Petersburg Assault that Won at Shand House Redoubt
After June 15 1864 a daring night march by Griffin's Brigade led to a successful assault on the Shand House redoubt near Petersburg. The 36th Massachusetts and allied regiments breached the rebel lines, capturing four artillery pieces and 600 prisoners, but costly losses marred the victory and highlighted lack of adequate support for future actions.
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Thirty-sixth
Massachusetts
Petersburg
Shand House
Shana House
Bushrod Johnson
Burnside
Potter
Ninth Corps
Griffin
Vermont
New Hampshire
Maine
Curtin
New York Rifles
Pennsylvania
Second
Fairbank
Forty
New York Heavy Artillery
Shand
Avery
Jess Laan
James
Kiliea
Sixteen Wounded Four Fatally Fall in Battle
In the thickest of the fight, amid the terrible energies of the battle, these brave men fell martyrs to the cause of their country. The report notes sixteen wounded with four dead among the fallen, highlighting their sacrifice in service.
First Free Rail Pass Shapes a Lifelong View of Fares
A writer recalls the inaugural Northwestern railroad pass granted to him and a partner. He details five hours of waiting, a misdated pass, and the resolve to repay an imagined outrage. The tale traces a decade of free travel, the social prestige of conductors, and the lasting impact of that first pass.
NO EMBEZZLEMENT. The Wakeful Man Who Tried to Count Himself to Sleep
A man recounts an all night attempt to count to 75 000 to induce sleep. He details hours from ten to six, tallying 9 000 to 58 000 with spurt counts, nearing target but missing by a few thousand. He concludes counting is a cheap, harmless pastime but not a sleep cure.
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Lock Melone
San Franciscan
Eden
England
Uils Land
Britain
Danbury
Conn
Beersheba
Congress
L Mullot
She Twicked by Carpet Beating Ruse in Detroit
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a con artist posing as a carpet beater. He describes elaborate theft-preventing methods and lures a householder by offering to beat a parlor carpet for fifty cents. He explains how he would remove the carpet, beat it in a yard behind a high fence, then roll it up and mislead neighbors about its origin. He is hired.
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Shy
New York
Fifty-fifth
Massachusetts
Detroit Free Press
Blank Street
Twig
New York Times
Cherry Street
River Plate
Savannah
Buenos Ayres
West Indies
Sunday School Truancy Ends With Fishin Joke
A Yonkers Statesman snippet recalls a Sunday school teacher asking Robbie where he was last Sunday. The pupil replies his mother kept him home and jokes that truant boys go fishin. A lighthearted quip closes the item with a playful misread about a paper cat family.
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Yonkers
Robbie
Burdette on Tramps and a May Day Spectacle
Burdette humorous essay frames May Day in New York and country with homeless tramps as a comic, devotional sight. It blends satire on charity, social class, and a pastor’s view of work and idle wanderers, culminating in a mock church collection scene and playful reflections on who truly toils.
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Burdette
New York
Johnny
Robin
Biddy
Turkish dogs and religious veneration in Constantinople
Constantinople correspondence notes Turks revere dogs as sacred, yielding them street priority and social status. Interactions show foreign abuse met with calm tolerance, while Christians struggle with urges to react, as dogs endure as sanctified figures amid urban life and market scenes.
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Constantinople
San Francisco Chronicle
Doctor’s Yellow Fever Poker Hoax at New York Office
In a New York Morning Journal piece, Dr Bill Hawk hosts a poker night with Updegrait Palatka and Db. 0 Teliso. He claims yellow fever via a brigantine from South Africa, then uses a fake outbreak scare to steal cash from players, none of whom realize the trap until the doctor calmly cleans the scene and departs.
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New York Morning Journal
Bill Hawk
Updegrait
Palatka
Teliso
U.’s
Mr. Updegratt
Dr. Hawk
Mr. Telso
Messrs. Updegraft
Hawk
Updegvalt
Deserted sailors tally heroic voyage to Savannah
Seven sailors drifted aboard a vessel after deserting their adrift bark without food or water. They rescued a luckless London bark from a squall, steered toward Savannah, repaired their plight, and delivered the ship to Savannah agents, with the crew returning to duty under a new captain.
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London
Savannah
Nova Scotia
Wilson
Maie
Satlon
Captain Jones
South America
Hamlet Pageant Derailed by Comic Rehearsal Chaos
An Anti-Chicken Stealing Society event in Hoboken staged a chaotic Hamlet reading. Cast members including Brother Shinbones Smith and Brother Pawlings Brown improvise with improvised props and dialects. A troublesome exchange over parliamentary language ends the dress rehearsal without a real performance.
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Anti-Chicken Stealing Society of
Hoboken
Hamet
Hamlet
Shinboves Smith
Laertes
Wakeup Misery
Horatio
Salamander Higeius
Rosencrans and Guildenstern
Pawlings Brown
King
Squeezeout Peabody
Ghost
Theatre
iHokokus Miller
Castle of Elsinore
Letoreh
Ulal
Brother Pawlings
Fashionable reception sparks gossip over husbands
In a lively social scene a guest notes a man with a red moustache and strong nose, joking that he is the speaker’s husband. The offended wife recalls a prior insult about her own partner, wagers gloves that she would react, and hints the husband may be a governor candidate, revealing sharp social tensions.
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Arkansaw
Dust for Fun Fort street car spectacle
A woman chased a Fort street car waving a parasol and shouting Car. The conductor replied with a garbled remark as she insisted on following the car to the end of the route to amuse the passengers.
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Detroit Free Press
Fort Street
Nnsett
Fresh Fragrance and Poetic Fragments in a Puck Page
A lively miscellany from Puck features verses on spring fragrances and airy dell scenes, alongside quirky lines about pride in speaking one’s mind and a romantic scene of a bridge of flowers. Edward J. Harding signs a note, and a Gainsborough hat line closes the charm vanished tale.
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Puck
The Eternal Quilt of Comforts for a Bachelor
A whimsical poem and miscellany item list playful vignettes from varied sources. It includes a quixotic quilt imagined for a bachelor to stay warm when ill, a tale of a fibbing child, a romantic marriage arc, a frontier vigilante joke, a humorous ideal of the model beau, a pastry joke about axle grease pricing, and a long stop on endless scribbling by writers, all delivered in a midwestern newspaper collage voice.
Prize Fighters and War in Hawkeye Narrative
A speaker contrasts prize fighters with war, arguing fighters avoid battle unless heavy money backs them. The piece emphasizes realism of combat risk, noting a knocked-down fighter does not return to his corner, and claims prize bouts require strong financial backing to occur.
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Hawkeye
The Baby's Routine and Other Pieces
A varied collection including The Baby's Routine detailing a infant's day of growth and emotion. Tommys Composition and Erratic Enrique presenting playful verses with characterful dialogue. The Fair Coquette translating a Gautier scene into a dialogue of longing and unattainable lands as a critique of romantic idealism.
Easygoing Thief and a Wedding at the Altar
A San Francisco Exchange item notes a chaplain advising an elderly seeming thief that age slows with care, then shifts to a dramatic scene of a bride hopeful at a church ceremony. The People's Paper recounts a drayman taunting a tramp, who retorts about time and nature, ending with a humorous exchange.
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San Francisco
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