Secret Service Officers Hide Three Days for Rebel Mail Run
Two Union secret service officers hid for three days in a garret to escape Norfolk pursuit. They stole Confederate uniforms and, aided by a Philadelphia mechanic, fled by boat to the James River and thence to Norfolk, delivering captured letters intended for Confederate and Northern recipients. They obtained details on the Merrimac versus Monitor and carried important mail to Confederate contacts.
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Newport
Norfolk
James
Uncle Sam
Beaufort
Jamestown
John R. Tucker
Hampton Roads
Baltimore
New York
Washington
Navy Yard
Franklin Buchanan
Merrimac
Catesby A. R. Jones
United States
Fortress Monroe
Secret Service
de Sam
Hampton
J. Bankheadder
Union
Fortsmouth
Con. Greneral
Portsmouth
Gosport Borg Yard
Hibernian
Areb
Philadel
Nansemond
Navy
7 Bank
Aker City
Ansemond
Benjamin
Fifty-third Virgnia
Boreas
James River
Gosport Navy Yard
Monitor
Fox
North
Albent DE Leur
Eccentric Clergy Humour In Classic Sermon Lore
A survey of how ministers from 17th to 19th century Britain turned sermons into playful verbal feats. Anecdotes recount misquotations, punning titles, extempore deliveries, and humorous responses involving figures like Whitfield, Sir Humphrey Lind, and Garrick, illustrating the era’s literary pulpit wit.
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Chicago
London
John Fry
St. Paul's
Humphey Lind
Humphrey Lind
Frederick Sauniers
Whitfield
Saunders
Shrewsbury
John Angell James
John
James
Wiliamson
Hardy
Adams
Low
Adam
Mountain
Charles II
Braden
Etham
Kent
Neigaboring
Sam
Seventeenth Regiment of Foot
Scitch Dominie
Jenmie Geddes
Creaton
Terrence
Dodd
Cambridge
Bishop Whitehouse
Garrick
Rou
Sarcasticus and the Goats at the Opera
A comic exchange unfolds as Sarcasticus and his wife prepare for the opera. She dispatches him to retrieve goats from the dressing table and returns wearing gloves to reveal the point of contention. The scene plays on misunderstanding and marital banter with a playful, period voice.
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Sarcasticus
Uses of the Ring A History of Wedding Tokens
The article surveys the ring as a historic and cultural token. It traces its convenience, religious and social meanings, and varied materials and fashions across cultures, noting how rings symbolize marriage, status, and superstition from Egypt and Greece to modern Europe.
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D. R. McAnally
Popular Science Monthly
Tubal Cain
Germany
France
British Museum
Europe
England
Jerusalem
Madrid
April
May
Jane
Women and petty jealousy in Cassell’s Family Magazine
In Professor Blackie’s Cassell piece, women’s narrow social sphere fosters vanity and petty envy. It argues women overinterpret trifles, gossip to form lies, and are driven by idle leisure, while noting occupation as a defense against such faults and urging cooler judgment.
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Professor Blackie
Cassell
St. Paul
Tim. v
SOX
Something Pleasant
A husband asks for a pleasant word before leaving for work. His wife forgives the quarrel and apologizes. She recalls daily concerns including the baby's shoes coal potatoes and money for the gas man while urging him to leave funds.
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New York Sun
John
Blushing Exchange Between Lovers Sparks Scene
A Buffalo Courier piece describes a flirtatious encounter where a woman scolds a drunken lover for approaching her. He admits intoxication at their midnight meeting, she kisses him and pleads for restraint.
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Buffalo Courier
A Strong Resemblance
A dialogue in New York Sun exchanges impressions of Irving and Dixey amid remarks on Miss Breezy liking him, noting the witness’s reaction to Faust and the performer’s likeness to Dixey.
