Irving Bacheller hailed as Adirondack woodsman author
Katherine Pope portrays Irving Bacheller as a woodsman and naturalist who draws material from the Adirondack region. The piece paints him as sturdy, nature loving, modest, and respectful to guides, with family roots in Vermont and New York wilderness. It recalls his boyhood in Pierpont and his active debating, writing, and outdoor life.
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Bacheller
Adirondack Woods
Sattler
New York
Mr. Bacheller
Pierpont
St.Lawrence County
Adirondack Mountains
Benson
Alfred
Irving S. Bacheller
Alfred Benson
Eben Holden
David Brower
Paradise
Eben ‘Holden Fame
John
Irving
Vermont
Adirondacks
Ir. Bacheller
Uncle Phil
Adirondack
Clay
Wallace
High Private's High Rig Story From Civil War Times
The excerpt, attributed to "By Jinks" in the Chicago Inter Ocean, recalls a high private lamenting ill fitting Civil War uniforms. He recounts shrinking trousers and mismatched shirt and blouse, a battlefield mishap at Stone River, and General Rosecrans vowing to fix the issue, leading to longer clothes for higher privates.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Frank
Uncle Sam
Abe
Stone River
Gen. Rosecrans
Rosy
Percen ucally Baptist in Eastern Kentucky Encounter
Indiana volunteers ride through eastern Kentucky and meet a bare foot woman at a log cabin who proclaims she and her family are percen ually Baptist. She refuses Union or Confederate labels, earning the Hoosiers’ amusement as they ride on seeking others with stronger views. The exchange reflects local factional tensions and a noted indignation over kissing.
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Indiana
Kentucky
American Tribune
Union
Old Soldier's Speech Electrifies Missouri Trial Verdict
Circuit Judge N M Shelton recalls Colonel Trimble delivering a powerful closing in 1880 for Niblick in Schuyler county Missouri. Trimble likened the trial to a Civil War battle describing Union and Confederate courage to move jurors, with his words cited as decisive in the jury delivering a quick verdict for the defense.
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N. M. Shelton
Macon
Kansas City Journal
Trimble
Bloomfield
Niblick
Schuyler County
Townsman
Coatesville
Iowa Line
Col. Trimble
Missouri
Shelton
Edward C. Higbee
Charles B. Vrooman
Washington
Riley” Hall
Southland
van Dorn
Curtis
Army In Blue
Gabriel
One Dollar Wheat and the American Exodus to Canada
Interior Department data show a steady northward move of American farmers to Canada affecting vast areas of the United States. In the past year 11,841 Americans entered for homestead lands in Canada, with the Dakotas and Minnesota leading but many states represented. Immigrants come for fertile prairie lands, seeking better opportunities, and the Dominion welcomes them as desirable settlers for prairie development. Spring flowers are sometimes grown with steam heat.
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Interior Department
Canada
United States
Winnipeg Free Press
Dakotas
Minnesota
Iowa
Dominion
Alabama
Mississippi
Delaware
Union
Gulf
Ocean
Mississippi Valley
Texas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Prairie
Cure for Eczema Claims Soothing Cuticura Kit
The Washington Star advertises a Cuticura treatment for eczema featuring hot baths with Cuticura Soap to soften crusts and scales, Cuticura Ointment to ease itching and inflammation, and Cuticura Resolvent Pills to purify the blood. A set costs $1 and allegedly cures skin scalp and blood tumours when other remedies fail.
Shake Into Your Shoes Alien Foot-Ease Cure
An 19th century style advertisement asserts Shake Into Your Shoes Alien Foot-Ease relieves painful swollen and sweaty feet and helps new shoes fit. It claims free samples from A. S. Olmsted of Le Roy New York and warns against substitutes.
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Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Women’s Woes and Kidney Trouble Cure Adverts
A Memphis style health notice promotes kidney pills by describing kidney related back pain headaches and fatigue. Mrs William W Brown a Paterson nurse testifies the pills relieved her symptoms and a free trial is mailed on application. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sells 50 cent boxes nationwide via druggists.
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William W. Brown
Jane St
Paterson, N. J
Dean
Civil War veteran praises Dodd's Kidney Pills in town note
In Salesville Ohio May 2 a Civil War veteran Mr J Stephens writes that kidney disease caused back pain and weeks of disability. He says Dodd's Kidney Pills gave great relief and improved overall health and recommends them as the best for kidneys. He adds he is 63 and served as a soldier. Town Topics.
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Salesville
Ohio
J. Stephens
Dodd
Mr. Stephens
Malaria Symptoms and Home Remedies Advised
A 1900 ad urges immediate malaria treatment for fever chills back aches and a burning face. It promotes cleansing the stomach with Pure Blood and Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a stomach remedy and laxative. Also cites Piso's Cure for Consumption with a testimonial from Ocean Grove New Jersey.
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Caldwell
N. W. Sammel
Ocean Grove
N. J
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Irving Bacheller
Phil
North Country
Cincinnati Times-Star
Tain
Western
Washington Star
Eczema
Cuticura
Hoxsie
Siberia
Putnam
America
Tom
Lepota
Tondon
Chartershouse Sq
Paris
Rue de la Paix
Boston
Columbus ‘Ave
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
EAS
ALL News
Pafraets Book CO
Troy
N.Y
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