Life Saved by Saddle Girth Breaks in Civil War Tale
John Sexton of Typographical Union No 1 recalls a Confederate cavalry charge at Charleston Tennessee in winter 1863. He describes a fierce clash with Wheeler's forces, exchanging blows with a Confederate rider who narrowly dodges a saber and survives after his saddle girth breaks. The rider quips that a cheese knife would have made things warmer.
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John Sexton
Typographical Union No. 1
Fifth Ohio Cavalry
Charleston
East Tennessee
Ohio Cavalry
Long
Chattanooga
Knoxville
Hiawassee
Wheeler
Dalton
Sherman
Indianapolis Journal
The Art and Ethics of War in Historic Reflection
The piece notes that battlefield courage is often conventional and strategic. It discusses skirmishers using stealth and the tension between tactics and honorable face to face combat. It also honors loyal veterans marching among graves as time reduces living comrades.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Crude Southern Pie Metaphor Fragments in Debate
The piece uses pie imagery to contrast southern and northern culinary and political traits. Congressman Crain of Texas cites the pie family as Caesar viewed Gaul, with kivered, unkivered, and crossbarred varieties. An anecdote about a northern printer and southern compositor during the Civil War era appears, highlighting temperamental differences.
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South Carolina
Crain
Texas
Washington Post
Manassas
Arlington National Cemetery and its origins in the Civil War
The piece describes Arlington National Cemetery as the nation’s premier cemetery on Arlington Heights near Washington. It notes 16 565 interments with 12 216 known and 4 349 unknown, its strategic Potomac view, and the key events from May 13 1864 onward when interments began and the government acquired the property for war dead burial after a legal battle ending in 1882 with a purchase price of 150 000 to Robert E Lee’s descendant. It covers Meigs Lincoln Stanton and architect Edward Clarke in shaping the site and clarifies the misperception of a government seizure.
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Arlington Heights
Washington
Potomac
Capital
Soldiers’ Home
City
Meigs
Arlington Estate
Lincoln
Stanton
Edward Clarke
Capitol
Robert E. Lee
George Washington Parke Custis
George Washington
Virginia
Lee
Arlington
Rappahannock
Bull Run
Chantilly
Washington Star
True Heroism on the Battlefield at Jenkins Ferry
The 1864 Jenkins Ferry story recalls Reuben Coomes of Company C Thirty-third Iowa who volunteers to stay with wounded Captain A J Comstock to avoid capture. Coomes endures prison and hardship, saving the captain’s life, and decades later remains a friend and neighbor.
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Jenkins’ Ferry
Ark
Reuben Coomes
Iowa
A. J. Comstock
Comstock
Tyler
Tex
Coomes
Mr. Coomes
Congressman Lacey
New York Commercial Advertiser
Paymaster's Dilemma Tied to Farragut's Sailors
From General Butler's Book a scene where he explains placing funds for Farragut's fleet in Citizens' bank and authorizes a $50,000 gold advance to cover crew pay, knowing the admiral would not personally repay. Butler views the transfer as a public service voucher for treasury settlement.
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Citizens’ Bank
Farragut
Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Treasury Department
Memorial Day Reflections On Fallen Union Heroes
Wreaths and flowers fade on graves of Union defenders and healing of sectional strife. Patriots rushed to battle, many never returning home, memories entwine with Memorial Day as comrades honor the dead with flowers and prayers for lasting peace. The flag over a reunited nation keeps their memory bright and fresh each spring.
Allison on Silver and Tariffs Shapes Era Debate
Senator William B. Allison of Iowa urges silver restoration and bimetallism, arguing European nations and Britain shift from gold. He warns tariffs threaten U S revenue and farm markets, linking monetary policy to domestic and global trade, urging united stance.
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Germany
England
Mary Had a Little Lamb Cash Purchase and Cooking
A short note recaps Mary buying a lamb for cash then cooking it in various preparations including baked, stewed, hot and cold, and hash. The item mirrors a light anecdotal snippet from the Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Mary
Chicago Inter Ocean
Stranger on the West Side River Crossing Tip
A humorous Chicago Record item notes an exchange where a Stranger asks about crossing a river on the West Side and an Officer suggests dousing a handkerchief with cologne and running, reflecting streetwise humor of the era.
