America’s Thrill Rides Show Amusement-Crazed Nation
A vivid tour of pleasure parks across the United States describes thrill devices from scenic railways to roller coasters, ticklers, and aerial rides. It notes safety tests, the rise of loop the loops, and the mixed reactions of riders from cautious to fearless.
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Indiana
Michigan
Illinois
Ohio
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Coney Island
Atlantic City
Chicago
United States
America
Middle West
Lost Civil War pistols return to Rhodes family
E M Rhodes of Apalachin recounts how two ivory pistols once owned by Hinman Rhodes of the Twenty-Eighth Illinois vanished in battle with Forrest’s cavalry. After a long search one pistol surfaced with Maj H B Vaughan in Kingston Mississippi, another reached Col Rhodes care of Capt Foster Natchez, Mississippi. The final pistol arrived in Pasadena, California, delivered to a widow who had stood beside Col Rhodes for 40 years. Mrs. J M Rhodes of Pasadena seeks any information on the remaining pistol.
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E. M. Rhodes
Apalachin
N. Y
Hinman Rhodes
Twenty-eighth Illinois
National Tribune
Hinmam Rhodes
Twenty-Eighth
Illinois Infantry
Forrest
William Noonan
National Cemetery
Natchez
Miss
Col
Rhodes
H. B. Vaughn
Kingston
Vaughn
Foster
Express
Pasadena
Cal
J. M. Rhodes
Cow disrupts east barn dance in comic melee
A cow escaped its stall during an east coast barn dance, tearing at a youth’s shirt waist and a fiddle, tramping through revelers who scattered onto a feed box. The animal’s exit ended the merriment as four girls hid and others fled, leaving the crowd in uproar.
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McCleveland Plain Dealer
The Distant Soldier Called Home in Springtime
A wartime lament from the National Tribune depicts dawn to eve combat and a missing comrade. Trees bend in grief beside a blooded rill as the roll call fails to answer. The poem remembers a fallen soldier buried far away and mourned by those who wait for him to say Here.
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National Tribune
Five Months in Hospital Then Discharged as Incurable
Levi P. Brockway of Anoka Minnesota says after five months in a hospital he was told he had six months to live. He suffered heart trouble smothering spells lapses in consciousness and kidney issues. Dean's Kidney Pills claim to address the cause and he reports improvement. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Levi P. Brockway
S. Second Ave
Anoka
Minn
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Chief of Cavalry urged as standard Army post
A commission of cavalry officers attached to the Army Staff College urges creating a chief of cavalry. The officer would be a general staff member and head the cavalry committee with inspection powers to enforce efficiency standards. The group cites common practice in other nations as justification.
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Army Staff College
General Staff
Battle Fleet Sinks Whale After Target Practice at Sea
After Magdalena Bay target practice, the battle fleet witnessed a 60 foot whale beach on California's southern coast. The carcass bore two deep holes in its carcass, indicating gunfire. Earlier, another whale was seen nearby then vanished, later found distressed about 100 miles away.
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Magdalena Bay
California
Muskets Found From Civil War Charge Seen in Columbus Window
Joseph Huffman of Seventy-third Ohio reports an exhibit in Sutton Brothers shop displays two old muskets recovered from a Tom's Brook Virginia dam. They likely were carried by Confederate troops during the September 1864 Fisher's Hill action against Gen. George Crook, then discarded as soldiers fled downhill.
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Joseph Huffman
Seventy
Ohio
Columbus
Sutton Brothers
Tom’s Brook
George Crook
Early
Fisher's Hill
Promise to marry ten cousins and divorces noted
A humorous line reflects a character claiming multiple promised marriages to ten cousins and an ongoing experience with many divorces, highlighting a comic take on social obligations and marriage.
Senator Folker and racing tricks cited in Albany
An Albany legislator recalls Senator Folker who risked his life to vote against racing in New York and cites examples of race track deception. He quotes a Gloucester jockey overheard saying he would not win unless the reins broke the night before a favored horse ran.
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Iron Guard
Folker
Albany
New York
Gloucester
Important to Mothers Castoria Safety Reminder
Important to Mothers urges careful examination of every bottle of Castoria to ensure a safe and reliable remedy for infants and children, emphasizing vigilance in choosing trusted product packaging and labeling.
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Urling
Americas
wiLaro W. Garrison
Potsdam
Germany
Teutons
Col. Hinman Rhodes
Ruth Raymond
Fred
Ethel
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Pinkham
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