Saving the Guns Dramatic Cavalry Charge of the Civil War
Captain Charles King recounts a pivotal Civil War cavalry action at Fairfax Court House and Gaines Mill as Union regiments, led by Capt Whiting and Lt Tompkins, charged through a Texan assault. The narrative details the 5th Regulars, the 7th, and Hood’s Texans, highlighting Stand and fight moments, the costly but decisive charge that halted Confederate momentum and saved critical artillery. The text blends battlefield movement with portraits of leaders like Cooke and Whiting, noting casualties including Chambliss and Swett, and underscores the resilience of Union horsemen amid the Richmond campaign.
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6Th Pennsylvania
65Th
Longstreet
Cooke
Sth Cavalry
Whiting
Thomas
Texas
Washington
White House
Treasury Building
Long Bridge
Charles H. Tompkins
Fairfax Court House
Philip St. George Cooke
McClellan
Pamunkey
James
Fitz John Porter
Chickahominy
Stonewall Jackson
Shenandoah
A. P. Hill
Porter
Mechanicsville
Gaines’ Mill
Jackson
Hill
Beaver Dam Creek
Richmond
Powhite Creek
Sid Cold Harbor
New Cold Harbor
Old Cold Harbor
Anton
Duane Sey Cs
McCall
Hill Street
En Longstreet
En Jackson
Maj
Eeonsy
Slocum
Cook 6
Beedee
Parse
Morell
Maley
McArthur
Chambliss
Arnold
Sweet
Harrison
Scatheless
Hood
Swett
Watkins
Structure of the U S Cabinet and Departments
A historical overview explains the U S cabinet as representative of popular will, detailing the eight executive departments, their origins, duties, and staffing. It notes the president’s central role, cabinet salaries, meeting practices, and the cabinet’s nonpublic deliberations under constitutional limits.
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United States
Congress
Senate
England
Navy
Treasury
Justice
Post Office
Interior
Agriculture
Treasury Department
Jackson
Secretary of the Treasury
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Theublic Service
Mint
Bureau of Statistics
Lghthouse Board
Mercantile Marine
Internal Revenue
Revenue Marine
Washington
Union
Army
Naval Establishment
Secretary of the Interior
District of Columbia
War Department
Department of Justice
Supreme Court
Court of Claims
Department of the Interior
Post Office Department
Solicitor of the Treasury
The
Department of Labor
White House
Bione
McClare
The Cabinet System Across Monarchies and Democracies
Excerpt discusses how governments exercise sovereignty through a chief executive and ministry or cabinet. It explains differences between monarchy aristocracy and democracy, noting ministers from Lords and Commons in Britain and the practice of promul gation via the privy council.
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John J. Ingalls
Europe
United States
Great Britain
England
Privy Council
Lords and Commons
House of Commons
Adventure of a Young Artist in the South Pacific
Walter Durand, a passenger, sketches islanders and heads to build a royal pavilion from ship sails on a tropical shore. He paints interior and exterior tent decorations in bold black vermilion with a seven foot long legend, gaining village approval but seeking a way to signal for escape from the isolated island.
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South Pacific
Viking
Walter Durand
Walter
Lost in Paradise: Walter's Escape from Captain Barnard
Walter, aboard a wrecked ship, befriends a tattooed Pacific king as natives attack. The king saves Walter during a massacre, and Walter crafts a daring escape using paint supplies and recovered ship gear. A man-of-war boat arrives, enabling Walter to flee while the king dies of wounds.
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Barnard
Walter
Hetter Skelter
Pacific
Pot
Singing Shad Seen in Delaware Bay This Spring
The singing shad, rare in these waters, has appeared in lower Delaware bay this spring. Fishermen report schools of about 500 fish arriving with soft musical notes, a phenomenon from the south and rarely heard north of this region.
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Baltimore American
Delaware Bay
Arnold
South Jersey
Bolivia
Chili
Japan
Delaware
New York
Hudson River
Wanamaker’s Brick Collection Lesson Backfires
An English paper notes John Wanamaker, U.S. postmaster, promoted brick collection for a Sunday school project. Thousands of bricks were donated by children, but a subsequent Sunday saw 30 youths arrested for stealing bricks. Brick procurement as philanthropy met disapproval from brick yard owners.
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John Wanamaker
United States
J. Wanamaker
Origin of the Word Cocktail from Mexican pulque tale
The piece recounts a legend that cocktail name derives from Mexico. It claims Aztec pulque named octail, Scott’s troops brought the term to the United States, and a nobleman’s daughter Miss Cocktail supposedly sparked romance with a king who married her and started a pulque plantation.
