Fort Pulaski siege shows Gilmore’s genius in storming by land
The Detroit Free Press recounts a three month siege of Fort Pulaski where Union General Gilmore devised a Tybee Island artillery plan to breach the fort. He organized a thousand men to build a corduroy road, hauled heavy guns over treacherous sand, and sustained a brutal bombardment that finally compelled surrender.
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Detroit
Hilton Head
Fort Pulaski
Confederacy
Sherman
Olmstead
Tybée Island
Pulaski
Hunter
Gilmore
Tybee Island
Alan
Savannah
Tunger
Fort Sumter
Shetter
What Becomes of Old Journalists in Time
A charity-seeking visitor asks if aging journalists vanish from the field. The editor argues journalism drains energy, leaving veterans discarded, with few owners or editors earning enough to sustain. He recalls a lecturer noting many rich journalists are capitalists, not practitioners, and warns a talented young journalist to leave before being worn out.
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Progress
Ringwall
Hhis
Bachelors Buttons and the Comic Struggle of Sewing
A humorous essay contrasts a man's failed attempt to sew on a button with a woman's steady skill. The narrator details the misadventure of choosing a button needle and thread, threading chaos, and the inevitable bungled finish, ending with the man's pride and a woman’s calm judgment.
Thoughts on Death and Letters from Sterne and Johnson
In Sterne’s wake phrase about death laments the need to endure it unseen within the home while wishing the Disposer of all things may order it away from his house. Johnson argues that a man’s letters reveal his soul, with true affection wisdom and secrets laid bare in epistolary art.
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Sterne
Lin
Nt Thessan
Samuel Johnson
Avery
The Irritating Habit of Random Introductions Described
A San Francisco Wasp excerpt rails at the social nuisance of introductions in public, criticizing well-meaning friends who pair strangers together. It notes memory limits and the risk of awkward recognition, urging consideration over polite but vexing etiquette.
Needn't Get Upon His Dignity
John Esterhazy plans to visit Sara Jonffrey but Sara states her father opposes the visit and she thinks it best he should not come again. She loves him, yet the bar on the house remains. The exchange reveals family tension and social constraints.
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John Esterhazy
Sara Jonffrey
Sara
Hian
Animals in Business A Naturalist's Tale of Insects and Birds
A naturalist narrator links human occupations to animal behavior. Beetles, ants, birds, and spiders display engineering, farming, slavery, care for young, and tools. The piece notes bombarding beetles, ink-squirting squids, ant bridges, nest decoration, and species acting as doctors, builders, or ministers.
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James
Animal Kingdom
Poeta
Spring Symptoms in Cincinnati Cabinet Chronicle
A first person mishap tale begins with a late night trip to Lome and ends in a comic home renovation confession. The narrator reports a head wound from a fall in a dim hall and discovers his wife occupying a field bed with children. She boasts of cheap house upgrades and hints at romantic interest in a younger woman, revealing plans to leave without notice.
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Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Lome
Medroom
Tam
Aiea
Girls at Their Studies in a Humorous Skit
In an humorous dialogue two girls study together and mix up history dates with casual chatter about fashion and love. They joke about Marquette, Lafayette and Columbus while debating French phrases and geometry. The piece captures light schoolroom banter and teenage crushes.
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Atlanta Constitution
Marquette
Mississippi
Lafayette
Wisconsin
Columbus
Jamestown
George Washington
Shiloh
Lily
Freddie
Wooing and Winning Secrets From Legendary Lovers
A compact, cheeky inventory of famed lovers and risqué anecdotes across history and myth. It riffs on Arthur Helps and Barkis, with mentions of Cleopatra, Portia, Hippomenes, the Arabian Nights, Charlie, Bluebeard, Newton and others in a playful, wry tour of romantic misadventures.
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Sir Arthur
Barkis
Vivien
Merlin
Alexander
Thais
Cyssanio
Portia
Hippomenes
Atlanta
Harry
Bluebeard
Newton
Tristram
Bothwell
Mary
Cobbett
Sam Romilly
Nicholas
Russia
Charlemagne
Dissipated Dog Grips Philadelphia City Pup's Tobacco Peculiar Habit
Chief Clerk Butler of the building inspector's office has a nine month old brown crossbreed named Rover who shows a depraved canine streak by craving tobacco and drink. The pup frets when near cigars, leaps at them, and eagerly chews cigar stumps, preferring tobacco to other treats.
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Philadelphia
Butler
Rover
That Excellent China Drink in an Old London Ad
An 1658 English newspaper ad promotes a patent medicine, touting cures by pyrotechny under Paracelsian and Helmontian doctrine. A fashionable restaurateur then announces a new luxury named That Excellent Tee, sold at a notable London venue, amid boastful marketing.
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Veader
Bread Street
Paracelous
Helmont
Hyak Tians
Tee
Bilt Ra Ee-House
Atti Ay Ente
Eae
Stephen Foster the Pittsburgh Composer and His Songs
A detailed portrait of Stephen C. Foster born in Lawrenceville Pittsburgh on July 4 1826 tracing his musical development from early melodies to Old Folks at Home and Massa in the Cold Cold Ground. The piece notes his family life brief NY stay and death in New York 1864 with anecdotes about his home love and publishing ties in Cincinnati and Pittsburg.
