Sufferings at the Front at Cold Harbor Described
General Horace Porter recounts the hardships at Cold Harbor battlefront where disease, lack of water, and scorched heat plagued troops. Sanitation improved slowly with fresh vegetables, better cooking, and stricter regulations as casualties and near-constant danger from artillery and night attacks persisted.
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Cold Harbor
Horace Porter
Cnom
Saya
Stik
Spottsylvanian
Quorum Rules and Privileges in Congress as Described
Excerpt from This Country of Ours in The Century summarizes how a majority forms a quorum, adjournment powers, and penalties for truants. It notes that absence is not always officially disclosed and that the sergeant at arms enforces attendance at sessions. It also covers recorded journals, member immunity from arrest, and possible expulsion for disorderly conduct.
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Harrison
Congress
House
Senate
Congressional Record
Ants Wage Brave Siege on Caterpillar in South African Tale
A traveler from South Africa recounts a dramatic encounter where ants swarm a fast moving caterpillar. Dozens of ants mount and bite the worm, killing it swiftly, then others take its place as they persist. After fatigue, the colony attacks again and finally hauls the worm down a grass stalk and destroys it.
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Anta
South Africa
St. Louis Republic
My Love Is Like A Rose In Winter
A lyric poem attributed to J. L. Heston from The Quilting Bed explores love as a rose that blooms and withers, with lines on warning dew, cold winds, and the longing to stay. The speaker praises a beloved gaze described as dark and bright, signaling affection amid restraint and shame.
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Rujun
Bidea
J. L. Heston
Smokestack Painting Schemes End in Feats and Fumbles
At a Hempstead harbor cement works a 13 percent foot smokestack required paint and workers devised risky methods to hoist a painter into the stack. Attempts included a pigeon, a balloon, a kite, and a 130 foot tower ascent, all ending in failure or difficulty. Will Snyder of Chicago finally joined as the one volunteer to attempt the final rigging amid high winds and dangerous heights.
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Hempstead Harbor
Acord
Thres Trinla
Cave
Gol“Anteers
Will Snyder
Chicago
Snyder Getaa
Perobats
New York
Jeffersons Inauguration Hoax and Historical Account
A report explains the horseback inauguration myth surrounding Thomas Jefferson and contrasts it with documented events. It recounts how Jefferson rode on horseback to the capitol and entered on foot, noting the false English publication by John Davie and a contrasting description by Edward Thornton. The piece cites Henry Adams and Joseph B. Bishop on the fabrication.
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Wade
Jefferson
Capitol
Senate
Hecanes
Per
Igtone
Joh Davie
London
Davie
England
Edward Thornton
Washington
Henry Adama
The
United States
Ipevo
Davis
Josph
Nanny and the Cub and a Goat Ranch Bear Tale
A San Francisco Call retold tale recounts Lewis Ford, once a goat rancher on Cerro Colorado, who found a black bear cub and raised it with a foster mother goat. The cub grew close to Ford, rode with him on mountain treks, and later clashed with dogs as it aged. Ford refused to part with Jack the bear, and they eventually settled in Europe, content after a long, solitary bond in California’s mountains.
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Anii ‘Ho Batonge
Lewis Ford
Cerro Colorado
San Joaquin
Ford
Nanyy
Jack
Europe
Bis Master
Californian
Sao Francisco
Electric Eyes Enhance Surgical Light Aids Physicians
The article describes a new electric eye device by Professor Charles E. Quimby at Bellevue Hospital New York. It attaches to the operator like spectacles and centers two lamps to project light onto the surgical area, forming a portable searchlight that improves visibility during delicate operations. A heat shield bands the head and the lamps resemble long gas tubes, adjustable to direct rays as needed. Nelson's Last Entry In Wis Diary The Century recounts Admiral Mahan noting Nelson's passages aboard the Victory. It includes a diary fragment dated during the voyage praying for victory and the postwar conduct, ending with a plea for humanity to govern triumph. Subscribe for the Firmaun.
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Charles E. Quimby
Bellevuet Hospital
New York
San Francisco Examiner
Nelson
Alfred T. Mahan Wrates
Europe
Prohibition Platform Resolution Calls For Legal Ban On Alcohol
A National Prohibition party statement from a national convention advocates legal prohibitions on manufacture importation exportation interstate transport and sale of alcoholic beverages. It urges unity among prohibitionists and freedom of conscience on other political questions while pledging to push legislative action aligned with prohibition until the objective is achieved. The resolution also notes that suffrage should not be abridged on account of...
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Proivition
Friends of Prohibition
Prohibition Platform by State Party in Ohio Convention
State Prohibition platform presented by H. F. McLane of Athens outlines belief in God as sovereign and calls for the suppression of alcoholic liquor traffic. It denounces liquor for undermining morals, tax burdens, and crime, appealing to voters to unite for full prohibition and political action without regard to party.
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H. F. Mclane
Athene
Committee On
Prohibition Party
Ohio
God
Citiseum
Orrville to Cleveland and Alliance train connections detailed
Fragmentary timetable notes show connections from Orrville to Cleveland via Latumbus and to Alliance for routes toward Youngstown. Names L F Loree, Ford, and Ryan appear as managers with passenger ticket details and further information available from agents.
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Orrville
Cleveland
Neazail
Latumbus
Manafold
Stolgie
Toledo
Couneet
Alliance
Nileenod
Fe Feng
Ainbine
Leyda
Weoeler
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Scientific American
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Gil Columbugmire
Cincinnati
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