MISSOURI CONFEDERATES Reminiscences of the First Missouri Infantry
Joseph Boyce recalls the First Missouri Infantry's actions at Shiloh and Corinth, detailing night bivouacs, guarding captured guns, rescue of Louisiana Artillery pieces, bitter retreats, gunboat skirmishes, and the regiment’s role in Breckinridge's and Lovell's divisions. He praises Hardee and notes civilian aid in Memphis and battles along the Mississippi, Baton Rouge, and La Grange.
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First
Missouri Infantry
Joseph Boyce
Company D
Night of Snoring Pranks at Bardell House Odd Tale
In Arkansaw Traveller humor, Mr. John Steveall, a well known guest, shares a Bardell House room with a red whiskered man. Steveall complains of snoring while the other man teases him. After many quips, Steveall loud snoring ends with him striking his fellow guest with a bed slat.
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Arkansaw
Arkansas
John Steveall
Bardell House
Steveall
Mr. Steveall
Mr. Steveanl
Rascal
One-Sided Creeting Ends With Policeman Embrace
A Georgia man, described as full of hearty mischief, chats with a clothier dummy on Whitehall. He berates the figure claiming it is drunk and invites a confrontation. A policeman intervenes as he grabs the dummy in a chaotic scene.
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Atlanta Constitution
Nature
Chuck
Whitehall
Mysterious Dave Rudebaugh and the Brave Wife Mystery
Special correspondence describes Dave Rudebaugh famed frontier figure meeting his bold wife at a Texas depot, the couple aiding a jail escape from Port Davis. She dies in a staged escape after aiding him, leaving the woman identified only by a handkerchief marked Nita and a stone grave by Olympia canyon.
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Dave Rudebaugh
Dave
Ranger
Overland Stage
del Norte
Rio Grande
Rudebaugh
Nita
Lympia Canyon
Cantena
Presidio
Rangers
Carajol
A Japanese Barometer Stone In 19th Century Tale
A Zenlya Gohel merchant tied to Bakufu era unlicensed trade is noted for a barometer stone that changes color with weather. The pinkish white rock turns green before rain and dark before storms, a claimed meteorological anomaly. The Yomiuri Shimbun notes the stone passed to Mayeda in Joshin and may be presented to the Emperor after the imperial palace completion.
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Japan
Zenlya Gohel
Bakufu
Zeniya
Yomiuri Shimbun
House of
Mayeda
Joshin
Imperial Palace
A Father's Plain Talk
A Chicago News item recalls a boy who lost his hat at the Sinois Central viaduct lake edge. His distress drew two companions who urged escape from danger. A plainspoken exchange follows about honesty and lying to parents, ending with the young man's silent response.
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Chicago
Sinois Central
A Fresh Water Suit
A weathered tramp asks for food from a benefactor in Drake's Travellers' Magazine tale. He reveals the craft was a mud-gcaw on the Mississippi, admitting he had no sails and that he once sailed as a sailor. The scene ends with the tramp fleeing in embarrassment.
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Drake’s Travellers’ Magazine
Mississippi
Illusions of the stage reveal simple hidden tricks on realism
The New York Star notes stage illusions from spray effects and hidden rock salt to fake boiling tea, electric lightning, and a moon made by stereopticon. It recalls Mazeppa and mob hangings, railroad and sea scenes, fog, and wave extras as crowd-pleasing but crude tricks behind the curtain.
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New York Star
Aimee
Comedienne
Liverpool
Luna
Ftov
Mazeppa
Ukraine
O. P
Julie
Juliet
Wey
Seedsmen Tricked by Anonymous Letter in Albany
A seedsman in central New York received a female hand letter from Albany asking him to forward specific seed packages with money. He held the funds as no return address or sender name appeared. A follow up dated April 15, 1884, claimed the wife sent the order with payment but forgot to sign the name, and the husband had forgotten to sign his own.
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Georgia Battery
Mobile Light Artillery
John O'Neil
Hardee
Georgia
Louisiana
Missouri
Oak Hills
New Madrid
Memphis Light Dragoons
St. Louisan
Tom Sheridan
Corinth
Memphis
Southern Mothers’ Association
First Missouri
Willeh
Sam Tate
Memphis and
Charlestown Railroad
Missouriays
Halleck
Bowen
Camp Price
Vicksburg
Yazoo River
Edward Montgomery
St. Louis
Swell
Arkansas
Montgomery
Lincoln County
New Mexico
Chisholm
William Bonney
Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett
Old Fort Sumner
Dave
Texas
Jesse Evans
Kia
Evans
George Davis
John Gunter
Graham Boys
Pecos
Presidio
Tom Green
el Paso
Fort Davis
Presidio County
Sender & Siebenborn’s
Graham
Johnno
Ed Graham
Gunter
Mr. Sender
Albany
Sin
Bhusband
Curious Parisian Fragment on 1770 Royal Decree
A fragment unearthed in France references a 1770 parliamentary decree under King Louis XV. The text notes a decree describing use of red and white paint perfumes essences artificial teeth false hair and cotton wool, suggesting a historic focus on beauty preparations and social norms.
