The defence of Lavergne and the Wolverines hold a fort
The Michigan Regiment of Mechanics and Engineers, about 400 strong, under Colonel Innes, defend Lavergne against Wheeler’s 2600 Confederate cavalry and more than 1200 artillery, repelling four successive assaults. Despite heavy losses and surrounding wagons, Innes’s force holds, prompting Wheeler to retreat.
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Detroit Free Fress
Lavergne
Stone River
Nashville
Murfree
Innes
Michigan Regiment of Mechanics and Engineers
McCook
Hardee
Wheeler
Murfreesboro
Gobblea
Inpes
Hell
Lee
Heeler
Liv Inues
Ines
Yep
Aguyo
Bill
South
Pegram
Altoona
Detroit Free Press style parody in Lime Kiln Club
A Detroit Free Press parody unfolds with Judge Perfection Smith in a mock hall session. The president chastises the judge for political talk and rent questions while emphasizing practical concerns over style and doctrine in a satirical, dialect-rich exchange.
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Detroit Free Press
Perfection Smith
Sali
Tie
Berleard
Sahary
The Art of Crying and the Makeover of Womanhood
A satirical guide to female beauty and performance, condemning cosmetics, corsets, and artificial tears while praising moral beauty. It mocks stagey laughter, premeditated tears, and social pressures, detailing methods to fake emotion and appearances for husbands and society.
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John Fletcher
How modern circus clowns train and perform today
An inside look at Barnum era clowns as a modern performer explains that today’s clown must be multitalented and versatile. He notes a shift from verbal humor to physical antics and describes training in falling safely, juggling, acrobatics, and riding. He cites the Auguste style origin from a Berlin accident and emphasizes risk management and quick wit.
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Barnum
Grimaldi
Belling
Reutz’ Circus
Bertin
Auguste
Berlin
Circus Attracon
The Fresh Air Fallacy in Public Belief and Travel
A critical look at the old sanitarian crusade for constant fresh air. The piece notes how the phrase has spread, prompting risky open windows in warm rooms and trains. It contrasts urban dust, car soot, and railway sparks with the supposed health benefits. It argues for wiser ventilation and cautions against overzealous cleansing.
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M. Coan
Harper's
Thackeray Story From Thackeray Told By Frank Bellew
Frank Bellew in the New York Tribune recalls Thackeray meeting a dirt street family. A girl misidentifies him as Becky Sharp, prompting Thackeray to learn of a gutter child reading Vanity Fair. He sends the woman a complete set and potatoes for dinner, noting that fame touches the slums.
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Frank Bellew
New York Tribune
Thackeray
Mr. Bellew
Wyeth Street
Drury Lane
Archie
Becky Sharp
Penakeiey
Vanity Fair
Duke of Devonshire
The Teachability of Oysters in Popular Science Monthly
An excerpt argues oysters, though mocked as stupid, can learn by experience. It cites Dicquemase and Bingley noting depth changes cause shells to open or close as water is lost or gained. The text discusses learning behavior and memory in oysters under differing conditions.
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Mara
Volue
Deautillers
Popular Science Monthly
Dicquemase
Bingley
Bayou Teche
Courting in Burmah Nightly Traditions and Signals
In Burmah courting occurs after 9 PM behind bamboo walls in multiroom houses on stilts. Elders depart or sleep as youths use a two-string fiddle to signal arrival, then creep to lovers and resume visits until late, ending with the time designated as lads go home.
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Burmah
Ates
An American Item in a French Dress
A notorious American murderer, long sought by police, evades capture in a San Francisco wax museum display. The fugitive hides in plain sight, posing as the wax figure while guardians look on, as investigators toil to locate him after weeks of pursuit.
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San Francisco
Burnside
Fredericksburg
Uncle Samuel
Wife Mistress Lady exchange a dated moral quip
A compact, satirical verse contrasts marriage types: wife for love, mistress for fortune, and lady for social status. It weighs duties and loyalties across home, appearances, and health, ending by asking which role one will choose.
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tExchange
Ady
Adventures of an Axe in Maine Logging Camps
A vivid portrait of the axe and the timber crew life from Maine to California. It traces the chopper’s culture, the shanty camp, tools, pay, and the axe as both livelihood and moral guide, ending with the axeman’s enduring demand from coast to coast.
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Maine
Great Northwest
Lake Cities
Esquimaux
California
France
Spain
Coast Range
Ocean
Hudson Bay
Gulf
How to Raise the Dead in Elizabethan Times
A Baltimore News piece reproduces archaic necromantic instructions from ancient volumes. It details spagyric attire, midnight rituals, and incantations invoking spirits, including wand gestures, torchbearers, and protective bindings with St John’s wort and owl heads. The article notes such beliefs date to the era of Queen Elizabeth I and Shakespeare.
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Ruthiel
Baltimore News
Berald
Beroald
Balbin Gab
Gabor Agaba
Queen Bess
Shakespeare
Absorbed Rail Stock Tale From Michigan Village
A Wall Street Daily News note recalls a village showy railroad boom in Michigan where locals subscribed for stock and the line was built. Years later a stockholder confronts a manager about lost value and absent meetings. The road was mortgaged for iron, name changed, merged with B and W, and the old board ousted.
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Michigan
Wall Street Daily News
Blank
G. R. Or
The Parisian Scraps and a Court House Exit
A collage of humorous vignettes and literary quips. A Chicago critic likens a divorced woman leaving court to a sobbing mountain pine limb. Autograph albums spark a Canadian court caution. A Arkansan boy rejects trade for literature while a veteran recalls Burnside days and a bustling breakfast scene ends with a restaurant bill.
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Texas
Chicago
Court House
Remembering Lisette in a Blithe Duet and Kite Time
A fragmented reminiscence mixes a intimate memory of Lisette with a staged duet by Maud and the tenor McKey. The narrator recalls a past charm, then abruptly shifts to a humorous riff on kite time, Western Union kite lodges, and boys cutting kite strings, critiquing politics by analogy.
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Western Union
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Wey
Bugies
Nature
Paris
Metropolis
Star Circus Clowns
Elliott
Lord of the Woods
New Finland
John
T. Buchanan
Grundy County
Iowa
Tan
Pacific
Redwoods
Phat
Phe
B. E. Woolff
Pounce & Co
Lucy Larecom
Jack
J. Taylor
Linpincott’s Magazine
Boston
Jim
Ella Wheeler
Maud
McKey
Lisette
Debonair
Heaven
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