The Second Bull Run Raid on Pope's Baggage Train
A Confederate raid disrupts Pope's encampment during the Second Bull Run campaign. The narrator, a member of the Seventy third Ohio, recalls the stormy night at Catlett's station, a sudden alarm, and a chaotic march to the railroad where rebels first appeared in fog. They halted and expected further assault, while the pursuit was thwarted by rain, smoke, and disciplined defense around the depots and wagons.
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Slaughter Mountain
Culpepper Court House
Ait Rappahannock Station
Catlett's Station
Pope
Weston
Mic
Pelmell
Ord
C.D. Ulmner
Mainevally
Land
Mtiful Grove
Olio
Diana
Indiana
Silk
United States
Youry Min
Frightful Killing Scene Described in Historic Report
A grim incident is recalled where a man held a revolver and fired repeatedly until he fell dead. His father traveled from Ohio to retrieve the body, discovering seventeen wounds on the victim described as an honest little man.
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Ohio
Detroit Free Press
McLaughlin
Sam
Mac
Prudence Versus Prudery at the Beach
A humorous New York Merald meditation warns ladies about beach behavior and "clocked stockings" attire. It lampoons pretentious modesty, warns against overbold posing, water mishaps, lost earrings, and rushing to the bath-house, urging natural conduct and self restraint.
Windows through the ages and a Strauss portrait
A collage of notes traces window materials from ancient lattices to glass, cites Roman and medieval usage, and notes Britain France and England trends. alongside a portrait of Edward Strauss as a capricious conductor and a reflection on long-married couples and perception of beauty through time.
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Chicago Inter-Ocean
Orient
Pompeii
Lacrntius
St. Jerome
Gregory of Tours
Bede
Britain
England
Scotland
France
Life in the Arctic how the Esquimau Travels with Wife and Babies
Frederick Schwatka describes Arctic生活 routines in detail as Esquimau families rise before dawn. He outlines morning meals in igloos, lamp lighting with moss wick, and the gear and rituals of sledge loading. The piece follows dog harnessing, team dynamics, and the precision of Arctic travel while noting how dogs pursue reindeer and how drivers manage the team with complex commands.
Chicago Herald Cartoon Dialogue on Race and Labor Wealth
A Chicago Herald piece presents a colored passenger in a smoking car asserting Black workers can succeed with effort, detailing a couple from Invaunapolis who run a laundry business, with night and day shifts. The excerpt shifts to unrelated phrases about laundry and a Talleyrand quip, reflecting scattered newspaper miscellany.
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Chicago
Herald
Invaunapolis
Miele
Portland Slasher Report From a New Reporter
A San Francisco based column mocks a fresh Portland reporter who ends up covering a police court case. The scene blends florid prose with a lurid court happening where a detainee faces a June standard mock trial, describing witnesses, the judge, and a string of rustic imagery as the sentence of six months is pronounced.
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Portland
Godey
Ouida
William Black
Mr. Hoovihan
Shane
Cain
Apes Fishing for Crabs on Java Coast
The New York Sun recounts a long tailed Java ape that hunts large crabs using its tail. The crab grasps the tail when the ape probes holes, producing comic moments as the ape struggles, then snaps the crab free and devours the prize.
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New York Sun
Java
Strange Border Beliefs The Forty Niner Ghost Tale
In the Salt Lake Tribune a veteran miner narrates eerie mining lore from the Comstock era. Tales tell of red shirt ghosts in old Chollar drift workings, a store cave collapse, and two skeletal haunts chasing a drinker amid ruined cabins and buried wealth.
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Coral
Getuli
Comstock
Chollar
McLaughlin
Red Shirted
Lance
Lance Made A Pretty Good Raise Where Lat
Amador County
California
They Reach the Hotel Ryan in Quinine Style Parody
Old Jerry Crosscut and Fat Bill arrive at Hotel Ryan after a long journey and register with swagger. The pair threaten violence, test the staff, and joke about a hidden plan as they settle into room 411. morning reveals an ominous annunciator lamp and the tale hints at danger.
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Northwest Magazine
Jerry Crosscut
Rockies
Bill
Ryan
William
Crosscut
Jerry
Fat Bill
Shady Mountain Moseley
Billy
Sable
Ringed Demands and a Porter in the Hangin Wall Tale
A terse scene unfolds with a bell boy, porter, and ice water rings. Fat Bill provokes a violent outburst in a hotel setting as a revolver erupts. police intervene, noting the man would not be taken alive if armed.
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Bill
Porter
Fat Bill
William
Athean
Swayed by superstition among actors and sailors
A New York Sun essay notes widespread superstition across the theatrical world, from stars to stagehands, with beliefs about cross eyed people, hunchbacks, mascots and specific actors. It cites Kate Claxton, Edwin Booth, Nat Goodwin, Clara Morris, Fanny Davenport and Ada Rehan among others, detailing personal talismans and ritual avoidance.
