Signal of Peace at Raleigh Dome
In Raleigh on April 13 1865 Lieut George C Round recounts setting a signal post atop the capitol dome to announce peace after a rocket message. A misfire nearly cost him his life but he recovered safety, watched bells and tendrils of smoke rise, and saw a city respond with quiet joy as the Army of the Tennessee echoed Peace on earth good will to men in the night sky.
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Fort Sumter
Union
Mississippi
Raleigh
North Carolina
George C. Round
Chicago
Kilpatrick
Raleigh Academy
Lovejoy
Vermont
Academy
Capitol
Capt
Russell
Jehief
Thad
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Fall Daughters of Raleigh
West
Old North
The
Tennessee
Bethlehem
Prince of Peace
Forty Two Year War Checkers End In Minneapolis Reunion
A Washington veteran recalls a Civil War era checkers game begun in 1864 in Atlanta, finished at the G A R encampment in Minneapolis decades later. Both players were in Company A Thirty-fifth Wisconsin, with a loser buying dinner and the winner later hosting a supper. The tale ties to Sherman’s march to the sea amid bugle calls and retreating troops. Also notes France teaching lace making in public schools to revive the industry.
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Washington
Minneapolis
Old Boys In Blue
Atlanta
Sherman
Mynespolis
Thirty-five
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
Bunkle
Georgia
Galveston News
France
Wireless coherer device shown for simple early radio reception
A cheap wireless coherer can be built with a glass tube two corks a magnetized needle iron and silver filings. A wire passes through a cork into the tube with filings, the needle touches the filings and, when agitated, filings cling to the magnetized needle. In operation the tube stands upright in the circuit and electrical waves cause the filings to conduct, producing a click in the receiver.
Portable wireless telegraph plant for military use
Sir Oliver Lodge and Dr Alexander Muir head have built a compact portable wireless telegraph system for military operations. The self contained cabinet unit, on a folding trestle, powers up by bicycle dynamo to transmit up to 50 miles on land and 150 miles by sea with bamboo antenna poles, receiving via Lodge coherer and telephone receiver.
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Oliver Lodge
Alexander Muirhead
Discuit
Lodge
Lodge-Mairhead
Electrical farming and wireless message interchanges
Reported experiments by Prof Lem stroem of Helsingsfors show electrical treatment boosting carrot yields by 30 percent first year and 90 percent second year, and potato yields 60 to 100 percent with galvanic earth current. Also notes that Aurora Borealis may influence harvests in Spitzbergen and Finland. Berlin wireless conference considers forcing intercompany message exchange in emergencies despite patent rivalries, prompted by a distress vessel unable to reach shore.
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Lemstroem
Helsingsfors
Spitzbergen
Finland
Berlin
Space Left for Expansion in Rail Lines
The report notes seven feet four inches of space allotted beside rail lanes not covered by the track, indicating the allowance for expansion in the mule of railroads.
Monks Introduce Automobiles for Grand St Bernard Route
St Bernard monks used a new heavy luggage carrying car to travel from Martigny to the hospice on the Grand St Bernard. Next summer they plan a regular automobile service for tourists reaching the alpine hospice.
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St. Bernard
Martigny
Grand St. Bernard
Hom Nice
Charm in the Smile and the New Easy Grin
A vintage feature notes beauty expert Strancy praising the era of smiling women. It highlights the princess of Pless and Julia Marlowe as models of cultivated smiles, dimples, and polite restraint. It discusses cosmetic tweaks to create dimples or a cleft chin and promotes the era’s smiling, agreeable social ideal.
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Amile
Emile
England
Pless
Julia Marlowe
Miss Marlowe
Smiling Girls Society
Care of the Neck Important to Beauty
A Philadelphia Bulletin guidance piece urges women to treat the neck with careful daily routines. It links neck care to overall beauty, detailing cleansing, massage, nutrition, and posture to prevent wrinkles and a double chin, noting even small daily habits require time and discipline.
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Rome
Philadelphia Bulletin
Modes and belts set fashion tone for season
Modes of the Moment notes lace trim in Irish crochet and fine silk for collars and trimmings on dresses. It highlights foreign embroideries, fancy buttons, and buckles as widely worn. A new belting style features a broad elastic waist with three colored steel-studded bands and a finely studded buckle, in hues from dark blue to steel.
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Coherer
Menurs
W. Otto
Sanitas Electric Company
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A. H. Peake
Ays
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