Island No Ten and the Foote Poote Siege at Island No 10
A Detroit Free Press retelling of the 1862 Mississippi campaign focusing on Foote's mortars and fortifications at Island No 10, the failed scow barrier, Pope's swamp channel flanking plan, brutal river conditions, massive labor to clear timber, snakes and fever, and Confederate thwarting attempts. It notes engineers living in dugouts, the ten mile swamp cut, and the failed incentive of joint operations to pass gunboats.
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Detroit Free Press
Iun
South
Mississippi
Tennessee
Cumberland
Menry
Donaldson
Foote
Fred
Islands No. 10
Aoise
Netse
Mien
Pope
Alt Voote
Woote
Poote
Alin
Feoie
Banks
Butler
Grant
Island No. 10
Roote
Vope
Foore
Chanael
The Poetry of Railroads in an Earthquake-Whirlwind Ride
The piece argues railways fuse romance with hard practicality. It contrasts ancient yearnings for rapid motion with modern iron horses and flying palaces, praising speed as poetry in motion while noting dangers and exotic imagery.
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Diodalus
Crete
Convent Life Reflections On Ursuline Vows In Thackeray
Thackeray’s Irish Sketch Book describes the Ursuline convent at Blackrock near Cork. The narrator condemns the vow ceremony as brutal and calls for reform, contrasting it with Protestant freedom represented by Monkstown Church and the sea. He condemns nun vows as akin to suttee and laments oppression of women’s affections.
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Thackeray
Blackrock
Cork
Martin Luther
Monkstown Church
India
United Kingdom
Iuys
Little girl notes absence of her travelling father
A Cincinnati family scene shows a bright daughter playing with kittens. She begs the kittens to meet her mother and asks where her papa is, guessing he must be a traveling man, prompting amused laughter from the onlookers.
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Cincinnati
Private Rankanfile and the Grateful State
A Burdette essay sketches Private Rankanfile as a lone veteran whose wartime gallantry is honored in peace by generous pensions and political nostalgia. The piece laments neglect, celebrates reunions, and ridicules politicians who overlook or exploit returning soldiers while forecasting a day when the private soldier will be valued again in public life.
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Antietam
de Resparaid
Congress
Napoleon
Waterloo
Tonna
Washington
Legion
Legion County
May Day in the Orchard A Maying
Edith M. Thomas reflects on a May day in the orchard as blossoms, birds, and nectar scent fill the scene. The piece evokes old English May rites, the return of spring, and the vibrant life of apple trees, peach blossoms, and wary birds, urging a move to a later May celebration.
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Azure
Old England
Edith M. Thomas
Chicago Weekly
Cress
Elaytonia
Orelard
Herrick
Dodona
Lis
Alout
Carolina
Perplexing sex ratio puzzle and early mortality note
The article cites New York birth data showing 14 068 males and 18 255 females last year. It notes a startling gender imbalance with many women unable to find husbands, hinting at bigamy. It discusses mortality differences, asserting 4 percent more boys die before age six and hints at an English medical journal explanation.
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New York
Always Worth the Swim Army Reunion
A tribute to women of the Army of the Potomac, praising their steadfast sacrifice and support during war. The speaker lauds their constancy, patriotism, and organizational genius, noting how their prayers and care sustained soldiers and how their love and pride accompanied victory. God bless their steadfast hearts.
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Army of the Potomac
Tam
Sie
Lin
The Neckwear Taste Across Ages in History
A Chicago Herald reporter explores neckties in fashion history from ancient ribbons to Brummell’s era, detailing designers, materials, and the leap from a heavy stock to modern scarfs. It notes age shaping taste, the craft of neckwear design, and how color and form reflect social change.
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Chicago Herald
Young Men's Christian Association
America
Insurance Carpenter in Court Joke Revels in Frauds
In a San Francisco Police Court proceeding a witness calling himself an insurance carpenter explains his role. He estimates repairs for fires and is paid a percentage of the saved cost, implying duplicity. The judge and audience share a wry, concluding humor about the gag.
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San Francisco Post
Sean
When Apple Trees Go A Courting May Message From Heaven
In May apple trees go a courting says Beecher. Love inspires poetry and a blossom laden tree is a message from heaven to earth of purity and hope. The note combines nature, art, and moral sentiment reflecting a lyric voice.
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Beecher
The Apple Blossom Month Declared In Poetry
A playful proclamation declares May to be renamed the month of the apple blossom. The speaker notes the high noon on the 18th day of May and extols the crown of the apple tree as the flower month of the year.
The Science of Smoking Insight from a Tobacco Emporium
A tobacco shop proprietor explains how cigar choices reveal patron temperaments and habits. He describes profiles from easygoing to nervous and overbearing smokers, then gives tips on holding and lighting cigars and notes a Sunday surplus in cigar consumption followed by common complaints.
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Atman
Havana
Orr
How Fashion Repeats Itself The Race of the Rich to Escape Poverty
The essay compares modern dandy fashion to 19th century styles, noting Tight pantaloons short coats broad brim hats and high collars once mocked by elders. It argues fashion cycles as the race of the rich to keep away from the poor and cites New York sidewalk hardships and evolving dress codes.
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Berlin
Germany
New York
Irving Place
Hisory
Colonel Newcome
Washington wrecks and political wreckage in public life
Ikbowa, a Harvard graduate and former senator, is described as a cautionary tale of decline after power. The essay recalls ex-senators, ex-cabinet officers, and generals now impoverished in Washington, highlighting how politics can cast ashore wrecks who struggle with hunger and disgrace.
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Ramsdell
Washington
Philadelphia Press
Station House
Kentucky
California
Fremont
Congress
The Violet is Here and Other Fragments
A patchwork of verse and prose snippets from the Cincinnati Drummer and Cedar Rapids People. Poems and humorous vignettes unfold amid lines about flowers, courtship, barefoot boy memories, manners, and a Cyclops train scene, ending with a wry note on mortgages and domestic life.
Terra-Cotta Portraits and Sunlit Verses
A lyrical fragment contrasts Longfellow inspired celestial imagery with a Terra-Cotta girl theme. It celebrates wind, sky, and seas, then shifts to a vivid porcelain fashion critique, praising color while condemning a pale face as a single discordant flaw in an otherwise warm, sunlit pattern.
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Shiv
Pat
Flirtation and a Wild Ox in the Saloon
A collection of light sketches and anecdotes from Harper’s Weekly and the Denver and New York papers. It contrasts flirtation as a delicate art with cautionary notes about its harms to young women, and recounts a comic misadventure in a saloon involving an ox and a trapdoor, plus a dramatic hotel scene at Inter Ocean Hotel with a newborn girl’s arrival and a pompous plan for her upbringing.
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Harper's Weekly
New York World
Tlien
Denver Tribune
Inter- Ocean Hotel
Charles H. Smith
Mr. Smith
Altogethus
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Island
Father of
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Dlved
Private Rankanfile
Rankanfile
Robert J. Burdette
Rankantile
de Kesparaid
Echelon
Kampstuhl
Tompion
Canada
Greensash
Pension Bureau
Hide & Tallow’'s
Old Tallow
Army
United States
Stummer
Charles Dudley Warner
Army Reunion
Beau Brummel
London
Bean Brummel
Brumuel
Nau
Brumimel
Dude
Dandy
A.D. T. Whit
Gou
Veilchen
Barefoot Boy
Ij. Whitcomb Riley
Susan
Cedar Rapids
Lady B
Mamma
Harles H. Crandell
Henry W. Longfellow
Yonder
Brest
Willie
Bill
Baby
Jess
Shan
Sarah
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