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\The Best Medicine I Have Ever Tried At Any TimeI FeelWellNeverFeltBetterThanksTo Perunaj Mrs. K. r. Kv*rly. No. 2120 X Fifth [St., Rhllndclplitu, Fx, says: *1 Mi well, never frit belter, thanks f«,r yvar [ attention and I'erunx I will )«* glad to do all 1 c*au in the way of advancing the Milt* n£ your valuable medicine. I do think iVrunu the best medicine 1 have Iried at any time. Since 1 be-gun taking iVrana we have never been without it/'Mrs. Kiln Mlakcll, R. P. I). Hox SO. SioUsburg, Ind.. writes: *1 suf-ft'feil Tuc two years with catarrh hi the head. I tried every known remedy, but gradually grew worse. After taking Peruna 1 am entirely well.at its dedication. May 10, lSt*4. Tbe women were spurred to their effort by the publication of an advertisement to sell the grave suit the lot on which it is located to the highest bidder at public auction. Only a few feet from the monument is ■‘Meditation rock/' where .Mary Washington was foml »f silting while raiding ami meditating aiid giving herself In prayer for her distinguished sun and the miuse for which he was battling. The lour great oaks, nut less than 2U years Old, which ere grouped about the rock and which shaded her. still stand. Her home in the city has been preserved, the women again coming to the rescue- A charge of leu cents Is made for going through the moms, the money l»t-mg used In the upkeep of the property. The room where she. died Is arranged ;nft as she left it. This high post mahogany bed with Us two feather muttn-sses made llic bed su high that a two-step footstool was Used tu help the lady climb onto it at night.CsiiKelliTh»j Washington Home.T-. , i. . , .. ., ... The Washington home farm Is lustThose who object to liquid mcd.eine* across „K. riw. it was at this home.can now procuro Peruna Tablets.Fredericksburg, The Most Historical Small Citu in the United StatesWASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 20. EdltCr JournaJ-Gazette:Too people of the United State* luck cuitiment. i guess It is because wo arc so young. Although In dimensions we are a giant among nations, ■we aio but a mere buy in years. Wo aro materialistic, wo haven’t lime t» Venerate the past. This was Impressed upon me in a \islt I have Just made to Fredericksburg, Va. How few uC us know the priceless historical as-tjocluliona of this little city of fi.OOO jjoculfl-Von on the Rappahannock river! I am ashumed myself to admit that fifty-three years have passed Since my last visit to the town, whloli was December I- and 13, 1 won-.In company with some rto.000 otuer union sotdWs, under the lead uf General Ambrnro Burnside, to call upon General Robert B. Deo nml his confederate btelUrcn. Tludr reception was flo warm and they kept us ho busy talking over matters xvc met to Ci.setins tliat I had little opportunity even then for looking around or delving into the very many interesting facts connected with its history.This Rappahannock river, so namedfrom n Iribo of Indians which dwelt along Us banks, is but some 300 feet fide at this point, but Is navigable or barges and small boats. At the earext point the Potomac Is but sonic htfcen miles from the city, but the ppahannock flows southeastward for miles before emptying into thativor. For 100 year*: before the war redcrlcksburg was a place of much umnerclal importance, trading larger - wlLh the country to the west as far r'iis tho Blue Ridge mountains. It was Vfpunded in 1727 and so long before the ^•Jidston tea parly that in the loyalty ‘.-of Its founders for the British crown lhey nrnned it after Frederick, the son Tl.George th© Second, and one of its iain streets was called Princess Anno fitreeL- And yet it was one of the ftfpys who grew to manhood In this ffiffttvwho was destined to lead tho itxnios of the revolution in the sur-msbCuI effort to throw off tho govern-keht of our mother country. f£Xhe first resolution declaring Araor-feaji: Independence was passed at feedarlckflburg, April 27, 17.75. twenty,-on© days before the next earlier.P.