Remarkable Snowball Fight in Civil War Tale
The Louisville Courier Journal recounts a snowball battle between Kentucky and Tennessee troops near Dalton Georgia during winter 1862 63. Gen Joseph H Lewis and Pat Cleburne led Kentuckians to retake barracks, trading volleys of snowballs in a fierce day long clash that ended only with nightfall. Also notes Lookout Mountain scenes and two acts of Lincoln’s kindness toward soldiers and a nurse.
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Louisville Courier- Journal
Dalton
Georgia
Orphan Brigade
Kentucky
Joseph H. Lewis
Court of Appeals
Pat Clebourne
Franklin, Tenn
Tennessee
Middle States
Lewis
Lavezhier
Mahone In Winter Chase Atop Virginia Hill
In December 1864 General Mahone slept when his servant Davey accidentally toppled his cot. The startled officer pursued Davey across a fence while both wore scant clothing in the cold, a brief comic episode recounted by the San Francisco Argonaut.
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M Mahone
Gen. Mahone
Virginia
Uncle Davey
Davey
Massa William
San Francisco
Hallowe'en stunt ends in tragic death in Sharon
Miss Luella Minner of Charleston died in Sharon after a Halloween party meal gone wrong. She attempted to swallow a chicken heart to woo her future husband, the heart lodged near her windpipe and formed a throat abscess. The abscess ruptured into the windpipe, choking her to death.
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Hallowe'en
Sharon
Luella Minner
Charleston
Miss Minner
Conscience Drives Boy to Hen House After Whipping
A Watertown New York boy, spanked by a teacher for misbehavior, hides in the hen house to reflect on his actions. After school he emerges for dinner, confessing to his mother with shame and tears as the teacher’s punishment weighs on him.
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Watertown
N. Y
Five Deer Shot in One Mile Ring Near Westfield Wis
Henry Leight of Westfield Wisconsin shot five deer within thirty minutes in a one mile circle last week prompting wildlife officials to review hunting practices.
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Wall
Henry Leight
Westfield
Wis
Spirits Temple in Boston Showcases Mr Ayer’s Million Dollar Gift
Boston correspondent details the First Spiritual Temple funded entirely by Marcellus Sayer Ayer, a Boston grocer who gave 300000 for the temple. The piece describes spirit pictures, guides, and ancient intelligences pictured in the library and auditorium, including Confucius, Chine, Kwotei, Arbaces, and the temple spirit, with accounts of seances and claimed authentic materializations.
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Marcellus Sayer
Marcellus S. Ayer
Trinity Church
New Old South
Public Library
Art Museum
Ayer
E. R. Ayer
Chryst
Temple
Lincoln
Thomas Paine
Boston
New York
Fox Sisters
Saul
Witch of Endor
Joan of Arc
Weber
Chins
Confucius
Arbaces
Adehl
Yermah
Hiram
Abifif
Far East
Chine
China
Celestial Empire
Kwotei
Dr. Guity
Katherine Smith
Arbuthnot
Adams
William Hewitt
Dr. Guffy
John Burns
White Cloud
Katie Robinson
Philadelphia
W. B. Anderson
Great Pyramid
Countryman Outwits Waiter Over Pie Price
A spare countryman in a Fulton Street lunch room is asked to specify his pumpkin pie type and size after the waiter forgets his order. Amid a crowd he replies with laconic humor, distinguishing 5 cent from 10 cent pie, and leaves with the implied win in a humorous exchange.
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Fulton Street
New York World
Wal
Father defends warlike toys for son to become missionary
A solemn man explains to a father that a boy should learn to handle a gun and a sword as preparation for potential missionary work, arguing familiarity with weapons is prudent even for a future clergyman. The exchange appears in the Indianapolis Journal.
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Indianapolis
Steel Protected Cruiser With Venezuelan Mission
The vessel measures 300 feet on the water line with a 42 foot beam and 20 foot draft, displacing 3,213 tons. It mounts ten 5 inch guns plus a 6 inch gun, eight 6 pounders, four 1 pounders, two Gatling guns, and four torpedo tubes. Built at Brooklyn Navy Yard, keel laid 1890, launched November 10, 1892, commissioned June 16, 1894, crew of 20 officers and 29 men, powered by two propellers and vertical expansion engines. armor includes a 2 percent slope deck and a flat 1 inch deck. Ordered to Venezuela.
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United States Navy
Brooklyn
Venezuela
Corner of Oddities and Loose Ends in Town News
A collection of oddities and local incidents: a Fort Dodge case of a woman fed by coffee and delirium tremens misattributed to alcohol, a Hill City rebilling over funeral costs, a wintry giant turnip tale from Winamac, Indiana, and a Decatur kidnapping in a ransom plot with stolen funds, all drawn from regional reports.
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John F. Cooper
Winamac
Indiana
Mr. Cooper
Charlie Wait
A Wonderful Man H S Fitzgerald Exhibits Abilities
H S Fitzgerald of Harrisburg Pennsylvania aged 47 can dislocate any joint and control every muscle. For about twenty seven years he has demonstrated before medical colleges revealing hidden ligaments and muscles under the skin. Divorce In Seven Minutes Sioux City Claims Time Record In divorce proceedings Sarah J Wallace filed for divorce from W J Wallace at 4 38 and by 4 45 a decree of separation with alimony and child custody was granted.
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E. R. Ayers
Sanage
Sage
China
Confucius
Yerman
Tan
Pacific Ocean
Arbaces
H. S. Fitzgerald
Harrisburg
Sioux City
Sarah J. Wallace
W. J. Wallace
Fragmented reader note teases age and memory across years
A rough, fragmented reflection mentions older years and the sense of long past feats. It hints at lives and deaths, numbers and places like Philadelphia but remains unclear and partial. The tone suggests a newspaper of record style, though the text is heavily garbled.
How Docs Are Dwarfed by Liquor Breeds Diminutive Dogs
A fragment discusses a cruel method to create tiny dogs by feeding alcohol to nursing mothers and puppies. It claims the animals are fed alcohol instead of milk, halting growth and causing them to appear stunted. Doctors warn this as a terrible lesson for drunkards and absinthe drinkers.
Odd Observations and Satirical Bits From a 19th Century Page
A humor column notes quirky social notes including a bloomer bicycle and a bloomer waiter girl, mocks U S politics with a claim about Chicago as capital, and jokes about corn turning whisky and a Hugo family name on Paris’s Arc de Triomphe. It highlights satirical takes on public morals, fashion, and national heroes.
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Chicago
Gen. Hugo
Victor Hugo
Paris
Flotsam glimpses and oddities in a 9th street edition
A Philadelphia barber showcases up to date fashion plates for fall and winter whiskers. Berlin machinist invents a self returning pot design with a perforated rim. Louvre policy restricts paintings while artists live ten years after death. A Hungarian develops wood pulp yarn for versatile fabrics. The Atlanta Exposition hosts the largest coal piece ever mined. Voting on the eve of, and the era of, one’s twenty first birthday is discussed. Rev R P Ashe pursues three sons during a chase in Africa. Mount Union girl students resist gym class routines with a female instructor.
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Philadelphia
Berlin
Louvre
Paris
California
R. P. Ashe
Africa
Mount Union
College
Alliance
Tsubi
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Veterans Corner
van Petrokoffsky
Ivan
Volga
Ivan Petrokoffsky
Clebourne
Lookout
Mission Ridge
Moccasin Bend
Lookout Mountain
H. Clay Evans
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Lookout Point
United States
Bull Run
Richmond
Libby
Will Upaam
Second
Wisconsin Infantry
West Point
Upham
Wisconsin
Treasury Department
Leslie J. Perry
Boston Town
Jordan
Bostorn
Onset Bay
New England
Spiritual Temple
Berkeley Hall
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Sarah Murdock
Renlovinen
Hill City
South Dakota
R. Roberts
Omaha
Adams Express Company
Roberts
Presbyterian Church
Decatur
Ind
John Trentman
West Baden Springs
Mitchell
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