Battle Creek Veteran Recalls Fierce Rifle Duel on Ridge
A former Civil War campaign diary recounts a brutal daytime ascent to a ridge, heavy artillery, and close melee with infantry. The writer describes bayonet charges, gunfire ripping the air, a fateful lull, and waking in a hospital after a seven hour unconscious spell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iit
Ulan
Infantey
Wedal
Aroud
Campany O. Tr
Asd
Jeremi
Wen
M. Quan
Rio Grande Western Railway Promotes Scenic Travel
Advertises travel to the east via the Rio Grande Western Railway offering three routes and scenic views. Encourages sending 25 cents to J. H. Bennett in Salt Lake City for a copy of the illustrated book Utah, a Peep Into the Mountain-Walled Treasury of the Gods.
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Great Rio Grande Western Railway
J. H. Bennett
Salt Lake City
Utah
Beatty's Pianos and Organs Prosper in New Jersey
Hon Daniel F Beatty of Washington New Jersey started as a penniless plow boy in 1870 and built Beatty's Pianos and Organs into a vast enterprise. The article notes nearly 100000 instruments sold since 1870 and plans to reach 200000 more in the next decade, valuing the business at about 20 million dollars.
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Danity
Beatty
Daniel F. Beatty
Washington
New Jersey
Tris
Humorous quips on marriage and stage life from period cartoons
Exchange notes a married life joke, a quick marriage, and backstage anecdotes from Punch and Puck humor journals. A worker laments quitting after risky warehouse stunts while a manager resents improvised props. The bits mix romance, theater, and social manners.
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Wm. Pierson
E. P. Butler
Opera Hones
Reno
Nevada
India
T. V. Julien
Attorney and Coutagior-At-Law
Reno, Nevadag
Wadsworth Saloon
Nicholls
W.N. Linimen
Organs Beatty's
Organs Agi
Daniel ¥. Beatty
Wastington, New Jersey
Tahoe
Salea
Pi Organs
Beatty’s Pianos
Washington, N. J
Waverly
Bremer County
Abraham Blumner
Slimmer
Supervisora
Hime Jy Eve
Cho
Douth
J. I. Horswyper
Pacific Ave
Santa Cruz
Cal
Reading
Ohio
Agor
Ayer
Sidney Carr
Regina St
Harrisburg
C.T. Arnett
Mammoth Spring
Ark
U. S
C.a.snow &Co
Patent Office
Washington, D.C
Robson
Dobson
Pack
Flies
Boards
Puck
Attvoreile
Si Honack
Suse
Ano
William Donaldson
Wadswortis
STAGE
Stillwater, Churchill Co
Agency of
Inurance
Europe
America
Atiithe Express
Fire Association OF Philadelphia
J. M. McCormack
Otto Swanson
Wadsworth, Nevada
Marhet
Swanson
Fice
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