Railroads Orders and Oddities Highlight 1900s Era
A Williston Graphic digest covers rail industry totals for passenger, freight cars and locomotives. It surveys women’s work, antislang societies, circuses, and a Montreal youth suing for courting expenses. It notes Arctic cures, Halifax tuberculosis cruises, and royal pensions, plus Niagara Falls aluminum output and Freiburg Germany’s city-owned model with profitable departments.
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United States
Montreal
Vagabond Yearning Across Sober Town and Wild Lands
Douglas Goldring writes in the Academy voice about hating the sober town and villa while loving the open countryside and wild places. The poem contrasts urban constraint with country purity and enduring friendship, ending with a reverent nod to country life and shared kinship.
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Douglas Goldring
Academy
Mrs. Jenkins' Bargain Saga at the Barn
The Chicago Record-Herald recounts Mrs. Jenkins a bargain hunter who sells a broken stove and coal scuttle to a secondhand dealer for 8.75 dollars, then buys back a superior Gem stove. her husband teases that she bought back her own store, six times what she earned, while she continues seeking bargains.
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Ave
Mr. Jenkins
Mrs. Jenkins
John
Jenkins
Thas
Chicago Record-Herald
Disappointment in ancestors sparks sharp remark on politics
A Detroit Free snippet captures a young financier reflecting on his ancestors. He asks if they were statesmen or politicians, answering “Merely statesmen, none of them ever made a cent out of politics!” The remark highlights a wary view of political profit.
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Detroit
First Volunteer in War Bucky ONeill and Roosevelt Riders
The piece recalls Bucky ONeill as the first volunteer for the Spanish American War and later captain of Roosevelt's Rough Riders. It notes his laconic motto about a star, his death at San Juan in July 1898, and Roosevelt’s tribute to his courage and Arizona’s spirit.
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Bucky O'Neill
The
Roosevelt Rough Riders
San Juan Hill
Spain
Bucky” O'Neill
Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Cuba
Arizona
Bucky" O'Neill
San Juan
Howse
Col. Roosevelt
Whitman
Bucky” O'Nel
Charmed by a Clever Concealment at a Virginia Hotel
During the post raid excitement Maj. Jackson led cadet artillery to Washington and spent the night in a hotel with four officers. He revealed a scheme to hide valuables in socks, prompting a fellow officer to adopt the method ill suited by wearing old socks next morning.
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John Brown
Virginia
Maj
Jackson
Stonewall
Washington
Virginia Military Mst!jate
Century Magazine
Maj. Jackson
Garfield Dodges Egg Toss at Chestertown Speech
James A. Garfield faced an egg attack by treason sympathizers during a Chestertown address. The crowd overpowered the wrong man with a heavy beating while the general declared his resolve, recalling battlefield courage and urging restraint.
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James A. Garfield
Chestertown
In Time of Peace Conductor Malian Heads Kansas City Line
H P Malian a Boer colonel who served in the South African war is a street car line conductor in Kansas City Uncle Bam Army notes the total US men liable to military service at 11 126 750 in the draft figures
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Towa
Mason City
Willam Burke
H. P. Malian
Kansas City
Uncle Bam
United States
Prize Fighter Soldier Frights Amid Winchester Battle
Maj. Brock recalls Frank Blaine, a famed prize fighter in the Sixty Seventh Ohio, who terrorized comrades with boxing bravado until a 1862 Winchester battle revealed his fear. Blaine, stunned by war, admitted he was scared to death as his courage finally broke under fire.
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G. Brock
Army of the Potomac
Ohio
Frank Blaine
Blaine
Winchester
Frank
A Civil War Desertion and Public Shame at Suffolk
The account recalls a 1863 Suffolk incident where a deserter fled under fire and was publicly humiliated. Soldiers lined the streets, stripped the uniform, hung boards reading coward on his chest and back, while drums beat Rogue’s March as jeers rang out. The scene underscored desertion’s disgrace and loss of dignity.
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Frank
Bruiser
Stonewall Jackson
Suffolk
St. Louis Republic
On Time and War Correspondents in the War Chronicle
A sketch of war reporting notes that victories appear as exact moments. The New York Times recounts a colonel's offer to sacrifice his force for a redoubt, Oyama denying it as timed to dawn and a later capture confirms the timetable. An imperial edict in China bans bows and arrows in favor of modern arms.
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New York Times
Oyama
China
Distress After Meals Promoted by Williams Pink Pills Ad
Mrs. L O Law of Horton Kansas reports lasting indigestion weakness and breathlessness after meals. She says Williams Pink Pills restored appetite and strength after three boxes. The tonic supposedly builds weakened organs and creates new blood without affecting the bowels. Sold by druggists or by mail from the Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
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Williama
Pink Pitta
L.O. Law
North Street
Horton, Kauss
Wil Jinma
Williams
Dr. Willlams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N.Y
Oddities of Invention and Inventions of Aluminum
A compendium of inventive feats from Germany and France including wireless clocking, portable wireless plas, electroplating gold lace, cotton tire manufacture, and the Tororama long distance phone, with English fire alarm tech, aluminum alloying effects on brass submarine hulls and color shifts, plus a humor quip about charity from a New York Sun cartoon caption.
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Germany
England
France
Passing of Porridge in a Loyal British Home
A Huntsville Ontario reader reports swapping porridge for Grape-Nuts, noting a dramatic recovery in her invalid husband after one month on the cereal. She credits weight gain, renewed strength, and reduced medical bills, and adds their son’s stomach pains vanished. The letter, signed with Postum Co attribution, ends with a nudge to read The Road to Wellville.
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Britain
Huntsville
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Phage
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