Skirmish at Hainesville Depicts Jackson Brigade Tale
The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph recounts Stonewall Jackson's first brigade action at Hainesville or Falling Waters. Julys dawn siege duties gave way to a skirmish near the Potomac. Lt Edmondson led 25 men bravely, Pendleton’s Rockbridge battery fired, and Jackson praised their daring as they retreated to Big Spring.
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Stonewall Jackson
Pittsburg
Patterson
Cujon
Potowne
Jackson
Johnston
Leteher
Potomac
J. K. Edmondson
Twenty-seventh
Virginia
Chancellorsville
Martinsburg
Winchester
Hainesville
Cadwallader
Doubleday
Rockbridge Rifles Dog Follows Regiment to Harper's Ferry
A canine recruit named Rockbridge joined the Rockbridge Rifles on the march through the valley toward Harper's Ferry. The dog participated in drills and camp life, slept with soldiers, and shared rations. He died a mortal wound after accompanying the second platoon in a perilous flank movement, the unit's sole fatal casualty.
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Rockbridge Rifles
Harper’s Ferry
Rockbridge
The Plug Hat Temperance Tale of Woe and Miracles
A satirical piece laments universal misery and ruin, focusing on a plug hat that stubbornly endures dissipation. It contrasts sober behavior with liquor’s effects, recounting a banquet misadventure, a public admonition of drinking, and a comic scene of a man failing to hang his hat. It ends with political fatigue and skepticism toward campaigns and national leadership.
Marine Education and a Captain's Voice in Training
A Detroit Free Press piece recalls a sailor practicing for navigation duties by shaping a captain’s voice. The trainee, once a mate, trains four hours daily to command a propeller with weighty orders, posing and facial bearing to convey authority as crowds and crew respond.
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Detroit Free Press
McCullough
Barrett
Literary Texas Sittings At A Fashionable Reception
A brisk social exchange at a stylish Texas reception features Mr Spitlioe and Miss Zagwell discussing favorite poets. They name Shakespeare Burns Goldsmith Byron Pope Shelley Milton and praise each other for being well read. The dialogue emphasizes mutual literary taste and broad reading.
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Texas
Spitlioe
Goldsmith
Byron
Pope
Shelley
Milton
Spdice
Queen Victoria’s Scottish trip and reporter clash
Queen Victoria’s traveling in Scotland prompted a confrontation with a reporter who insisted Brown move aside. Brown refused, vowing he knew the Queen and warning that no English gentleman would dare challenge him. The reporter’s Scotland journal account differs slightly, noting Brown asked a question first and was called a lackey.
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Brown
New York Herald
Queen Victoria
Scotland
England
Hine Illz Lachrymwe
Log Rollin at Hasher's Creek Field And Quilt After
A vivid Atlanta Constitution reminiscence describes a log rolling at old man Hasher's, the clearing effort, and a following quilt social. Men shout, laugh, and work while Miss Hasher feeds them and the women lay out the quilt. Local neighbors—Hashers, Bates, Loftis, Roberson, and Dewberry—mix labor with playful courting antics and rustic humor as pumpkins pies and lye set the scene for a long, boisterous day.
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Atlanta Constitution
Bates
Tom Bates
Bulger
Cap Dewberry
Matindy Jane
Ann Eliza
Pap
Buddy
Elle
Jake Loftis
Sky Roberson
Sam Gabriel
Jim Wiggins
Maiindy Jane
Jake
Bud Hamilton
Vothers
Miss Hasher
Old Hasher
Hadn't Angelic Credentials in The Churchman
A West preacher seeking shelter from a shower stops at a cabin. An old woman refuses him, noting not to entertain strangers. He cites the Bible about entertaining angels, but she retorts no angel would arrive with tobacco in his mouth, and he rides away in the rain.
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America
National Central Committee
History of Our National Library in Early America
History traces libraries from Harvard 1638 and Yale 1700 to Ben Franklin founding America’s first subscription library after walking from New York to Philadelphia. It notes the 1800 move of Can to Washington and references the Library of…
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Our National Library
Cleveland
Harvard College Library
Yale College
Ben Franklin
New York
Philadelphia
America
Washington
Growth of Public Libraries in United States
The text traces early library foundations in the United States from Jefferson’s 7000 volumes through two devastating fires to a steady growth, noting 50 million books in 1870 with 20 million in public libraries. It cites a population of 38 million and an average of more than one book per person.
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Eres
National Library
Congress
Jefferson
United States
Romance of Telegraphy and Daring Rescue Tales
The article relays curious telegraphy feats beyond instruments. It recounts Colonel Wilson guiding a train to send Morse via locomotive whistle, a diverging signal using a cut wire rubbed on the tongue to read letters, a San Francisco prospector saved by a compatriot from a Mexican desperado camp, a telegrapher escaping from a cage with bars as a sounder, and lighthouse lanterns flashing code to aid a Florida wreck survivor.
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Inter-Ocean
J. J. S. Wilson
Avour
Ohio
Mississippi
Missouri
Mississippi River
Colonel Wilson
Illinois
Wilson
San Francisco
California
Liberty
United States
Florida
The Nine and Its Mysterious Multiples
A Troy Times explainer outlines how the number nine shows striking properties. It notes digit sums, divisibility by 9, and examples such as subtracting permutations of digits to yield remainders divisible by 9. It provides arithmetic examples like 7,364,429 minus 2,967,634 and 156,324 from 231,466, illustrating the nine relationship with digits and remainders.
