Mustered Out Hero: Jim Bligh Bets His Life for Woman
Private Jim Bligh, a 62 year old cavalry veteran of forty years, is sent to be mustered out but rescues a lieutenant and the colonel’s daughter from a war party of fifty Utes. He vows to charge the colonists with imminent death, risking his life to save the girl and ensure she reaches safety.
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Hhis
Jim
Bligh
Mke
Sergt. Dalton
Washington
Pecos Hills
Missy
Borsg
Soldier’s Death Plea Ends A Rebel Pursuit
A Civil War era scene portrays Private Jim shot from his horse after urging a companion to hang tight for safety. He declares a death wound and expresses hope to die as a soldier, while rescuers find his remains with two back wounds and a grim smile, as onlookers whisper of his fate.
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Jim
Missy
James Norfleet
New York Press
Wasted a Good Cigar and a Colored Man’s Compliment
Fraternity dinner tale from John Kendrick Bangs about courting a laborer Pat’s vote and a cigar from Samoa Its punch line spurns Bangs as not a “roostercrat” while the second anecdote shows Col Prentiss Ingraham praised by a colored elevator conductor The Times presents two humor pieces on language and social roles in a late 19th or early 20th century American context
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John Kendrick Bangs
Yonkers
Pat
Bangs
Robert Louis Stevenson
Samoa
New York Times
Col. Prentiss Ingraham
James
American Aristocracy and the Drift of Heritage
Fragmented prose laments American aristocracy and xenophobic tone across a long, irony filled meditation on lineage. The piece contrasts English Irish French Spanish Germans Italians Dutch and others as it questions social ascent through snobbery and circulation in a critical, period voice.
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Harvey
Pneumonia as Chicago's Gruesome Scourge since 1900
Since 1900 pneumonia has claimed more than one eighth of all victims of the Grisly Reaper in Chicago, more than consumption and far more than all other contagious diseases combined. The figure underscores pneumonia's dominant toll in the city’s deadly disease tally.
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Chicago
Mennonite Church at Germantown: A Landmark of Liberty
Protest continues over neglect of Germantown's Old Mennonite Church on Maain Street above Herman. The Germania church housed a memorial to Pennsylvania's assembly urging a religious liberty clause engraved into the state constitution. The document, written on the communion table brought from Germany, helped inspire similar protections in other states.
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Germantown
Maain Street
Herman
United States
Penn
Union
Old Mennonite
Assembly of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Little Mennonite Church of
Monster Rainbow Trout Lands Big Prize in Washington
W S Phillips known as El Co mancho, western editor of Field and Stream, pulls a 15 pound rainbow trout from the Skykomish River near Index. Dr Young and John Schram watch as the fight lasts twenty five minutes in boiling rapids making the catch likely the largest rainbow ever taken in western Washington.
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W. S. Phillips
el Comancho
Field and Stream
Index
Young
John Schram
Seattle
Phillips
Washington
Grain storage and new long building project details
A report notes northern Nigeria natives storing grain in earthenware butsi ke. It also mentions a planned New York building 40 feet long 26 feet wide and 17 stories tall.
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Nigeria
New York
Omaha Professor to Experiment With Co operative Living
Omaha professor Henry Olerich plans a two to three hour self directed work day in a Modern Paradise cooperative community. He envisions a 500 plus resident complex with a mansion, park, farm, public departments, schools, shops, baths, theater, library, printing office, art gallery, museum, conservatory, mail and water systems, telephone, and private apartments with electric powered work and abundant wealth for all.
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Omaha
Henry Olerich
Paradise
Monument to Gen Lawton Erected in Philippines
In January a monument to Major General Henry W. Lawton was erected by American soldiers in the Philippines near San Mateo, about fifteen miles from Manila. It marks the site of his death on December 19, 1898, during a charge against insurgent earthworks. The pyramid monument, 15 feet high, carries an old Spanish cannon and four modern shells.
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Janesy Rice Feld
Philippines Islands
Henry W. Lawton
Philippines
Manila
San Mateo
Lawton
Second United States Infantry
H. L. Batley
Corbin
New Jersey Man A Walked Life's Length A Stranger Known As Chane Lion
Samuel Core of Port Republic New Jersey famed as the walking man claims to have walked more miles in life than any living New Jersey man. His age is uncertain but neighbors place him between seventy five and eighty. He rarely rides trains preferring long walks and recently covered thirty one miles to decorate his parents graves. A queer fish called mola mola or moonfish lives off Santa Barbara shores and California lakes, floating on the surface with a rudderlike fringe tail and serving as a roost for sea birds.
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Samuel Core
Chanelion
Port Republic
N. J
New Jersey
Sammy
Hammonton
Pleasantville
Somers’ Point
Pleasant Mills
Pacific Ocean
Santa Barbara
Lakes
California
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