MAJOR GENERAL HENRY W. LAWTON

September 17, 1899.  "Major General Henry W. Lawton, who ranks next to Otis in the Philippines, is one of the most picturesque figures in the American army.  He was born 56 years ago in Maumee, O., and was afterward known in that town as "the torment."  July 18, 1861, he enlisted as sergeant in the Ninth Indiana Infantry; was commissioned first lieutenant 30th Indiana Infantry August 30, 1861; captain May 17, 1862; lieutenant colonel Nov. 15, 1864; and was mustered out brevet colonel Nov. 5, 1865.  He was commissioned second lieutenant in the Fourth infantry of the regular army, July 28, 1866; first lieutenant July 31, 1867; transferred to the Fourth cavalry Jan. 1, 1871; made captain March 20, 1879.  His most famous exploit was the capture of the Apache chief Geronimo, when he walked alone into the hostile camp and compelled the surrender.  For this piece of bravery and tact he was made a major in the inspector general's department, Sept. 17, 1888.  Feb. 12, 1889, he was promoted to be lieutenant colonel.  When the Spanish War broke out he was made brigadier-general of volunteers and assigned to command of a division of the Fifth Army Corps.  July 8, 1898, he was appointed major general of volunteers, and is now fighting in the Philippines." - - - - Another History Doll from the Boston Globe.

The Heroine Of Monmouth, MOLL PITCHER

July 16, 1899.  "THE HEROINE OF MONMOUTH.  Figurette of MOLL PITCHER, The Brave Sergeant of the Revolution.  It Will Stand Alone If Cut Out According To Directions.  The war of the Revolution produced no more picturesque character than Moll Pitcher, who has been described by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton as a "stout, red-haired, freckled-faced young Irish woman, with a handsome, piercing eye."  Her husband, a cannoneer in the Continental army, was killed at the battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778.  During the battle Moll had busied herself by carrying water from a neighboring spring to the men at the guns, and when a British shot killed her husband she seized the rampart and took his place at the gun.  After the victorious battle, although covered with dirt and blood, she was presented by General Nathaniel Greene to Washington, who commended her bravery and appointed her a sergeant.  Capt. Molly, as she was generally known, was also at Fort Clinton when the British captured it in October, 1777, and when her husband dropped the portfire just as the British appeared over the parapets, Molly picked it up and fired it, the shot being the last one fired by the Americans on that occasion.  She died near West Point in 1789, aged about 43 years."

JOHN HANCOCK, The First Signer

July 02, 1899.  "JOHN HANCOCK, THE FIRST SIGNER.  Who Wrote His Name So That All Men May Behold It, and Where Time Could Not Efface It.  This Patriotic Figure Will Stand Alone, and Remain a Memento of the Fourth, If Cut Out According to Directions."  "John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence, and first governor of Massachusetts was born at Quincy, Jan. 23, 1737, and was graduated from Harvard in 1754.  He was clerk in his uncle's counting house, and went to England in 1760, seeing the funeral of George II, and the coronation of George III.  At 29 he represented Boston in the general assembly of the province, and in 1774 was elected president of the Massachusetts provincial congress.  By this time he was the wealthiest man in Boston.  In 1775 General Gage offered pardons to all rebels but Samuel Adams and Hancock.  He was a delegate to the continental congress in Philadelphia, and was its first president, serving from May 1775, until October 1777.  When it was proposed to destroy Boston during its occupation by the British,  Hancock said that although he was the largest property holder in the town he was anxious it should be burned "if it would benefit the cause".  His autograph was the first affixed to the declaration of independence, and written large so that "the king may see it without putting on his specs."  The document was first published with only Hancock's name affixed as president.  The other names were added afterwards.  In August, 1778, he commanded Massachusetts troops in the Rhode Island campaign.  He was governor of Massachusetts from 1780 until 1785, elected again in 1787, and was annually re-elected until his death, October 08, 1793."

TOD SLOAN

August 13, 1899. TOD SLOAN, the Famous Jockey. "Tod Sloan, the American jockey with a meteoric career, was born in Indiana, left a home-less waif, he slept in livery stables and ate at the back doors of restaurants. Aged 8, he was adopted and educated by D. G. Blouser of Kokomo. Aged 14, under instruction of his brother, he began riding on the East St. Louis track. He became famous as a jockey in California. In 1895 he was the recognized premier of eastern race courses. He earned $500 a day and spent it. In 1897 he went to England. His awkward neck mount was criticised sharply, but Americans backed him to win and took barrels of money from the bookmakers. He has been under contract abroad since, riding this season for Lord Beresford and the Prince of Wales. He has sumptuous apartments in swell hotels. His hat and under-clothes are silk. He drinks the choicest wine. He travels with a valet and with as many trunks as a comic opera company. The Hoosier waif, now a young man, acquires at least $100,000 annually as the star jockey of the world. He is reported to have made near half a million in stocks during the boom of a few months ago. Occasionally he returns to New York to show his London garments and renew old acquaintances." - - - -I don't think I like Tod Sloan.

