Battle of Nashville Ends Hood’s Long Struggle
Hood fights a desperate rear guard action around Nashville as Thomas’s Federals concentrate heavy artillery and execute a swift flank movement led by Steedman. Hood withdraws after heavy casualties, his Nashville campaign ending with Hood reassigned in January.
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Petersburg
Nashville
Brentwood
Thomas
Steedman
Rosecrans
Stone River
Steedman Lunc
Spr Dg
Murfreesboro
Forest
Brentwood Road
Mississippi
Confederacy
Cheatham
Schofield
Spring Hill
Franklin
The Dentist Peculiarities Of The Old Style And Modern Type
The piece contrasts old time dentists who pulled teeth with crude tools to modern practitioners with college diplomas, enchanted chairs, and advanced gear. It notes old methods caused severe pain and dramatic scenes, while modern methods emphasize fillings and less extraction, yet highlight the enduring cost and fear of dental work.
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Texas
Che
Wedl
Moore
Picturesque Life in a Western Montana Town
E V Smalley portrays Missoula scenes with roughs and Indians around saloons and the hill, soldiers from the post, a blue shirt miner and his mule, Chinamen at laundries, and a saddler who observes their patient, wary buying. The piece captures a bustling, rough-edged evening street life.
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E. V. Smalley
Montana
Missoula
Rememberisie G6
Easy marks for the con man how a street scam fooled Brunswick crowds
An Atlanta Constitution interview exposes a jewelry seller in Brunswick recounting scams that prey on Americans. He describes a fake gold and silver treasure show and a give away racket using rings diamonds and sleeve buttons to extract cash from a large crowd, ending with a staged handkerchief payoff and a Brunswicksmoked train departure.
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Atlanta Constitution
Brunswick
Troy
Ala
Weill
New York
San Francisco
S. T
BASE BALL SUPERSTITIONS IN PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS
A Chicago Herald account describes how players in Worcester Chicago games rely on signs and omens. Spalding avoids Harry Wrights seat and Chicago wins 5 to 1. Other beliefs include coins for choice, finger pulls, caps, Friday plays, and running cards.
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Chicago Herald
A. G. Spalding
Chicago
Ball Park
Worcesters
He Seages
Jack
Dalrymple
Chicago Nine
Spalding
Harry Wright
Cal
Irwin
Jack Rowe
Nowesers
Brouthers
Buffalo
Carruthers
Ducky Stone
Joe Starr
Kelly
Bancroft
Detroit Nine
Corcoran
Salvation Army Poster Demeanor Criticized in Liverpool Mercury
A Liverpool Mercury writer denounces a Scarborough Salvation Army placard titled Yankee Lass camping to Scarborough. It touts Yankee Lass as a versatile performer with Capen Candy and a host of Blood and Fire Soldiers marching through Scarborough. The bill promises knee drills, fire parades, and sermons with terms of peace, all under Red Handkerchiefs and White Aprons.
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Salvation Army
Liverpool Mercury
Scarborough
Morsday
Jesus
Cadman
Solicitude For The Future in Virginia City
Duck-water Jim, a battered Piuto claiming kin to Captain Sam, grows curious about Heaven the place of the long rest. He cooks his hat and squints toward the afterlife, saying a white man up there.
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Virginia City Enterprise
Jim
Piuto
Sam
Vale of Tears
Heaven
No more work for Jim and the pony watermelon plan
The dialogue shows Jim asking about future labor and leisure, contrasting white labor with grand harp playing while considering a playful plan to catch a pony water melon. Tojun responds with imagined harp ownership and limited music, highlighting a casual exchange about work and leisure.
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Jim
Words of praise for women from poets and thinkers
A compilation of quotes celebrating women from Confucius, Adams, Lessing, Lamartine, Whittier, Barret, Richter, Willis, Voltaire, Beecher, Schefer, Shakespeare, Michelet, Fuller Ossoli, Desnover, Lord Langdale, Malherbe, Bulwer Lytton, Saville, and Emerson. The passages extol motherhood, beauty, virtue, strength, and influence of women across history.
