Through the Everglades voyage report by Major Williams
Major A P Williams recounts an 1877 Florida expedition of twelve men and six canoes from Cedar Keys to Cape Sable via the Caloosatchie River and Lake Okeechobee. They battled dense sawgrass, alligators, snakes, and leeches, logged about 140 miles by water and 300 miles overall, concluding the Everglades are largely useless for cultivation and telegraph routes are impractical beyond southern coasts.
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Timee-Demucray
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A. P. Williams
Wessbiea
Cedar Keys
Punta Sasca
Pia
Calooschatchie
Okeecheobee
Arene
Okeeuheebee
Whitewater Bay
Gulf Coast
Cape Bable
Okeecheehue
Gulf
Iit
Everglades
Gladen
Atlantic
Killing near Echols ends in fatal shooting
Reported incident near Echols describes George W. Hunter shooting his son in law J T Paggett after a hog dispute. Paggett allegedly fired at hunter’s dogs, then was shot in the breast by Hunter after Paggett entered the gate. Wounds to two others followed. child and another man were injured. The account notes potential inaccuracies.
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Echols
Valdvota
Tes
George W. Hunter
J.T. Paggett
Hunter
Paggett
Paggerty
DeLoach
Siiwly
Ayer
Failure of Memory Nightmare Anecdotes and Dreams
A fragmentary reminiscence discusses memory failure with comic tales from Cornhill Magazine. It describes a speaker who forgets his talk and substitutes imagination, plus examples from scientific treatises on memory lapses. The narrator recalls a recurring nightmare of failing to address a distinguished audience and forgetting Shakespeare lines.
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Cornhill
O'Halloran
Halloron
Swiss Maidens and Matrons in a Crude Essay Note
W A Croffut derides Swiss girls as unattractive compared with American women, while describing Alpine labor scenes and village life with satire on gender roles. The piece blends cultural bias with social comment, contrasting Swiss industriousness with perceived American female subservience and revisiting theater lore about Joe Jefferson and spiritualism.
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W. A. Croffut
Chicago Tribune
Trish
Aml
Eshonht
America
Itiwu
Fragments of a New York morgue and Hart's Island graves
A grim tour through a New York morgue reveals nude corpses and embalmed bodies. An attendant notes Nellie Mix and describes funerals to Hart's Island trenches with no headstones, 6,000 buried last year and about 40,000 total, kept in numbered trenches with diagrams.
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Jure
San Francisco Chronicle
Mudle
Cleveland
Nellie Mix
New York
Ram
Ehtoral
Valerian
Potter's Field
Hart's Island
Long Island Sound
East River
Alaska justice and crowd at Sitka hangings told
Cor Inter Ocean recounts Alaska events where an Indian gang killed a guard after freeing shackled companions and a hanged assassin. Pierrepont halted the procession, heard evidence, and the leader urged collective responsibility. The Sitka church rolls baptize many Indians amid executions.
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Inter Ocean
Alaska
Pierrepont
AtJuneau
Sitkas
United States
Siktub
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Joe Jefferson
Hendrick Hudson
Justice
New York Sun
Boston Journal
New York Times
Scientific American
Finis
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M. E. Raines
Pinericus
CIA
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HAR
QR & Corre
Jno
M. Colter
Inifudicdate Trating
Jon Patrehacen
Mans
W. H
T. M. Cobb
Mare & Cobh
Cotton
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G. W. Glover
General Merchandise
Reoyson
Dutainette
Opera House
Bh. Shaw
Forsyth Street
Americus, GA
Ahvericus
Georgia
Sumter and
Schley
D. C
Matt Hart
Tatton Avenue
Farey
Matt Pele
Euly
Rae
Fanct Goods
Shana Nee Sewing Machine
W. FP. Rye Coleansed Sewing
Louisiana State Lottery Company
Mate
Portune
Clars A
New Orleans
Capital Prize
T Capital Prize
Appontimation Pertha
Aires
Orleans National Bank
New Amesus
Ty A
Dauphin
New Orie
Mitchell
Thieves
Roefssichal
Abc Barne & Co
Mea Ae
A. S Baisden
Abele Guarto
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