McClellan Drives Confederates from Western Virginia
The 1861 battle sequence near Rich Mountain and Carrick’s Ford details Union Rosecrans routing Colonel Pegram and Garnett retreating toward Beverly. Garnett killed in action, Federal forces seize cannon and prisoners, with McClellan reporting “Success Complete” to Washington.
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Rich Mountain
Pegram
Garnett
Carrick's Ford
Morris
Washington
Gram
Phi Tesk
Woos Rosecrans
Homareh
Ditheult
Eloht
Rich Mountiln
Pegrum
Wieubtaiy
Pegrai
Doo
Cishiteeg
Ited Mountain
Donald J. Ross Elected Cashier at Washington County Bank
Donald J. Ross elected cashier of the Washington County Savings Bank at a directors meeting. Ross, a longtime banker with West Side Drug State and prior posts at Riverside Savings and Washington National Bank, will assume duties after finalizing his drug store sale. The bank board also announced Boyd Berdo and George Breitenbarth as key staff, forming a strong three-person leadership group.
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Lanced
Washington County Sassage Bank
Donald J. Rows
West Side Drug State
AW McCulley
Ross
McCulley
Ivy
A. Prazhvahine de Wie
Rost
Mariners State Bank
Hardwick
Minn
Riverside Savings Bank
Washington National Bank
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Ing
Cremee
Peis Abi Cate
Washington County
Socinus Bank
Boyd Bo Berdo
George Breitenbarhl
Tayin
News Sketches From Civil War and College Notes
The dispatch reports Union gains in western Virginia with Colonel Townsend Garnett and forces retreating after a gun capture and heavy enemy losses. Major General George B. McClellan wires Washington praising victory. Separately a Kansas City column teases a Kansas professor and a John Howard Payne memorial gateway at Union College, Schenectady, detailing the gate’s size and features and new Payne letters and a poem manuscript.
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John Howard Payne
Union College
Schenectady
New York
Sweet Home
Payne
Man Sowing Hope and Skepticism in Rural Service
A rural preacher tells a listener that prayer alone cannot harvest crops, declaring that land needs manure instead. The exchange underscores practical faith as the speaker urges action with the line Work, For the Night Is Coming.
Lute James of KY a true Democrat
Kentucky political figure Lute James, a longtime Democrat from Crittenden County, is described as a major national figure in the party. The piece covers his roles at conventions, advocacy for direct election of U S senators, fights against Lorimer and Ballinger, and noted influence in Kentucky politics and national affairs.
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Lute James
Thomas Ho Paynter
Crittenden County
Kentucky
Union
JH. Wahine
Goebel
James
United States
House
de la Deen Trenrd
Nallonal Co
Col
Henry Watterson
Mr. James
Richard Ballinger
Senator Lorimer
Illinois
Senator Paynter
Paynter
Lorimer
Potato bug threat reaches Northwest potato growers
Northwest potato growers face the first appearance of the Colorado potato beetle in Seattle Washington as the pest spreads from Colorado, Kansas and into the eastern states over the past decades, raising alarm about potential crop damage and economic impact.
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Seattle
Wash
Northwest
United States
Colorado
West
Kansas
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
Maryland
Virginia
The Fatal Ring and the Paris Morgue Claim
The late head of the Paris morgue recounts five cases where corpses bore a ring with the inscription May whosoever wears this ring die a miserable death in Eastern characters. M. Mace, former Paris police chief, supports the tale as true.
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Paris
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