-6 even presidents of the United Btatea werd either born in Fredericksburg dr within a short distance of it, ljutd, three of tho country's great mili-‘iry Tenders. •*|:-Jobn Paul Jones, who raised thel.rst flag In iTif over our Infant navy, was a FivderioksbiirB num. and the house in which be lived still stands.Prlt;*si.b.iit Jamey Madison, burn near ihis city, gave to th,* country the constitution of the United Suites.I 'rcHhJent J nines llonrne. fnr many years a citizen of Fredericksburg, was the author of the Monroe doctrine, and he thereby pn: pared hln country for an unmerciful licking sometime from Germany or Japan, or possibly from *m awakened China, if We arc not wlso enough tu mnko propor preparation to defend oil raid vex and tu enforce that Monroe doctrine—on* of tlio must tremendous and far-reaching declarations ever gl 'vii to ihc world In uU Hh his-tory. The Mon rue house .still stands, now inhabited by colored people. 1 gladly paid the ten cents tho old mammy charged for allowing mo through Hit* rooms.Fredericksburg contains the tallest and most Imposing monument ever erected to u womun; to Mary Washington. the mother of George. It stands fifty ffcet high and Is of Barre granite. The short Js forty feet high, the longeet piece or JSurre granite I nave ever semi. The women of the United Stales reared this monument and Vresident Cleveland was presentCapt. Frieda Muller Commands Red Cross Dogs in German Armystill standing, where George and his hnirhei got busy on tho cherry tree, and in owning up that he chopped It. and sayiny. “C enmiot tell a lie. fur-iilHhr l that bright and useful lessen hi truthfulness that has since been impressed on all American children— Cfl|lt;i-inlly buys. As a yuuLli Georgo prided himself on hLs strong right arm and i r.ce thrnv :t silver dnilnr across tin* river while standing On the bluff in fiout of the Washington home. In *'i*r day In* might be eligible as a 1-Itch or for the Fort Wayne nine.After the death of Washington's talker the widow moved over into her 1*1 ty homo and it ivas tu these 1wi lunnrH in which Wushlngton was reared.If:inff «need xv ahLc‘77’’[rimphreys’ Seventy-seven |.;F6r Grip, Influenza,OLDSlehtlon any sickness from Sprue to ^.and every one has a pet remedy {commend..il - •- .■ .ientlon a-J •rr.?, - •rtT. .every'^seven” as their own particularCold or the Grip and recommends “Sev-onejniedy-3-get the best results, take “Sev-£aevMi” at the first feeling of aColonel Fielding Lewis.ColoiiH Fielding Lewis, an olllccr hi our revolutionary army, and who columnndcd a division In tho «lcgc of lorK-town. where Oornwalllx surren-oor^.l, marrloil lleltlc Washington. Gfovgna HiHtcr, and took her as a bride lu ■•Keninorn. a henulifui colonial hnine on l^wJs street, built in 1741), which still staails lu perfect preservation the one* of whichTt 1« built having been brought from England.■'Chatham.”About a ixillo .further up the river from ihc Washing ton farm is o. mansion rolled ‘'Cliatham,'' built in 17J0 by Will lam Fltzhugh. Thn houae was p.anned by the famous Sir Christopher Wmm and first Introduced into this counlry what we know as tho colonial .,arclhLcoti|Te. n wan at CliaOmm that General Washington disc paid court to widow CurtJs and in later years General Robert 13. Lee, of cuufotlerate fame, courted bin wife, a nleco of Mrs. Fltr.hugh, and Jt was upon these grounds that president Lincoln reviewed a portion of the Army of Urn Potomac, the clay before the disastrous battle of Fredericksburg. Thn houso still stands, Ilnclv preserved.RiBing Sun Tavorn.This tavern, at which Waxhinglon. ±z. ray otto and other colonial patriots wen* frequently entertained, has also been preserved and is cared for bv tbo Society for the Preservation of Virginia AntiqulLies. In revolutionary times it was owned and kept by General George Weedon.Th mI a Ixlne hrali hue*itm'y hegii Karin you;' You* tinnc on n a in;cd,thatlogs' feel your To mail Kell-bosc Kisii or li get T» ton© D. .Drol A. fc 6o:'.' andF.23ehwiloictui;NifitItClClIrRAULEm rraEPA ImULLEO*!rou wait, till your bones ache, tillmay take)Ugh. and sneeze, it■.... v--). • ,l£nd $1.01), at all druggistsorphroys’ Homeo. Medicine iam street. New Tork.Co..Ranking as a captain, in th© German array, Frauleln Frieda Muller has charge of all the German Red Cross dogs in the eastern war zone. Marvelous stories have reached America of the sagacity or these animals in searching for and succoring wounded men. Other armies tbRn tho German, aru making use of tho trained dogs, but the Teutons have seemingly brought tho training of the animals to a higher point than have any others..