Dr Williams Pink Pills Cited As Rheumatism Cure
In Topeka Kansas a printer credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing severe rheumatism after other medicines failed. He reports swelling and crutch use disappeared and claims others also benefited from the remedy. The pills are advertised as safe with no narcotics and sold by druggists or by mail from Schenectady New York.
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W. H. Clark
Buchanan Street
Topeka
Kans
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N.Y
Visit to the ruins of a fort captured in 1864
A first person recollection of the 1864 assault on a Confederate fort, detailing the landscape after battle, the ferocity of fighting, the obstacle filled assault, and the ultimate Union victory. The narrator reflects on courage, sacrifice, and the citizens who served as soldiers.
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Glesweeden
Union Army
War’s craftsman spirit in Union ranks revealed
General Grant noted that among the Union armies, military labor drew from a surplus of skilled workers. The varied tasks of camp, siege, and march found artisans ready for assignment, showing that war did not create talent but drew on existing mechanical skill across the brigade.
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Grant
Decoration Day and Civil War Years Remembered
The article recalls Decoration Day set by Gen. Logan in 1868 and links May 30 to Civil War events. It notes Frederick Dent Grant born May 30 1850, Confederate evacuation of Corinth in 1862, and the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 plus Missouri Compromise repeal and Douglas’s rise. It frames Memorial Day as a peaceful monument to the Civil War’s end.
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Logan
Frederick Dent Grant
Corinth
Tennessee Line
Mississippi
Franklin Pierce
Kansas-Nebraska
Kansas
Nebraska
Stephen A. Douglas
Sumner
Chase
Wade
Seward
Potomac Password Misunderstood In Missouri Guard
A Missouri contingent recalls a night password confusion where Potomac sounded like bot tomic to a German sentinel and, after a series of miscommunications, the officer is halted and told to pass only if he accepts the word buttermilk before finally gaining passage.
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Missouri
Potomac
Lincoln Address At Gettysburg Cemetery 1863
Graves of the Unknown Dead recounts nearly 300,000 Union soldiers buried in national cemeteries with about half unknown. It notes 1880 totals of 158,302 known and 142,868 unknown across 79 cemeteries. It recalls Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address delivered November 19, 1863 after 3,560 Union soldiers were buried there.
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Gettysburg
Lincoln
Memorial Day Observance Recalling Civil War Sacrifices
Across all states May 30 is set aside to honor the patriotic dead of the Civil War. The observance stems from a noble impulse of devotion and aims to renew fervor for national service by recalling the sacrifices of the great conflict.
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Indivisible
Union
Peruna praised by reader cured dyspepsia
A Columbia Tennessee reader credits Peruna with restoring her health after years of severe dyspepsia and bed confinement. The note also mentions a revised formula adding a laxative quality, approved by Dr. B. Hartman as enhancing Peruna’s beneficial character.
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Mittie Huffaker
R. R. No
Columbia, Tenn
Peruna
Friends of
B. HartMan
Garfield Tea herb laxative touted as cure
The clipping mentions Garfield Tea as a better laxative than drugs and strong cathartics, claiming it cures. A dialog line from the Philadelphia Ledger notes work reluctance, while another panel shows a man going to bed with gloves to keep hands soft and a question about wearing a hat in illustrated bits.
Meaning of leisure puzzled by pupil in Brooklyn joke
A Brooklyn Eagle quip has a pupil asking what leisure means and the teacher answering with a punchline that married people repent in leisure. The brief reflects a humorous schoolroom exchange from urban newspaper humor pages.
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Papa
Willie
Brooklyn Eagle
Where the Faust Lay
Comic dialogue from Illustrated Bits features a doctor and patient joking about catching a cold due to a threadbare cloak. The patient quips the coat was from last winter and not worn for fear of being cold. The exchange satirizes fashion and practicality in winter attire.
A Gentle Slam About Flattery
A Detroit Free Press note describes Miss Jolly Eddie Blank as an awful flatterer and asserts you can’t trust his words while acknowledging a mutual admiration with Kathleen.
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Miss Jolly
Eddie Blank
Kathleen
Detroit Free Press
White Disease Fleeing Natives in Africa Alarm Sir Harry Johnston
Sir Harry Johnston, famed explorer, narrowly escaped a deadly trap in Africa when a band of natives pierced his camp. They fled after learning the camp was afflicted with smallpox, an envoy sent to test the threat triggering the panic. The incident shows tribesmen fearing the so called white disease more than weaponry.
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Sir Harry Johnston
Africa
Harry
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