Adventurer Maddox and the two governments saga
The piece traces Joseph H. Maddox’s Civil War role as a double agent and trader. It chronicles his alleged loyalty, shifting allegiances, and convoluted U.S. and Confederate records, plus congressional reports and letters from McPhail Sharpe Grant and Stanton.
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Joseph HW. Maddox
Congress
Joseph H. Maddox
Laura B. Maddox
Maddox
Senate
House
Cleveland
Lincoln
Fessenden
Seward
Stanton
Charles A. Dana
Grant
Butler
Holt
Union
Davis
Randolph
Seilflon
Confederacy
Army
Treasury
Departments
United States
Tme
Dixie
Ines
Erate
Georgetown
Potomac
St Mary’s County
New Orleans Crescent
Virginia
Tie
Bull Run
Hiehmend
Potetaite
Isol
Fort Warren
Richmond
McClellan
J. L. McPhail
Maryland
McPhail
Anea
Fredericksburg
waTn
Prese
Maddex
Ty MoePhail
George H. Sharpe
Army of the Potomac
Sharpe
Northern
Buarpe
Aouth
Jefferson Davis
Wehrmund
Seddon
Leonardtown
Mad
Melbail
Jorom
Monroe
Enjawin F. Butler
Staunton
J. J. Maddox
War Department
Camp Stamilton
Ele
Mehail
Duns
Secretary of War
Ile
Bacon
Singleton
Hughes
Lincole
le Confnies
Singleton Smd Hughes
Alleghenies
Senator Hoar
Noalhat
Atte
Simpply
Phenomenal Girl Provokes Odd Morning Car Talk
A man with a muttface and a square jaw debates about his daughter and buckwheat cakes on a city street car. Other passengers interject with political quips about Congress and tariffs as the exchange ends with a sharp exit.
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Congress
Benger
Washington
Mrs Grant Example of Simple White House Courtesy
W H W Cook recalls Mrs Grant as a warm hearted advocate who handled numerous appeals for help. She lacked a secretary and pressed the president to aid sought individuals while the couple remained plain and sympathetic in a changing social era.
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Alya
Uys
Enire
W. H W. Cook
White House
Plain Evidence from a Whimsical Exchange
A Baltimore American fragment notes a shopper remarking to a clerk that he is a spiritualist. The clerk responds with a witty line about vibration and spirit wrapping as the house is prepared. The brief item centers on a humorous misreading and wordplay.
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Baltimore
West High Class Day Pleases with Song and Poems
West High seniors entertained a capacity assembly at the West High Assembly Hall as part of 1912 commencement exercises. Miss Gardiner wrote the senior song Good Night Mr Moon, with poems by Miss Shaffner and a class prophecy by Miss Andrews praised. A class history by Harry Woods and a witty class will by Miss McElhinney and Miss Rackliffe’s farewell were highlights. The Philomel chorus and high school orchestra provided music. Tonight the class play For Old Eli airs at the Majestic theatre, with graduation to follow Wednesday.
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West High Assembly Room
Mr. Moon
Margaret Gardiner
Verna Shaffner
Maude Andrews
Harry Woods
Salome McElhinney
Seth Beem
Albert Lytle
Charles Cole
Glenn Whittle
Eli
Majestic Theatre
the Majestic
Dean Owrge Gage on Trial for Divorce
District court hears the divorce action Harvey Dean vs Maud Dean. Plaintiff, a contracting carpenter, testifies that his wife’s conduct harmed his business. He says 1910 earnings around 4000 from building seventy houses, 1911 worse, with assets and debts listed. He notes his wife’s demand for control.
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District Court
Harvey Dean
Maud Dean
Alfred Longley
George Sager
Harold
Dean
Tean
FIND KING AHAB'S KITCHEN UTENSILS
Cambridge May 28 An expedition led by Professor George Reisner of Harvard has completed excavations in the palace of King Ahab in Palestine. The kitchen yielded more than 5 000 ancient household utensils. Reisner plans a full report with plans and photographs arriving soon.
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Cambridge
Mass
George Reisner
Harvard
Ahab
Palestine
Reisner
Flood Refugees Demand Food in Louisiana
In the Jena district and surrounding areas flood refugees, both whites and blacks, suffer from shortages as railroads remain damaged delaying supplies. Governor Hall, new to office after replacing Sanders, works to secure relief. A three year old boy drowned at Woodside after falling from a station platform while families sought safety on higher ground.
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New Orleans
Jena
Hall
Sanders
Atchafalaya
Woodside
Striking Knickerbocker Waiters Occupy Hotels
Two hundred waiters struck for higher wages and shorter hours at the Knickerbocker last night and many seized spots were filled by strikebreakers. Organizer Joseph Bister warned the action would extend to other hotel men's associations that do not meet the demands.
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New York
Knickerbocker
James M. Regan
Joseph Bister
Actual Damage in Breach Suit Paid After Long Fight
Miss Ella Bay of Menominee Michigan received a check for 25828.82 in a breach of promise case against James S Sanford of Puckwana South Dakota, with interest added since the verdict in fall 1910, in a four year United States appeals court battle.
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Sioux Falls
S. C
United States Court of Appeals
Ella Bay
Menominee
Mich
James 5. Sanford
Puckwana
Menominee, Mich
Sanborn
Fire damages caboose after rail yard derailment
Chicago authorities open probe into arson and sabotage suspicions as a fire destroys a caboose attached to a crane car following a box car derailment on the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul tracks. Weather notes provide a crop bulletin from Des Moines with warm dry week and varying rainfall.
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Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Des Moines
Dubuque
State Horticultural Society
Ben Davis
Jonathan
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Arthur W. Dunn
Pamunkey
Jef
Antonines
Carroll Pressun
Hanson A. Isley
Treasury Department
Maddux
Secretary of the Treasury
Jyne
F. J. Allen
Allan Finkerton
Signal Corns
George W. Ranedolph
Messencera
Mearvanders
Hurgely
Pennsylvania
Mattox J Wan
Picton
Fle
Thia
General Winder
Military
See
Piocham
West High
Assembly Hall
Dean Oworge Gage
King Ahab
NEW York Models Ladies
the People's Store
Fourth Street
Ahr
Davis Dry Goods CO
W. T. Griffith
Waverly
Waterloo
East High
Griffith
Polige
Krueger Markts
West Fourth Street
de Loeke
Grange & Thompson
Commerial Street
Saskatchewan
Canada
R. J. Towns
John T. Goss Land Co
Waterloo, Towa
Sycamore Street
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