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Chicago
Suffering Follows Cleveland Era as Unemployment Grows
The piece condemns Grover Cleveland's second term amid rising unemployment and sagging wages. It decries relief delays, growing debts, and declining living standards while accusing the White House of advocating industrial destruction and neglecting the laboring class.
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Grover Cleveland
White House
Washington
Congress
United States
We Must Protect American Wages From Imported Goods
The writer argues that every extra import reduces American manufacturing and wages. He says we cannot pay both American and English laborers and must choose Americans, or face hunger. Buying more imports sends money abroad, shrinking home capital and tax revenue, risking enriching a foreign country instead of our own.
England-Faults Seen in Cleveland's English Friends
The London Times on March 26 quotes English friends of Grover Cleveland criticizing American enterprise versus American industry. A move away from England by Cleveland would be sad for old England, yet the United States would deserve congratulations if it happens.
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Mr. Cleveland
London Times
Old England
Grover Cleveland
United States
Soldier's Friend Question Stirs Cleveland Harrison Pension Compare
The nine months ending March 1894 show Cleveland's pension outlay fell by 13.6 million dollars compared with Harrisons for the same period last year. The query asks who is the soldier's friend.
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Cleveland
Harrison
Quip About Nosy Neighbors Circulates in Local Banter
A humorous exchange between Mr and Mrs Giddy about curious neighbors peering into windows circulates in town. Dibbs Swelton relates that he fears no work, while Sarcas quips about never getting close enough to gauge the effect.
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Giddy
Dibbs—Swelton
Sarcas
Chicago
Homes for Every One. A plan for laborer home ownership
An essay argues that building neat dwellings for laborers priced at 400 to 500 dollars with a 100 to 200 dollar lot enables workers to own homes within four to five years at modest payments. It promotes capital investment in housing as profitable, stabilizing labor and reducing strikes by turning workers into owners and landlords in thriving towns.
A Town Market Attracts Farmers With Centered Market Place
Farmers benefit when towns provide a central public market with covered sheds where teams can be parked and produce displayed. A neat clean and comfortable market attracts more farmers, boosts sales, and helps a town grow prosperous through regular weekly stalls and gossip.
Toward A United Town The Call To Civic Action
A civic exhortation urges residents to support local improvements, back public schools, participate in elections, patronize the town paper, and fund new enterprises. It stresses collective effort, cooperation, and the power of a steadfast, united community to win progress.
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Board of Trade
United Endeavor
Local Firms Spotlighted in Home Town Advertisements
Readers are advised to inquire with the local paper for business details outside major cities. If a firm holds any standing, its advertisement appears in the home newspaper.
The Time For Them
A poetic piece from the New York Press celebrating springtime vitality and nature. It contrasts joyful woodland imagery with a historical nod to era drug remedies like pills, sulphur, and molasses.
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the Times
New York Press
Time’s fleeting life crowned by immortality
A poetic meditation on life’s brief passage likening existence to a frost on a pane and a wave on a shore. It contrasts transience with love’s wakeful, immortal spirit, concluding life is short yet endowed with eternal meaning.
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Christian Union
Quiet Meditations on Virtue and National Duty
A poem urging collective responsibility and personal virtue as the foundation of a free nation. It stresses that every citizen has a role and must display noble character to become true heroes and uphold liberty.
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Orren G. Allen
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F. W. Whitcomb
M. E. Church
G. Ball
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Room
Nee & Peterson
Warren Savings Bank
Chas, Dinsmoor
Chas. A. Peterson
T. Donly J
Diamond St
Parrsburg
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U. S. District and
Supreme Courts
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Toseph T. Danforth
Second
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Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer
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Woodard & Uesser
J Norman Davies
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Eee Et Nures
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125Th Street
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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