Grant at Shiloh Wins After Buell Reinforcements Arrive
Detroit Free Press summarizes the Shiloh battle, praising Buell for bringing reinforcements and massing batteries to turn the tide. It argues Grant gave poor orders early, notes Beauregard’s stubborn defense, and details heavy losses on both sides as Confederate forces retreat toward Corinth.
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Detroit Free Press
Shiloh
Grant
Savannah Landing
Cherry
Badeau
Lew Wallace
Webster
Johnston
Jackson
Chalmers
Bragg
Beauuregard
Chalmer
Beauregard
Buell
Sherman
McClernard
McCoo
Wallace
Rosseau
Corinth
Prentiss
McClernand
Marsh
Mannered Musicians and Sour Notes in Opera Sightings
In a Mirago Weekly Magazine piece David Swing lampoons concert audiences, arguing that musicians blend sweet and sour moods. He notes box observers heckling performers, the shifting blame after a showing, and how critics deploy vivid phrases like foghorn and steam whistle to vent disdain.
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Cicero
David Swing
Mirago Weekly
James
St. James
Miss Jones
McCullough recalls Booth circle and Lincoln kidnap plot
In a rehearsal recount, Mr. McCullough describes meeting John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators, noting Booth warned him away from danger, borrowing money to aid a rebel friend, and showing a driven, Southern temper. He recalls Booth’s wardrobe, a wrecked voyage, and Booth’s intense mind revealing his political leanings.
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Shakespeare
Booth
John
Maryland
New York
Canada
Nassau
He Doesn't Like Dogs
A San Francisco Post piece laments dogs as feckless companions and compares canine affection to human loyalties, noting fault lines between masters and their dogs, and between men who worship dogs and women who tolerate canine rivalries. The essay argues dogs mirror and mock human behavior in society.
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San Francisco Post
Blackguard
A Sleeper Car Tale of Travel and Tobaccos
A humorous vignette from a New York Times pilgrim rider describes a sleeper car journey toward Buffalo. The Irish family farewells, a baby’s cries, and a flamboyant Englishman mingle with a loud tobacco pipe smoke cloud drifting over curtained berths. The episode ends with the conductor summoned as the smoke thickens and tensions rise.
Midnight Train Dining Car Farce At Unnamed Route
Passengers retreat to a railroad restaurant for supper as delays mount and the fellow travelers, including a misanthropic man and a pilgrim, order fried oysters and rubbery bits. A quarrel with the porter ends in a costly early departure while the English banker and French trader swap global tales and urban dangers.
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Sai’l of Posey
Under the Razor A comic roll call of barber shop types
The piece surveys barbershop patrons from the hurried client to the baldheaded man and the apoplectic sleeper, noting how each type disrupts and defies the routine. It mocks the fops and the careful, detailing the quirks, delays, and theatrics of the shaving ritual.
Boyish Fancies on Sea Dreams and Engineering Ambitions
The London Telegraph essay notes boys prefer sea life to law or clergy, with engines and farming seen as grimy. It highlights the sea as the enduring, noble boyhood dream, inspiring humor and pathos and lifting even harsh facts into romantic imagination.
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London Telegraph
Eight-Year-Old Gracie Aims to Be Mother to Her Children
A shoe and leather reporter recalls Gracie, age eight, answering a caller about her future. She says she plans to be a mother to her children, rejecting the idea of becoming a schoolma’am when grown. The note reflects a bygone fashion and social remark.
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Gracie
Sue
A Schooner Hermit Spawns a Comanche Prince Bride
An aged man living in a small dismasted schooner at Communipaw Jersey City recounts a remarkable life. Born in Rhode Island with uncertain date, he was indentured, escaped, explored the West, joined Comanche life, married a chief's daughter, served as medicine man, later sailed as a whaler, became a slave trader crewman, mined in Peru, and fought in a Peruvian revolution before aging into solitude. He requests his name not be published.
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Sam’l of
Posen
America
Bowery
Zouns
Bac
Charles Reade
Manitoba
Sam’s
Kamehameha
Sandwich Islands
Communipaw
Jersey City
Rhode Island
Dr. Holmes
St. Louis
Arizona
Roka River
San Francisco
Honolulu
Tami
England
New Bedford
Pacific Ocean
Diamond Head
Constantinople
Rio
Guinea
Aio
Pterodactyl Pin Ends Crank’s Society Quest
A scarf-pin crank in San Francisco shifts from wearing numerous secret society emblems to a plain, two-bit black ribbon. After collecting pins from the Ancient Order of Burglars to the Ancient and Respectable Fossils of the Pliocene, a jeweler crafts a fossil-themed pterodactyl pin, which proves impractical and earns mockery.
