Rebel Ram Albemarle alters the fight in North Carolina waters
The Detroit Free Press recounts the May 5 1864 battle off the Roanoke River where the Confederate ram Albemarle faced eight Union gunboats including the Mattabesett Sassacus and Miami. Despite heavy cannonade the Albemarle sustained extensive fire, unbroken armor, and only minor damage while wrecking multiple Federal vessels and narrowly leaving the field with its mission unfulfilled.
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Detroit Free Press
Monitor
Merrifac
Alabama
Hatteras
Kearsarge
Paul Jones
Albemarle
Roanoke River
Europe
Confederacy
Detroit
Cleveland
Cincinnati
South
Miami
Nelson
Whitehead
Manifold Deceptions At A Philadelphia Recreating Establishment
A Philadelphia reporter visits a shop on Chestnut Street detailing an establishment that sells artificial limbs and cosmetic aids. The “professor” explains in a tour through a utility and an esthetic department how prosthetics, wigs, false teeth, glass eyes, chins, and even nose shells are crafted and fitted. The piece notes the sensational nature of the business and its effect on observers.
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Chestnut Street
Rhone
America
Philadelphia
Paris
Europe
Peretary
Ouyreuse
Useless Young Men in a Pennsylvanian Winter
A Philadelphia Times column ironizes the unemployed young man who relies on his father in winter. It mocks his narrowed prospects as cold weather shuts down hotels, theatres, and dancing schools, leaving him to drift on Chestnut and Eighth streets under police gaze.
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Philadelphia Times
Solomon
Panetleists
Chestnut
Immmmas
Maidenly Intuition
A sentimental Indianapolis Journal vignette where a man professes love with endearing epithets as a couple sit before a glowing fire, rain beating the window. A woman, aided by intuition, recognizes his intent and accepts, framing a intimate domestic moment.
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Indianapolis
Jennie
Displeased with Paris Henry James Letter
In December Century Henry James Jr recalls a Paris visit and a letter from you. He describes Paris as full of humbug and discomfort, a suffocating theatre, overbearing crowds, and unattractive social scenes, recounting a tiresome evening in a stuffy restaurant and a repellent portress.
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Paris
Henry James, Jr
Stage Kisses and the Art of the Perfect Kiss
An article surveys leading actresses and their kiss techniques, listing Miss Neilson, Mrs Langtry, Miss Mary Anderson, Miss Catherine Lewis, Miss Jeffreys Lewis, Modjeska, Lotta, Clara Morris, Janauschek, Sara Jewett, Maud Granger, Fanny Davenport, Alice Oates, and Soldene. It contrasts styles from graceful to forceful, noting how timing, posture, and audience taste shape onstage embraces.
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Miss Neilson
Romeo
Mary Anderson
Mr. Downing
Catherine Lewis
Miss Jeffreys Lewis
Modjeska
Lotta
Clara Morris
Janauschek
Sara Jewett
Union Square Theatre
Charles R. Thorne
Soldene
Monument Plans for Payne Remains in Oak Hill Cemetery
Fortunes of the player Payne and the memory of home inspire banker Corcoran to arrange a ceremonial burial in Oak Hill near Georgetown. The plan includes exhuming Payne’s remains from Tunis and transporting them to the United States with approval from Secretary Frelinghuysen. A simple monument will mark the site with minimal inscription.
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Polk
Taylor
Corcoran
Payne
Frelinghuysen
Tunis
United States
Oak Hill Cemetery
Rock Creek
Georgetown
John Howard Payne Death and Memorial Plans Mentioned
John Howard Payne born June 9 1792 died April 10 1852. Corcoran offered to pay all expenses for Payne memory and monument. The dramatic fraternity will contribute, actors attend reinterment, and a monument to the greatest American poet and song writer will be placed at Stratford on Avon for visitors to Washington.
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Clair
J. Howard Payne
John T. Ford
Baltimore Sun
Mississippi
Galena
Africa
Payne
Baltimore
Roscius
Old English Seamen Change World Fortunes in One Century
Harper's Magazine notes the sixteenth century English seamen altered the fate of the American continents. They disrupted Spanish and Portuguese colonial divides, spreading English language and Protestant norms across the Americas while undermining Catholic Spain.
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Harper's Magazine
American
Spain
Portugal
North
South America
Europe
America
Ber
Alexander VI
Brazil
Mexico
North America
Night Battle Scenes From Bullet and Shell
George S Walliams recalls a night assault as darkness and smoke blind soldiers. The brigade struggles to maintain order amid constant shelling while cavalry arrive and officers rally scattered troops until daylight.
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George S’. Walliams
Uns
Phosphorescent Beetles of the Southern States and Chili
An account of elater beetles with two yellow dorsal glow spots and two hidden lights. Over seventy species range from Chili to the southern United States. Descriptions include blue, red, orange yellow, and green glows, with notes on pyrophorus behavior and historical references to their use by Spaniards and in Southey’s poem.
