Des Moines and Minneapolis Road reaches Iowa state capital
The Des Moines and Minneapolis Road extends to Des Moines Nebraska? No, Des Moines is the Iowa capital. The railway junction near Anas Hemped on Gn Change and Nash Western Railroad sits thirty six miles north of Des Moines and reaches the seat of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The area features a well appointed public school and a large public school building amid productive farming lands and orchards surrounding the city.
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Gn Change and
Nash Western Railroad
Des Moines
Minneapolis
Des Moinea
Iowa
Towa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arta
The Mad Lover Escapes and Terror Follows Allie
Alice Durand faces Lang Mitchell an escaped lunatic in Black Hollow woods. She uses calmness to lure him toward a ruined house where a collapsible floor traps him. Frank Lane arrives to rescue, Mitchell dies from injuries, and Allie bears lasting fear of the night’s encounter.
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Lang Mitchell
Alice Durand
Bessie
Bessie West
Mitchell
Frank Lane
Lang
Dr. S
Allie
Black Hollow
Bess West
Biut
Mr. Mitchell
Darling
Frank
Flirtations Aboard Ship Warns Against Intimacy With Foreigners
Olive Logan cautions travelers about sea flirtations and the risk of indiscreet disclosures. She recalls a western family on a voyage where a handsome British officer’s advances nearly compromised a girl, prompting the purser to ensure she returned home with family.
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Canada
Niagara Falls
Olive Logan
Ten Virgins Sermon Motif Turns Into Joking Enduring Tale
A Stewartown former minister in Ayrshire, Scotland, is said to have yearly preached the Monday communion sermon on the same theme the parable of the ten virgins. An old clerical friend quipped that the virgins must be well past maidhood by now, a timely word that ended the tradition.
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Stewartown
Ayr
Scotland
New York Herald
Tay Bridge River Stored Completes основной girder raising
The last big girder of the Tay bridge was raised into its permanent position restoring railway communication between Forfar and Fife. External structure appears complete though permanent way and ballast work on the large girders remain to be finished.
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TAY Brivdge Rve
Forfar
Fife
Grier Named as Faithful Friend Through Many Changes
A description portrays Grier as a constant companion who always returns, even as he changes his garments or features. Readers are assured they will recognize him by his close and warm embrace.
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Grier
Tennyson
Sammy
Philadelphia
Women and Money in Matrimony Sparks and Satire
A collage of notes on women’s feet fashion and health contrasts with a moral tale on marrying for money. It cites Boston and English habits, warns against lavish spending, and presents a parable of a wife’s check era followed by a lesson in money’s value.
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Paris
Boston
America
Cleveland
Washington
London
Parisian Belle Transformed by Chemical Bath Joke
A Parisian woman uses cosmetics and a medicated bath to darken herself. Her doctor jokingly treats her as a chemical reaction, turning her into a “sulphide” before precipitating a return to whiteness.
The Soldier's Tales On Love Power And War Life
The article recalls love as a blind force and contrasts it with practical marriage motives by wealth. It follows rich youths’ dissipation and the gilded class’s search for broader purpose, then shifts to Civil War reminiscences about soldiers guarding homes, pilfered provisions, and a tale of guarded hospitality and a humorous turkey episode.
Bread Thief Pone Incident In Civil War Camp Tale
An Iowa officer Major Stone vows he will not eat stolen food after a prank in a Sixteenth Illinois and Iowa camp. Soldiers steal his cornbread, causing a vivid scene described with frontier humor and reflections on discipline and foraging.
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Iowa
Illine
Major Hayn
Company I
Sixteenth Illinois
Stone
Rouch Roade
Youngest Civil War soldier claims fame as drummer boy
The piece notes Avery Brown born in Delphos Ohio on September 28 1852 and mustered at Camp Chase Columbus Ohio August 18 1851 into the Thirty first Ohio Volunteer Infantry of the Fourteenth Army Corps. At muster he was eight years eleven months and thirteen days old, likely the youngest enlisted Civil War soldier. He later resided in Elkhart Indiana and is described as a skilled marble cutter musician and respected citizen tied to the Grand Army post.
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Cumberland
Delphos
Allen County
Ohio
United States Service
Camp Chase
Columbus
Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Fourteenth Army Corps
Brown
Elkhart
Ind
Grand Army
The
Carcage Ledger
Voice Control Question From Miss Chestnote
Miss Chestnote asks Professor Pianissimo how to gain full vocal control after hearing her rendition of When the Robins Nest Again. The Professor, a polite gentleman, avoids blunt opinion about her singing as he replies with a playful insinuation.
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Miss Chestnote
Pianissimo
Mantel
New York Mail
Sterling Takes Jo S Supp R The Argent Demand
A shortened garbled report notes various soldiers and a vague argent demand. M. V. Ashby writes in the Libr noting positive information and small irregularities amid the confusion.
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M. V. Ashby
Two Anecdotes of Grant at Brandywine Station
A National Tribune writer recalls Grant’s first command arrival at Brandywine Station with Ingalls aboard, a grand banquet, and Grant’s blunt humor about ration quality. The piece also shares a Spottsylvania breakfast tale from Company Sixty second New York soldiers, describing loot, a sleeping cook, and camaraderie amid war.
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Dan Mitnacht
Dan Sullivan
New York
Spottsylvania
National Tribune
Johnny
Sam
Kansas City
Stonewall Jackson and the Cadets
A cadet recalls meeting Major Jackson on his return from leave and beginning his second class in applied mechanics. The narrator, a plebe in cadet uniform, describes initial impressions and teachings from senior cadets.
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Felows
Jackson
Vailance
Chool
Civil War Memoir, 1862 Mississippi Campaign Surprise at Pensacola
In 1862 the narrator describes enlisting in Company C, marching via St. Louis to a fort, two months bivouacked in rain and water, and a Pensacola assault that met only three old guards. He recounts hunger, drinking rain water, and spiking revenge by burning farmlands. The account ends with the line LAWRENCE ZHINS, RErNotps, Mi.
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Mississippi
St. Louis
Fort
Pensacola
Lawrence Zhins
Origin of Folk Tales and Their Possible Roots
The passage argues that folk tales may be independently created rather than borrowed, noting universal beliefs in magic among primitive peoples and their adaptation to modern contexts. It questions the need for cross cultural borrowing and highlights the persistence and diversity of tale materials across civilizations.
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H. BE. Warner
Stribner’s Magazine
Novel Walking Turtle Toy Sells For Ten Cents
A self winding turtle toy with green back yellow eyes and a string tug starts it walking. Sold for a dime it is displayed on the streets and noted by a Sixth ward boy who has never seen a real turtle. New York Sun.
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New York Sun
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