Clara Barton’s Red Cross Legacy and New Relief Plan
Clara Barton, famed Red Cross founder, leads a new effort to organize hospital corps on railways to speed aid to wreck victims. The article notes Barton’s storied relief work from Civil War battles to Franco-Prussian War and floods, and mentions Mrs. John A. Logan as her close ally in the era’s humanitarian campaigns.
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Clara Norton
Rat Crags
Red Cross
Clara Jarion
John A. Logan
Clara Barton
New England
Hivelihead
Paton
Offee
Washington
Nore
Massachwactia
Army of the Potomac
Cedar Mountain
Antietam
Inredericksburg
Wilderness
Barton
Strasburg
Paris
United States
Mississippi
Ohio
Louisiana
Texas
Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan
Missouri
Kentucky
Sienary
Oxford
Mass
Congress
Jalistowa
Cuba
Galveston
America
United
Anteh
Due-Haly
Miss Barton
Gram
Germany
We Bulperur
Wolprees
Jerusalem
Cyprus
Armenia
Pendalt
Winaiouds
Jotustowi
Mies Bartok
Wiss Barluus
Colonet Hendersons Poem Yea or No Read in Des Moines
An aged poem by Col. D. B. Tenderson titled Yea or No? is revived in Des Moines at a Towan memorial meeting. The piece questions the true road to salvation and moral guidance through a struggle of voice and doubt, ending with a stark call to discernment.
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D. B. Tenderson
Des Moines
Towan
Krakatoa Eruption Described by Sir Robert Dall
Readable excerpt describes Krakatoa eruption of 1883. It notes the vast explosions and sea-darkening dust, the distance sounds traveled to Batavia and beyond, and the creation of atmospheric ripples encircling the globe. Sir Robert Bait of the Earth’s Beginning provides the account.
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Robert Bait
Nrakatog
1. Appleton & Co
Finy
Krakatoa
Sumatra
Java
Wrakatoa
Batavia
Great Britain
Sutmatra
Straits of
Sunda
Krakatod
Krakatua
Kiakdiva
Muulrigace
Vulcanu
Balloon voyage ends with rescue after five hundred mile drift
German aerial corps members Wolff and Brand survived a perilous ascent, blown from Berlin over the Baltic Sea to Sweden, clinging to the balloon rigging for hours above the sea. They finally landed in a snow bank near a Swedish village and walked two miles to safety.
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Wolff
Brand
Berlin
Fin Ballin
Sweden
al- Tooning
Europe
The Tree That Reminded Mirandy of a Jaybird
A dialect exchange notes astonishment at a tree fallen across the road. Mirandy compares it to a jaybird while Si jokes about being sleepy. The speaker urges Nance to proceed, noting the tree’s collapse blocks the path.
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Mirandy
State Names Se Quoin Honor Cherokee Leader Sequoia
A historic article notes the proposed state name Sequoia for a new state as a tribute to Cherokee leader Sequoya. It recalls Sequoyah’s creation of the Cherokee syllabary, his role in education, Bible translation, and the wider use of Indigenous names in states.
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Muntages
Heroken Jenifer
America
George Gist
Sequoia
California
England
Wellingtonia
Union
Delaware
Lord Dale Warr
Pennsylvania
William Penn
George Washington
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Was Witt
Clana Barton and
MES
Colonet
Henderson
Sou
Luis
East Indies
Sir Robert Dall
Edward
Windam
Crear
Moscow
Emperoe
Constantinople
Seeawater
Mece
Siberia
Persia
Ann
Joh
Pike's Peak
Colorado
Atlantic
Pacific
Worida
Indian Ocean
North America
Central America
Fies
Nile Guenther
Vuperius X
Lan Culeage
Ou Guensher
Man of Gueather, Bradford & Co
Leo Bale
Navin
Miss Gueather
Herlin
Uldisego
Wwe
Theas
Krakdius
Celuuin
Owl
Juqtioia
Ber
Hcoranfon
Pal
Barger
Malary Miethe
Lee, Om
Kew
MIU Bape
Ran Uglacer San Plauids
Mele Alta
Kiburee
Ea Elogicivini
O& Calary
Ecw & Buildings
Bis
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