Dare-Devil Dash of Harry Gillmore at Charlestown
An eyewitness recounts the Shenandoah Valley action on October 18 during Imboden’s raid. Harry Gillmore’s mounted troopers charged the Union guns near Berryville, slashing and driving for the batteries while Gillmore led from the front in a dramatic flank maneuver that nearly overran the position.
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Washington Republican
Imboden
Shenandoah Mountains
Army of the Potomac
Lee
Virginia
Meade
Harper's Ferry
Fair Valley
Thirty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry
Shenandoah
Banks
Masy
Averill
Maryland
Purnell Legion of Maryland
Sullivan
Henry H. Lockwood
Arctic
Greeley
Charlestown
Potomac
Maryland Heights
Kay State
Indiana
Bolivar Plain
Bolivar
Revere
Tenth Maryland
Bolivar Heights
Ormy
Wells
Thirty-fourth
Miner
Cole
J. D. Imboden
Berryville
Gln
Court House
John Brown
Simpson
Ninth
Harper’s Ferry
Harry Gilmore
Tte
Sumpsen
Halltown
Cedar Creek
Wade
His Bavarian Majesty and the Pranks of Ludwig II
A vivid sketch of Ludwig II of Bavaria portraying a monarch who hates ceremony yet guards his dignity. He loves music and mountain scenery, resists Prussian influence, and enjoys nocturnal hunts. Anecdotes include practical jokes on courtiers, an opera habit with Wagner, and a lakefront Lohengrin production.
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Tinsley
Bavaria
Maecenas
Ludwig
Wagner
Lola Montez
Sturmberger See
Baby Carriage Roulette On a Long Branch Train
A New York letter from Rochester Herald recalls a cash game aboard a crowded train to Long Branch. A broker rigged a spinning wheel on a baby carriage, charging twenty five cents to participate with the pot going to the wheel’s stopper. The tale illustrates how speculative men gamble on trivial chances during summer season.
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New York
Rochester Herald
Long Branch
Seashore
A Sneeze in Church Awful Sufferer Describes moments
Detroit Free Press recounts a humorous piece on sneezing in church. The victim narrates the tickle in nose ear and mouth and the churchgoer’s misfortune as the sneeze erupts amid a solemn sermon.
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Detroit Free Press
Nebraska Cyclones and the Platte River Winds
A Peoria Transcript writer recalls Nebraska cyclones near the Platte river, noting the wind splits the river, causes floods or drought with shifting channels, and even lifts houses, while locals distrust cellars and favor wind shelters, describing the curious regional weather lore.
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Peoria
Platte River
Nebraska
Illinois
Platte
Carriage Ride Accident Ends With Narrow Rescue
A young man and his girlfriend were out carriage riding when a frightened horse ran away. In a turn the carriage overturned pinning the woman beneath the body of the vehicle. She was unconscious but revived to faintly murmur a plea to ease the grip as bystanders freed her.
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Drake's Traveller’s Magazine
Russian Orthodox Betrothal and Wedding Customs in Odessa
Odessa merchants uphold strict family authority in selecting spouses. A widow match-maker under 35 to 50 arranges unions, preserving secrecy and parental consent. The staged betrothal ends with a church blessing, rings exchange, and a coronation style wedding, culminating in a week later consecration led by clergy.
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Odessa
Brooklyn Eagle
Russia
Ana
Ivan Ivanitch
Babies in Zeb0708: Mexican market and dress contrast
A St Louis Globe-Democrat letter describes Mexican women carrying babies on their backs with rebozos while walking to the market. It contrasts bare feet and simple cotton outfits with serapes and fine upper-class clothing, noting regional differences and a humorous scene of men in crape blankets near a horse-railroad project.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Paseo
Chihuahua
St. Louis
London
Paris
Queer Sleep Soothe Tried by Insomniac Victims
A New York Sun physician recounts insomnia quirks from left side sleep, compass direction head tilts, to the need for noise or silence. He cites a straw matting room limit, a closet door remedy for a favorite athlete, and a judge tying a thread to his toe. He notes a minister’s profanity urge and Maudsley’s link to insanity, concluding cures lie in patients own odd fancies rather than medicines.
