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Excerpt from Reminiscences of the Civil WarWhen the war broke out I thought the country need ed my services but mother did not wish me to go to war because of my immature age. I was seventeen years old when father bade good-bye to mother and started for the southern con¿ict and I couldn't bear the thoughts of a well and able boy like me letting father go alone so I went with him. We enlisted as Privates in Company E., 58th Regi ment Massachuse...

Excerpt from Notes on the Early History of Buenos AiresThe same desire to reach the East ani mated succeeding explorers. The unex pected land discovered by Columbus was looked upon principally as a barrier on the road to Cathay, and efforts were made to find a passage through. The Portuguese explored the coast of Brazil in 1500. Solis, Chief Pilot of the King of Spain, may have discovered the Rio de la Plata in 1508, and certainly did in 1515....

Excerpt from Alcohol: Some Facts Regarding Its Effects Upon the Human Body Brought Out by Modern InvestigationSuch books had the common fault Of laying most of the emphasis upon the changes in the actual structure of the body found after death in certain individuals following prolonged, excessive use of alcohol as a beverage. The average child after studying one Of these textbooks gains the impression that every habitual drinker must have a la...

Excerpt from Notes on the History of Argentine Independence: A Paper Read by Mr. C. W. Whittemore, February 6th, 1920, Before the American Club, Buenos AiresA noteworthy feature, the only one in all Spanish America, of the primary Argentine colonization was that it absorbed the Indian population. In Peru as in Mexico and elsewhere, the conquerors implanted a feudalism which had as its principal basis the distribution of the natives as laborers...

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