War Fifty Years Ago Large Fliaul of Confederate Prisoners In Missouri
The week centers on Missouri prisoner captures near Milford and the Blackwater river bridge. Federal Pope aims to keep northern recruits from joining Price as Stark and Kane help firefight. Dranesville action near Washington features Stuart and the Bucktails in rifle tactics and a Federal retreat. England and Canada prep for war amid Mason and Slidell rift. Congress raises duties on tea coffee sugar and molasses as war taxes bite. Maury resigns from U S Navy to join Confederates, later aiding submarine battery work.
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Missouri
Charleston Harbor
South Carolina
Dranesville
Washington
Pennsylvania
England
Canada
United States
Congress
George L. Kilmer
American Press Association
Cratesville
Milford
Price
Pope
Nod. B. Eads
St. Louis
Ericsson
Secretary of the Navy
Charleston
S. C
Sumter
New England
Stuart
Rifles
Thirteenth Reserve
Fanesville
Kane
Ord
Virginia
Stonewall” Jackson
Turner Ashbey
Mason
Falog
Agregiment
Matthew F. Maury
US 8. N
Maury
Europe
Russia
France
James River
Richmond
Little Mandy’s Christmas Tree Tale from the Poor House
A grandmother recalls a Christmas visit to a family living in a dilapidated home with no heat or proper furniture. The church Sunday School plans a Christmas Tree for all children and gifts, while the poor child Mandy awaits her own tree hidden behind the big tree. The tale ends with Mandy never answering and a hope for a future larger tree.
Abandon Turbines in New Battleships
New U S battleships will drop turbine engines for reciprocating ones after tests on Birmingham Chester Fajem Delaware and North Dakota. Oil fuel replaces coal cutting boiler weight by 300 tons and freeing space. Armor may increase within tonnage limits and turret guns gain efficiency through boiler grouping.
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Congress
Postgraduate School of Maine Engineering
Annapolis
Navy Department
Birmingham
Chester
Fajem
Delaware
North Dakota
Meyer
Right to kiss upheld in divorce case ruling
Missouri judge rules a divorced woman may receive attentions from a man. Judge Walter A. Powell at Independence emphasizes an ex wife’s legal right to affectionate contact, noting ex husbands often overstep by trying to regulate their former spouses.
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Missouri
Walter A. Powell
Independence
James Tr. Collins
Excelsior Springs
Powell
U S S Pensacola Struck From Navy Vessel Register
The U S S Pensacola, built in 1858 in Florida, 8000 ton displacement, was removed from the Navy vessel register and will be sold for junk to the highest bidder. It served in the Civil War under Admiral Farragut, passing Confederate forts below New Orleans in 1862 and later served as a receiving ship at New Orleans before being decommissioned in 1864 at New York.
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U. S. S. Pensacola
U.S. S. Pensacola
Pensacola
Florida City
Farragut
Mississippi
New Orleans
New York Navy Yard
Mrs Clark's List of Great Women Reveals Favorite Joan of Arc
Mrs. Champ Clark selects a ranked list of notable women living or dead led by Joan of Arc. The compilation includes Martha Washington and Mrs John Adams among others such as Rosa Bonheur Catherine the Great and Marie Curie.
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Speaker
Joan of Arc
Martha Washington
Champ Clark
Clark
John Adams
Boadicea
Mary Washington
Mme. de Stad
Rosa Bonheur
Queen Victerts
Meria Mitchell
Cecile Chaminade
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Mrs
Catherine of Russia
Marta Theresa
Mme. Curie
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Jane Addama
George Eliot
Sarah Bernhardt
Susan B. Anthony
Girl babies born taller says Boston official
Boston assistant superintendent Miss Charlotte W Dunn notes an apparent rise in the height and vitality of girl babies. She cites hospital data claiming girls now arrive with greater vitality and similar average weight and height to earlier births.
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Charlotte W. Dunn
Boston
Stork
Innocents Day Observances Mention Flogging Children
A historical note describes Innocents Day known as Childermas with the custom in some peninsular regions of flogging children in the morning to recall the Massacre of the Innocents. The practice has largely fallen out of use in America and England.
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Uths of
Bethlehem
America
England
Fire Rescue Saves Twelve at Philadelphia Apartment Blaze
A Philadelphia fire on December 27 rescued twelve residents from a Hernice apartment building as thick smoke hampered teams. Firefighters carried occupants to safety despite challenging conditions.
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Philadelphia
Htricot
Risstig
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J. E. B. Stuart
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J.B. B. Stuart
C. A
Thomas L. Kanf
Little Mandys
James Whitcomb
Riley
Mandy
Chris
Childerns
Santa Claus
Amile
Lille Mandy
Merrill Gop
Bethtehel
Hero
Jesus
L Lemmon
Eaeeees
Standard Oil Company
Purmieds
W. Wilson
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