Evacuation of Wagner and Gregg Ends Charleston Siege
The article recounts the September 1863 retreat of Confederate forces from Fort Wagner and Fort Gregg on Morris Island. It describes relentless Union bombardment, sap, and mine tactics, the careful night evacuation, and the brutal toll of blood and sand as Gilmore’s forces seize the forts and move toward Charleston, marking a grim chapter in Civil War history.
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Detroit Tree Press
Wagener
Gregg
Gilmore
Morris Island
Wagner
Walla
Battery Gregg
America
Sumpter
Charleston
Morris Islan
Fort Wagner
Risoh
Federal
Hardbon
Grege
Ieee
Fred
Sumter
Johnson
Time’s Mirror in Whitehall Review on Aging Eyes
The Whitehall Review muses on aging and crow’s feet seen in the eye. It warns against fixating on youth and tearful expressions, noting tears can age appearance and grimaces during laughter distort faces. Advice urges cautious mothering to curb facial grimaces and preserve natural spontaneity.
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Whitehall
Milton
Cats and Dogs Eyes Tell Time in Chinese Legend
The piece argues cats hunt at night and dogs by day, noting eye pupil changes from slit to circular with light. It claims Chinamen use cat eye width to gauge time on cloudy days, observing 猫眼 timing differences and linking feline vision to daily cycles.
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Ponto
Patie
Dus
Vouto
Top of the Hill a Dangerous Place for Politicians
Peck's Sun warns that reaching the hill’s top tempts arrogance and selfish acts. A successful ascent risks downhill ruin unless leaders stay disciplined, brace others, and avoid wrecking the climb for future climbers. The piece cautions late politicians eager to mortgage their future for power.
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Peck
Josh Billings
A Fiddle Plays the Mischief at Milford Hotel
In Milford a hotel kitchen hosts a scene of superstition as a violin reportedly plays on its own. A crowd attributes the sounds to a bewitched fiddle or spirits. After burning the instrument’s wall mount, the group flees, leaving the house unsettled and awake.
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Peninsula
Milford
Samuel Mason
Milton
New England
Ten Farms and Ten Babies All in a Row
In Cameron county near Cameron village ten farmers share adjoining farms and have ten babies with ages within three weeks of each other. The piece notes the synchronized timing of births across neighboring households in a shared rural setting.
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Philadelphia Times
Cameron
Cameron County
The Counterfeiter Becker and Six Prison Walls
Carl Becker a renowned engraver and master counterfeiter now serves six years in Kings County Penitentiary Brooklyn after a dramatic escape from Constantinople. He recounts escapes from multiple prisons in Europe and Asia and details plans to counterfeit Bank of France notes while in New York.
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America
Africa
Kings County Penitentiary
Brooklyn
N. Y
Bank of France
Carl Becker
Rhenish
Prussia
Germany
Becker
Italy
Tunis
Sicily
Palermo
United States
Atlantic
Khedive
New York
Mediterranean
Alexandria
Constantinople
Bynk
France
City of Churches
East New York
Boland
Mooney
Edward Looney
Raymond Street
Messia
Coucert Brothers
Court of Sessions
Moore
Kings County
Catlin
John Green
Crow Hill
Green
Key
Old Maids and Their Plate Glass Mirror of Society
A satirical treatise on old maids surveys definitions, sins, and foibles from curiosity to affectation, tracing historical views from ancient times through Christian era. It cites anecdotes of nocturnal peeping and vanity, contrasted with praise of virtue, charity, and the author’s charitable aims.
The Oystercide and His Victim A Life and Death of Pathos
A New London Telegram writer contemplates the oyster’s fate from its carefree early life to man’s harvest. The piece dramatizes the oyster as noble and self sacrificing, likening its death to Damon's Pythias act and urging readers to savor its single tragic virtue.
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New London Telegram
Damon
Pythias
Happiness from a Millionaire Standpoint
A California millionaire, Mr Mackey, offers a plain living creed. Do not chase wealth for endless gain, as contentment lies in simple joys. He recalls glacier mine days and says reading the news at day’s end was his greatest pleasure then and now.
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Mr. Mackey
California
Glacer
Star-Cazing Bob in a Caboose Cupola
Bob Burdette of the Burlington Hawkeye rides a freight train at 1 56 a m to keep an engagement in Binghamton and describes a moonlit winter night from the brakeman’s cupola. He notes the beauty of snow and stars then laments missing his brown eyed girl in Burlington, saying the starlight loses its magic without her.
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Bob Burdette
Burlington Hawkeye
Binghamton
Bob
Adams
Orion
Taurus
Pleiades
New York
Burlington
Ohio merchant tests cash handling by three clerks
A merchant with three clerks who kept their own change was asked why he did not use a cashier. After a traveler tricked them with a bogus quarter, the cash test failed as each clerk produced no hidden funds, prompting the merchant to abandon the plan and consider a cashier system.
