Spottsylvania Horseshoe Salient Clash Recounted in Detail
The narrative describes Grant’s assault on Lee’s salient at Spottsylvania, detailing the fierce night march, the 20 000 Federals pressing toward the Morse Shoe, Confederate defense, heavy casualties, and the capture of 3000 prisoners along with flags and artillery. It notes the Horseshoe as the pivotal weak point and the brutal close-quarters fighting that followed.
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Grant
Lee
Manassas
Spottsylvania
Brock Road
Richword
Laurel Air
Thia Salient
Teancetons
Salient
Hengock
Hancock
Kiravy
Barlow
Mott Anud Gibbons
Carroll
Stonewall
Horseshoe
Asault
Terrifying Battle at the Horseshoe Ends in Blood and Stalemate
Confederate and Federal forces clash from daylight to midnight in a brutal fight around the Horseshoe. The Union holds the salient briefly as Lee strengthens lines, leaving Grant unable to break through toward the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, or Cold Harbor.
Patent Arithmetic Puzzles in Detroit Free Press
A collection of word problems involving benches and boys, laundress losses, potato selling, locomotive speeds, and circuses. It mixes arithmetic puzzles with humorous scenarios, asking for per bushel prices, remaining quantities, travel times, and velocity of sound in daily life.
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Detroit Free Press
Chicago
Door Openings and Forgiveness Hearkened in a Village Tale
A Scots preacher narrates a tale of a young girl drawn into sin who travels to London. She returns home at night and finds the door shut, then enters to find her mother awaiting with forgiveness. The scene contrasts fear with maternal mercy and a welcome home.
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Sacramento
London
Ste
Feyther
Jeannie
Cotton Bales From Georgia Plantations Refused Tax
Four bales of cotton from Colonel F Terry near Waverly Hall Harris county Georgia were grown in 1856 and stored since. He refused 47.5 cents a pound in 1865 as he deemed the revenue tax of three cents per pound unjust and would burn the cotton rather than pay. After the war he held over 109 bales of Coven and still had more on hand.
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Columbus Times
F. Terry
Waverley Hall
Harris County
The Elephant Went Round A Half Century Circus History
A New York Times feature traces American circus history from primitive barnyard shows in Putnam County to the Bowery Amphitheatre and London tours. It notes early tents, elephant introductions, rough prices, and famed performers like Dresbach Van Amburgh and Gosson, highlighting accelerating progress since 1860.
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Europe
Putnam County
Angevine, Titus & Burgess
Putnam
Pioneer
New Brunswick
Bowery
Grand Street
Ihe
Legs North
The Rise of the Rail Circus and Lent’s Pioneering Train
A historical look at B Lent and the New York Circus on Fourteenth Street. The piece traces early show trains, the shift to rail travel, and rising costs, with notes on elephants, advertising, and the evolving circus industry including foreign comparisons. It mentions conflicts over who deserves credit for the first railroad circus and cites large daily receipts from Pittsburg.
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America
Barna
Hajted
Gale
Gay
B. Lent
New York Circus
Fourteenth Street
van Amburgh’s
Lent
Dockril
Pittsburg
Penn
Myers
Germany
Howe
Faira
L. B
Spalling & Rogers
New England
Modern Arabian Nights in Ragbag City Tale
In a Burlesque Brooklyn setting the Caliph Haroun visits Ragbag city and, after a comic tour, demands displays of its citizens wealth. Ali the barkeep is jailed, a Balsoran fruit merchant is beheaded, a Damascus wash merchant is boiled, and a Chinese slave-jerker pleads for life amid a chaotic parade of mock trials.
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Brooklyn
Ali Bast
Adeed
Ali
Caliph
Balsora
Raghag
Dead Beats and Bogus Showmen Haunt City Hotels
A hotel clerk recounts con artists who beat hotels with advances and counterfeit money, recounting incidents with trainers of theatre companies, drummers, and a Cincinnati wife scam. The piece explains how hotel men adapt to touring troupes and how showpeople dodge payment while managers try to protect their registers.
Bride Fakes Death to Elope With Music Teacher
An army officer, brother of a Fort Meade lieutenant, learns his Eastern wife faked illness and death to run away with her music tutor. She supposedly died in Paris, but her husband had the coffin exhumed in New York. the body inside was the tutor, not his wife, proving the elopement.
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Diarbekir
Ali
Lingwred
Mr. P
Cincinnati
Elias de Puy
Lackawack
Ulster County
New York
Mr. de Puy
Wadim OG Strate
Dnajly
Paris
Cable
Hir
America
Greenwood
Hiarbor
Is This Boy a Hero in a Brooklyn Tale
A vivid fragment shows a boy under harsh discipline as a master wields a rattan. The scene emphasizes the boy’s calm endurance and a promise of a significant future, framed by a narration that mixes doubt and hope in a 19th century setting.
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Brooklyn Eagle
HelMes
Lan
Peculiar Vaccination Tales From Towns Mentioned
A Norristown case reports vaccination with virus from a young man causing longing for his arm. In Salt Lake City a Gentile vaccinated from a Mormon neighbor marries into the faith and seeks more wives. A Milwaukee tale has a debtor vaccinated by a friend who was slow to pay, and the result is the debtor now avoids creditors and acts warm toward collectors.
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Norristown
Penn
Salt Lake City
Milwaukee
Min
Forest City ministers take woodcutter wages offer
A wealthy Forest City gentleman in Iowa offered clergymen $1 an hour to cut his wood. Nearly all local ministers accepted, working four to six hours daily and being paid promptly, showing notable initiative and grit.
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Dubuque
Forest City
Iowa
Buck
Whimsical snippets and verse from the era
A collage of jokes poems and anecdotes from various papers notes on singers marriage in heaven a talking dummy man and romantic fiction scenes. Included are light quips about Clara Kellogg Anpie Cary Wilde and Arthur Aniseseed plus comic verses and a northern Nevada wedding note.
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Norristown Herald
Clara Louise Kellogg
Anpie Louise Cary
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the Holy Mother
New York Times
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John Tryon
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Stickney Family
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Dresbach
Joan Robinson
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Pacific
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So-and-So
Honoraly
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Watertown Times
Arthur Aniseseed
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Wilde
Jonah
Arthur
New York Mercury
San Francisco Post
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von Bulow
Chuck
Mabel
Warden Bose
Leadville
Heine
Pioche
H. C. Dodge
Chicago Tribune
Farmer Redingate
Blue Island Avenue
Pericles Hetherington
Pericls
Pericles
Myrtle Redingote
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