The Angel Of The Trenches, 1899

June 04, 1899. "Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, in May, 1820. She was the younger daughter of William Edward Shore, a banker of Sheffield, England, who inherited the estates of Peter Nightingale and assumed that surname. After special training she went to the army in the Crimea in 1854 as superintendent of a corps of volunteer female nurses, and organized a hospital at Scutari. Within three weeks three thousand soldiers were being cared for. In the face of great discouragements she made her hospital a model institution, and all the other hospitals on the Bosphorus were placed under her charge as lady in chief. She suffered a severe attack of fever and returned to England in 1856 with broken health which was never fully restored. The Queen sent her a jewel and a letter of thanks, a fund of $250,000 was raised to found a school for nurses under her direction, and the soldiers of the Crimean War made a penny contribution to raise a statue in her honor, which she would not permit. She has published books on nursing, hospital notes, and observations on the sanitary state of the army in India. Florence Nightingale, the angel of the trenches, is alive today, having celebrated her 79th birthday during the month just passed, at her residence 5 Hyde Park sq., London, W."

MARTHA WASHINGTON, 1899

March 26, 1899. "In 1758 George Washington met Mrs. Custis, who was then but 26, seven months a widow, and the richest woman in Virginia. In January 1759, they married, Col. Washington dressed in blue, the coat lined with red silk and ornamented with silver trimmings; his waistcoat was embroidered white satin, knee buckles of gold. The bride was dressed in a white satin quilted petticoat, a heavily corded white silk over-skirt, diamond buckles and pearl ornaments. The bride was driven to her home behind six horses, Washington and cavalcade riding beside the coach. With her two children, she soon went to Mt. Vernon, Washington's home, and when revolution was in the air, she wrote in 1774; "My heart is in the cause, George is right, he always is. God has promised to protect the righteous and I will trust him." To Patrick Henry she said, "I hope you will stand firm; I know George will." Her daughter, Nellie Custis, died at 17, and her son, George Custis, joined Washington's staff; her husband visited Mt. Vernon only twice during the long war. But Martha, affectionately called 'Patsey' by Washington, joined him at Cambridge in his headquarters at what is now known as Longfellow's house, and she was also with him at Valley Forge, suffering all the privations, and "busy from morning to night providing comforts for the sick soldiers". While her husband was president, an English visitor recorded in 1794 that "she was extremely simple in dress, and wore her gray hair turned up under a very plain cap". Her son died shortly after Yorktown, but left a daughter, Eleanor Parke Custis, and a son, George Washington Parke Custis, the latter marrying Mary Lee Fitzhugh, going to live at Arlington, opposite the city of Washington, and leaving a daughter who became the wife of Gen. Robert E. Lee. After the death of Washington, Martha moved to the only chamber which overlooked his tomb, and which was in the attic. There she passed the remaining two and a half years of her life, her constant companion being a favorite cat, for which a hole was cut in the door that it might go and come freely. In 1802 she died, after burning all the letters she had received from her husband, desiring to keep them sacred from the world."

Little Girl With a Little Curl

February 18, 1900. "There was a little girl who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead, And when she was good she was very, very good, And when she was bad she was horrid." - - - - I guess we have all known at least one little girl like the girl with the curl.

April 11, 1937. "There was a little girl, and she had a little curl, But this, my dear friends, is the joker - As she left the beauty shop, the rain began to drop. And the curl soon was straight as a poker!" Modern Mother Goose Cutouts by Addie Woodruff.

Theodore Wants To Be Your Valentine

February 09, 1912. Another of the Roosevelt Puzzles that appeared in many newspapers.

How Many Faces Can You Find In This Picture? The winner received an upright piano from Ambuhl Bros. Piano Company.

April 02, 1899. "Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York, Oct. 17, 1858; his father was a member of an old New York family, his mother a native of Georgia; he was slight in build and weak, which led him to athletics; attended private schools; graduated Harvard, 1880; married Miss Alice Lee of Boston, who died two or three years later, leaving a daughter; New York assembly, 1881-85; chairman New York delegation republican national convention, 1884; married Miss Edith Kermit Carow, 1886; defeated for mayor of New York, 1886; at odd times lived on his Montana ranch; civil service commissioner at Washington from 1889 to 1895; president police board New York from 1895 to 1897; assistant secretary navy, 1897-98; lieutenant colonel Rough Riders (First U. S. Volunteer Cavalry) May 6; in battle La Quasimas, first of the war, June 24; in battle San Juan, July 1, 2; promoted to be colonel a few days later; got up the famous round robin, protesting against plan of administration to keep soldiers in Cuba till fall, Aug. 3; landed at Mantauk, Aug. 15; left regiment Sept. 13; nominated for governor Sept. 27; elected by 18,079 plurality, Nov. 8; inaugurated January 2, 1899; father of six children and author of "The Naval War of 1812", "Life of Thomas H. Benton", "Life of Gouverneur Morris", "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail", "The Winning of the West", "Essays on Practical Politics", "The Wilderness Hunter", "Hero Tales From American History"; his home is at Oyster Bay, N.Y."