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Stephen C. Foster
Philadelphia Times
Stephen Collings Foster
Lawrenceville
Pittsburg
William B. Foster
Old Philadelphia Pike
Penn Avenue
Thirty-sixth Street
Philadelphia
Arsenal
Stephen
Towanda
Athens
Penn
Foster
Jefferson College
Cannonsburg
Allegheny City
Oster
South
Ned
Susanna
Cincinnati
W. C. Peters
Peters
Nellie
Suawnee River
Jane D. McDowell
A. W. McDowell
Pitsburg
New York
Pond
Hoboken
Yazoo
Morrison Foster
Florida
Firth, Pond & Co
E. P. Christy
Christy
Kentucky
Massa
New Orleans
Universal Contraction and the Little Peanut Reascendency
A New London Telegram piece lampoons inflation and excess by praising a return to the “little peanut” as a symbol of contraction. It contrasts grandiose growth with simpler comforts, citing oversized foods and societal shifts, and argues for restraint, modesty, and national sobriety led by the peppery image of the little peanut.
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New London Telegram
Song Writer’s Burial at Allegheny Cemetery
The funeral at Trinity Church featured a rector led service and a large choir. Musicians from local groups played as the cortege moved along the avenue. At the grave the casket was lowered and the band performed Old Folks at Home. The writer rests on a hillside in Allegheny cemetery, facing the rising sun beside his mother, with a marble headstone inscribed for the beloved figure.
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Trinity Aeant
Allegheny Cemetery
Stephen C Foster of Pittsburg Death and Legacy
Stephen C Foster, of Pittsburg, born July 4 1826, died January 13 1564. The royalties from many of his songs continue to be paid to his wife and child, who live in comfortable circumstances.
Bridge 21 Miles Long Showcases New Orleans & Northeastern Trestle
A Sunday excursion by rail officials and contractors highlighted the New Orleans & Northeastern project spanning Lake Pontchartrain. The trestle will total 21.5 miles with piling mostly driven and rails laid toward Pedre river, using creosoted timber and closely spaced cross ties. Experts hail it as among the South’s grandest railroad structures, requiring over 15 million feet of lumber aside from piles and totaling 32,644 piles across 8,161 bents.
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New Orleans Picayune
New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad
Lake Pontchartrain
People’s Avenue Canal
Pedri River
United States
Kentuckian Who Never Drinks Water
A Crittenden Kentucky man recalls meeting Thomas Lawton who has never drunk water in his 70s or 80s. Lawton claims no desire for water in any form, drinks milk for nourishment, coffee to ward off painter's colic, and once tried mineral water as a tonic but found it repugnant and did not stay at the springs.
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Crittenden
Thomas Lawton
Lawton
Nevada Carpenter's Narrow Escape In Carson
A Carson man attempted improvised trestle work from a low roof and wedged his neck between nailed boards while finishing. He could not retract his head as the step-ladder shook and nearly hanged himself until a brother freed him.
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Nevada
Carson
Let the Frogs Be Frogs in Springfield Republican
A fragmented item from the Springfield Republican contemplates two classes of people and life approaches. It muses on outlooks such as looking up or down and forward or back, contrasting those who persevere with those who give up. The text ends with garbled phrases about omens and an odd reference to AGW and a Swap.
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Italy
Colorado
Springfield Republican
May Arrives in Verse and Prose Across Spring Imagery
A collage of spring themed verses and notes from poets such as Erasmus, Percival, Drummond, Nash, Watson, Lowell, LeBow, Thomson, Fawcett, Milton, Swinburne and others. The selection blends classical lines with light comic notes about a Florida president catching a ten pound trout, all celebrating May and the season's awakening.
Treat Mer Tenderly and the Engagement Agree With Reservations
A dialogue shows a woman and a man negotiating marriage with practical motives. The man invokes a wealthy father and social style, while the woman doubts lasting commitment, hints at multiple suitors, and asserts potential engagement risk if a better offer appears. The exchange reveals tension over love, finances, and social expectations.
Jennie Kissed Me in Meeting of Leigh Hunt
Fragmentary verse text notes Jennie kissing the speaker upon meeting, amid a playful jab at Time as a thief and a reflection on aging and health, with oddennie excoriating the moment as a lighthearted personal anecdote.
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Leigh Hunt
Jennie
Ennie
Seventy-Five Cents' Worth of Something
A tired businessman contemplates buying a twenty-five cent box of strawberries for his family but he cannot afford it. He joins friends for a drink instead. At home his wife agrees the purchase would have been extravagant.
Yacht and Wind in a Sailor’s Dream Fragment
A fragmentary passage on a yacht bound across the wind with vivid imagery of the sailor’s soul and the sea. It contrasts lofty seascape verses with a prose fable about a chicken hawk and a chicken, delivering a moral about overconfidence and risk.
The Baby and Bits of Wisdom in Verse
A small verse fragment presents James Whitcomb Riley's baby poem about birth and dawn like a new day, followed by Bits of Josh Billings offering humorous homey maxims. It blends affectionate child imagery with comical, practical aphorisms on life and honesty.
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James Whitcomb Riley
Ana
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