A Midwinter Battle at Nashville Described in Detail
From Hood's Nashville campaign the Philadelphia Weekly Times recounts the Overton Hill defense and the climactic Union assault. It details the improvised breastworks on the slope, the left and right brigades of Holtzclaw and Stovall, Fenner’s battery, and the pivotal moment when Union lines broke Hood’s right wing. The narrative emphasizes stubborn Confederate defense, brutal fighting, and the subsequent rout that sealed Hood’s fate in Tennessee.
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Hood
Nashville
J. W. A. Wright
Philadelphia Weekly Times
Overton Hill
Atlanta
Clayton
Stevenson
Johnson
Stovail
Georgia
Hottzclaw
Alabama
Franklin Pike
Gibson
Louisiana
Pettus
Stovall
Fenner
Eufaula
Thirty-sixth
Alabama Infantry
Holtzclaw
Nathan
Carpenter
Therline
wWelr
Wem
Boltzelaw
Hoon
Strang
Hollzelaw
Overtin Hill
Walnost
Thamas
Roesecrans
Chickamauga
Nadern
Bate
Tennessee
Asidewechora
Thomas
Stiell
Edward Johnson
Sherman
Presence of Mind in Emergencies by Till Nye
A humorous essay on keeping an active mind for emergencies. It recounts episodes from a shooting incident where calm thinking allowed disarmament and saved lives, praising self possession while noting bravado and missteps. The narrator reflects on public perception and personal courage.
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Till Nye
Tom G
Barrow
Windy Smith
Amith & Wesson
Boswell
Smith
Sealskin Sacques and the Sealing Process Exposed
A San Francisco Chronicle feature explains how sealskin sacques are prepared in Alaska. Natives kill and skin seals along St Paul and St George Islands, then the hides are cured and dyed in London before sale in America. The Alaska hunt runs from June onward, with about 300 native workers paid a total around $40,000 per season under company leases.
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San Francisco Chronicle
London
America
Alaska
St. Paul
St. George Islands
Outdoor Reading Shapes Poems And Prose In Nature
A December feature discusses how reading outdoors changes reception of works by Burns Tennyson Browning and Emerson. It notes Burns suffers from outdoor reads while passages by Tennyson Browning and Emerson benefit. Humorists do better indoors and crisp short stories with local color thrive outside.
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Burns
Tennyson
Browning
Emerson
Winter Fangs at Sunshine in Grim Chronicle Vision
A Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph excerpt laments incoming winter with vivid imagery of ice and cold. It foresees gray mist, barren trees, and a white world, contrasting harsh season with human warmth and longing for green, urging restraint and reflection amid sleet and frost. A quatrain mocks an election bet loser calling himself an idiot.
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Pittsburg
A Mile a Year from Harper's Bazar Tale
A Maine railroad once famed for slow trains inspired jokes about a woman who bought a half ticket for her toy. At the Portland terminus twenty miles away the conductor charged full fare for her boy. Madame, your son has become of age since we crossed.
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Harper's Bazar
Maine
Portland
Dolls of Many Kinds Mystery of a Beautiful Child Disappearance
Harper's Bazaar explores the global doll trade from Germany, England, and France to France and the United States. It details factory conditions in Thuringia, the social toll on families, wage practices, and the evolution of wax and china dolls, including their fashion, features, and mechanical toys.
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Harper's Bazar
China
Germany
England
France
Paris
Thuringian Germany
Saxe-Coburg
Sonneberg
Thuringia
Congress
Detroit Free Press
Jefferson Avenue
Saratoga
Slave trading in Tangier market shocks observer
An English observer details a Tangier Sunday slave sale where a 14 year old girl was auctioned for 35 pounds and sold to a householder for 8 pounds. The report condemns the brutal handling, noting the girl’s ignorance, health, and dehumanized treatment as she was paraded by an auctioneer through crowded streets.
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Leeds Mercury
Tangier
Hidi
Voila
Monsieur
Soudon
Mogador
Ming
Life in Rio and its street theater of misery and marvel
A Pittsburg Chronicle letter sketches Rio de Janeiro streets as muddy and impassable after rain, where out of work Black men find sudden odds and locals barter with pictorial trinkets. It describes itinerant Italian peddlers, street musicians, and a grotesque, elephantiasis-tinged minstrel with improvised instruments performing rhythm and nose flute amid crowded sidewalks.
