The Harriet Lane Captured at Galveston Then Escaped
A detailed account of the Harriet Lane booty and escape at Galveston during the Civil War. The Pennsylvania-era revenue cutter turned gunboat faced Confederate steamers and northwest winds, fighting a night battle, surrendering, then later eluding Federal blockaders as a blockade runner. The narrative tracks schemes to destroy her, including torpedo plots and arson attempts, and her ultimate escape with three other blockade runners to safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriet Lane
Buchanan
Lane
Washington Navy Yard
Washington
Richmond
Galveston
Tex
Clifton
Westfield
Owasco
Law
Ali
Galveston Arbor
Are
Ul Seveels
Ievd
Ae Hie
Orittromey
Ederal
Federal
Nassau
Wilmington
Georgetown
A Meandering Brook Its Diurnal Soliloquy in a Meadow
A Burlington Hawkeye prose piece describes a crooked brook wandering through a Cadiz area meadow. The brook muses on flowers, winds, and seasons, imagining love and seaside fate, then resolves to drift toward the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, planning a week to cross the meadow.
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Burlington Hawkeye
Cadiz Junction
Ohio
Mississippi
Cold Weather Tales From Nevada Ice Marches
Rob and a friend reminisce about historic winters in Fifelake and nearby areas. They recall a 492 winter with a windstorm that froze the lake thirty four feet deep and a towering ice formation, while noting past snows and logging gold rush stories. The talk shifts to how people survived long winters and the endurance of early residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fire Lake
Rob
John Crayton
Traverse
Burt Howe
Doc Moran
Nick Theiss
Will Bailey
Will
Florida
Texas
Fifelake
Eyelove
The Song of the Drums and a Nation’s Forward Call
The essay recalls the old drums that guided the nation through its wars and rallied women at home. It laments that now the old music cannot lead the people forward. The piece contrasts past unity with present discord and questions if the country is ready to advance on current issues.
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Republic
Resuscitation of the Old French Dances in Paris
Paris plans a winter novelty reviving gavotte and minuet, once grand court dances of Louis XIV. Belles mondaines practice with Countess Zaomoyska noted for skill, while modern tastes flirt with eighteenth century fashions and names such as Les Etvennes Mignonnes and la Belzamire.
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Paris
Louis XIV
Zaomoyska
Vestris
Marie Antoinette
la Belzamire
la Belle Alliance
la Charmani
Hotel Secrets From a Desk Clerk’s Eye on Guests
Inside a first class hotel the registering desk becomes a study in human nature. The seasoned clerk reads faces and moods to assign rooms, greet guests, and spot beats while fending off frauds. The talk highlights how clerks tailor service from ministers to brides, and how vigilant staff ensure safety, courtesy, and repeat business.
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New York
Seth Montrose
Brazil
Windsor
Brunswick
Hitchcock
Fifth Avenue
Hitch
Pawker’s
Bawston
Pera
Bening
Jeremy Diddlers
Boston
Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Gove
Vrytelen
Ible
Suppos Os
Knight of the Register
The Nightcap Movement in Louisville Society
The nightcap movement grows in Louisville as both men and women embrace the old practice. It claims to ease insomnia, morning pressure, and low mood, while offering aesthetic appeal for women and a humorous, flattering image for men. Doctors may resist, yet the movement is described as backed by experience and destined to triumph.
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Louisville
Red Hair Fashion in England Brightens Warmer Tints
Describes the shift in English taste toward colored hair and hues in dress as red and auburn shades give way to golden browns yellows terra cotta and gold accents. Notes physiological comments on hair darkening with body warmth and imagined future under-cover living. A red-haired woman is pictured wearing gold in hair and outfit.
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Violet
Buttercup
Wild Rose
Sweet Brier
England
London mocks the masher as social pest and fool
The word masher, new in American usage, is lampooned in the London Truth as a fungus not an honest mushroom. The piece ridicules a vain man overdressed and socially inept, exposed by his pretentious style, pale conversation, and spindly stick.
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London
Remarkable case of pica in Cremona patient eats stones nails and glass
A Cremona hospital patient, after pleurisy, develops intense pica and consumes fifteen to twenty pebbles daily, each over three ounces, along with dozens of iron nails and glass beads. Doctors led by Dr Cospi confirm the phenomenon as unusual yet credible.
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Cremona
Italy
Cospi
Minnesotans survive thirteen days on boots
A Minnesota family was snowed in and lived thirteen days on a pair of old boots. The article laments growing fussiness about food, noting vast quantities of waste and potential food in the United States and urging thrift to withstand hardship.
