Old Soldier Reunites with Wife After Twenty Years
Henry Ledley, an old Pennsylvania veteran, quietly remarries Minnie Sexer in Wingsville where they first vowed vows over twenty years earlier. After a missing wife, war service, and a Chicago reunion letter, the pair renew their past vows in Squire Offrey's office, rekindling a long-silent romance. The tale spans Beaver County, Gettysburg, and Chicago, ending with a renewed pledge amid hardship and memory.
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Pennsylvania
Henry Lebley
Squire Offrey
Wingsville
Minnie Sexer
Beaver County
Harvey Johnson
Kentucky
Ledley
Minnie
Johnson
Gettysburg
Lee
Henry Ledley
Chicago
Lebley
Mrs. Lebley
Col
Philadelphia Press
Army Romance Honors Private Who Saved Captain In Battle
Captain Price expresses gratitude to Private H. P. Beck who saved his life. Beck, a Western-born soldier in the United States Army, seeks R. W. Heath in McKeesport. From 1873 to 1878 Beck and Heath served together in Company E, Fifth United States Regular Cavalry, on the Western frontier amid campaigns against Sioux and Comanche. The 1876 summer action near the forks of the Yellowstone and Big Horn rivers is noted before the force withdrew.
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George F. Price
Heath
McKeesport
Beck
Price
Prairie Dog River
Kansas
Mr. Heath
R. W. Heath
Boston
Youghiogheny
Pittsburgh
Gazelle
H. P. Beck
United States Army
Far West
Fifth
United States Regular Cavalry
Yellowstone
Big Horn
The Colored Troops During Petersburg Battlefield Era
A Century account describes how black troops reacted to the Petersburg conflict. They gathered by campfire, studied news in silence, then sang in a rising, harmonized chant led by a strong voice. The men, dark and solemn, moved from quivering expectation to a mass chorus as they anticipated their role in the outbreak, ending after the final defeat.
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Petersburg
Erster
Foreign Gossip Highlights Global Oddities and Projects
The 1881 census shows Canada with 4.34 million people. In India many women cannot read or write. German statistics crash through blonde and brunette rates. Stilts spark English leisure, Dundee to London in 28 days. Sheffield gains an art gallery funded by a brewer. Chinese hydrophobia cases end in chains. European swim schools test disaster response. Bulgarian medals multiply. Bulgaria becomes medal-heavy. Dover to Calais steamer promises under-hour crossing. In Culi, women conductors attract male “mosquitoes.” Dublin middle-class mortality soars above professionals. A Nancy ant plague precedes a storm. Russia drills the Pinsk marshes drainage plan, reclaiming millions of acres.
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Canada
India
Boston
Germany
Wright
Sheffield
Eng
China
Vienna
Bulgaria
England
English Channel
Dover
Calais
France
Culi
British Medical Society
Dublin
Nancy
Rainbow Over Stone River Battle Remembered by Soldier
In December 1862 General Rosecrans forces clashed near Murfreesboro during the Stone River campaign. Palmer's Division guarded Stewart's Creek bridge as a rainstorm drenched the field. A brilliant rainbow appeared over the Union retreat, seen as a sign of victory by Lieutenant Ford and Philip Dines of Company B Forty-first Ohio.
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Rosecrans
Nashville
Murfreesboro
Stone River
Hazen
Palmer
Jefferson Pike
Stewart's Creek
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Ford
Philip Dines
Forty-first
National Tribune
Pasteur hydrophobia cure debated by critics
Demorest's Monthly notes that Pasteur's rabies inoculation method faces strong criticism. A British commission reported 2,682 inoculated in fifteen months with 31 deaths, suggesting up to 100 lives saved, yet France's hydrophobia deaths averaged 30 annually, and Pasteur recorded 31 deaths among the inoculated, leaving the cure's effectiveness in doubt and on probation.
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M. Pasteur
Vienna
Imperial Society of Physicians
Pasteur
France
Demorest
The Wonderful Skill of the Headsmen in Japan
A first person account in Gentleman's Magazine details Japanese executions seen on a plateau. The narrator describes bandaged eyes, five men lined up for seven, brutal decapitation with a sword, heads lifted to be displayed, and the crowd's reaction amid merciful but prolonged preparations.
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Gentleman's Magazine
Attractive Izalco Volcano Charms Central America
A San Salvador correspondent recalls Izalco, Central America’s most active volcano, describing its massive church bells, frequent eruptions, and the fiery river beneath. The piece blends travel note with dramatic theater of steam, oil, and ash, ending by downplaying fears of quakes and praising the volcano’s enduring spectacle.
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Izalco
Central America
Izaleo
Rio Caliente
Iyaleo
Mother
San Salvador Cor
Alta California
Home and Farm Tips and Recipes in One Column
A compact roundup of domestic advice from the era covering vanilla flavoring by simmering beans in milk, apple water, cantaloupe ripeness, improvised kitchen setups, and hygienic home care. Includes notes on disinfectants, poultry care, and mosquito remedies, plus small recipes for mackerel, tomato dressings, and corn bread in cups.
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Boston
Prof
Tyndall
Indianapolis Sentinel
Feminine Fancies Dress and Etiquette Notes
Timely notes on dress and etiquette cover checked fabrics draped to flatter tall figures, footwear for country and seaside wear, boating blouses, morning jackets, and Norfolk styles. Nor mandy parasols attract attention in France, wedding invitations evolve slowly, chatelaines remain popular, and a long wearing coat in Clarke County showcases frugal wardrobe choices.
Faith of the CenturionIllustrated in an International Sunday School Lesson
An 1887 Sunday School lesson analyzes the faith of the Gentile centurion who asks Jesus to heal his servant. Jesus praises the man’s faith, stating that it was greater than any in Israel, and replies that healing will occur with just a spoken word. The piece links the centurion’s humility, trust, and submission to God, urging readers to emulate such saving faith and to welcome the Gospel as a feast of joy and abundance.
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S. S
Israel
A. D
Punce—Caperpaum
Sea of Galilee
Capernaum
Jesus
Jehovah
Abraham
Schauser
Centurion
Obscure Household Tips and Gadgets Recounted
A miscellany of home remedies and household notes cover cleaning kettles boiling borax for griddles and wash soda for lamp burners. The column lists uses for tar and varnish, care for underclothes, and plant humidity. It includes health notes on sleeplessness, Hernia treatment praise for a Common Sense Truss Co. work, and a string of ads and quips about travel, horserace wit, and soothing tonics.
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Wales
Ilernia
A. H. Parker
Common Sansa Truss Co
Prexen
Common Sense Truss Co
State Street
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Clarke County
Savannah News
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Lustis Lake Region
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Iowa
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Dakota
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Leston Courter
Burlington
Harvest
BL & Q
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Ulnois
Waterloo Observer
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Hill
Tansill
Ely
SCOR
Fisieves
Manhattan
Schoverling, Daly
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Chambers Street
New York
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Ulle
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Tynierest
Jones
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de. J. Stephens
Brewster Safer
Anyali Hotel and Surgical Institute
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