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Pittsburg
Rio
Plaster of Paris
Kio
Parisian Spectacle of Eggs Transforms Cast at Chatelet
Paris letter from Chicago Inter-Ocean describes the Theatre du Chatelet’s Potemkin eggs show the Poule aux Oeufs d Or. A vast production with electric lights, elaborate stage machines, ascending palaces, animal choruses, and multiple transform scenes ending in a grand apotheosis and Paradise of Flowers tableau.
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Paris
Chicago
Inter-Ocean
Theatre du Chatelet
Wonders of the Alaska Glaciers Lettered at Sunset
A San Francisco Chronicle reader recalls nearing Muir Glacier near sunset. The scene shows icy fragments drifting, Vairweather peaks glowing, and glacier ice moving silently toward the sea. The writer extols Alaska glaciers as grand beyond Swiss or Mont Blanc, a vast, powerful force shaping the land.
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Alaska Claciers
San Francisco Chronicle
Muir Glieler
Vairweather
Switzerland
Glacier Bay
Mont Blanc
Alaska
Marriage Rekindled After War Years In Texas
Galveston News reports a romance from Abilene where C. W. Holt, a Confederate veteran held in a Northern prison, learned his former fiancée, now a widow, had married another. After letters crossed, Holt and the widow renewed contact in Texas and wed on the first of the month.
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Galveston
Abilene
C. W. Holt
Elizabethtown
Familly
Holt
Odd Ear Corn Legend From Slavery Era
A Pittsburg Dispatch item recounts a Kentucky slave tale about ears of corn with an odd number of rows. A master promised freedom for such an ear, and a clever worker produced a thirteen row ear by removing one row and rejoining the grains, a story tied to roasting ear time and the long-remembered ruse.
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Pittsburg
Kentucky
Prison break tale of ironblood inmate cited in Asheville
An untrustworthy acquaintance and cousin of Colonel McKinney reportedly drank chalybeate water for health. While jailed for cow theft he opened a vein and drew iron from his blood, forging a crowbar to break out of prison.
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Asheville
Colonel McKinney
Frolics of a Father in Tom's Back Room
A Chicago father recounts two weeks of sleepless nights as his newborn Adolphus disrupts his rest. He details crib struggles, nightly trot trot antics, and a repetitive cycle of waking the baby, then dozing in jesting hope for sleep. The piece captures domestic humor and fatigue.
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Chicago Tribune
Tom
Oal
Adolphus
Thander
Theo
Lin
Jet
Ana Blay
Yda
Descriptions of 17th Century Female Beauty in London Truth
A scanned excerpt discusses how early writers defined female beauty, detailing features from forehead shape and teeth to lips, nose, chin, tongue, eyebrows, eyes, cheeks, cheeks and ears. It reflects era aesthetics and prescribes a precise, idealized portrait of a virtuous, composed woman.
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London
Carlyle's Bad Manuscript and the Edinburgh Printer
In a Carlylean circular Carlyle recalls a printer from Edinburgh who fled Scotland after handling his dangerous manuscript. The man later worked in London with the future Carlylean publishers in England. When the manuscript resurfaced the printer exclaimed that he believed the author still near, then vanished from sight.
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Carlyle
Edinburgh
Scotland
London
Carlylean Publishers
England
A Parrot and Monkey and a Nashville Old Maid
A collage of quick vignettes from old papers notes small jests about a parrot that swears and a monkey that chews tobacco kept by an Nashville old maid who says she does not miss a husband. Other lines remark a refined child with a tongue and a rosebud beauty with a single flaw.
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Nashville
Whimsical Bits From A Busy Sunday Evening
A collage of seaside scenes and playful vignettes. The setting sun frames couples strolling as a cane and hat are traded in light hearts. A child’s churchyard sigh and a comic exchange with a valet add humor to a gentle, nostalgic page.
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Burdette
Brooklyn Eagle
Aege
Jeanne Reveals Love In Foreign Phrases
In a November Temple Bar scene Jeanne responds to a love question with Je vous aime then, removing a mask, her true love shines through. She kisses and cries out O mon amour je t aime, expressing enduring affection.
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Jeanne
Temple Bar
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Rockland Courtier-Gazette
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