First Experience on Fort Donelson Battle Field
An elderly 76th Ohio veteran recalls marching to Fort Donelson in February 1862 after leaving Newark, Ohio, boarding transports from Cincinnati, and reaching Paducah. He details picket duty in cold snow, fires, coffee, a burned blanket, skirmishes with Mississippi and Texas troops, and the sight of fallen comrades before the fort surrendered.
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Fort Donelson
Seventy-Sixth
Ohio
Newark
Paducah
National Tribune
Ohio River
Cincinnati
Fort Henry
Cumberland River
Camp Sherman
Burt
Lew Wallace
Inois
Nebraska Regiment
Nebraska
Dover
Tennessee
Pittsburg
Irish Soldier Helps Georgia Woman With Washing
An Irish soldier named Pat aids a delicate Georgia wife and mother by washing her clothes and supplying wood for ironing. He promises to return weekly, proving gallant care beyond duty as he completes the laundry and leaves on campaign. Ed Eugene Ware cites Mark Twain, who replies with humorous self‑description and welcome.
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Pat
Bridget Ivery
Eugene Ware
Topeka
Mark Twain
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Mr. Clemens
Mr. Ware
Identification Tags Adopted by War Department
The War Department adopts identification tags for soldiers mirroring the British practice. British tags carry a number linked to a service register. In the Boer War, tag numbers were sometimes published before names, allowing friends to identify the fallen or wounded by their numbers.
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War Department
Woman Reports Kidney Trouble Relief With Pills
Mrs. Elizabeth Maxwell of Olympia Washington says three years of dropsy due to kidney troubles improved after using four boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills. She details back ache swelling ankles and breathing difficulty before cure. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Elizabeth Maxwell
West Fourth Street
Olympia
Wash
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
French President's Double Found
A merchant from Rue Saint Honore has been identified as a near perfect presidential double for M. Fallieres. He dons the same blue butterfly necktie, hat, and beard style and is always seen with a companion resembling the president’s secretary. He walks with measured dignity through Faubourg Saint Honore and is repeatedly saluted as if the head of state.
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M. Fallieres
Rue Saint Honore
Saint Honore
Cure for skin disease proves lasting for child
A Rockingham County family details long futile cures before Cuticura remedies transformed a child’s skin. Two months of treatment reduced a solid scab covered with disease to soft, scarless skin. The writer, Mrs. W P Ingle of Burlington, recalls the girl’s dramatic recovery and reports she remains well seventeen years later. June 16, 1905.
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Rockingham Co
W. P. Ingle
Burlington
N. C
Henry James on American women's speech in Boston school critique
Henry James laments American women's speech describing Boston young women as articulating from sore mouths and mumbling. He contrasts with a costly school where parents pay to ensure boys are taught to speak as gentlemen and notes a distant sea school where the master must speak as a gentleman.
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Henry James
Boston
Artificial Flowers Trade in Dresden District
In the Dresden district there are 430 artificial flora factories employing up to 1,000 workers each, with about 10,000 people in the trade. Most workers are women and girls earning 8s to 12s weekly. Garfield Tea, a natural laxative, is advertised for constipation, indigestion, liver and kidney issues, and colds, made from herbs and guaranteed under the Pure Food Law.
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Dresden
Man Drags Through Rut Ends Up In Hole
A man makes a strenuous effort to escape a rut but ends up in a hole. The incident underscores the persistence of struggle and a setback in his attempt to change course.
Old Capt Cacks Question at Bankers' Meet
Pierce Jay of Massachusetts urged a robust accounting system at the American Bankers Association convention in St Louis. He stressed intelligence to curb embezzlement and praised Cap Hiram Cack of Gloucester for his keen alertness. Cack, gravely ill, asked a doctor which one cured him three years ago.
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Pierce Jay
Banks
Massachusetts
American Bankers’ Association
St. Louis
Mr. Jay
Hiram Cack
Gloucester
Cack
Peruna Seen as Both Tonic and Catarrh Remedy
Readers hear that Peruna is both a tonic and a catarrh remedy. The herb Hydrastis Canadensis is praised, especially with Cubebs Copaiba and other tonics, as a powerful, widely endorsed treatment for catarrh and related mucous membrane weakness.
Fur Joe N. W. Hide & Fur Co. catalogs and a catarrh cure ad
An 1886 advertisement mix lists a 40 page trap book with illustrated wild animals, barometer, calendar, gun and trap catalog, and furs prices sent post paid for 10 cents. Also contains an oath pledge for Hall's Catarrh Cure offering $100 per case. plus Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
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Joe N. W. Hide & Fur Co
Minneapolis
Inn
Restored Jacobean Manor Rejoins Suffolk Aristocracy
Restored by American money Charlton, ancestral home of the Earl of Suffolk, shines again with olden time glories after the Earl’s marriage to Miss Daisy Lester. The Jacobean mansion features dark sandstone mullioned windows carved portals and houses family portraits and art treasures.
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Charlton
Earl of Suffolk
Daisy Lester
Tallest American in the Army Named as Peck of Engineers
Ernest D. Peck a first lieutenant in the engineer corps is six feet four and a half inches tall and named the tallest man in the United States Army. A Wisconsin native he graduated from Oshkosh high school and now serves at Yellowstone Park Wyoming overseeing the Peek's Pike military road project. His comrades call him Pike's Peak.
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United States Army
Ernest D. Peck
Engineer Corps
Peck
Wisconsin
Oshkosh High School
Yellowstone Park
Wyoming
Peek’s Pike
Pike’s Peak
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Carlyle
George
George Washington
Washington Plantation
Westmoreland County
Virginia
State OF
Ohto
Toledo
Lucas Couty
FraNk J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
A. W. Gleason
Notary Positio
Reas
Cement Institute
St. Louis, Mo
ST. Jacobs Oil
Watson E. Coleman
Ney
Washington, D.C
Sloan
Sloanis
Earl S.sloan
Mass
Navy
U.S. Navy
West 6Th St
Cleveland
U. S. Navy Recruiting Station
P. O
Buffalo
N. Y
Ely
Casarrk
Rasp Balm
Ely Brothers
Warren Street
New York
Adams Sk
Chleege
Buffalo A.L.O. Paints
Buffalo A. L. O
Buffalo Oil Paint & Varnish Co
Paine
Cago, Ill
Chesebrough Mf&. CO
State Street
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