Midnight Cruise of Sam Latham and the Sally Ann
On July 16 1814 near Saco River two Maine lumbermen Sam Latham and Jerry Clarke plot to capture an English brig blockade at The Pool. They recruit 75 armed men led by Webb and aboard the Sally Ann in darkness they board and seize the brig with grappling hooks, forcing surrender after a brief fight. The prize is brought to anchor as dawn reveals a grateful crowd and Latham’s crew pockets prize money.
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Saco River
Sam Latham
Jerry Clarke
Jerry
Moses
Sam
Webb
Portland
Jay
Mr. Webb
Squire
Latham
Cape
Egypt
Atham
Tatham
Sitsaby
Wat Fusion
Bre
Ston
Rence
Qait
Hero
Saco
Sally Ann
Bii Alecto
Sams
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland
Cere N.Y
London Foot Guards
Cornwell University
Vermont
Montpelier
George W. Hooker
Bluerass
Ethan Allen
Hooker
Ticonderoga
Kantucky
Girl dentist thrills Chicago Herald reader with charm
A New York letter describes a man’s unusual dental visit to a pleasant girl dentist. She is attractive, well spoken, and uses sympathetic techniques to ease discomfort. She once clerked for an importing house, then trained as a dentist and now runs a notable practice with tasteful surroundings.
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New York
Chicago
Art Portieres
Gan Dentry
Spring Chickens the Year Round in Chicago Markets
The article notes Chicago revels in spring chickens and turkey kept in cold storage from last summer and fall. Western cold storage outperforms Eastern, delivering fresh tasting poultry to the market six to eight months later. Watermelon and fruit are also frozen for the East, with New York far ahead in such practices.
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Chicago Times
Chicago
Colonel Littler
Chicago Produce Exchange
East
New York
Ought to Have a Pension Anyway
A Biddeford Tines item recalls a man who sought a pension claiming drunkenness as his disability. When told pensions require army service connected disability, he replied that drunkenness was contracted in the army, insisting it qualifies him for a pension.
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Biddeford
Maine State Agency
Foolish Questions in a New York Sun Cartoon
A father questions a boy about a baseball scenario and bed time after Bobby recalls sending him to bed for asking foolish questions. The exchange highlights a playful dialogue where the boy explains umpire and three-strike logic, interleaved with a memory of bedtime reasoning.
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New York Sun
Bobby
Whig
Bolby
Promised Massachusetts Reader Sends Dog Request
A Massachusetts reader pledged to send a dog but conditions a sausage machine must also be forwarded. Until the machine arrives, the animal is considered unavailable matter by the editor.
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Lichmond Bee
Massachusetts
Bill Nye a Crabbing Recreation at Long Branch
Recreation sketch portrays humorist Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley crab fishing at Long Branch New Jersey. The piece blends comic observations on season, seaside life, and a playful spoof of nature, with Nye and Riley pictured singing during the crabbing outing along Pleasure Bay.
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Long Branch
Edgar W. Nye
Lone Branch
N. J
Pleasure Bay
Red Sea
United States
Chesapeake
New York
Jay Gould
Kingdom of Heaven
Jamaica
Ilino
James Whitcomb Riley
Long Branch musings on music, wealth, and surfing life
The writer notes failed singing with Mr Riley, praises his quick improvisation and musical craft, and reflects on Long Branch as Monte Carlo of America. He admires crowds, wealth, and seaside folly, imagines a dream cottage on Ocean Avenue, and hints at leaving with rent collected in advance.
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Mr. Riley
Georgia
Long Branch
Monte Carlo
America
Ocean Avenue
Woe for Boston as Nine's Pride Fades in Baseball
In this New York Sun verse portrait, Boston sorrows over a pennant season, mourning vanished eras and questioning where great players like Clarkson, Kelly, and the Wrights have gone. New York's Giants loom in contrast, while critics warn the city that one boss and high salaries cannot carry a team that needs nine men working together.
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Eyne
Captain _ Morrill
Nine
Boston
Aldrich Tracked by Russian Officials in Moscow Visit
The Philadelphia Record recounts Thomas Bailey Aldrich facing scrutiny at a Russian frontier post on a prior visit. Officials questioned his occupation and language, misunderstanding his claim as a journalist. A tense exchange ensued as a translator revealed officials were testing his knowledge with Russian insults.
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Philadelphia
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Russia
St. Petersburg
Aldrich
Agan
Hmnself
Otticals
Ussian
Exhausted His Capital
A brief dialogue in which a young doctor admits his funeral expense scheme failed due to lack of capital, prompting the citizen to joke about the venture yielding him business but not success. The exchange highlights the doctor's financial strain and the cynicism of expenses in the trade.
