RAMS AND IRON CLADS. Indianola Fight and Atlanta Surrender
The article recounts Confederate and Federal naval actions on the Mississippi and at Savannah. It details the Indianola's ram battle with Webb and Queen of the West, the Webb’s damage, and the Indianola’s eventual destruction after a fierce night engagement. It also covers the Atlanta’s grounding and surrender to the Weehawken after a brief, decisive exchange, noting the economic impact of Confederate losses and plan disruptions.
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Vicksburg
Webb
Renal Dam
Indianola
Brown
Atlanta
Savannah
Wilmington
Weehawken
Nahant
Federal
The
Charleston
New York Harbor
Capons Bought and Raised for Delmonico Hotels
A New York World reporter tours a Brick Church New Jersey poultry yard showing artificial incubation used to hatch 60 to 80 percent of eggs. The interview covers capon production, costs, and year round supply for Delmonico's and other top hotels, with capons weighing eight to fifteen pounds after eight to ten months and selling for strong profits.
Storming a Bee Castle at Buttes Rock
A Pennington party attempted to raid a major bee hive atop Bee rock, a bluff fortress 650 by 100 feet with a 150 to 200 foot vertical approach. They crossed a narrow bridge and discharged powder and tools, triggering a bee cloud that forced retreat. The next day after a three hour battle they forced the cave and found a solid honey mass in the combs,. many participants were injured or killed.
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Gridley Herald
Pennington
Sy Roy
Participani
From Shore to Shore How Poor Folks Cross the Ocean
A New York writer recounts steerage travel aboard an English liner, detailing coffin like bunks, crowded cabins, scarce comforts, and the brutal rough sea. He contrasts rude stewards, class barriers, and the harsh realities of immigrant passage with small comforts and hard-won endurance.
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California
New York
Mourning for the Engineer Who Tamed the Locomotive
A Burlington Hawkeye reader recalls the deep bond between a locomotive and its engineer. The story likens the machine to a living partner, saying the engine mourns the loss when its longtime master dies. The engineer’s hands are said to be essential to the engine’s spirit and performance.
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Burlington Hawkeye
Private boarding house misleads groom and bride on Fourth Street
A man and two women stay at a Council Bluffs boarding house claiming a wife and mother as occupants. The groom leaves to find lodgings after the young bride identifies herself as married. The event ends with breakfast when the groom asks for his bride, while the old lady remains. Death Without Decay at Mount St Bernard morgue draws curious crowds. Bodies are preserved in the cold air, often contorted, as monks care for the dead.
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Rute
Council Bluffs
Fourth Street
Mount St. Bernard
England and Its Landscape Awe in Burroughs Critic
John Burroughs contrasts English rural beauty with American scenes, praising England as a cultivated paradise where fields, hedges, and pastures embody harmony between nature and man. He notes fewer wood birds, abundant field life, and a sky that, while less dramatic, yields serene abundance and enduring landscape.
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John Burroughs
Critic
England
Colorado Valley
Dover Cliffs
Surrey
Cumberland
Snowden
Dover
Europe
Emerson
Whitman
Pope
Thomson
Indignant barber taunts reform with old world talk
A New York Sun reporter questions a German barber near Cooper Union about modernizing his shop. The barber retorts in heavy dialect, mocks the query, and jokes about asylum and self harm, while dismissing calls for change as foolish and unworthy.
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New York Sun
Cooper Union
When Widows Are Most Dangerous
The second year brings happiness after mourning as a widow reenters society. She opens her jewel case and imagines wearing diamonds pearls and opals with delight. Visions of delicate dresses and soft colors fill her mind as she resumes social life after a year away from Dallas society events.
Floating islands and roaming farms across state lines
A New York Sun piece recalls an eccentric New Hampshire man who dodged taxes by living on a floating island that crossed the Massachusetts border. The tale widens to note similar floating islands on lakes, rivers, and seas, including Sargasso Sea, with ecological and legal quirks as boats drift between states and nations.
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New York Sun
New Hampshire
Ezra
Massachusetts
Massachu
New Letter-Sheet and Envelope Initiative for Postal Service
The Post Office proposes a combined letter-sheet and envelope with gummed flaps and an embossed government stamp. It would fold to cover two edges, seal like an envelope, and avoid cancellations. Expected savings include 50 percent in time and expense for writers and reduced letter weight, with sale prices set by paper quality and a contractor patentee, while the government acts as agent and bears no risk beyond convenience.
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Webb
Brown
Howe
Leo Ehrlich
St. Louis
Hartford
New York
Postal Department
Beecher’s Remarkable Trout Tale At Plymouth Meeting
Mr Beecher shared a hard fish story at the Plymouth prayer meeting recounting his father’s fishing in Guildford Connecticut. A long pursuit ended when a trout was tickled into movement and pulled ashore weighing three pounds.
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New Yor Herald
Beecher
Plymouth
Guildford
Conn
Pete Beecher
Too Much "Business" in St. London Fra.j
On Sunday November 8 the Patience troupe rode the Leinster from Kingston to Holyhead. A hurricane lashed the voyage leaving nine passengers on deck. A familiar actor and singer proposed singing Patience but rewrote it as sea sick chorus ending with tragedy and laughs aboard. Sisters Finch, on board, heard a remark about the duet with May and Jenny noting there is too much business in it.
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London
Kingston
Holyhead
Leinster
Finch
Miss May
Ggter
Jenny
December Poetry and Local Anecdotes From Cochise
A fragment from a December page blending verse by Bryant Longfellow and Tennyson with Whittier and Newell, plus a Cochise county anecdote about Tom Fitch jokingly planning to make twelve men comfortable for life through a grand jury indictment in a tax suit against the Southern Pacific railroad.
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Arizona
Tom Fitch
Cochise County
Southern Pacific Railroad
Crocker
Grand My
Mr. Fitch
Tom
The Court and a Juror’s Stand Clarified
A playful old Illinois judge story is told by Judge Davis about a juror stubbornly holding out. After the judge openly hints at how the case should go, the lone holdout finally speaks claiming he is the only juror on the judge’s side, ending the tale with a wink.
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Peck
Davis
Illinois
Fragmentary verse fragment hints at resilience and liberty
A jagged poem fragment speaks of fate and pain with images of a pearl arising from heartache and a rose crushed to release fragrance. It evokes resilience as sorrow yields liberty and a living fire reddens the sky, though text is partially garbled and unclear.
Vallejo Joke Involving Sweetheart Reporter
In Vallejo a visiting young woman teases friends by claiming a long ramble with a journalist left her black and blue from climbing rocks. Her replied claim elicits laughter as the crowd jokes about who saw or knew the outing, with the pair unable to confirm details.
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Cal
Vallejo
Contra Costa Hills
George
Little Simplicity and the Sealskin Lacque Folly
A fragmented tale from Boston and Chicago papers features a girl named Lucy pursuing luxuries, while her father laments hard times. A suitor horse deal sparks a quick cash trade, revealing social pretenses and waning fortunes in a cottage life vignette.
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