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Carpenter
New York World
Mexico
Scott
United States
Miss Cocktail
Unclear excerpt on alcohol and wines
The fragment describes bathing a neck in a substance, testing its alcohol content with a wineglass on a marble washstand, causing a brief explosion and blaze for ten minutes. It then mentions two million dollars of this brandy valued in Mexico yearly and comments on Mexican wines and claret prices at a dollar.
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Mexico
Queer Theories On Earth's Origin From Past Thinkers
A survey of historical statements about how the world formed and developed into a habitable globe. Thales, Van Helmont, Buffon, Patrin, Boheme and Maillet offered visions from water to living planet, to submerged fish becoming humans, each presenting a curious, speculative origin tale.
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Thales
van Helmont
Lebvitz
Buffon
Patrin
Hugh Levi
Boheme
Hegel
Benjamin de Maillet
Chinese Credit for Early Mariner Compass Discovery
The North China Herald notes Chinese primacy in discovering magnetized needle polarity and its sea use. It cites 13th century Arab sailing, early Chinese geomancy methods, and the city of T'szchou as a magnet origin, with 1122 ambassador accounts marking earliest floating needle use at sea.
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North China Herald
China
T’szchou
Chihli
City of Mercy
Thas City
B.C
Corea
Your Fall Suit Fashion Notes From The Sun
The Sun urges fall attire with serge suits and a double breasted English coat. It notes skirts will edge toward shorter street gowns as fashion shifts, while Paris rumors hint at a curtailed long gown and modest ankles, with a fitted sheath skirt featuring a heavy silk cord.
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Paris
Finely Buttoned Coat With Tattersall Waistcoat Fashion
A refined coat finishes with rare buttons in silver porcelain or coinlike styles. The gown centers on a smart Tattersall waistcoat possible in pique silk suede or buckskin. If the gown is corded black choose buff waistcoating with gold batons.
Autumn fashion notes on waistcoats and travel wear
The writer endorses a sharp ensemble featuring a white buttoned waistcoat with a high collar and ornate details. A Lincoln green checked suit with bronze yellows, scarlet double breasted waistcoat, gold coin buttons, and black satin tie are suggested, creating a jaunty autumn traveler look.
Growing Up on the Farm in Early Days
The narrator recalls a childhood in which daily farm duties defined life. Tasks included feeding Pigs and cattle, driving cows to pasture, tending horses, plowing ten acres, and breaking through winter frost. The memory shifts to how farm life seemed hard then yet now seems surprisingly appealing after thirty years.
Siberian Bears Learn to Avoid Luxuries in Ingenious Trap
A Siberian bear falls for a clever lasso and block trap using a log and hidden noose. The bear noses a raspberry lure, the cord tightens as it moves, choking him until he fights the log, then seeks a cliff or jetty to throw the log to his death or capture.
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Brain
Waries
Wang
History of the Umbrella in Antiquity and Modernity
The piece notes umbrellas likely began as sun shades with palm fronds and fans, citing ancient use and the word meaning a little shadow. It contrasts past forms with the modern steel ribbed, silk covered umbrella and praises portable designs, mentioning the Corean oiled paper model as a potential innovation.
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Japan
Horace
Lis
Jonas Hanway
Graf
Notable Tips And Travels In Early 20th Century London
A London tip lasting £1200 is connected to a Leicester Square waiter who later runs a thriving South of England pub. Julius M Price, a single white man, recounts a Siberian journey with an English commercial expedition, reaching Yeniseisk and crossing Asia by sled with guides. The Dowager Countess of Galway, famed for Venice anecdotes, dies at 75 in London. The widow of James G Fair recalls her happiest years after marriage in San Francisco.
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Leicester Sq
London
England
Col. North
Asia
Arctic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Julius M. Price
Illustrated London News
Grand Pacific Hotel
Siberia
Yenisei
Yeniseisk
Kara Sea
Lora Houghton
Countess of
Galway
Venice
Matthews
Doges
Lady Galway
Lord Beaconsfield
Mr. Gladstone
Carlyle
Browning
Thackeray
James G. Fair
San Francisco
Fair
Subscribe Offer for The Weekly Globe and Partner Magazines
Public notice offers readers a subsidized subscription mix to The Weekly Globe with reduced annual rates. Lists many magazines and journals with colorfully quoted prices, stating postage paid by The Globe and a minimum one year commitment. Readers are urged to write for combinations and begin timing, with address in Boston.
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The
Globe
CLOBE
Boston
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