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Ohio
Tie
Greeley Pride and a Remark About Being Kicked
A Cleveland Leader reminiscence recalls Horace Greeley and the 1860 election. Camp, Greeley’s former partner, describes Greeley’s impatience and joy when Lincoln won Illinois, culminating in a quizzical wish to be kicked. Also reported is Abraham Myers of York County, a two-handed man who shoots with a mouth loaded breechloader, claiming eighteen squirrels and five pigeons this season.
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Greeley
Cleveland
Camp
New York
Washington
Horace Greeley
Illinois
Lincoln
Springfield
Abraham Myers
York County
Penn
Gambling for Locomotives Game Report Leaks
A San Antonio leak describes a poker game in New York among railroad magnates. One man, short of cash, pledged engines as collateral. The winner took three engines, numbers 22 24 and 26, valued at about $40,000, now reportedly in operation on the Winner's road in this state.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
San Antonio
Texas
New York
Girl captures a 200 pound wild deer by horns in Craig county
Miss Fannie Elmore, 16, of the red-bush neighborhood in Craig county, snared a wild deer weighing about 200 pounds and with five pointed horns before her brother killed it with a stick. The event was reported in Roanoke Leader.
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Roanoke
Fannie Elmore
Craig County
Indiana town's elderly skating violinist mystifies readers
In a March feature a nearly 80 year old Indiana town champion skates with boyish nimbleness and nights his violin playing stretches late. The piece notes his perilous times, bloodstone talismans, and curiosity about how he remains alive amid warning stories.
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Indiana
Killed by the Cars and a Misplaced Doom Poem
A fragment unfolds two pieces of verse. The first laments a man killed by a passing train in dawn mist. The second jokes about Cincinnati floods and hotel guests seeking safe rooms, noting proprietors' compromise with a hitching skiff for emergencies.
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Cincinnati
Time and Skill, A Riddle Poem Exchange
A short verse exchange ponders why time seems short or long based on activity and effort. It playfully contrasts ease, busyness, work, and bold action with success, ending by praising the man who can hold his own near power.
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Goethe
Warning tale of a wife’s vigil at a saloon tragedy
A Philadelphia wife distrusted her husband’s evenings at the lodge and tailed him to a saloon. She waited for his exit, caught pneumonia, and died. The item serves as a caution to women to stay indoors and keep the cat company.
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Philadelphia
Neumonia
Baby Word Delights The Gentle Power Of Newborns
A lyrical verse extols the tenderness of infants and the universal reverence due to motherhood. The poem compares mother and queen, noting the soft, enshrined light in a baby’s sound and the gentle music like a harp swept by the wind.
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Lanon
An Ingenuous Sunday School Man
A Christian Advocate item recounts a worldly Sunday school superintendent who, about to travel to Europe on business, spoke fervently to the class of perils at sea and leaving loved ones. He ends by revealing that only money could persuade him to undertake the voyage, revealing his mercenary motive.
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Green
Becker
Becker Call
Constantinople
Bosphorus
Austria
London
Asia
Africa
Europe
United States
Sam
Mr. Becker
Wall-street
Soft and Silken Muffe Described in Verse
A playful 16th or early modern verse from the Springfield Republican revels in a lady’s muff and the speaker’s affectionate vanity. The poem contrasts the muff’s softness with a lover’s desire, praising warmth and gentle touches amid the speaker’s rueful joy and flattered pride.
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Springfield Republican
Speedy horse owner lies ninety four times monthly
In a single month the owner of the three minute horse lied ninety four times about his speed. Extrapolating to a year yields four hundred eighty eight lies, but the question mocks the premise and asks how it would affect the horse’s speed, highlighting the futility of basing performance on deception rather than fact.
Fame and Wisdom in Youth’s Burdened Price
A reflective verse scene questions whether wisdom and fame justify the sacrifices of youth. It ponders the toll of pursuing knowledge for public praise, contrasting a life of struggle with one of quiet content, wine and laughter, and a fearless mortal leap.
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Fle
Slipper Sparks Legal Storm After Chicago Wedding Incident
A St. Louis wedding causes a furor as a bride’s slipper tossed for luck leads to lawsuits. The carriage driver seeks damages for a broken horse, the groom and bride pursue suits for dental and spinal injuries, and the city may require pavement repairs and hydrant replacement. Rumors claim the slipper travels toward southern Illinois stirring fears of floods. Chicago guests are blamed by Bouls residents who deny the accusation.
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St. Louis
Ilinois
Br Ouls
Chicago
Memories of Love Letters and Lost Amours
A nostalgic speaker recalls old letters from Nell, Belle, and Jennie C. as tokens of affection and vows once spoken. He laments being a lifelong bachelor while noting unkept promises and the fading warmth from past romances.
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LV. M. Kinnaman
Nell
Amours
Belle
Jennie C
Nellie
Our National Emblem We Prefer The Mule Over The Eagle
A cartoonish critique mocks the eagle as a national emblem and extols the mule as a symbol of patience perseverance and resilience. The text tramples the idea of the eagle while praising the mule for steadiness under pressure and a readiness for defense when provoked.
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