- - - - - - Teddy's life up to April 1899 with so much yet to happen!

The Hero of Bunker Hill

June 11, 1899. "Gen. Joseph Warren, born on Warren St., Roxbury, June 11, 1741. Graduating from Harvard, he became master of the Roxbury grammar school. Then he studied medicine. On the anniversary of the Boston massacre in 1775, when British officers threatened whoever addressed the people on the occasion, Warren pleaded for the dangerous honor. The people surged about the Old South so densely that Warren, securing a ladder, entered by a window. Ignoring the presence of more than 40 British officers, he delivered a stirring address on the baleful influence of standing armies in times of peace, and was unmolested. As chairman of the committee of safety he despatched Paul Revere to warn the inhabitants of Middlesex of the British movements. He was later the president of the provisional congress, and the second major general of the provisional forces. On June 17, 1775, he rode to Bunker Hill, and although both Putnam and Prescott offered to serve under him, he refused, saying he desired to take a lesson in warfare under such well trained officers. While rallying the militia for the final struggle he was shot in the head and instantly killed." Many thanks to General Joseph Warren, a true American hero.

My Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter Fair

May 21, 1899. "Grace Darling, the daughter of a lighthouse keeper at the Farne Islands, a perilous group on the east coast of England, was in her 23rd year, when on the morning of Sept. 07, 1838, she gave that supreme test of the true heroine. After a wildly tempestuous night, which had disturbed her rest by thoughts of those exposed to the storm, she espied in the dawn a shipwrecked steamer. The only man at the lighthouse was her father, her brothers being away on the mainland. It was doubtful if a boat manned by a stalwart crew would live in such a sea. All this her father represented to her, but she would not be dissuaded, and he yielded to her entreaties at last. The perilous passage was made to the cruel rocks, at great expense of toil and labor, and with many misgivings of a watery grave. The nine survivors, after infinite pains, were received into the frail boat, and land was safely made at last. Only once in her brief life the exigency arose for her to manifest her heroism of soul. Her conduct then revealed the deep hidden springs of her nature, and was the expression of an habitual temperament. Never was a girl so subjected to such public adulation as Grace afterwards was, and never was any person so little affected by it. A purse of $3,000 was raised for her and medals came from the leading societies of the world. Until the day of her death, four years later, she continued to live at the lighthouse with her parents."

I had never heard of Grace Darling until Ghosts, an album by The STRAWBS which included the song "Grace Darling" written by Dave Cousins. It is one of my favorite songs and I got to see The STRAWBS perform it live in concert when I was 13-years old. Here are the words to the song --"You have been my lighthouse in every storm. You have given shelter, you have kept me safe and warm. And in my darkest night you have shone your brightest light - You are my saving Grace, Darling I love ya.- You have been the pilot who guides me home. You have been the rock as on the seven seas I roam. And when I was becalmed you were the strength in my arms - You are my saving Grace, Darling I love ya.- And when my back was torn and broken on the reef, you sailed your tiny boat across the dark seas of my disbelief. You have been the anchor and I the chain, straining as we hold ourselves together in the rain. I have found you ever there, my constant keeper's daughter fair - You are my saving Grace, Darling I love ya." Many thanks to Dave Cousins.

JOSEPHINE, Empress of The French, 1899

March 12, 1899. A couple of nights ago I found about two-dozen more of these cut-out dolls from the Boston Globe. "A New Way To Learn History - This Doll Will Stand Up When Cut Out." The series seems to begin with this doll - JOSEPHINE, Empress Of The French.

The Crooked Man With His Crooked Cat, 1900

January 28, 1900. There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile. - - - Another from the Boston Globe series.

PETER PIPER and HIS PICKLED PEPPERS

February 08, 1900. Peter Piper is not the cutest kid on the block. Another in the Boston Globe's series.

Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, Where Have Your Been?

January 21, 1900. "I've been to London to see the Queen. Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, what did you there? I frightened a little mouse under her chair." Another from the Boston Globe's series. A pretty jolly bird.

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

January 1900. Mother Goose Dolls - - No. 1. The Boston Globe's History Dolls cut-out series. I have only been able to find a few Mother Goose Dolls. These cut-out dolls must have been very pretty in color. I will be getting out my colored pencils.