Posted inUS Civil War
April 18, 1861 – The Old Fire
Who can doubt that the old fire of the old Revolution still burns in the hearts of the people? From Maine to Minnesota, the sons of ’76 are rising as…
Posted inArchaeology
To Dig Into Man’s Past
Yale University Expedition to Peru Will Try to Find Bones of the Ancients
New Haven, Conn.—The next expedition to Peru, which will be made this year under the direction of Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale, will not be geographical as in the case of the last expedition, It was announced at Yale, recently, but will concentrate its work largely in that region where the human bones were found under a glacial deposit which indicated a minimum age of 2,000 years.
Pawnee Log, April 23, 1861
Lightboat still burning. At 10 a. m. passed Mount Vernon; went through the usual ceremonies. At 10:30 the Keystone State informed us that there were batteries planted at Alexandria. Went…
Pawnee Log, April 22, 1861
From 4 to 6 p. m.: Standing up the Potomac River. At 9 anchored. A lightboat on fire up the river.
Pawnee Log, April 21, 1861
Commences and till 4 a. m.; making preparations for setting fire to the ship houses, ships, and storehouses, and destroying the dry dock. Landed all the turpentine, powder, and waste…
Posted inDaily News
At the Park
The Noble Dramatic company opened the first night of their week’s engagement at the Park opera house last night to a good house. Considering that there were several other entertainments…
Posted inUS Civil War
What Will Michigan Do?
Civil war is at our doors. Michigan is called upon for a regiment of Infantry or Rifles - will she comply? If so, she must contemplate certain obstacles, and made…
Posted inUS Civil War
April 17, 1861 – A Prediction Verified
It will be remembered that our distinguished Secretary of War, in his speech from the balcony of the Exchange Hotel on Friday night last, predicted that the flag of the…
Posted inNatural World
A Large Fish
A large fish, called Hapuu, attracted the attention of a crowd at the Fish Market this morning. It was caught by a native named Kaihe, off Diamond Head during the…
Posted inAviation World War 1
Greatest Defeat of War Crushes German Zeppelin Airfleet
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Germany probably lost one-half of her total effective fleet of super-Zeppelins as a result of the raid of October 20 over England, according to official cablegrams received here. All France is exultant over what the dispatches declare to be the greatest defeat administered to an air fleet since the beginning of the war. The gratification is more intense because it is now known that the German raid was an attempt to carry out a fearful threat of vengeance made four days before.
On that occasion the German government sent out a warning to both France and England of dire punishment to follow what the Germans declared to be unwarranted and inhuman attacks by British and French aviators upon peaceful German towns. Reprisals were threatened in an official German communication, which in part reads: