Battle of Belmont remembered as bold Union victory
Captain H L Smith recalls the November 6 1801 Belmont battle with Union forces at Cairo Bird's Point and Fort Holt. The corps under McClernand and Dougherty struck a larger Confederate force, captured their camp and battery, endured heavy fire, and withdrew with casualties and prisoners, while Confederate reports claim a defensive success.
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H. L. Smith
National Tribune
Cairo
Bira’s Point
Fort Holt
Montgomery
Belle
Memphis
Scott
Iowa
Lauman
Ilinois
Dougherty
Iinois
Buford
Peuke
Illinois
John A. Logan
Tayior
Chicago
Delano
Collins
Comand
Mississippi River
Lexington
Stewbel
Tyler
Walker
Kentucky
Missouri
Helmont
Columbus
Twenty-second
Detrick
Taylor
John A. McClernand
Logan
Bird's Point
Mound City
Belmont
Polk
Arkansas
Tappan
Tennessee
Russell
Woeht
Pickett
Freeman
Beltzhoever
Watson
Miller
Pillow
Modern Astrology Secrets of Horoscopes and Wealth
Ruthiel explains the horoscope process from birth time to chart construction, emphasizing birth time accuracy, location, and planetary positions. It covers ascendant signs, planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, and Venus, and how aspects and houses allegedly forecast life, health, and wealth with examples of favorable and adverse configurations.
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Ruthiel
Pittsburg
Nis
Mercury
Ptolemy
Saturn
Mars
Uranus
Venus
Jupiter
A Young Man Discomfited on Fort Wayne Train
A Fort Wayne to Chicago train tale recounts a short, copper-colored Indian bound for Carlisle and a prig in the smoking car who mocks him with garbled phrases. The encounter escalates as the youth remains composed and untroubled by the taunt.
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Chicago Herald
Fort Wayne
Chicago
Carlisle
Penn
Prig
Elap
Pawnee
Dime Novel Talk Sparks Mockery on the Train
A copper colored man mocks a young man in a sleeping coach after claims of East schooling. He says he will return to Montana with his people and condemns whiskey as not drank where he lives. Laughter follows as the crested youth retires.
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Laan
Montana
East
Symptoms by Telephone Prank Ends With Oats and Hay
A practical joker Tickleribs feigns coughing to a doctor about consumption. A station girl tricks a bass horn musician into blasting a shock, asking him to cough. The doctor jokes the patient into a diet of oats and baled hay, noting he is turning to a jackass quickly.
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Mall
Tickieribs
Dr. Wahiteye
Tickleribs
Central Station
Goldsmith Maid Welcomes Trainer in Trenton Stall
Philadelphia Timea and Budd Doble visited Goldsmith Maid at Trenton where the mare greeted them warmly. Doble recalled teaching her to lie down to keep her unusually long tail clear, noting her lively reaction and playful carriage as she moved about the stall.
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Philadelphia
Budd Doble
Trenton
Mr. Doble
Frederick the Great and the Night Key a Dime Museum Plea
A cheeky note questions a museum exhibit idea by arguing Frederick the Great slept five hours a night. It riffs that if he retired at 3 a.m. he rose at 8 a.m. and ends by urging an enterprising museum man to display Frederick’s so called favorite night-key.
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Puck
Frederick the Great
Fnr
Frederick
Distinctions among amateurs and poets in a domestic vignette
A wife praises a new sonnet but declines judgment, suggesting her husband read it to Mr Melnotte who also writes poetry. The husband quips about knowledge and pride, hinting at humorous self doubt and literary pride within a domestic scene.
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Melnotte
Emilia of Idria A miner's daughter to Napoleon's muse
The article recounts Emilia of Idria, a miner's daughter who became Napoleon's clandestine companion and later a widow, baroness, and petitioner. It tracks her youth in 1805, marriage ceremony, travels with Napoleon, and decades of fame, financial ruin, and graft of her entourage amid repeated petitions for aid.
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Emilia
Idria
Napoleon
Artillery Department
Sehoenbraon
Powise
Cassar
Comte de Montholon
Saint Helena
Munich
Eugene de Beaularnais
Josephine
France
Paris
Tuileries
Talma
Cesar
Salzburg
Comtesse Aux Chiens
Odd Appeal Over Pea Fowls and Eggs in Rochester Case
In Pittsford on January 11, 1884 a judgment for plaintiff for $190 and $3.65 costs prompted a defendant to appeal. The notice lists disputed facts from a 1882 poultry transaction and subsequent events, including deaths of two pea fowls, disappearance of a pea hen, and egg delivery issues, with the defendant alleging default due to a snowstorm. The document is signed January 31, 1884, by the defendant.
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Justice
Pittsford
Mark Twain
Rochester
Plymouth Rocks
Lim
Firth
Penfield
Brizee
Jet Joose
Plymouth Rock
Brother Shinbones Deals in a Poker Night Tale
New York Times recounts a late night visit to Peter Maguff where Brother Shinbones narrates a poker game with Brudder Wakeup Misery Brudder Lemuel Potterbury and Brudder Squeezeout Peabody. The lively dialect tale includes bets, hands, and a surprising ace high bluff.
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New York Times
Shinbones Smith
Peter Maguff
Bradder
Pete
Chile
Brudder
Peabody
Brudder Lemuel Potterbury
Hyar
Brudder Wakeup
Brudder Lemuel
Delr Han
A Blazin' Discount. Duncan v Times in a Southern Auction Tale
A New York shipping commissioner sued the New York Times for 100000 dollars and won twelve cents. The tale shifts to a Southern town auction where a flashy saddle horse is bid up in grand style before a lone bid of two dollars and fifty cents ends the drama, with the auctioneer declaring it a blazing discount.
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Washington Star
C. C. Duncan
New York
New York Times
The Sorcerer's Revenge and the White Deer Legend
A New York Tribune account retells a Delaware valley legend of a brave warrior who wins his beloved only if he brings a sacred white deer to his chief. The chief, aided by a vengeful sorcerer, ensnares him with a deadly arrow, doom befalls the chief, the lover, and the princess, and White Deer Lake earns its ominous name as a cautionary tale still echoed in the Lackawaxen region.
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Compiegne
Saint Cloud
Tuileries
Constant
Valet de Chambre
Roustan
Mameluke
Emilia
Napoleon
Smolensko
Moscow
Grand Armee
Fontainebleau
Wolfsberg
War Office
Legion of Honor
St. Helena
Schoenauer
Vienna
Lake of Constance
Strasburg
Frances
Salzberg
New York Tribune
Delaware River
New York
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Sue
Lackawaxen
Jie
White Deer Lake
Antelope Drives into Christ Church Amid Street Nuisance
A pet antelope escaped from Mr. D. M. Steele and sought refuge in Christ Church on Sunday morning. A frightened lady, wielding a parasol, chased the animal out, warning it to leave or get it. The incident underscores the roaming cattle problem in the area.
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Joseph Herald
D. M. Steele
Christ Church
Tooty Dears Mistake at Poughkeepsie Depot
A New York Sun item recounts Thad finishing lunch in Poughkeepsie with Rear Admiral Slouse of the ninth district when a matronly lady and her diminutive companion caused a mix up. The admiral mistook the infant for the woman and blushed before explaining,Footy dear jokes circulated between Poughkeepsie and Albany.
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New York Sun
Thad
Poughkeepsie
Slouse
Ninth District
Albany
The What and the St. Burlington Hawkeye
A peculiar animal named What escaped its keeper and wandered the street mingling feebly with pedestrians as bystanders watched in curiosity. The incident spurred attention from local residents and prompted calls for containment and safety measures.
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What
St. Burlington
Lonely It Drowns After Market Rescue Attempt
A sorrowful It laments in a New market and speaks of a valet’s cruel act snatching away its life. It expresses despair and wishes to die, then tears flood from its eye and it drowns in briny depths.
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Newmarket
Baccarat at London Club Described as Bank Bets and Blown Winnings
A Pall Mall Gazette account portrays a London baccarat club where the bank is bid for by punters, money flows via a chalked table, and the dealer manages cards and counters. Observers note extravagant winnings, credit rules, and questions over whether the game is chance or skill.
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London
Paris
Pall Ma's Gazette
Losng
Figaro's Three Managers Carry On Paris Daily
A profile of Le Figaro detailing its founders and post‑Villemessant leadership. Francis Maynard, A Perivier, and Fernand de Rodays assumed control, with Magnard as editor in chief. The paper emphasizes enterprise in news gathering, while politics occupy little space, favoring essays, arts, and theater gossip.
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Paul H. Hayne
Philadelphia ‘Times
Figaro
Hippolyte de Villemossant
Rue Drouot
de Villemessant
Francis Maynard
A. Perivier
Fernard de Rodays
Monte Carlo
Magnard
Perivier
Secitaire de la Redaction
The
Marshal Bazaine
St. Marguerite
Ttrd
Fernand de Rodays
Republic
Paris
Paner
de Rodays
Ih al Uiat
the Figaro
He Tried to Cheat the Railroad
In a Detroit Free Press story a traveler recounts meeting a commercial tourist with two trunks in Macon. They ride to Atlanta with one trunk, the other staying with the author for 150 miles before returning by express. The narrator notes his act of disinterested help and vows to repeat such kindness when possible.
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Detroit Free Press
Macon
Philadelphia
Atlanta
Montgromery
Express
Bric a Brac Poem and Pension Joke
A Philadelphia Calla item quotes Ella Wheeler Wilcox on luck and resolve. A joke about another candidate seeking a pension in Washington follows, featuring a recently arrived emigrant and the remark It is a foie country sor. The exchange highlights attitudes toward luck and federal pension efforts.
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Philadelphia
Calla
Pat
America
Washington
Tobacco Memory and Pretty Mouth in Lowell Citizen Note
A Lowell Citizen excerpt argues tobacco harms memory, contrasting lore of a pretty mouth as the first charm with an aged colored woman recalling life. The piece frames memory resilience, noting she remembers being patted by General Washington as a child.
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Lowell
Washington
When Fields Were Green and Skies Were Clear
A reflective verse narrative contrasts past pursuit of gain with a lover's lasting sorrow. Baron Rapineau, aged fifty, laments hard times and wealth inherited from a still-living father, hinting at family status and misplaced pride.
Sweet Feet and Faint Praise in Dawn's Quiet Rise
A fragmentary notice surveys literary jabs and verse notes from the era. It mentions a critic’s quips about poems and a darling, Wilde and consanguinity rhymes, followed by a dawnlit poetic scene of stars fading, mountains crowned, and gold light breaking the day.
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Gertrude Alger
Unreasonable Women Divorce Suit Cited in Courier Journal
A Louisville woman sues for divorce claiming her husband has not worked for fourteen years. The item notes some women desire a man to be constantly active and asserts this case as an example.
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Courier-Journal
Louisville
Woman offers chocolate cream to boy at window
A confectioner’s customer notices a boy staring through a shop window. She offers him a chocolate cream as a kind gesture, but the child recoils and declares, I don’t want it, Papa makes them things.
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Papa
If women were fishes and men fishers in love
A verse contemplating gender roles with fishing imagery. It imagines men as anglers and women as fish, suggesting a kiss and a smile as bait, blue eyes and a golden halo as baiting lures, and luxury gifts as rewards. The poem hints at social schemes and等待 next winter.
A Negro Prayer at the Texas Conference
Bishop Haven led the 1878 Texas conference as a Negro prayer is recited. The speaker asks for honesty across races and for divine support for the bishop in battle and in life, envisioning glory near the throne of the Lamb and eternal praise.
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Bishop Haven
Texas
Meum
Tuum
Bethlehem
Natal Day Reflections Amid Time’s Beads
A lyric meditation by Jennie S. Judson on a natal day. The speaker recalls memory rich meadows and sapphire lakes while acknowledging a loving friend’s faultless absence. Time mocks longing as a cruel maze of weeds and brambles, with a plea to reverse Time’s beads.
Hints for Health Seekers from Middletown Transcript
A collection of humorous warnings offers safe living advice. Guidance covers dangers at rail crossings drafts and gunpowder devices, thawing wasps near stoves, and the risks of concentrated lye to infants. The tone mixes caution with tongue in cheek references to war, slang, and everyday hazards.
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Middletown
Del
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Dresden
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Schaubrunn
Wagram
Marie Louise
Comtesse Aux Chienus
Rochester Post-Express
Brother Shinbones
Bradder Lemuel
Tooty Dear
LE Figaro
Sketch Oy the Great
Paris Daily
Ella Wheeler
PW. Wilkins
Igaro
Baron Rapineau
Dartine
Wali
Dismarck Tribune
Michigan
Oscar Wilde
Keller
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