Tammany Monument at Gettysburg Honors Forty-second New York
The Forty-second New York volunteers, known as the Tammany regiment or Jackson Guards, receive a monument at Gettysburg on October 22. Tammany Hall organized and funded the monument with a cost of 8500 dollars, aided by notable city leaders. The dedication features officers from New York, including Major Peter Bowe and Colonel J J Motuct, with speeches by General Sickles and Colonel John R Fellows. The regimental history notes service from Ball’s Bluff to Petersburg, with 420 killed or wounded of 1210 enrolled.
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Forty-second New York Volunteers
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Tammany Society
New York City
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Tammany Soci
Tammany Monument
Sachem W. D. Kennedy
Metropolitan Police
J. A. Kennedy
Peter Bowe
New York County
J. J.motuct
Eugene Sullivan
New York
Richard Croker
Foner Gilroy
Rant
Ely 8. Parker
John R. Fellows
Tammaany Glee Club
Frank T. Fitzgerald
John T. Carroll
N. T. Brown
George T. Roesch
James J. Martin
John J. Gorman
John Cochrane
Cemetery Ridge
Pickett
Forty-second
Kennedy
Antietam
Sedgwick
Dunker’s Church
Gettysbr
Halls
Gibbons
Hancock
Bristol Station
Petersburg
Army of the Potomac
Miss Phoebe Couzins' Successor Named Secretary
Mrs. Susan Gale Cooke has been chosen secretary of the board of lady managers of the World's fair to succeed Phoebe Couzins. She is the daughter of Dr. George Spaulding Gale, educated in New York, married Sidney B. Cooke, lived in Knoxville, and is described as cultured and adept at promoting harmony without harsh methods.
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Susan Gale Cooke
The
George Spaulding Gale
Vermont
New York City
Sidney B. Cooke
Stock Exchange
Carter
Gruggiste
Carter Medicine Co
New York
Trials of the summons and the tricky service
A humorous look at how summonses are served in lawsuits and the challenges of locating defendants. The article explains that if a defendant dodges a server, courts may order substituted service after due diligence, leading to notices left at doors or bundled papers on a doorknob, and ultimately the defendant learns he is sued.
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Sixth Avenue
Fiftieth Street
Phere
Suumons
Tate
Rans Sults
Swmmons
Stan Mons
New York ‘Tribune
Lady Hester Stanhope the Prophetess of Palestine in Old Age
A portrait of Lady Hester Stanhope niece of William Pitt noted for her strong will and political bent. After Pitts death she turned east to Palestine where she gained reverence, ruled villagers despotically on her estate, and maintained the same stubborn vigor from youth.
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Wester Stanhope
Hester Stanhope
William Pitt
Ble
Bonaparte the Conqueror
Europe
Pitt
Hester
Palestine
Kinglake
Lebanon
Natal
Somersetshire
Transmission of Hereditary Defects Revealed in Families
Dr Andrew Wilson in Harper's discusses color blindness deafmutism and the hereditary hemorrhagic habit. The text notes transmission across generations with higher deafness risk when both parents are affected and presents multi generation figures highlighting the persistence of the bleeding tendency.
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Andrew Wilson
Harper’s
Millions from African Mines
Engineering Magazine notes that the four major South African mines Kimberley De Beers Du Toits Pan and Buitfontein have yielded at least 23,000,000 carats of diamonds more than 614 tons, totaling over £40,000,000 and about 200,000,000 in value. Kimberley leads in wealth and fortunes, likened to Arabian Nights.
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Kimberley
de Beers
du Toits Pan
Buitfontein
Aluminum added to molten steel yields perfectly sound ingots
The New York Times reports that adding aluminum to molten steel before pouring ingots renders the metal perfectly sound. The effect is chemical and about twenty times stronger than silicon, using four to eight ounces per ton, with manganese then unnecessary.
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New York Times
Fragmented Detroit newspaper snippet shows dialogue encounter
An OCR fragment from Detron Free Press and Lite prints a tense exchange where a speaker grapples with prejudice and personal history. The dialogue hints at race and identity dynamics, with abrupt interruptions and evasive responses.
A Peculiar City Hall Park Exchange
A dialogue documents a humorous exchange between a sly con man and a park lounger about appealing to sympathy and locating Niagara Falls on the Mississippi. The piece ends with a quip on misdirected geography and a dash of vaudeville humor.
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City Hall Park
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Niagara Falls
Buffalo
Vicksburg
Paterson
M. Quad
New York Evening World
Rival’s Nose Out of Joint and Child’s Mock Dinner Rule
An amusing set of clippings shows a small boy declaring to a maid that she should stay in the kitchen after meeting a newborn. A Texas Siftings quip notes an impecunious man’s debt worries as relief comes from creditors. A camel taunts an elephant in a race while a giraffe brags of beating them both.
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Jane
Austin
Texas Siftings
Baltimore American
Bard Lines and Comic Opera Quips From Period Papers
A snappy exchange reports on stage life with Trotter noting luckless homely prima and Foster asking why, Trotter replying chorus girls must be perfect. Harrisburg Telegraph quotes a grumbling about cooks’ schools teaching women to waste food in wartime era.
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Bard
Trottrer
Trotter
Blomelier
Harrisburg
Little Money Bank Delights Visitor at Fangles
A visitor at the Fangles admires Freddy's birthday gift, calling it a precios little money bank. Freddy notes there is precious little money in it, a quaint exchange captured in a Detroit Free Press snippet.
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Fangles
Freddy
Sind
Detroit Free Press
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