The First Thanksgiving and the New England Story
A historic passage celebrates the first Thanksgiving and the Plymouth settlers. The poem recalls harsh beginnings, life on the frontier, and faith guiding miles of migration across the Atlantic. It highlights Native and settler struggles, the growth of towns, and gratitude to God for a fruitful harvest and peaceful beginnings.
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Bey
House of Prayer
Goa
Ting
Atlantic
Aldo
Pacitc
The Glove Ball and Frontier Hearts at West Point
A long reminiscence recalls a cavalry wedding at West Point with Agnes Royston and Dick Grahame. Tales of desertion, frontier skirmishes, and romantic pursuit intertwine with ball gowns, gems, and a roguish glove that sparked a saved dance. The narrator laments lost days, honors old companions, and vows to remember a bright romance amid war’s shadow.
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Tee
Ball
McSawbones
Gragrew
Char
Royston
McLan
Agnes Royston
Hern
First Cavalry
Mise Royston
Apo Shiney
Ted
McCarty
MacCarty
Dick Grahame
Maricopa
Doring
Boyd
Mies Royston
Junkin
San Diego
Americ
Weat Point
Hallett
Zion
Jankins Walteod
Perkin
McLaw
McDowell
Royaston
Tosh
Washington
Tas
White Mountain
Arizona
Charger
Merrifield
Sidney
McCarthy
Jimmy Hawkins
Rosebud
Grehame
Philip Hallettity
Grahame
Hobson
Roo's
Rudiger
Stern
Pili
Iss Agnes An
Noes
Fordid
Yuma
Wickenburg
Aribrook
Mohavé
Prescott
Maricopa Wells
Zona
Tom Burke
San Francisco
Thomas
Tucson
New York
Gerais
Pierel
San
Diego
Hai
Francisco
Royal
Montezuma
Vnitia
Harold Royston
Mini
Miss Aguas
Alexander
McSewbones
Dick Grab
Sis Othuee
Cevt
Semarang
Ana Dows
Man- Canyon
Gila
McDowell Road
Sahara
Icoua
Oasis
Berecott Sopraia Peice
I. Aricops
Cauijur
Oues
Salt River
Gerald
Dick Graf
Thad
Eudut
Red Devils
Eva
Jove Hallett
Old Nada
Fashionable Kinks and Industrial Education Echoes
The item surveys lavish late 19th century fashions from water-lily candleholders and mother-of-pearl busts to novel ball invitations and silk accents, then shifts to a long discussion of insanity rise, general paresis, and industrial education under the 1862 land grant act, detailing schools like MIT, Hampton, Worcester Free Institute, and railroad shop programs.
MIMICRY IN NATURE. Rare butterfly collection voyage
Rev. W. J. Holland displays a Suffolk report of new butterfly specimens from China Japan Africa and Europe. Among them are six species new to science from the Siam fatuna group and about five hundred fifty specimens sent by Rev B C Henry, former Sharpsburg missionary now in Hainan China. Holland explains mimicry as females resembling immune males or natural objects to evade birds. The collection totals 639 North American specimens with a goal of 750,000, to be reached in the era of his great great grandson.
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W. J. Holland
Bellefield Presbyterian Church
China
Japan
Africa
Switzerland
B. C. Henry
Cross and
Dragon
Sharpsburg
Hainan
Henry
Holland
Siam
da Chailly
Madagascar
Arctic
Mr. Holland
Greenland
Pennsylvania
Texas
America
Rio Grande
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazelle
Senguine Legend of a Confederate General and a Modest Stranger
A Arkansas Traveler item recounts a Hot Springs meeting between a Confederate General and a quiet Irish prizefighter. After losing ten billiard games for ten dollars, the General is challenged to a boxing match and is knocked down multiple times. The stranger reveals he lives in Ireland and is a prize-fighter, leaving the General humbled and noting some men can whip him.
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Preacaer
Ani
Ireland
Arkansaw Traveler
Shake and Shake's bogus pennies shock Sunday school
Sergeant Bendall confronts Mr Dander about Shake passing counterfeit money at the Sunday school fund. Mr Dander reveals Shake hid and spent the coinage while his father plans to discipline him, joking about gas meters and a future another misstep.
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Dander
Jake
Sergeant Bendall
Dunder
Shake
Detrow Press
Swiss Army Enlists Three Races Under One Name
The article details the Swiss Federal army in Vaud with three distinct racial components serving under a single banner. It explains the defensive-only mandate, age service from twenty to forty four, and cadet training from ages ten to eighteen. Volumes of manpower include elite, landwehr, and future landsturm totals, plus pay scales and the annual cost to the confederation. It notes the Wettern rifles as a local innovation and mentions broader economic and industrial snippets from the period.
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Vaud
Switzer
Federal Army
Landwehr
Landsturm
Russia
United States
Alleheny Mountains
Missouri
Cleveland
Toledo
St. Louis
McKean
Lycoming
Pittsburgh Post
Tammie Curtis
Jacob Curtis
Monroe
Belfast
Curtis
Hitler
Russian Guards Through the Ages The 1691 to 1878 Service record
A dense ledger of the Russian Guards chronicles their baptism of fire in 1695 to 1696, through Narva 1700, Poltawa, Viborg, and subsequent battles including Pultawa, Prat, Batten, and Ostrolenka. It notes key campaigns at Ansterlite 1805, Friedland, Borodino, Leipzig 1813, and Paris. Separate entries cover Varna 1828, Hassan Kala, Szimanowo, Ostrolenka, Wi saw assaults, Polish insurrections 1863, and the 1877-8 war.
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Narva
Ansterlite
Friedland
Borodino Ia
Bautzen
Culm
Leipsie
la Fere Champenoise
Paris
Iba
Turkey
Varna
Hassan Larom
Pas
Szimanowo
Stydy Ostrolenka
Wisaw
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N. ¥. Mail and Express
Kington
Bayle
Caemeil
John McCullough
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Fox
Davenport
de Bar
Keene
McCullough
Campbell
Acores
Secretary of the Interior
Massachusetts Institute of ‘Technology
Boston
Hampton Institute
Hampton
Virginia
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Houiitia Institute
S. C. Armstrong i
Armstrong
Essi
Fort Monroe
A. E. Macdonald
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Ward's Island
Itme
Hese
Worcester
Mass
Carriage Makers’ Association
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Chicago
Cambriat Ron
R. Hoe & Co
Prnneriania
Baltimore & Ohio
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Stevens Institute
New York Board of Education
Free College
Industrial Education Association of New York
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R. T. Auchmuty
Ing. Czar
Duke
Woodward Avenue
Detroit Free Press
Charlestown
Minneapolis
Franklin Street
Chicago Herald
Morocco
Arese
Pharoah
Old Court House
Plymouth
N. H
Daniel Webster
Senator Blair
Shakespeare
Ccahile Shing
Howeene
Alleghany Valley
Pennsylonia
Shanghai
Minneapolia
Chicago Tribune
Augusta
Parker
Troy
Somerville Journal
Iphia
Ier Iid
Sevier Bene
Ell Courier
Loston Post
George
New Haven
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