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New York Sun
Maudsley
Fishes That Build Nests Explored In A Bath Of Ocean Life
A Philadelphia Press piece details nest building by fishes across species. It describes antennarius mimicry among gulf-weed, sticklebacks' courtship nests, paradise fish ball rafts, gouramy breeding balls, toad fish hollows, salmon and trout eggs, lamprey eel stone nests, and diverse reef and river nest strategies. It notes the variety from bottom burrows to air bubble rafts and habitat adaptations across Eastern Asia to South America.
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Philadelphia Press
Philadelphia Academy of Sciences
Nassau
Key West
Asia
Amazon
Ceradotus
Australia
Protopterus
Europe
Monkeys at Breakfast on Indian Veranda
In India, during a honeymoon near Nerbudda river, a couple hosts a breakfast on a veranda shared with dozens of grave, silent monkeys. When they toss biscuits, three hundred primates erupt in riotous, choreographed feasting before returning to their solemn seats and departing in orderly procession.
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Phil Robinson
India
Nerbudda
Telling a Story Shortcomings and Long-Goings
A Detroit Free Press piece by Bill Nye argues most people misjudge good storytelling. It mocks anecdote overreach and urges decisive, disciplined narration backed by law and social duty.
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Bill Nye
Detroit Free Press
Chile
Herbert Spencer
Army of Black Bugs in Florida Creepers Encounter
A New York Times Palma Sola Florida letter describes a traveler startlingly disturbed by a vast swarm of inch to 2 inch long black bugs crossing sand and mangrove roots. He jumps away, crushing thousands as he reaches the beach, while the insects rush for their holes.
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Palma Sola
Fla
New York Times
Florida
Arkansaw
Found Dead check payable to mortal works anecdote
A publisher’s firm paid my checks to the names of my immoral works, creating awkward moments when presenting demands in person. When I sought proceeds for Found Dead, the bank clerk noted it was fortunate the check wasn’t payable to order. Dickens enjoyed the tale yet warned about banks with clever clerks.
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James Payn
Cornhill Magazine
Erson
Dickens
Bric A Brac and Whimsy in a Local Gleaning Card
A miscellany of short jests and verse fragments appears as a compact page of whimsy. Snatches of poetry, humorous anecdotes, and feuilleton notes mix in a spoof of a quaint household miscellany with lines about fare, travel, and social scenes.
Fall Styles. Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle
Miranda rejects any change in fall styles this year as playful observational humor notes a woman slipping on a banana peel and a man tumbling comically through a Brooklyn street scene ending with an ash barrel collision and a barber shop pratfall.
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Burdette
Brooklyn Eagle
Miranda
Chorus of Love and Laughter From Harper's Bazar Snippets
A collage of verse and prose from Harper's Bazar and Puck on Wheels. Includes playful dialogue Chloe and Corydon, a witty tale about a minister and his flock, a nicotine joke in a sea row poem, and a humorous Irish hearse remark. Diverse riffs with literary whimsy.
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Vanitch
Goa
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Lyons
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Jesus
BUCS
Salem Sunbeam
Burlington Fiece Press
Boston
Jennie P. Bigelow
Harper
Ballie
Deeside
Walter
lLife
Mith Rhoda
Over the Sea
New York Graphic
Freddy
Calais
America
Fred
Laura M. Marquand
Harper's
Methodist Episcopal Church
Ohio
Chicago News
Chloe
Corydon
Harper's Bazar
St. Peeter
St. Peter
Calvin
H. C. Bunner
Trinton
Jones
Migg Smith
Euclid
Boston Town
Erin
Murphy
Clinton
Pat
Stoyle
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