Exciting War Adventure at Pass Christian Capture
A Union officer aids a bold counterfeit sting at Pass Christian Mississippi as a secret service trap backfires. A dimly lit drugstore encounter leads to a nighttime pistol exchange and a perilous escape by sloop under a stormy Mississippi Sound sky.
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Chicago Times
War Department
Washington
Pass Christian
Mississippi Sound
United States
Secret Service
Mobile
Secret-Service
Cat Island
New Orleans
Adow
Island
Forgeenene
Scranger
Union
Liberty
Pione
Christian
Ship Island
Ash
Pass
New London
Thessissippi Sound
Carondeet
Pam
Oregon
Aonett DrLevi
Country Life in Early Chicago Suburb Apple Bees and Snoopin
The piece recalls social entertainments in a rural Chicago life, noting apple bee games with forfeits like fine and superfine, kissing dares, and a Rome punishment. It contrasts vivid courtship rituals, muscular girls, and spirited contests with elders forbidding snoopin as children explore hidden treasures and cookies in home corners.
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Chicago Times
Rome
Balerma
Ortonville
Crick
Eve
The Personal Devil in Brooklyn Faye
In a vivid dialogue Burdette argues for the existence of a personal devil. He cites demoniacal possession as real, recounting self and others tormented by a hostile inner force. He notes that health or belief changes nothing, the devil's grip can endure across years and even today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
You and
Legion
Lake and Mountain Escape with Circe on Eagle Lake
A Sunday outing in a five seat Rockaway to Circe’s Lake House, Circe and a boatman name James fish Eagle Lake. They catch a landlocked salmon, ascend a cliff railway to Summit House, and enjoy a sweeping view of Bar Harbor and distant ships as Circe gazes seawards lost in thought.
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Tor Harbor
New York Times
Eagle Lake
Green Mountain
Rockaway
Circe’s
Lang
Lake House
Mountain Hollow
Circe
Whitehall
Izaak
Southport
James
Southport Cross
Tmes
Boston
Maine
Melissa
Bar Harbor
Bella
Camping out tips from a veteran angler for beginners
An experienced camper offers practical advice for first time woodsmen. He covers gear from matches, a compass and whiskey to a tin plate stove, cooking methods for trout and pork, and shelter tips including a bark roof and ditch around a tent. He emphasizes staying oriented with a compass and following watercourses if lost.
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New York Mail and Express
The Remedy Worse than the Disease
A fragmentary cartoon caption mocks a domestic mishap with Irish street slang, describing a person holding their nose and turning the eye lid inside out to sneeze, while another cautions about keeping quiet and blaming Mullin for the chinder.
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Puck
Mullin
Quieted by a Photographer
A Buffalo Express correspondent recalls a photographer coaxing a wriggly four year old to sit for a portrait. After moments alone with the child, the mother returns to see a successful negative and the child recounts the photographer’s stern yet cheeky warning in a shy lisp.
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Buffalo Express
Nellie
The Hollow Backs Meet the Daisy Cutters in a Gentlemen’s Match
In Sheep Sorrel Meadow the Daisy Cutters host the Hollow Backs for a lively baseball contest. Peleg, in red shirt and striped cap, proclaims the new nine will sweep the field while the Old Settler shadows the game from near the radio. The Daisy Cutters win 47 to 8 after a chaotic finish with fans, a scuffle, and Peleg retreating to fetch cider.
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New York Sun
Grandpop
Peleg
Herrin
Soloman
Ikin
Sonny
Snagsy Jones
Bill Simmons
Bill
Specator
Zander
Bil Jimmons
Chawin
Bill Sims
Solomon’s
Daisies
Bill Seana
Billy
Simmons
Y Jones
Seton
Bowser Button Ordeal Ends In House Sewn Chaos
Mr Bowser storms in after a streetcar mishap losing a suspender button. Mrs Bowser chides him for neglecting repairs while he vows to sew on his own buttons. He enlists help, buys dozens of buttons and safety pins, then spends hours fastening them, finally admitting the strain and promising never to repeat the misadventure.
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Bowser
Broskisst
Jens
Deaord
Twell
Mr. Oweet
Cole
Disillusioned by a Maine hillside stay in an old farmhouse
A narrator visits Hillside Farm in rural Maine and chronicles rustic life. He describes travel delays, local food, and village habits, noting how residents read the Weekly and discuss politics. He recalls meals, pies, teethed etiquette, and a practical, humorous clash between city expectations and country realities.
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New York
Good Country Board
Maine
Hillside Farm
Comet
Senator Hoar
Sweet
Hill
Pevark
Phoripper
Aprilangue
Fine-Ear
Seem Bey
mYossip
St. Paul’s
Wiseria
Ally Sogg
John Sullivan
Marquis of Queensberry
Smartis
Sammy
Fragmentary Narrative On Leaving the Tents
A memoir style fragment recalls a nocturnal life under tents and forests, preferring a wild existence to trade paths. The narrator wakes to a clattering dray along the pavement, signaling an abrupt end to that period and a return home.
Heaven and Life in Old Columns of Verse
A mixed-page excerpt features poems and verses about heaven love and aging. Mary Annie DeVere, M. H., and Harper's Young People contribute pieces on love, time, a daughter’s coming out, and the appeal of the old-fashioned girl, reflecting sentimental era topics and domestic scenes.
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Harper’s Young People
Father
Tropics and Sermon in a Cracked Hymn Fragment
A collage of tropical imagery and old sermon lines shows heat and shade in Demerara style plus a Detroit Free Press verse about a churchgoer dreaming of love. The piece blends Stanley Waterloo’s quoted lines with urban anecdotes and a Jasper’s barbecue chorus featuring Rastus Green and friends.
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Country Life
New England
Mrs. X.’s
Yga
Moore
Pecos
Old Settler
MR. and
Mrs. Bowser
Mr. Bowser
Detroit Free Press
Heaven
Mary Annie DeVere
Chicago News
M. H
N. Y
Little Elf
Glaas
Granny
Mother
Tropics
Demerara
Stanley Waterloo
Chicago Tribune
Lebanon
Solomon
Jasper
Dar
Linda Smith
Titus Wood
Clementina
Stephen
Arabella Blue
de Timbah
Dar’s 'Rastus Green
Nate Spyce
Suban Simpson
Nockin
de Plank
Rastus Green
de Ton
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