March of the Buffaloes to Fort Washington in North Carolina
In autumn 1863 Confederate forces under Hoke and Corse marched from Kingston toward New Bern and Fort Washington. The Seventeenth Virginia and others endured a brutal forced march over sand and marsh, crossing a reportedly sawed bridge intently, while Union partisans within the Carolinas attacked neighbors. A daring naval raid by Commander Wood on Trent River gunboats failed, yielding tense delays before the troops rejoined their brigade.
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Murray
Washington
Republican
East Tennessee
North Carolina
Themerrillas
Firminia
Newberne
N. C
Scotlan
Agaiin
Moss
Ingrew
Hoke
Corse
Pickett
Longstreet
Petersburg
Goldsboro
Kingston
Newbernehese
Dering
West Point
Virginia
Carolinas
Seventeenth Virginia
Neuse
Fort Washington
Ease
Trent
Wood
River Trent
A Camera for Sale and a Comic Oakland County Snafu
In Detroit a camera club meeting turns into a tale of a busted canvas box with 100 pieces and a wrecked back. Brown offers a used American Optical camera for five dollars, a bidding frenzy ensues, and a sleighing prank ends with a bob-sleigh crash. Brown keeps the camera, but stops photographing this season.
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Young Brown
American Optical Company
Brown
Sana
Montreal
Oakland County
Jones
Japanese Flower Gardening Window Love Ritual
The article describes a Japanese window gardening custom where an empty ornamental flower-pot is circled by a ring and hung from a window. A suitor plants a gift plant in the pot as a subtle marriage proposal. If accepted, the woman tends the plant. if not, the plant withers and the courtship ends. The practice signals whether a man is acceptable and exposes parental approval or rejection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Burbridge
Japan
Hobbies that Approach Madness in a Modern Medicine View
A New York Sun piece recounts physician observations on eccentric hobbies, from gossip obsession to meticulous drawer fixing. It notes cases of harmless foibles, such as a Boston woman sewing baby clothes uselessly, a man who prided brutal work, and a tinkering husband whose hobby saved his marriage.
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Sven
Boston
Philadelphia
Lance
Samuel
David
Never Get Up A Sobering Ode To Lying In Bed
A rambling essay extols staying in bed, arguing that rising causes crime, mischief, and misfortune while praising famous figures who wrote or created from bed. It mocks early rising, cites Ben Franklin and others, and ends claiming greatness comes from never getting up.
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Poe
Tom Campbell
Longfellow
Ben Franklin
Franklin
Lone Mountain
Duke of Wellington
Gray
Sam Johnson
Lobo
Abyssinia
Peter Pindar
W Wipe
Rossini
George LV
WBN
SPADA
Macaulay
Schiller
John Foster
Anthony Trollope
Pope
Necessity the Mother of Invention in an Argonaut Storyette
A traveling lady and her son search for health and happiness. In Paris the mother falls ill, and the son must shop for her. At a hosiel he struggles to buy ladies garters, failing to learn the word. In frustration he blurts out Un Honi soit qui mal y pense, and obtains the garters.
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Continent
Paris
Hosiel’s
Good Neighbors in the Arkansas Traveller exchange
A witty exchange about the Jones family features a man praising the neighbors as splendid while a reply notes they never visit. The dialogue highlights small town humor and contrasting impressions among locals.
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Arkansaw
Queer Sex Quip Sparks Gentle Gasps at Red Bluff
A brief column in the Red Bluff News riffs on terms for women, noting reactions from different ages to nicknames and labels. The piece uses humor to comment on societal language and gender perception.
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Red Bluff
The Saint Mammon and the Silver Mine Satire
Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle laments money’s pull on writers and society. He jokes about toiling for cash despite disdain, imagining a world without earnings, then returns to the urge to write under the pressure of creditors and the stock ticker.
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Burdette
Brooklyn Eagle
Saint Mammon
Demas
Washington Hatchet Observation on Patience Outside Store
A humorous remark notes that a man's force of character shows in his patience waiting outside while his wife shops for thread, even for a half hour, reflecting social humor of the era.