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Origure
The Drummer’s Racket Turns Wild Coach Prank
A Chicago Herald item recounts a Wabash train gag where a drummer bets passengers will stick their heads out of windows to see if a prank succeeds. The stunt ends with all heads out as the drummer, under the coach, extorts a joke about the racket’s payoff.
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Chicago Herald
Peoria
Sen
Howler
Springfield
Financial Diplomacy of Women on a Street Car
Two young ladies board a Pittsburgh streetcar and argue over change from two alligator bags. Each offers coins, one slips in a ten cent piece with a hole, triggering suspicion. The moment fuels silent snubs as they glare and plan to avoid the other.
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Pittsburg
William Young
Scrupulous Chemist Weighs Arsenic For Orphan
An old woman presents a prescription containing arsenic and notes the chemist’s careful weighing. She jokingly remarks that the dose need not be too exact since it is for a poor orphan.
Marriage in China
A long account describes traditional Chinese betrothal and wedding rites from early arranged unions to the ceremony. It covers go-betweens, horoscopes, bride prices from twenty dollars to five thousand, and the bride’s lament before removal to the husband’s home. The procession, sedan chair, firecrackers, and silent, ceremonial union follow, ending with the groom seeing his bride for the first time.
Forced Redemption Conf Confederate Money for Brougeys Scrip
A Charleston correspondent recalls Broughey of Pocahontas County who refused Reconstruction and traded for Confederate money. He displayed hundreds in Greenbrier county scrip and demanded redemption. Colonel McPherson finally paid with Confederate money, saving the county’s credit. Broughey lived to see scrip rise to par with gold.
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Brouchey
Virginia
Charleston
W. Va
Detroit Free Press
Broughey
Pocahontas County
Greenbrier
McPherson
Colonel McPherson
Greenbrier County
Ceremony of unveiling and nuptial rites described
The passage depicts a husband examining his bride as a master might inspect furniture. It notes their seating in the bridal chamber, the groom’s deliberate control, and the bride’s submission. The nuptial couch is shown with inscriptions wishing offspring and abundance, and it is adorned with orange trees and cash as symbols of fertility and family ancestors.
Philosophy of the Driver of a Bob Tail Car
A Pittsburg Telegraph vignette follows a bob-tail car driver who fixes on a woman with an umbrella on the curb. The woman aggressively signals at the horse car and a brewer’s wagon passes as she shouts with the umbrella. The driver muses that women and boss cars are queer.
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Pittsburg
A Woman Outwits Razor Panic at Funeral Visit
In this Detroit Free Press vignette, Mrs. Gunkettle remains composed when her husband Silas races home to shave before a funeral. Amid chaos he accuses, she coolly asserts the funeral is at the next house and nonchalantly quips that she cannot acknowledge the razor, keeping calm while rocking the baby.
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George Washington
Detroit Free Press
Westward traveler coins odd fuel scheme in Nebraska
A bearded traveler in a Chicago Herald piece recounts a Westward life tale. He describes Rooshun Mennonites building brick ovens in four-room houses centered with a large furnace. Straw burned in the furnace heats multiple rooms, while cornstalks fuel cooking stoves.
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Chicago Herald
Newbraska
A Soldier’s Selfless Act Under Fire in Italian Campaign
During the Italian campaign a mortally wounded Austrian grenadier longed for water as a French officer and a Chasseurs bugler lay grievously wounded nearby. The bugler, with a crushed leg, crawled to offer his enemy a drink, only to be killed by a cannon shot moments later. The bugler’s last words accuse the retreating Austrians of not waiting for the drink.
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le Drapeau
Chasseurs
He Had Em All Down Texas Siftings Snippet
A stranger asks about University of Texas students in Austin. The barkeeper checks a directory and reads a slate listing Bob Keyworth with $9 for drinks $546 for billiards and $5 cash loaned, implying a humorous tally of debts.
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Texas Siftings
Austin
University
Texas
Keyworth
Crosby County
Bob Keyworth
Fragmented verses and quips from the era
A collage of snippets including satirical quatrains, operatic lines, wild headlines, and travel anecdotes. Items reference ballet, Patti cake, Mapleson, Arkansas law on saloons near churches, a trip by the traveler, and a joke about watermelons versus horses in Russian Central Asia.
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Russian Central Asia
The Reason Why and On the Road in Verse Fragments
A collection of verse fragments and dialogues. Includes a child’s request for fresh bread and a joke about tea pricing. Contains ruminations on travel, prayer, beauty, and everyday scenes with light humor and moral tones.
Morning election mixup leads to odd public quarrel
Two citizens who planned to vote the same ticket learned after polls closed that they had intended to cast a split vote. They then retreated to a vacant shed and kicked each other with lead-soled boots, as a bizarre public incident unfolded.
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Rockland Courier
How They Arranged a Duel From the French
A dash of dialogue shows two men in furious exchange claiming to seek satisfaction and a host of bravado. The piece mocks pride and haste, then shifts to a quip about a hunter and Gerry with playful verse on a stylish heroine.
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Tam
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Sky Robertson
Theodosia Williamson
Dash
Everthing
Ter
Doshi
Lim
Meljody Jane
Laws
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Tts
Mowie
China
San Francisco Chronicle
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Trousseau
Farwell
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Yale Record
Merchant Traveller
Moses
Sinai
Israel
San Francisco Argus
Patti
Mapleson
Pat ii
Burlington
Ih. R. Evans
American Miller
Frink
Hunter
Crusoe
Gerry
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