the Philippines First Episcopal Bishop on His Way
The Rt Rev Charles H Brent, the first Episcopal bishop of the Philippines, travels to Manila to assume duties. In Chicago he stays with Mr Rockwell King. Brent began his career in Boston in 1888 with the Cowley Fathers, later serving St Stephen's, and St Augustine's for colored congregants, before his elevation to bishop last year. The article includes long aside on banana yields and tropic prices from Longman's Magazine.
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Charles H. Brent
The
Philippines
Manila
Chicago
Brent
Rockwell King
Boston
Society of St. John the Evangelist
Cowley Fathers
St. Augustine’s Church
Phillips Brooks
Massachusetts
St. Stephen’s Church
Drink of the Country Impresses German Guests in Cincinnati
Admiral Evans escorted Prince Henry and suite to sample 20 year old bourbon. The Germans, served in goblets, learned to take small nips after a toast. General Corbin and others watched as the group eventually enjoyed the drink and even took several cases home.
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Cincinnati
Evans
Prince Henry
Corbin
Almiral von Seckendorff
Therfs
Washington
New York World
Impossible Search For 37 Children Haunts 84 Year Old Mother
Mrs. Mary Elvira Gillespie, 84, hospitalized in Denver, claims to be mother of 37 children born after her marrying Col. William Gillespie of Virginia. She notes fifteen pairs of twins around the Civil War era, nearly all survived to maturity but were sent away to fend for themselves. She says she does not know where any of her offspring reside.
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Mary
Elvira Gillespie
Denver
Col
William Gillespie
Virginia
Vicksburg
The Musa Banana’s Named After Antonius Musa
Linnaeus notes the banana Musa honors Antonius Musa, the freedman physician to Augustus. The phrase sapien tum suggests the name carries wisdom in its lineage and tribute.
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Musa
Antonius Musa
Augustus
Linnaeus
Sapientum
Keene States Belief In Direct Charity Over Organizations
James R. Keene, a noted spéculator and sportsman, argues charity should aid immediate needs. He favors feeding the hungry, clothing and coal for the cold, and helping those in actual want regardless of past faults, while criticizing bureaucratic charities and red tape.
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James R. Keene
Burman War Cost Repaid to England
Burman pays for itself as Burma has already repaid all of England’s outlay from the third Burmese war and subsequent actions.
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Burma
England
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