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Washington
Pickerel and Ducks Tale Ends With Tavern Closure
Ed Mott reports a tavern scene where Old Settler and the squire argue over pickerel fishing tales. A jokey fish story about four-time catches and a duck leads to a dramatic reveal, a friend’s admission, drinks funded by the squire, and the tavern's closing by the landlord.
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Picker’s
Biler's
Big Brink
Jersey
Chopsy
Ryan
Alluz
Chopey
Bicycle misadventure in New Orleans club scene
A New Orleans bicycle club formed with Red Cross ambulance backing soon staged a public exhibition. Hopkins, a society favorite, secretly funded his membership and endured a comic crash sequence on St Charles Avenue. He fell, rode, and finally vanished into a barrel before being hauled home for care.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Red Cross Society
Hopkins
St. Charles Avenue
Soe
Hokins
Veged Home
The Discarded Man and the Winged Heroine
A London Standard narrative traces a wounded male lead who recovers from heartbreak through vanity and wit, then finds a guiding Angelina who shapes his path to marriage. He cycles through flirtations until a well to do widow ends his wandering, yielding a settled, comfortable life.
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London Standard
Diogenes
Edwin
Angelina
Jove
Cowboys on a Drive Across the Plains in Harper Sketch
R F Zogbaum portrays hardy cowboys driving a vast cattle herd through a canyon, from fireside breakfast to the long march. The scene follows riders guiding steers along a mountainous route, breaking for lunch, and keeping watch as the herd drifts toward rest and grazing in a sunlit prairie valley.
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R. F. Zogbaum
Harper's
High Plains
Wald Canyon
Ijtis
The Criticism of a Blushing Bride
A Sacramento Record Union note recounts a bride with no gallery experience offering an unexpectedly sharp verdict on paintings. She remarks on the frames and views the art with candid, humorous unfamiliarity, sparking gentle amusement at her naive but pointed critique.
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Sacramento Record Union
Widows Remain Bound While Heirs Claim Rights in Sitka
In Sitka a deceased husband’s widows pass to his next heir unless freed with blankets. Young Siwash sometimes resist the transfer, sparking conflict as widows confront the expected union to grandson or nephew.
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Detroit Free Press
Sitka
Sears
How a Lady Acts in a Barber's Shop
A Rehoboth Sunday Herald piece recounts a journalist asking a barber how women behave in barber shops. The barber notes women often visit with a female friend, may inspect the shop first, and confirm it is the place for ladies’ hairdressing before entering.
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Rehoboth Sunday Herald
Patients’ Quiet Patience Amid Patient Care
The speaker notes chairs in the back room and aprons around necks as patients sit an hour to an hour and a half perfectly quiet and contented. They request waiting, some endure half a day for their turn without a murmur. They never get mad, enduring more troublesome work than men without complaint.
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Stiever
Sile
Chopsy
Bimey Lie
Chepsy
Collision of verses and jokes span July prints
A collage of brief comic rhymes and witticisms from July issues includes playful verses about a traveling ant at a pyramid show, a German joke about giving things away, a romantic refrain on heart and hand, a cable despatch aside, and literary quips on taste and manners. The miscellany closes with a Lumber Trade Journal gag about an antique lady seeking a long board.
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Lumber Trade Journal
Chicago
The Foreign Artist Puck Cartoon and Song Parodies
A collage of humorous sketches and verse from Puck and The Cincinnati Traveler, featuring a self praised foreign artist living in Pamrapo New Jersey, a landlady bill scene, a serenade in verse, a Chicago Ledger reminiscence, and college couple verses. The pieces mix playful caricature with light romantic nostalgia and satirical tone.
Maud asks advice on keeping a diary
The writer suggests Maud should keep a diary sacredly, noting that if she began last January and confides thoughts periodically it could become sensational if discarded or lost, warning against letting the diary end up in the waste paper barrel.
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Somerville
Maud
Maudie
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