Word: notted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Two pictures of himself and one of his wife Laura. The menu and program for a lavish dinner the Tennessee Army veterans held at the Palmer House and the entire seating plan. An 1868 reunion ribbon, some handwritten notes, two pieces of wartime paper money. One memento to his future...
By 1879 the bitterness of the Civil War had been transformed, by memory and new fortunes, into an event which, in retrospect, conferred virtue and glory upon all (Union) participants. At the Palmer House dinner, the menu, appropriately glorious, featured oysters, champagne, prairie chicken, buffalo, shrimp salad, hardtack and cigars...
The history of McLean County during this century is mostly a story of dreams richly come true. The seed the Funk brothers developed yields 150 to 160 bushels of corn an acre. The Funk Prairie Home, once center of a 25,000-acre farm, is now a museum, and the...
Mrs. Hoffman's nephew Ulmer Beetzel, now 61, and his wife Doris, 57, have lived for 26 years on the farm his grandfather worked after the Civil War. "It's an industry now, not a life," says Doris. "It's the life of Riley," says Ulmer, correcting...
Last week a climax to the hostages' ordeal, by either their trial or release, seemed closer. Iran's Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh told Western reporters that "as soon as possible" the government would announce the hostages' fate. Many will be released, he said, but an undisclosed number...