Siege of Atlanta Told Through a Cavalry Officer's Eye
Colonel Albert G Brackett recalls the Atlanta siege in vivid detail. Union and Confederate artillery pounded the city daily while both sides wasted ammunition, the Union deceiving the foe at night and the Confederates countering with stubborn defense. Hospitals filled with wounded, surgeons strained, and troops built earthworks and shelters under constant fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert G. Brackett
Third
United States Cavalry
Philadelphia Times
Atlanta
Confederate States
United States Mies
London’s Great Tailor Henry Poole and his legacy
R Tray recalls Henry Poole the famed London tailor who built a vast British outfit empire from Cambridge to Brighton. The story recounts his strict fitting standards, generous charity, lavish lifestyle, patronage of Disraeli, and a personal fortune of about £26,000 at death, with creditors’ claims only partly settled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
Henry Loole
R. Tray
London
Henry Poole
Cambridge
Henry
Poole
Disraeli
Lord Hardcastle
Brighton
Bulington Street
Thames
Hammersmith
Great Britain
Wonders Made to Order Casts of Real Animals for Museums
A New York Sun feature profiles a sculptor turned model maker who creates life like casts of animals for colleges and museums. He recalls octopus and mermaid hoaxes, reveals how he uses rubber, papier mache, and concealed workers to simulate color and motion, and explains chloroform aided casts of a boa constrictor and other reptiles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Bony Fidy
Chicago
New York
Aquarium
No Place Like Home Even Far From Milford
A travel-weary man declares in dialect that no distant land beats the memory of home. He jokes about roads and rivers in a humorous sequence from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi, and praises Maggery Falls as a symbol of familiarity back home. The piece ends with the speaker saying he is twenty years younger since returning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milford
Dan
Rocky Mountains
Yender
Tattooing Eggs and Scrimpshon Carvings Featured Artist
A craftsman explains tattooing Easter eggs by coloring and carving the shell to resemble cameos. He notes regular orders, a West Walnut street family, and high accident risk. He also describes scrimpshon engraving on ivory or sharks teeth and carved billiard ball sets.
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Philadelphia Times
West Walnut Street
Rosebush Sickle Scene In Detroit Free Press Story
A woman in a Second Avenue yard wields a sickle against rosebushes in a vivid Detroit Free Press tale. She mimics Ruth the gleaner with determined cuts, recalls a stove, and ends with a dramatic exit after a misdirected swing and a fence collision.
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Detroit
Ruth
The New York Banker Style in Philadelphia hotel tale
A pompous New York bank president demands a second floor front room in a Philadelphia hotel and clashes with the clerk who calls the porter to summon police after the exchange over room height and elevator access.
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Philadelphia
New York Bank
New York
Jon
Windmill Buyer Demands Price and Engine Cost
A Detroit windmill dealer hosted a skeptical visitor who examined a machine thoroughly and questioned its longevity and capabilities. After evaluating performance, the man remarked that the price was reasonable and inquired about the cost of a steam engine to drive it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Free Press
Detroit
Dogs Of All Kinds Wonderful Intelligence Shown
The Philadelphia Times article surveys St. Bernards and other breeds, praising their intelligence and trainability. It recounts monk training at St Bernard monasteries, rescue work, and lessons on cues, memory, naming objects, color recognition, and the nature of canine affection and imagination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
W. T. Stevens
St. Bernard
Newfoundland
Alps
Rnstayee
British Museum
Berry
Romeo
Ancestor portraits promise blue blood for profits
A Denver News report details Dr. Paul Gurney offering genealogical portraits in a Larimer Street studio. Prices range from eight to one hundred seventy six dollars for ancestors from Jamestown to Saxon eras, with heraldry adds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George II
Denver
Larimer Street
Paul Gurney
Jamestown
Charles the Second
Queen Anne
George the Second
Leadville
Smith
Reginald Smith
Smith Hall
Captain Smith
Queen Elizabeth
Shakespeare
Raleigh
Doc’ Bangs
Charles Baggs
London
Plymouth Colony
Winthrop
Doc Baggs
New England
New York
Henry VIII
Henryv
France
West
East
Chicago
A Scheme That Was Bound to Win
Oswego Times recounts Al bert Morse a southeastern politician who feared temperance groups would win Con stantia town meeting He proposed to defeat them by suing them a plan that underscores partisan maneuvering in local politics and legal action as a tactic to block temperance influence.
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Oswego
Albert Morse
Morse
Sons of Temperance and
Good Templars
Constantia
Newlywed Dinner Invite From Veteran Merchant
In a brief exchange, an elderly merchant invites his newly married young friend John to join him for dinner. The conversation hints at shared domestic experience, as the older man recalls having a young wife once and suggests trying a restaurant today.
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Merchant Traveller
John
Jordan
BRIC A BRAC A Fancy of June
A whimsical vignette from the New York Commercial Advertiser about a dewy rosebud opening to the morn and a kiss leaving a red trace on the lips, framed with a humorous tale of fashion in a New Haven News item where Tommy seeks ocular trousers.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
New Haven
Tommy
No Difference. Dwaif. A Parlor to the Starlit Gate
A collage of verses and quips from Punch and modern poetry, shifting from elegiac fades at a parlor grate to starlit fronts and memory filled scenes. Snippets recall Louise Imogen Guiney, shipyards, and a bittersweet nostalgia tied to youth and distant shores.
An Alphabet Ballot of a Philadelphia Ball Scene
A playful verse by Calverley lists ballroom personae from A to Z in a Philadelphia Times style piece. It assigns each letter to a figure or object at a ball, from the Angel to the Zero, with hints of chaperones, cards, no timekeeping, and lively social details.
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Calverley
Philadelphia
Frank
Olga
Mischievous Whims and Faint Hearts in Drolleries
A New York Graphic quickread mixes short comic verses and skits about a bashful suitor Miss de Mont and a wealthy father, a flirtish heroine in a Gloaming scene with Adolpheus, plus a coroner's verdict line. It compiles playful verse and farcical dialogue to lampoon social foibles and gossip.
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San Francisco
Adolpheus
Alicia
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Sherman
Decatur
Zra
Cumberland
Tennessee
Ohio
Mississippi
Union
Ordnance Department
Confederacy
Elbridge G. Roys
Fourth Cavalry
Selma
Ala
Army of the Cumberlain
Gayline
Iuciana
Army of the Cumberland
London’s
Sitka
Vin
Japan
Yellow Sea
Old Settler
Sickle
Gleaner
St. Bernards
Chesapeake Bay
Leo
Gordon
Ormer
Sam
Baltimore
Gunpowder River
Chanfran
Gates
Monsieur
Gloucester Harbor
Louise Imogen Guiney
Pittsburg
James C. Harvey
Springfield Republican
New York Graphic
Miss de Mont
Dollie
Samuel Mintarn Peck
Manhattan
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