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France
Louis XV
Historic Witchcraft Law Cites Embellished Attire and Matrimony
The document lists penalties for women who tempt men with iron corsets hoops high heels or false hips to entrap them into marriage. It prescribes prosecution for witchcraft and declares such women incapable of matrimony.
Amazons of the gutter in Pall Mall Gazette tale
A first person chronicle describes a street brawl between two women outside a door. A bystander intervenes, lifts one fighter, and endures taunting crowds. A street attacker strikes the other woman, while a baby lies in filth. The narrator recounts later meeting a violent man seeking funds, who borrows fifteen shillings and falls back into drink and deceit.
Index Finger Length Tells Of Beauty, Scientist Claims
A New York Mail and Express interview cites a scientist arguing the index finger is shorter in apes and some groups and longer in others. He links finger length to beauty, noting artists often show a longer index finger and recounts a $50 wager proving his theory with two women of differing beauty.
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New York Mail and Express
Mail and Express
Rome
Mystery of the Telephone in a Rural Georgia Stop
A six foot Clayton county lad visits an Alabama street grocery seeking the State road depot. He questions the agent’s location and is directed to use the telephone. The merchant demonstrates the instrument, and the man concedes he was tricked, asking how the agent fits in the small box.
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Atlanta Constitution
Alabama
Clayton County
State Road
Lemaine
Feiler
Claytonite
Protection on Short Cake
An Ohio congressman notes the House restaurant is the costliest place, citing that a two inch thick strawberry short cake slice costs 25 cents and a whole cake would run about 231 dollars, calling it overly protected.
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Washington
Ohio
House
BRIC A BRAC AFTER HEINE AND OTHER VERSE FRAGMENTS
A miscellany of brief satirical verse items from The Spectator and Newton Journal. A Massachusetts preacher, neighbors, and a storekeeper figure in short, pithy sketches about human folly and crowd behavior. The tone is clipped humorous commentary on everyday life.
Miscellaneous 19th Century Clippings and Verses
A collage of fragmentary items from Providence Star New York Journal and Jersey City Journal notes. Topics include nature questions about birds, a silk farm in Powhatan Virginia, a poem about chocolate creams, and a commentary on walking clubs and American women’s walking stamina.
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Jersey City Journal
Powhatan County
Virginia
Vassar College
New York Journal
Boston
England and the Cry of Women in Desolate War
Emily Pfeiffer voices the sorrow of women mourning slain kin whose blood stains the desert as she condemns England for denying freedom to the oppressed. The poem asks whether the West and its iron disdain bear responsibility for injustice that haunts the sands and awakens prayers to God.
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Emily Pfeiffer
England
Bootblack, poems, and a boy's curious turning
A Providence Press item describes a beggar bootblack near the post office and gallery, then quotes poems about night and life. It tells of Mr Hankinson Boomwhifter receiving a carved penholder from his son, misinterpreted as a potato masher or piano leg, causing the father embarrassment.
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Providence Press
Comique
Gamin
Mr. Hankinson-Boomwhifter
Hankinson
Before and After. A dramatic domestic scene unfolds
A woman waits by a doorway as footsteps approach. She listens for a beloved arrives moment, but real sounds reveal a different tense rhythm. Her excitement shifts to alarm when the door erupts with a shout as she calls Augustus to wipe his boots.
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Augustus
Interchanging Compliments Between Attache and Lord Stratford
An attache erred in copying a despatch and faced Lord Stratford’s rebuke for alleged untruthfulness. The exchange escalated with sharp banter and a vivid insult before laughs and a cordial handshake to end the quarrel.
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Columbus
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Jackson, Miss
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la Grange
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Philadelphia Times
Pago del Norte
South-western Frontier
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State Rangers
Charles L. Nevill
Mooskie
Port Davis
County Presidio
Grahams
Arizona
Tombstone
Ale
Sonora
Mexico
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Tam
Lim
Gutter
London
Pall Mall Gazette
Sttephen
Heine
the Spectator
Massachusetts
Vassar
Newton Journal
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Bismarck
H. M. Olmstead
The
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Sidney Lauler
Wen
Heaven
Grunkard
Sykes
Lord Stratford
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