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New York Sun
Fo’castle
By the Sea at Coney Island
An observer at Coney Island gazes upon the ocean and the white-winged ships. The scene inspires wonder and emotion as the speaker contemplates hopes, fears, and unfulfilled ambitions while ordering a dozen hard shell clams and a sausage.
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New York Times
Coney Island
Hidden Treasure Revealed After Hearth Sift
A narrator describes uncovering two large buckskin bags filled with gold dust beneath a hearth. The bags’ cords rotted after years of concealment under an old boot, and after kicking it aside the gold was gathered, totaling nearly $2000.
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Gus
Bill Nye Visits New York and Boston in Private Letter
In a private letter to the Arkansaw Traveller editor, Bill Nye describes his time in New York and Boston. He notes crowds, hotel costs, and a friendly head waiter at the Fifth Avenue Hotel who treated him well, while contrasting other stewards’ austere manner with his own lighthearted dining experience.
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Arkansaw Traveller
Bill Nye
New York
Boston
England
Theifth Avenue Hotel
Disagreeable Experiences in Drake's Traveller's Magazine
A humorous slice of daily irritations and social mishaps contrasts petty annoyances with small embarrassments. The piece catalogs modern annoyances from dunning letters and wrong postage to idle chitchat and comic missteps in public.
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Drake's
Traveller's Magazine
German Jokes Last Invoice
In Humoreske sheets a street scene plays out with a picket halting at a gate, an old woman offering comfort, and an assessor lamenting a drowning in the park lake. A child asks for raisins as humor unfolds through brief dialogues about law and mischief.
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Heedlaw
A. A
So Near Yet So Far Stockton Maverick
Johnny Dickens asks Miss Dudrop if she ever received a proposal. She says no before him, but another suitor came close when he proposed to her sister Mary.
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Stockton
Johnny Dickens
Miss Dudrop
Mary
Going Into Battle
Captain George W. Stone recalls the fear of forming men for a major clash as artillery fires echo nearby. He notes the moment when fear shifts to resolve as orders to advance are given, despite the danger and the screams around him.
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Cincinnati Times-Star
George W. Stone
Army memories of war’s fear and grim resolve
The speaker recalls shells and shrapnel killing comrades while sparing him, a sense that fortune protected him, and a urge to inflict damage on the enemy. He insists that at the start of a fight most soldiers would rather be somewhere else, a stark reflection on combat psychology.
BRIC A BRAC A Chicago Puzzie
A fragment from a Chicago Ledger humor item listing quips and verse. It includes jokes about fishing gear costs a riddle about a trout catch and a verse from Drake's Travellers' Magazine plus Burdette quips about letters and partisan views.
Summer verses and humorous bits in the Chicago Current
A selection of light verse and light humor appears from Emma Carleton and Laura N. Marquand. Pieces include a playful tale A Disappointing Coon and The Humming Bird poem, with a Dallas quip about love letters and paper colors.
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Emma Carleton
Chicago
Mabel
Mother Hubbard
Texas Siftings
Dallas
Jim
Lom
Multicolumn Verse Fragments and Familiar Tales
A collage of poems and brief items from a 19th century magazine includes playful lines about a shattered vase and scattered roses, a child’s mischief, a mother’s view of a daughter, and sentimental verses about love, patience, and regret. Notable pieces reference Harper's Bazaar, Kittique, and a Canyon City Mercury fragment.
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Rw. E., Crockett
Strauss
London
Edward Strauss
Whieh
Tenneé
Dignity
Vienna
Arctic
Esquimau
Frederick Schwatka
Esquimaux
Jean
Amon
Jone North Land
Esquiman
Te Patty
Gren
Iis Lot
Barnum
Gio
Whitehall Dimes
Talleyrand
Apes
Salt Lake Tribune
Wood & Goe’s
Sti
Bell Boy
Kate Claxton
Brooklyn
Evansville
Edwin Booth
Lawrence Barrett
O'Shaughnessy
John McCullough
John T. Raymond
J. K. Emmet
Nat Goodwin
James Lewis
Lewis
Tom Whitten
Clara Morris
Fanny Davenport
Ada Rehan
Daly’s
Agnes Booth
John Stetson
Gilmore
Stas
Chicago Ledger
Brownell
Drake
Travellers’ Magazine
Phill Johnson
Gaiety’s
Burdette
Brooklyn Eagle
Arkansaw
the Humming Bird
Laura N. Marquand
Grandmamma
Ethel
Harper’s Bazar
Kittique
Ernest McGaffey
Inter-Ocean
Patrick
Kittiqque
Father Burke
Kutique
Canyon City Mercury
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