Reliving War Days in Fairmount Park Campfire Refuge
Maj. James H. Workman, a Civil War veteran, camps in a Fairmount park ravine near Philadelphia. He keeps a log fire to conjure memories of Libby Prison and Rush's Lancers, welcomes visitors with coffee and haversack shares, and dreams of campaigns with Sherman and Grant. Surrounded by imagined comrades, he endures winter beside the blaze with his wife and friends nearby.
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Libby
Carnace
Jays
Sheramn
Grant
Fairmount Park
Philadelphia
New York Tribune
Rush
Grand Army
Lancers
Union
Inspiring Lookout Mountain Charge by Cumberland Troops
A National Tribune correspondent recalls First Brigade of Carlin in lookouts on Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge. Hooker’s men run low on ammo as the brigade ascends to aid, then helps in the Lookout assault and participates in the Mission Ridge charge alongside Thomas’s Army of the Cumberland. The Confederate defenders retreat as the flags rise.
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Lookout Mountain
Mission Ridge
National Tribune
Carlin
Fourteenth Corps
Thomas
Missionary Ridge
Hooker
Thoms
Army of the Cumberland
Kansas News Highlights Contests and Local Events
The Kansas State Agricultural College backs boys and girls contests in corn growing vegetables and sewing while distributing correspondence course style materials to teachers and officers. A 14 year old girl Josie Dietrich confessed arson fires near Emporia. mental balance questioned. Leavenworth municipal tickets planned without salary under new commission system. Land prices rise in Dickinson county with a 320 acre Abliene farm selling for 24900. Saloon evolution tied to poolroom debates. Railroads tax plans include extensive inspection trips funded by state. Chase County receives ten pairs of Hungarian partridge released on R R Harris ranch along Bloody Creek.
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Kansas
Kansas State Agricultural College
Agricultural College
Josie Dietrich
Hicks
Barbara Deitrich
Emporia
Dietrichs
Dietrich
Dickinson County
Ablcene
Chase County
Rabbit King Sells Twenty Five Thousand Rabbits This Winter
A. P. Almquist at McPherson reports shipping or selling 25 000 rabbits this winter with a few more in his area not yet counted. The Sixty first wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs G W Terhune was celebrated with a dinner for close friends at their Garden City home.
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A. P. Almquist
McPherson
G. W. Terhune
Garden City
Great Party Regulator and Taxpayer Complaints Report
The Wichita Beacon quotes a steady Republican as postmaster appointee and notes taxpayers’ complaints about nine bugridden vagrants in jail. It reports Baker University figures Baker A. & F. Monahan and W. D. Green returning from a northwest trip collecting birds mammals plants and insects for the museum. The expedition, the first of planned similar ventures led by Prof. Parmeter, included bears wolves mountain goats and hens.
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Wichita Beacon
Baker A
F. Monahan
Baker University
W. D. Green
Northwest
Museum of Natural History
Thia
Parmeter
Watching the Bugs Drench Kansas Farmers Question
Kansas State Agricultural College entomologists Professors Headlee and Dean lead pest inquiries. They tour sections of the state to study the green bug Hessian fly and the San Jose scale on fruit trees, seeking effective control methods.
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Kansas
Kansas State Agricultural College
Headlee
Dean
Wichita
San Jose
Gas Strike at Lola Spurs Large Allen County Find
Lanyon Zinc company struck a 15,000,000-foot gas well on the Ramsey farm five miles southeast of Lola. The new well sits in a territory that recently yielded several large finds and suggests a vast extension to the eastern county edge, potentially one of the largest fields in Allen county.
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Lola
Lanyon Zinc Company
Ramsey Farm
Allen County
Cement Plant Promised North of Iola Under Union Portland
A contract is awarded for a 3000 barrel daily cement plant north of Iola named Union Portland Cement company. Victor Deutner of Pittsburgh, Pa. lands the job. construction to take about a year with about 400 workers to be employed. Two plants already operate in the county, five more planned with two under actual construction.
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Iola
Union Portland Cement Company
Victor Deutner
Pittsburg
Levees Formed Along Verdigris River District No 1 Underway
Three drainage districts arise along the Verdigris under the new system. District No 1 includes Coffeyville east side and adjacent farmland. It voted 20000 dollars in bonds and is building a levee two to ten feet high to prevent overflow. Senator Plumb noted as a Worker. Demise of A P Herold reported in Seneca. A committee to raise funds for Pawnee Rock preservation named with local and statewide appointees.
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Coffeyville
Drummer's Joke Sparks New Town From Sleepy Village
A traveler recalls striking a dormant village, offering to buy it for a joke. Landlord doubles the price, and owners name their price on a whim. The tale says a factory, railroad, and shops arose, turning the place into a bustling city, leaving the narrator rueful for missing the chance.
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C Wade
United States
Waitham
Sugar
Rehoboth Sunday Herald
As the Engineer Explained It
The Washington Star recounts a tale about Prof Angela Hellprinusm noting that true possession comes from imparting knowledge. A reading to Philadelphia travelers debates vacuum brake workings, ending with a simple engineer’s explanation of turning a tap to fit a vacuum and stop the train.
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Angela Hellprin
Washington Star
Reading
Philadelphia
Ceremony of Calling in Spain and social customs
The passage describes Spanish visiting norms with hosts declaring hospitality as owned by the guest and the guest’s gifts as at the guest’s disposal. It notes theatergoers and home-like scenes between acts, lengthy postplay visiting, and a strict mourning period for women that curtails social visits and window activity for a year after distant relatives.
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Spain
War Settlement Warrent for Joban Curtain
A war settlement warrant was issued for Joban Curtain of Bellefont Pennsylvania for 67 cents. About 44 years after Gen Curtin’s discharge officials found an error in the enlistment date. Order number 16021 shows a few prior claims had been paid before this one.
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Joban Curtain
Bellefont
Gen. Curtin
United States
Sis
Chauffeurs of the Eighteenth Century Bandits of La Muette Forest
In the late eighteenth century a band of French brigands operated near the forest of La Muette by Merevilla. Known as Pimgres by themselves, locals called them chauffeurs for using fire on the feet of their victims who refused to disclose hidden money.
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la Muette
Merevilla
Perrin for Women Endorsed by Temperance Leader
A temperance worker, president of the People’s Christian Diaperance Association, extols Perrin as a valuable nerve and blood remedy. She cites personal experience, saying it restores strength, aids digestion, and helps worn-out tissues, endorsing it for young mothers and ailments peculiar to women. Dr. Hartman is said to prescribe Perrin widely. Macarlia the Idea Laxative.
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Ene BN. Y
Eang People's Christian ‘Diaperance Association
Perusian
Ton
Hartman
Macarlia
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