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Chili
North America
Outhey
Mexico
Hattves
Southey
Coates
Madoc
Senator Jones Wins Big Poke Game Tale From Stockton Mail
George L. Waters recounts how Senator John P. Jones of Nevada lost 270000 in a District Club poker game, then returned eight days later as a mining millionaire carrying diamonds. Jones allegedly won 800000 in one night, shared the swag with a friend, and never returned to the club, exposing Ringsters’ schemes.
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Senator Jones
Stockton Mail
George L. Waters
John P. Jones
Nevada
Waters
Washington
Senate
Ross Shepherd
Jones
Virginia City
Navy Yard
Ringsters
United States
Senator-Elect From Essex County Takes Free Washington Ticket
In Essex County a businessman elected senator with no prior public office shows surprise at Congress meeting. He asks at the railway station for a Washington ticket. The station master jokes about a visit to Washington, while the destination is Boston and the time January. Railroad companies reportedly furnish free tickets to legislators.
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Newburyport Herald
Essex County
Congress
Washington
Boston
Rest and Warnings in the Press and Pulpit Flair
A San Francisco Wasp column mocks church warnings of doom urging peaceful alerts by telephone rather than bell towers. It notes a judge’s critique of petty bureaucratic appointment practices and a lax work ethic, remarking that many officials escape duty for health reasons after brief tenures.
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San Francisco
Sextou
Sexton
Two Trolets and Tales of a Kiss in a Dickensian Scene
A collage of theatrical verses and prose sketches, featuring a flirtatious exchange about kissing a fan, a bustling Christmas-period waiter scene from Puck via The Sunday Globe, and sharp reflections on citizenship and sacrifice. It blends poetic lines, satirical quips, and dramatic imagery with Dickensian echo.
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iFor
Sunday Globe
Madame la Guillotine
Eioren
Paul
Judas
Gartan Rom
Editor Vanishes After Bizarre Bazaar Scandal
Exchange reports the Kansas City Journal editor vanishing after a sensational bazaar incident. A misprint about a pink undershirt sparked anger. a girl bought a revolver and fled, her brother shot, father attacked, lover armed, while the editor fled with a shawl strap and linen ulster, seen swimming the river toward the foothills.
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Kansas City Journal
Bazar of al Nations
So-And-So
Foote
Freedom's Ahead in Tom Dunstan's Last Battle
Robert Buchanan narrates a labor hymn centered on Tom Dunstan, a frail but fiery Red Republican prophet. As illness tightens his breath he proclaims that freedom is coming while workers toil amid smoke, debt, and hope, urging patience until emancipation arrives.
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Robert Buchanan
Tom Dunstan
Steveson
Tom
Jack Hart
Jack
Parliament
Cray
Honest Living Bouts of Mirth and Mischief
A ragged tramp seeks work to earn honest wages while a mouse outwits a trapper and a dog halts a theft. A back door job leads to a woodpile and a test of impulse. The woman admonishes him to pursue life’s paths with honesty and steadfastness.
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Detroit Free Press
Buffalo
Caime
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Guus
Brooke
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Gemmes
Lee
Secretary of the Navy
W Ring
Philadelphia Press
Asthetic
France
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Jacques
Tey
Neilson, Modjeska and Langtry
St. Louis
John Howard Payne
Syouing
Douglas
Norval
Betty
Kemble
Macre
Market Street
Baltimore Street
Lemon
Holliday Street
George Peabody
Peabody, Riggs & Co
John Pendleton Kennedy
Navy
Hugh Souk, Jr
McClintock Young
United States Treasury
William Gwynn
William McDonald
Luther Martin
James Calhoun
Thorndyke Chase
William Steuart
Henry Payson
Robert Gil
Durangs
Intelli
Gence
Jefferson
Warren
Francis
W.W. Corcoran
Woop
Cone
Durang
Richmond
Maryland
Rockville
Bernees County
Middlebrooke
James M. Lingan
Henry Lee
Harry
Robert E. Lee
General Lee
Alexander Contee Hanson
Charles Street
Ruxton Lane
Balderston Street
Mr. Hanson
Richard Crabb
Philip Warfield
Charles J. Kilgour
Otho Sprigg
Ephraim Gaither
London
England
Drury Lane
Tarquin
Therese
Geneva
Charles II
Clari
Umb
Milan
Jess
Brutus
Enius
Rome
Ilaverso
Panos
Jenny Lind
English Lyric Stage
Mr. Payne
Forrest
Collatinus
G. Barrett
Titus
J. J. R. Scott
Lucretia
Miss Waring
Katherine
Petruchio
Charles Kemble
Grumio
H. Placide
Fanny Kemble
Curtis
W. W. Corcoran
Tyler
Southern States
Bybee
Harrison Robertson
Puck
Sidney Carton
Tweediedum and
Tweedledee
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