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San Francisco Post
Oregon
Arnica
Sons of Temperance
Temple of Honor
Knights of Pythias
Ancient
Order of American Mechanics
Crescents
Order of United Workingmen
Knights of Honor
Druids
Ord
Sonoma
Solenloten
Oolite
Lias
Jiars
Waa
Europe
United
Sates
Anecdotes from an Adventurer About Tribes and Nature
A narrator recalls visits to the Indians and Comanches describing tribal debasement and a proverb about watching stars, the spider, and the worm. He notes a quiet independent life making money from selling shells medicine and verses, guiding fishing parties and excursions in summer.
Thirteen at Table in Arthurian Legend and Modern Superstition
A historical note explains the superstition against thirteen at a table citing Merlin arranging thirteen seats at King Arthur’s round table to represent the apostles and Judas. It records the perilous thirteenth seat and how knights avoided sitting there, a belief still alive in the nineteenth century.
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Arthur
Britain
Merlin
Judas
The Position for Siesping
A Baron Reichenbach claims bed placement affects health and longevity. He urges sleeping with feet toward the equator, body aligned true to the bed, and notes that east west positioning is most unhealthy. He cites Dr Pisch Wester of Magdeburg who died at 109 as an example.
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Baron Reichenbach
Pischwester
Madgeburg
Handkerchief History From French Etiquette to Fashion
The piece traces the rise of the handkerchief in feminine attire from taboo on stage to Empress Josephine’s influence. It notes Mlle Duchenois’s breach of the rule calling a handkerchief a light tissue and Josephine’s lace bordered square kerchief used to hide teeth, shaping court fashion and etiquette.
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DeVigne
Josephine
May Flowers and Other Pieces in Peck's Sun Context
A collage of literary snippets and satire including a note on a woman becoming a bank president, verses about Liberty and paper collars, and whimsical observations on daily tasks and chance. The selection threads through social change, poetry, and light humor with referenced works and authors.
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Peck's Sun
Iowa
Cannada
Railway Exhibition Curiosities Suggested by Chicago
Pittsburg Telegraph notes a string of odd requests for a railway exhibition. Items include a drunken passenger with ticket ready, a well dressed traveler avoiding a window, a stubborn window, a brakeman easing a lady on and off without squeezing, a train that neither speeds nor stops too often, and a baggage master treating every trunk as if it were his own wife’s mother’s.
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Chambers Street
Great
Empire State
Buffalo
Hudson
Jersey City
Pittsburg
Chicago
The Wind in the Chimney Poem Fragment
A poem describes a night wind singing over a chimney as a mother laments a lost loved one and a child and villagers react to the storm. The speaker, a poet by the hearth, calls the wind God’s own harmony and sees the chimney wind as a unifying song.
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Anu
Attachable coat-tail novelty sparks fashion sense
New York tailor Boondy patents an attachable coat-tail for the clawhammer suit. The device lets a Seymour bob tail coat convert to a full dress look in moments, sold in boxes for seventy five cents. Reporters note its value for quick attendance at weddings or events after a fire. Boody operates a full-time factory supplying this convenience.
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San Francisco Post
New York
Boondy
Boody
Ode to the Common Soldier in War
A somber meditation on a unnamed common soldier's sacrifice. The poem contrasts public glory with private loss, noting how a frontline fighter gains few honors yet bears wounds, awaits aid, and ends forgotten while others celebrate leaders and victories. It laments pension neglect and the neglect of the soldier's blue and service.
Not the Right Things
Peck's Sun column mocks Queen Victoria for restricting access to her children with red tape. It humorously suggests how delays could affect a boy with a bruise or a girl seeking quick guidance on romance, arguing a mother should always be ready to see her children.
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Donalds Mas
Belinda
A Patti
Spenser
Pittsoury Dispatch
Caluly
Eil
Peck
Victoria
Department of the Interior
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Nelson
McCook
Crittenden
McQook
Ike
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Hell
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Tim
Illinois
Nagar
Nagur
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Gilsey House
Cros
Broadway
United States
Brazil
New York Times
Shylock
Peru
Genteo-Banco
Twente
Sydney Smith
B. Aldrich
sEmile Angier
Solomon Gray
Mr. Gray
Harper's
Fiyewitt
Song of
Bret Harte
the Common Soldier
Anon
Jones
Hue
Burt
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