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Confucius
Herder
Worspite
Wyveren
John Quincy Adams
Lessing
Lamartine
Whittier
Eden
Barret
Michelet
Margaret Fuller
Ossoli
Louis Desnover
Lord Langaale
Malherbe
Bulwer-Lytton
Emerson
The Farmer's Life by Robert G. Ingersoll
The farmer enjoys a peaceful, nearly carefree life with hopeful old age and steady rest. Unlike professionals, his vigor remains, with time spent in harmony with nature. He nurtures crops and livestock, hearing rain on corn and trees he once planted rustling as he plans for future generations.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
A Chinese Printer
The Laramie City Boomerang notes a Chinese compositor cannot stay at a single case. He moves between cases, descends for lowercase, uses the elevator, and climbs to higher shelves to gather characters. The piece mocks necessity of physical labor while implying readers would struggle with the result.
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Laramie City
How Fare and Faro Dealers Discuss Gambling Trade
A Western gambler discusses the mechanics of gambling houses, the roles of producers, dealers, and cappers, and how banks protect against players. The talk covers card shuffles, manipulation in brace and square games, and the dangers of big losses, rival banks, and shoe-string players. It ends noting dealers’ wages and their habitual debt from playing salaries.
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Faro
The German Barber Dismisses Talkative Trade
A New York Sun report presents a German barber near the Cooper Institute who explains why barbers talk so little to customers yet much to themselves. He relays anecdotes of overheard barbershop chatter, a Paris hatched tale of a ruined pair, and a joke about a talkative customer being cut off by a chin motion.
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New York Sun
Cooper Institute
Paris
der Barber
Beautiful hairdresser captivates Newport society
A Boston hairdresser, praised for beauty and poise, headlines Newport social interest. Descriptions note her humble origins, refined manners, and a costly ivory white afternoon gown with lace trimmings, a rowed cape, lace parasol, and no color, epitomizing current Newport fashion.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Newport
Boston
Sam
Sarah
Hair Trade Among Swiss German and Norwegian Girls
Thousands of girls in Switzerland Germany and Norway devote themselves to hair cultivation like farmers to crops. Each year a merchant or old woman in villages conducts brisk trade. Swiss girls with blonde locks fetch higher prices. length dictates value from twenty five cents per ounce for eight inches to eight dollars per ounce for thirty six inches, sometimes up to thirty five dollars per ounce for exceptional beauty.
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Switzerland
Germany
Norway
Size and shape of a woman's mouth, a 19th century claim
A male commentator asserts guidance on loves and mouths, linking mouth size and form to mind, temperament, and behavior. Small mouths imply shallow sentiment, large mouths suggest brains, coarse mouths signal strong traits, delicate mouths imply sensitivity but less brilliancy. He warns against blue lips and rain–tipped women for dulling conversation.
October Poems and Autumn Scenes from Distant Pages
A collage of 秋季 verse and imagery describing October mood. It blends poems and prose about leaves turning golden, apples and harvest, Jack Frost, and Autumn’s artistic color in nature. Notable lines reference aging, death, and seasonal transition with nostalgic, lyrical tone.
Minor Postal Observations From Apasserby
A humorous vignette observes a woman mailing a letter, noting meticulous checks of the address, stamp, and seal before a final assertive push sends the item into the box, followed by a quick glance to confirm delivery.
Editor Narrows Gap Between Faith and Fame
A Dewapiper man visiting a rural farmhouse jokes about being an editor asking for a meal. The farmer, curious, learns the guest is a newspaper man and the exchange turns toward the editor's pride in his profession and the rough humor of country life.
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inter@st
Betrothal Woes Lead To Thanksgiving Marriage Plan
In a vignette from a Cincinnati paper, a couple jokes about their fifteen year betrothal as it nears maturity. She suggests letting it work, then they discuss their future wedding, noting relatives’ pressure. They decide to marry next Thanksgiving.
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Cincinnati
Man
Myet
Oyster Bird Musings Spoof From The Constitution
A fragment from the Atlanta Constitution presents a whimsical piece about the oyster as a jolly old bird. It imagines the creature pondering how many delicate dishes it could become when cooked well and enjoyed in various preparations.
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Atlanta Constitution
Favored for Once by Fortune in a Summer Night
A moonlit garden scene unfolds with Daphne McCarthy and Bertie Cecil in a lyrical, romantic moment under ancient oaks. A hushed fear threads through their dialogue as unseen danger looms, foreshadowing tragedy or mystery amid a stormy, atmospheric night.
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Fortune
Chicago Tribune
Daphne McCarthy
Bertie Cecil
Bertie
Daphne
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