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New York Sun
Doctor
Dreams and Premonitions in Sleep Theories
A Century article summarizes Dr J M Buckley on dreams, nightmares, and somnambulism, arguing against superstition and telepathy while noting cases of alleged dream premonitions. It recounts personal experiences linking visions to real events, including a hospital stay and a brother’s rescue, and discusses telepathic-like messages across distances.
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Inter-Ocean
J. M. Rackley
Buckley
Englsh Society of Psychical Research
Boston
English Society
Thei
Lum
Black Gulf
Montreal
Mely
Glass Eating Dare Stuns Fall River Reporter
A Fall River man claims to eat glass and clam shells without harm, showing a glass shard, milk substitute, and water demonstration in a Pleasant Street room. He says he has practiced for eight years since seeing a similar claim in Providence, earning 25 dollars per audience challenge.
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Fall River
Fall River Merald
Herald
Sin
Pleasant Street
Sabens
Wingham
Providence
Narrow escape at Union depot as engine backs toward worker
Dennis Hayes of Consolidated Road yards at New Haven Union depot narrowly escaped death when switching engine 36 backed down the track toward him. He leaped aside just ten feet from the approaching locomotive after a warning whistle. A depot baggage room employee earlier dreamed of Hayes being run over at Long Wharf Crossing.
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iNew Haven Union
Dennis Hayes
Consolidated Road
Union
Dennis
Hayes
Long Wharf
Cyclone Destroys Two Barns in Merryall Farm Row
An incipient cyclone in Merryall New Milford felled two barns owned by rival farmers. One owner, noting strained ties between them, suggests the misfortune may be divine judgment and proposes replacing the barns with a single structure to serve both farms.
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Waterbury
The Drag Net From a 19th Century Newspiece
A jumble of notes reports Mint coins July cents 3,000,000 and royalties from Uncle Tom's Cabin. It covers diverse items from Baxley Georgia to Paris glove fads, Georgia marble quarry, Medford squash, and a Butte wheat fortune, with anecdotes on canaries, divorces in Chicago, and railways, plus oddities from New York to London.
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Philadelphia
Butte
Cal
William II
Germany
Alfred M. Hiorton
Middletown
N. Y
Mexico
Duchess of Montrose
Lille
Kansas
Heldersheim
Jersey City
Lawer Henkle
Washington
Belya Lockwood
Salt Lake
Pioneer Saints
Iroquois
Chicago
Lacey Thompson
New York
Rochelle
Pla
Quitooton
Arizona
Lorin Miller
Andrew Jackson
Grover Cleveland
Omaha
Neb
Prince of Wales
England Street
St. Albans Messenger
Charleston
D. C
Henry Claws
J.J. Buchheit
Sanford
Pennsylvania Railroad
George Westinghouse
Bagpire
Constantinople
Constantinopolitanischefunfaundern
Desachmachergeseliepher Herbergsactienversicherrungsgesellschaft
Wisconsin
Fr. M. Stowe
No Man’s Land
City of Refuge
Itha@ta
Caytga Lake Park
Y. M
Ithaca
Mynderse Academy
Seneca Falls
Americus, Ga
Baltimore
Carer
Edison Milker Demonstration In Two Month Trial
A fragment describes Peterson's hired man presenting a hydraulic milker with patent applied for. He claims two months of work and asks onlookers to stand back as the device is tested, noting it might have startled science but did not achieve that level.
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Long Branch
Wong Branch
Sandy Hook
Peterson
Strayed Brindle Cow Seeks Return and Reward
Local notice: a brindle cow strayed from home, attached to a walking machine. Finder may keep the machine for returning the cow. reward offered. Contact J. Perrnsean for details.
Iliad Comedy of Achilles in Colonel Homer's Verse
A humorous sketch traces Achilles from baby to hero in The Iliad by Colonel Homer of the Olympian Gazette. It mocks copyright, fate, and war, detailing his disguise as a girl, quarrel with Agamemnon, sulking in his tent, and a final fatal shot by Paris targeting his heel the one vulnerable spot.
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William A. Siviter
Olympian Gazette
Homer
Achilles
Lycomedes
Browning
Ulysses
Achill Nat
Troy
Briseis
Agamemnon
Third Army
Chyyseing
Apollo
Hector
Patr Clus
Vience
Promin
Paris
Acting on the Suggestion
A woman visited a prominent Fitchburg law firm to report a neighbor digging a ditch on her land. The junior partner questioned her and the neighbor reportedly refused to stop, telling her to seek the scattered client. The adviser urged action while she hastened to respond.
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Fitchburg
Ing
Y Camne
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Sylvanus Corr, JR
Bill Nye
William and
Kelly
Pat
Woo
Great Clarkson
Wrights
Bones
McVey
Gould
Bob
Jth
Svememder
Tibex
John
Edison
Qld
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