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Minnesota
Modern Apostles and the St John the Evangelist Society
A Boston correspondent profiles the Society of St John the Evangelist origin at Cowley England and its American branch at the Advent Boston. It notes life vows poverty chastity obedience for priests with lay brothers, sisters of St Margaret, and a courtship of missions, schools and hospitals in England America and India. The piece covers leadership disputes centered on Father Benson and Father Grafton, the parish split at Advent, and plans for a new American offshoot and church.
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Boston
New York Sun
Church of the Advent
William Croswell
Albany
D. D
Bolles
M. P. Stickney
St. John the Evangelist
C. C. Grafton
Charles C. Grafton
Harvard
England
Benson
O’niel
St. John the East
Benson Assumor
Owley
Oxford
Eng
Father Benson
Sp al “i
America
Father Gratton
American Society
India
Magagon
Bombay
Indore
Calcutta
Me Mopes
St. Clement’s Church
Philadelphia
Cowley
Father Grafton
A. C. A. Hall
Edward Osborne
Brother Gardner
J. W. Hill
Trinity Church
New York
Brimmer and
Mount Vernon Streets
Sisters of St. Margaret
East Grimsted
Society For the Relief of the
Green Street
Bowdoin Streect
Louisburg Square
Louispare * Care
Pinckney Street
Maria
Back Bay
Unitarians
Chestnut Street
Society of St. John the Evangelist
Friends
Hall
Osborne
Church in Philadelphia Resigns and Sisters Split
The Church in Philadelphia has resigned amid trouble. Ten members of the Sisterhood of St. Margaret left to establish the new Sisterhood of the Incarnation with a home on Brimmer Street near the new church, marking a significant division.
English Beauty as Climate and Culture Shape a Nation
A German illustrated weekly highlights English women as the world’s prettiest, arguing climate and social pressures drive beauty. The piece contends English women are generally more comely than continental peers, with satire on French speech and Teutonic thrift, and posits Darwinian sexual selection through popular taste as Britain’s beauty standard.
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England
France
Europe
Montesquieu
George Eliot
Adam Bede
Bowling Green editorial savages visiting solicitor
The Bowling Green Democrat attacks a visiting female solicitor who flattered by calling local girls homely. The piece mocks her age, height, weight, looks, and behavior while noting she spent two days in town drumming up subscribers and received mixed courtesies from locals. It warns she would need guards if she returned.
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Bowling Green
Democrat
Chorch
The Stone Age Health Toll Across Ancient Humans
The skeletons in caves show diseases common to ancient and modern humans, including rheumatism cancer and malarial troubles. Primitive folk faced injuries harsh climates wild beasts and fearsome beliefs. Even before metal use and cooking they endured ailments and imagined spirits and fetishes.
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Demorest’s
Notable German barber reforms at Chemnitz shop
A traveler describes a Chemnitz barber with innovations in seating towels and lather preparation. The son assists, a fresh bowl is used for each customer, and the shave is thorough enough to last a month, reflecting a shift from American customs.
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Chemnitz
Curiosities and verse from a bygone issue
A compact collage of humorous notes and verses. It mentions a Eureka Nevada clergyman seeking oysters for a church festival, a fanciful moon and stars poem, Goliath’s sword displayed in Prussia with a wry wartime quip, and a sentimental tribute to unseen hands and labor.
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Parson James
Eureka
San Francisco
Nev
Whimsical Night Hours and Humorous Dialogues on a Train
A fragment from Troy Times and other papers features a toddler asking his mother if it is good not to be a girl, then shifts to poems and humorous vignettes about Lent, youth behavior, and a chatty conductor debating an uphill train journey with a passenger.
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Troy
Trojan
Wichita
Kan
Tug Wilson
Chattanooga
I Want to Be an Usher in the Theatre
A speaker describes ambitions to be an usher, standing with play bills and a lapel rose, watching for smiles and guiding guests. They recall wry fantasies of befriending maidens and navigating social spaces, while fantasizing about outshining rivals in lobbies and ballrooms.
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Buffalo News
Play Bills
New York Letter On San Francisco Elevated Ride
A San Francisco Chronicle reader recalls a New York Letter about an awkward elevated train moment. An elderly nun and two girls enter near Forty street. the narrator moves seats to chat with one girl, only to learn the couple sat with strangers. Confusion and social missteps unfold before Twenty third street.
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New York Letter
San Francisco Chronicle
Fourteenth Street
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Detroit Free Press
Joe
Farragut
Mer
Kav
Heredi
Nevada
Knights of the Register
Shenstone
Honor Bright
Smith
Jones
Robinson
Brown
Louisville Courier-Journal
Social Gold Vear
Leipsic
Richard Steele
Germany
Kentucky
Harner’s Magazine
Venus
Jupiter
Goliath
Prussia
Rye
Susan Mann Spalding
Robert Herrick
Alfred de Musset
Sunday Globe
Fred T, Greenhalgs
Usher
Twenty-third Street
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