Post by markland on Dec 30, 2006 11:29:31 GMT -6
Using my free three day Ancestry membership, I am taking advantage of their newspaper collection. Some tidbits from the Bismarck Daily Tribune, Nov. 3, 1875 (unfortunately, there are none from 1876):
p. 1
"Col. Yates and Capt. Edgerly have returned from St. Paul where Edgerly was married to Miss Bloom, well known to Brainerd society."
"Among the officers returning from leave our reporter met Maj. Reno, of the 7th cavalry, who has just returned from Europe; Lieutenants Walker and Gibson, Capt. Schindle, Dr. Middleton and others. Dr. M is now stationed at Lincoln instead of Buford as before."
Nov. 13, 1875
p. 4
"Lieut. Crittenden met with a serious accident at Abercrombie, last week. While out hunting, exploded a cartridge with a knife and a piece of the the shell was blown into one eye, and the other filled with powder. He will lose one of them and possibly the other. He had but recently joined the 17th Infantry from West Point."
p. 6
"Lieut. Varnum left on the last train for a six-months leave. Lieut. Thompson has returned from leave and joined his company at Fort Stevenson. Paymaster Smith arrived from Buford Saturday and in company with Major Steward left for Fargo Monday."
Dec. 4, 1875
p. 2
A solicitation for subscriptions to the Bismarck Tribune offers as a subscription enticement:
"Chromo of Gen. Custer the popular and dashing Cavalry Commander, which alone is worth the price of subscription."
p. 6
"The thermometer reached 25 below, early Saturday, and sixteen below was the coldest on Monday. The telegraph reports the thermometer as ranging from twenty to thirty below all over the states north of Ohio."
From the Litchfield Ledger printed in the Tribune:
"Samuel Brown was a brakeman on a freight train on the Branch Line. He thought he could turn a handspring from one car to another while the train was moving. He left [time?] all right and landed in eternity-he fell between the cars. A breakman [sic] here, an angel there."
p. 8
"Congratulations to Colonel George Yates are in order. It is a bouncing boy, and the Colonel wears a smile so pleasing that it does one good to gaze upon him."
Dec. 8, 1875
p. 1
"Company C, 7th Cavalry, have issued invitations for a Social Ball at the Cavalry Barracks, to come off Christmas eve."
p. 12
"Those who have been buying water by the cord have been made to realize their mistake. It has melted on their hands almost every day during the past week, and the ground is almost bare. None could wish for hotter weather."
Dec. 29, 1875
p. 8
"Major Hart has been ordered to report to Major Lyford for duty in connection with the Centennial Exhibition."
"Gen. Custer was in [Connecticut?] last week. Barnum, the great showman, made him a present of his pack of fox hounds."
"The officers of Fort A. Lincoln will give a [ ? ] at that post next Thursday evening. The affair promises to be an exceedingly pleasant one."
"It will be seen by the list of army promotions published elsewhere that Capt. Hart of the 7th Cavalry, has been promoted to Major and Lieut. Custer to Captain."
There are one or two more I will add later.
Enjoy,
Billy
p. 1
"Col. Yates and Capt. Edgerly have returned from St. Paul where Edgerly was married to Miss Bloom, well known to Brainerd society."
"Among the officers returning from leave our reporter met Maj. Reno, of the 7th cavalry, who has just returned from Europe; Lieutenants Walker and Gibson, Capt. Schindle, Dr. Middleton and others. Dr. M is now stationed at Lincoln instead of Buford as before."
Nov. 13, 1875
p. 4
"Lieut. Crittenden met with a serious accident at Abercrombie, last week. While out hunting, exploded a cartridge with a knife and a piece of the the shell was blown into one eye, and the other filled with powder. He will lose one of them and possibly the other. He had but recently joined the 17th Infantry from West Point."
p. 6
"Lieut. Varnum left on the last train for a six-months leave. Lieut. Thompson has returned from leave and joined his company at Fort Stevenson. Paymaster Smith arrived from Buford Saturday and in company with Major Steward left for Fargo Monday."
Dec. 4, 1875
p. 2
A solicitation for subscriptions to the Bismarck Tribune offers as a subscription enticement:
"Chromo of Gen. Custer the popular and dashing Cavalry Commander, which alone is worth the price of subscription."
p. 6
"The thermometer reached 25 below, early Saturday, and sixteen below was the coldest on Monday. The telegraph reports the thermometer as ranging from twenty to thirty below all over the states north of Ohio."
From the Litchfield Ledger printed in the Tribune:
"Samuel Brown was a brakeman on a freight train on the Branch Line. He thought he could turn a handspring from one car to another while the train was moving. He left [time?] all right and landed in eternity-he fell between the cars. A breakman [sic] here, an angel there."
p. 8
"Congratulations to Colonel George Yates are in order. It is a bouncing boy, and the Colonel wears a smile so pleasing that it does one good to gaze upon him."
Dec. 8, 1875
p. 1
"Company C, 7th Cavalry, have issued invitations for a Social Ball at the Cavalry Barracks, to come off Christmas eve."
p. 12
"Those who have been buying water by the cord have been made to realize their mistake. It has melted on their hands almost every day during the past week, and the ground is almost bare. None could wish for hotter weather."
Dec. 29, 1875
p. 8
"Major Hart has been ordered to report to Major Lyford for duty in connection with the Centennial Exhibition."
"Gen. Custer was in [Connecticut?] last week. Barnum, the great showman, made him a present of his pack of fox hounds."
"The officers of Fort A. Lincoln will give a [ ? ] at that post next Thursday evening. The affair promises to be an exceedingly pleasant one."
"It will be seen by the list of army promotions published elsewhere that Capt. Hart of the 7th Cavalry, has been promoted to Major and Lieut. Custer to Captain."
There are one or two more I will add later.
Enjoy,
Billy