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New York Sun
Faust
Irving
Breezy
Dixey
Mickey Finns White Cat Returns After Night Search
A New York San story follows Mickey Finn who loses his pure white cat with pink eyes and a blue ribbon. He secretly travels the Old Point road to find the buyer, begging help from a church area girl’s family, and returns with the cat after offering his saved 40 cents plus future payment to reclaim her. The tale ends with the motherly relief and Mickey’s joyful reunion at dawn.
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New York San
Mickey Finn
Mickey
Avic
Avi
Littlle
Declan
Hanratty Street
Garfield
Mrs. Finn
Mike
Old Point Road
Mckey
Little Mike
Alice
Old Point
Anderson's Pearl New York Letter in Savannah News
A Savannah News New York Letter notes a speaker praising Mary Anderson's pearl and remarking that possessing it would grant all desires. The woman's gleeful expression charms two or more companions as she speaks of the gem.
The Pearl and the Mascot Mystery on Stage
A fragmentary description tells of a prized pearl worn by a performer. The jewel is described as rare, beautiful, and central to the actress, who uses it to steady her nerves before appearing at the footlights.
Pamelia Abroad Keeps Stebbins Awake In New Rooms
Mr Stebbins endures a restless Philadelphia hotel night as his wife Pamelia stays busy with hair brushing, packing, and odd tasks. He recalls their 10 year marriage and fears travel will end, wondering how he can endure a six month tour with her in a new room each night.
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Mr. Stebbins
New York Sun
Stebbins
Philadelphia
Amelia
Pamelia
Arglars
M. Palesp
Giddy New York Girl Encounters Highwayman on Stage Coach
A bold stage coach journey turns comic when a New York girl greets a pistol-wielding highwayman with curiosity and affection. She charms him as he hesitates, then the robbers flee after an awkward, interrupted hold up.
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Merchant Traveler
New York
Kel
Despatch Favors Quick Chicago Telegram
A Western Union operator asks a hurried message to Chicago about Emma's sick baby and Charlie away. The woman searches for his address in a Chicago directory and questions the operator on directions and nearby trains, finding the process oddly opaque.
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Paul Globe
Western Union
Chicago
Emma
Charlie
Ne 9
Sympathy in San Francisco Street Corner
At Clay and Kearny a man shows off to a lady when two strangers pass. One slips on the sidewalk while she steps back in shock. She redeems the moment with a sharp remark about the situation, leaving the crowd amused and unsettled.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Clay and Kearny Streets
Her Undying Smile and the Ballet Dancer’s Eternal Grin
A Chicago Mail essay extols a prominent danseuse describing her archeological smile. The piece argues the smile remains constant across sixty performances, a testament to a dancer’s discipline and the belief that only death could quench it.
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Chicago Mail
Company Escapes Suit for Damage in York Age
A fleeting York Age item notes a company avoiding a damage lawsuit after a minor incident. An elderly woman aboard a streetcar quips about cheerful travel, declaring she carries four dozen eggs in her basket as a precaution against a collision.
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York
Jumbles of jokes and quips from various papers
A collage of brief humorous items from multiple papers includes a Grandpa question about burying the last man, a child’s apple stealing, prayers and puns, a Miss Spinster joke, a Sunday school moment about Mrs. Cleveland, a three year old wanting pie, and assorted light vignettes on faith, manners, and superstition.
Unlucky Advice Intertwined With Rent Note
A fragment advises against leaving a house on Saturday and warns about paying rent, listing superstitions about beginning work on a Friday and mentioning the Jand Jara as part of the caution.
Care and Love and Time in Verse and Song
A collage of poems and lines from Ruth Moore, Frank Dempster Sherman, John Ernest McCann, CW F Johnson, and Gertrude Alger. The verses explore care and love, time’s passage, wonder, and Bohemian riches as opposed to royal wealth, presented in a newspaper-poem style.
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Frank Dempster Sherman
Cosmopolitan
Waiting at the rain soaked junction for six long hours
A lyrical fragment tells of a narrator waiting at a wayside junction in the rain, counting rough planks and doomed time while memory and passion shift through a sequence of loves and imagined faces across twenty-one to twenty-four.
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Ano
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