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CSA camp, Warrington Naval Yard, Pensacola, FL. Looks like some could be brothers.

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Paddle wheeler on the Missouri River at Mound City, MO 1910. Can’t read the name on the pilot house. There was a regular route running from Rulo, NE (and Omaha/Council Bluffs farther north) down to Saint Joseph, & on to Kansas City, & all river stops in between . The river wasn’t yet channelized so shallow water & snags were commonplace.

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The slight colorization & the 8 MB size make for a great pic on my monitor.
 
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In the past, factories often employed individuals known as “lectores” to read stories aloud, providing entertainment and a break from the monotony of work.

This practice first emerged in the 1860s within Cuban cigar factories. In the United States, the custom was common in the cigar factories of Ybor City in Tampa but was discontinued after the Ybor City cigar makers’ strike of 1931.

 
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Reception & dining rooms of the Confederate Veterans Home of Missouri, Higginsville, MO 1904. Jim Cummins, boyhood friend of Jesse James, who rode as a Missouri Partisan Ranger under the command of George Todd during the War, & longest living member of the post war James - Younger Gang was a resident from 1902 until his death in 1929.

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In 1907 David Edwards, another of Quantrill’s men who had moved into the Veterans Home the yr before, took a shot at Cummins head but missed. The two had been arguing about events during the wartime massacres at Centralia, MO & Lawrence, KS. Edwards was arrested & spent a couple nights in jail but charges were never filed.

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In 1909 Cummins mortally wounded another resident at the Veterans Home with a fist to the head during an argument, which turned fatal the next day. No charges against Cummins were filed. PTSD was unheard of.

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During his retirement yrs Jim Cummins wrote 2 dime booklets about his war life & after. He died of old age while living at the home in July, 1929. He is buried in the State Confederate Veterans Cemetery on the grounds where the Veterans Home once stood.
 
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These two pics are identified as a Civil War veterans reunion of 1883, Springfield, MO. Obviously they are taken at different times, different reunions. The first pic shows a GAR 69 banner on one of the bldgs. If that is meant to be 1869 then it was only 4 yrs after James Butler Hickok killed Davis Tutt in the same town square.

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Assuming 1869 to be the correct date for the first pic, this second pic could be 1883, taken 14 yrs later.

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