Confederate Memorial Day Reverence and War Era Ingenuity
Charleston dispatch recalls Confederate Memorial Day as a tribute to southern soldiers and to the women who endured poverty during the blockade. It highlights how wives sisters and daughters improvised daily life from 1861 to 1865 including recipes makeshift dyes and improvised garments and hats while tending the sick and honoring graves at the memorials in the years that followed.
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Charleston
D.v
South
Mecca
Fiora
Timbuktu Reemerges in French Occupation Prominence
Special correspondence traces Timbuktu as a historic Saharan stronghold now reappearing amid French occupation. It notes Timbuktu’s geography, prior rulers, and diverse population including Sourhais Tuaregi Mandingoes Berbish Arabs Bambaraha Falahs and Jews since 1860. It recounts Mordekhai Abi-Serour a Moroccan Jew who via study travel and wit gained entry to Timbuktu and built a small Hebrews colony with help from the Koran.
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Paris
Timbuktu
Niger
Sahara
Sudan
Mordekhai Abi-Serour
Morocco
France
Turkey
Greece
Asia Minor
Jerusalem
Aleppo
Syria
Egypt
Tunis
Algeria
Isaac
Arman
Whae Lamy
Mordekhai
Arnan
Arvan
Paris Geographical Society
Caar Es Syebe
Bishop Polk's Quick Wit at Gettysburg Front Line
Bishop Polk of Louisiana recounts a perilous episode at the battle of Perryville. Mistaking Federal troops for Confederates, he rode up to halt firing, revealed his identity, and brazenly ordered a ceasefire before galloping back to his men, narrowly escaping capture.
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Bishop Polk
Louisiana
Perryville
Liddell
Religious Foot Washing In Paris From the Cathedral
Paris correspondent describes a ceremonial service where twelve indigent men have their feet washed before the cathedral crowd. The archbishop, aided by vicars general, pours water from a golden ewer, wipes with damask towels, and repeats the act twelve times, symbolizing charity and humility. A grand procession and anthem conclude.
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Cathedral
Trouville
Paris
London News
Two Great Days and Ash Wednesday Traditions
A humorous Arizona classroom exchange contrasts Washingtons birthday and Independence Day as four months and 12 days apart in history and arithmetic. The piece then explains Ash Wednesday origins, noting Gregory the Great and the ritual of ashes, cross signs, and palm ashes from the prior Palm Sunday.
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Gregory the Great
St. Lous Republic
Women sweep Spring Hill municipal offices in election
In Spring Hill Kansas on April 8 women were elected to all municipal roles including mayor and police judges. Spring Hill a town of about 700 on the Missouri River Fort Scott and Gulf railroad in Johnson county hosts two chicken banks and thriving mills.
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Spring Hill
Kan
Sping Hill
Missour Tver
Fort Scott and Golf
Johnson County
Chichen Bank
Flourishing Mills
Kansas Exchange
An Eventful Day in the Washington Star Office
An editor exclaims Well, well and calls it a queer experience as the foreman asks What was that There was a moon in here just now who didn't seem to know any more about how a newspaper should be run than I do The Washington Star records a moment of newspaper office humor and confusion.
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Déis
God’s Acre
F. G. B. Fontaine
Washington Star
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