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Updates: October 7, 2001
Hello,
I hope you're all well & safe out there.
I'll keep this short tonight as I'm a little under the weather.
I hope that the old newspaper stories, ads & recipes I've added, along with the vintage postcards, will be enjoyable for you.
For those of you who are new subscribers, this portion of The Olden Times is not indexed by the FreeFind search engine's spider, so you have the advantage of the updates and the bimonthly index of locations only if you're a subscriber.
As usual, this week's newsletter includes names added in the past two weeks AND locations, too, along with a few notable headlines.
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Folks are making connections!
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There isn't a link yet from the main part of the site, but you can see the beginning of this new section on the Connections pages.
I have so many more Connections stories to add, and I wish I could get caught up, but...
I'm still behind, as always, in getting everything online, but I'll keep working at it, so if you don't see something that you've sent to me, please be patient with me and keep watching...
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P.S. A quote that I like:
We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, What is our policy? I will say; "It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy." You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
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Names Added in the Past Two Weeks
Locations Mentioned in the Past Two Weeks
African Americans, Freedmen or Slaves in the News:
Arm Crushed by Train, Newbern, NC, 1868
Notable:
STRAUSSER Narrowly Avoids Being Bears' Dinner, New York, 1882
Seduction and Bastardy from Omaha to Denver, 1882 DIETRICH, STROETGERS
The Heroism of a Standard Bearer: James GRAHAM of the 84th PA at Winchester, 1862
Crimes and Politics...or is that redundant?
Light-fingered Lucas SPARROW Apprehended by COLLIGAN at New Berne, 1868
HEWLETT Aspires to the Workhouse And he might get there even without the appointment! 1868, NC
LEWIS Arrested for Larceny, MA, 1921
Shooting at Yoakum, Texas, 1913
Accidents:
Arm Crushed by Train, Newbern, NC, 1868
Richard TOOMER Drowns in the Cape Fear, NC, 1868
Roy MURRAY and William CHRIST Killed in Railroad Accident, PA, 1913
Churches:
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Wilmington, NC, 1868
Military & Vets:
ALLEN Notches his Gun, 194?, ETO BRADLEY, GALLUP, MESSER, McWHERTER, EAGLESTON, EMMER
5th Ohio Regiment, Wounded at Winchester, 1862
84th Pennsylvania, Winchester, 1862
Wolf River Bridge, Fayette County, Tennessee 1863
The Hempstead Rifles, C. S. A.
Ships:
Hunter, 1817
The Arkansas Belle, 1879
The Morning Star, 1879
Dick Johnson, 1879
W. A. Johnson, 1879
New Topical Index
Links you might like... Just this 'n that.
History in the Making Current news stories, editorials, etc. that I have found to be thought-provoking or illuminating or (occasionally) just plain funny.
Free Graphics
Recipes
The Family Album
Two Cowboys from Balmorhea, Texas Unidentified
Laura GOODMAN and Husband, Texas
Vintage Postcards
Old Man's Face Landmark, Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island
Dunmere, Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island
South Carolina State Capitol, Columbia
Motel Dixiana, Vicksburg, Mississippi
Fairly Funny Stuff:
WWI War Bonds Humor: Buffalo Kaiser Bill
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