*$ rtV. -'KERMAN, The FurrierWishes to call yotir attention in regard to the repairing and rc-modeling of your Furs. If you wantGeneral Hugh Mercer.General Hush Mercer, killed at the battle of Princeton ir, 1777, was a resident of Fredericksburg. Soon after bis death congress appropriated a sum for the erection of a monurncat to his memory in his home city. For a hundred years the appropriation was in florae way lost sight nf. but was at last found and the monument erected in 1906. It. stands on Washington ava.-nuc near to the monument of Mary Washington. We'll guarantee Con-Cyrus Clino if ho will get a $25,000 appropriation out of congress for an equestrian statue to GeneralHVnry W. X, aw ton that we will not loaesight of it for a hundred years aa was thu case with that to General Mercer.The City Hall.Ihc city hall wig built in 1S13 and when General Lafayette visited thi“ country in 1824 a grand ball and re-ccption was giver, to him in lhat building. I went into It and had a talk with the city manager, for you must know Fredericksburg was among :he first of American cities to adopt that plan. After I camo out I usked aevt-rsl citizens how they were pleased wita the plan. It's the only way to goyern a city.” they said; we never before made so much progress and wc get x*alue received now for every* dol-!» ,of Unxea we pay. We wouldn’t think of going back to the old way.”The Slave Block.On the sidewalk in front of one of tho hotels ie n stone block about thirty inches high, having one step cutIS !t Wn9 th* bloolc °n whichtney made the slave to stand, where the bidders might all see him. while he was being sold. These were men. women and children that were thus traded In. After the sale I wonder whether a fellow wouldn't have started something if h© had mounted that block and read the declaration of independence—“All men are created equal, with the right to freedom and the pursuit of happiness.” elc.Fredericksburg \n the War.Four great battles of the rebellion xvere fought in Fredericksburg and adjoining it—Fredericksburg, Chancel-lorsville. Spotsylvania and the Wilderness. More men it Is waid were killed upon this small four-cornered piece of ground than any similar space in all-1he world's history, at least up to the present European war. The dead of tho two armies in these four battles numbered 103,242. An automobile trip of thirty-three miles takes you around ail four of these battlefields.V,tior10 put ink try sue urnforthewitmaquadeitoSigSCOgarboielc11 nfJoftinnisw*trl-thiarrdo:setIniIS.1alllOjardoC0‘D.BeD.01Ju:Cifcbui)ArcolieprcaOfdrla:prMB.GiradaMA.so yon can see how closely together '.hey xverc fought. At the Union National cemetery hero more than 15.000 of these arc buried. At the confederate cemetery nearly 3,000.Tho Stars and Bars.A veteran eon federate hud died and been buried the day before my visit. On the new-made grove, covered with floral pieces, were two small silk confederate flogs, showing the love of tlic old soldier for the colors under which he fought. In spite of this these confederate soldiers are now thoroughly devoted to the Stars and Stripes and if this government of ours were attacked from whatever source would be among the first to urge their children to spring to its defense.DAVID X’ FDRTFRleiikiKmIKik.orlo]«h'aratcoofd*NSGininoflbinaim
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Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Sun, Oct 03, 1915
Page 4
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