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Died. Gen. Byron R. Pierce, 95, "last surviving General in the Union Army during the Civil War"; at Grand Rapids...
...BLACK HOOD?Thomas Dixon? Appleton ($2.00). Author Dixon blandly and bravely prefaces his story with the suggestion "to the five million members of the new Ku Klux Klan that they read this book." A tale of the original Klan in the days following the Civil War, when it was ordered dissolved, it breathes all the mysterious and sinister significance of the "Invisible Empire," and swirls the reader along with it under its exciting black hoods and white sheets. It stops by the wayside to terrorize one dark-skinned Julius Caesar, self-styled "Apostle ob Sanotification," known to his rivals...
...first ledger entry on the Company's books-by one James Benedict, who started a shoe factory at New Canaan. Soon the "cordwainers" of New Canaan became nationally known for their fine products, and sold largely to the southern trade- even to New Orleans. In the Civil War the factory, then a century old, made shoes for the Union Army. Up to this time, shoes were all handmade, and the shoemaking machinery of today did not exist. The factory cut the parts, which were stitched together by hand, in the cottages of their employes...
...event. It is the way of its telling that makes this novel unique. In oddly blurred, yet impossibly vivid, shimmering sentences, this rich ambling becomes an absorbing tale. In what its author calls "a romance of bad manners," he has sketched those nebulous days just after the Civil war, for our contemporary gaze...
Patriotic airs of the Civil...