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Library of Congress1937

Authorizing an appropriation for the erection of a memorial to the officers and men of the United States Navy who lost their lives as the result of a boiler explosion that totally destroyed the U.S.S. "Tulip" near St. Inigoes Bay, Md., on November 11, 1864, and for other purposes. February 19, 1937. -- Ordered to be printed

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Library of Congress1873

In the Senate of the United States. January 16, 1873. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Logan submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 2513.) In this case the papers show that Walter O'Donald, late private Company A, Eighty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, enlisted September 23, 1861, and was accidentally killed by the explosion of a shell July 9, 1864, near Petersburgh, Virginia

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Library of Congress1919

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 3, 1919

LANES COLD ciPtiP TABLETS GUARANTEED BBM WITt JOHN ON GUARD IN GERMANY But He Must Be Cared For and Brought Home and the Vic tory Loan Billions Will Go to Pay That Bill Most of us in the recent weeks have heard some mother or father speak of their absent son somewhere with the American army of occupation along the Rhine Johns in Germany they say proudly John is standing guard out there along the front line of freedom no longet menaced by gas bombs and shrapnel high explosive shells or ma chine guns nor auy of the machinery of war He is enjoying as much as one In Bervlce may the fruits of victory He is sleeping in the open instead of in a dugout He is having three nieaJs a day instead of a snack between bom bardments Hes as comfortable as it is possible for him to he and meet the demands of his duty Uncle Sam must pa his passage home must see that he is safely cared for uutil returned John must be cared for in Germany he must be taken care of when he gets back John and some 2o00000 of his com rades

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Library of Congress1893

Image 6 of The Progress (Shreveport, La.), December 23, 1893

C D BICES Ed and Prop SREVEPORT A KAISIR WILLIAMS preposterous egotism provokes univeal aw v among foreigners but to the German nation it is rather too serious a mat ter to laugh at A capital of 52000000 is invested W in the nursery interest in 172000 acres of land In all horticultural a pursuits the entire capital is esti bi mated at over 100000J0 by the tt sensus of the agrioulturai depart is mont P1 A registered letter that was re w ceived at the Portland Maine post ii office the other day bore a stamp ofi the 4 denomination It would have gone for the usual ten cent fee and t postage The stampcollecting fad H was suggested as an explanation the tl stamp that had been used being re garded by enthusiasts as more valua m ble than an uncanceled one b TILE smokeless powder is not prov o01 ing such an unadulterated success in tc Europe as was looked for It is said a that at least 500 Italian steel field j pieces have been ruined by the d use of this new explosive If field n piece are thus destroyed in ordinary if practice with

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Library of Congress1902