Custer’s Gettysburg Charge Tales From Kilpatrick’s Raid
Detroit Free Press recalls Custer leading a daring charge at Gettysburg left of Cashtown road. Kilpatrick pursued Lee’s ammunition train amid tangled walls and cross fire, Farnsworth and Alger heavy with casualties, while First Michigan and Seventh Michigan seek to break Confederate lines. The piece highlights Custer’s fearlessness and the high toll on Union troopers.
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Detroit
Custer
Sixth Michigan
Seventh
Michigan Cavalry
Eicers
Company A
Hunterstown
Young Churchill
First
Michigan
Gettysburg
Kilpatrick
Lee
Vermont
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Farnsworth
S Artny
Kil‘ick
Custer Wis
York
Oxford
Custex
Alger
Fifth Michigan
Mann
Main
Suchieu
Sues Killen
Maenee
Omens For Actors And Their Superstitions Of The Stage
A humorous survey of acting superstition notes how actors dress their routines to avoid bad luck. It cites signs like cross eyed citizens, red headed entrants, humpbacked figures, and broken mirrors, plus remedies such as salt over the shoulder and multiple twists under tables. It mentions Edwin Booth and others, the mascot theory, and a dramatic tour plagued by unlucky omens and circus misfortunes.
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Aoe
Edwin Booth
Join McCullough
Signor Brignoll
Lawrence Barrett
Carrie
Regiment Flank Battery Loss and Colonel Gray Noted
Fragment from a historical report noting that the sixth regiment supported the flanks and the battery, suffering severe losses. Colonel Gray received special mention in official reports for his actions during the engagement.
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Amber
Macing
Dhirge
Gray
Vacationing Mr and Mrs Bingham in the Country
Dialogic scene presents Mrs Bingham praising nature and poetry in bugs while Mr Bingham laments rheumatic air and the costs of rural scenery. The couple caricatures a country outing with digs at landlords, prices, and a craving for comfort amid a vivid, humorous landscape.
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Mrs. Bingham
Wari
Brooks
Matilda Bingham
Tam
Curious Night Lockup Ceremony at the Tower of London
The American Register details an ancient Tower of London rite in which keys are escorted from the guardhouse to the Spur gate before the 11 o clock hour. Guards challenge, the keys are handed to Queen Victoria, and the guardroom seals the fortress. Visitors stranded inside may sleep on benches.
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Tower of London
Tower of Nights
Sncre
Queen Victoria
Texan Courtesy in a Chair Throwing Office
An Austin business man questions a book agent about courtesy after a violent reception in a neighbor tradesman’s office. The agent allegedly hurled a chair, struck the interviewer on the nose with a tin cuspidor, and toppled items including a paper weight and door knob, while firing furniture from a “galling gun.” The scene suggests the agent was unusually aggressive and possibly prepared for more action.
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Texas
Austin
The Envious Man's Revenge Dinner Spoof
Abraham and Joshua attend a dinner where Joshua slips a silver spoon into his boot. Envious Abraham boasts he will show a trick and hides a spoon up his sleeve claiming it is found in Joshua's hood, prompting laughter.
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Abraham
Joshua
Curious Penalties for Being an Old Bachelor and Marriage Customs
A wide survey of marriage practices across cultures notes penalties for bachelorhood in early American towns, then traces ceremonies and dates across Europe and Asia. It covers dowries, lustral rites, and the custom of marrying on horseback among Kalmucks, plus regional superstitions about lucky wedding days and the role of the moon. The piece also compares ancient and modern norms, including Scots traditions, Barbury taboos, and ancient auctions. It closes with military badge symbolism and a Civil War brigade nickname.
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Scotland
Wales
England
Lapland
Your Corps Badge
The article explains Union Army corps badges used to identify units. Each corps had a unique badge shape such as the clover, diamond, Maltese cross, Roman cross, shield, crescent, and star. Divisions were distinguished by colors red white and blue.
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Army of the
St. Nicholas
Rothenburg Germany Seventy Miles From Nuremberg And Timeless In Tone
A Chicago Advance correspondent extols Rothenburg as a quaint medieval city that seems untouched by modern progress. The writer contrasts it with Nuremberg, noting Rothenburg’s lantern-lit streets, turreted gates, and water moat, with no modern sidewalks or streetcars. The town, about 6,500 inhabitants, preserves antiquity as gentle locals greet visitors, despite some strong odors in the by-streets and a historic torture chamber.
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Rothenburg
Europe
Chicago Advance
Germany
Leipsic
Nuremberg
Nurenburg
Nuremburg
New London
Conn
Medford
Mass
Holland
America
Obliging Behavior of the Seasons in Autumn Imagery
A reflective essay personifies the seasons as courtly figures trading influences and disguises. October bears apples while December spreads June like a canopy. April naps beneath an Indian summer cobweb. The text notes autumn’s covert diplomacy amid summer’s waning power and the shared chromatic contrast of seasonal symbols.
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Edith M. Thomas
Manhattan
Merry
How a Breby Wakes
A vivid early morning baby awakening scene unfolds from nap to first movements and expressions. Descriptions follow the pink trembling hand, rosy cheeks, damp golden hair, and the shy, waking gaze as the child rises briefly before settling again into dreams.
The Adornment of Children Opines Blessing of Youth
The Providence Journal extols children as a public benefit and a source of beauty and recollection. It praises their bloom and attire, noting they bring grace, contentment, and relief from life’s pains, while contrasting with uncharitableness and worldly anxiety.
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Providence Journal
Solomon
Talk About My War Record Sparks Confederate Flag Tale
An Arkansas orator at a public meeting invokes his war record as part of the state history. A bystander recalls carrying the last Confederate flag through the town, remarking his speed made it hard to tell if it bore a Union jack or a small pox warning.
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Arkansas
Tonio
San Francisco
Nebraska
Ulster
Floating Gardens of Kashmir Show Surprising Industry
The Kashmiri floating gardens reveal remarkable human energy as weed and aquatic plant mats form soil on nine miles of water. Divisions are leveled and banked with mud for sowing melons and cucumbers, yielding high quantities. prices range from ten to twenty for two cents in good weather and two cents in frost.
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Kashmir
Asia
Free Rovers and Tramp Life in a Brooklyn Interview
A Brooklyn reporter questions a tramp about literature, harvest work, elections, and the social world of roamers. The discussion covers crude writing on bridges, the harvest economy, women among tramps, numbers of roamers, and a series of humorous field anecdotes.
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Brooklyn
Indiana
No More Arctic Nonsense in New York Star
Fragmentary item notes Simon Cameron on the North Pole and questions how to extricate Lieutenant. context unclear and no further details available.
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Arctic
New York Star
Simon Cameron
North Pole
Warning Against Arctic Expeditions
The writer urges restraint on polar expeditions, insisting on prioritizing prisoner safety, condemns futile ventures, and argues that one acre of marginal land between the St Croix and the Rio Grand would aid science more than dangerous Arctic ventures. The tone mocks extreme plans and calls for sane use of resources.
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Greeley
North Pole
St. Croix
Rio Grand
Under the Bed A Georgia Woman Finds Two Men
A sensational anecdote from a Georgia household claims a woman looked under her bed after dressing for bed and found two men. The account suggests a moral about men’s timidity and women’s strategies, ending with a warning that the man and his companion vanished and police were called.
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Georgia
Case
Georga
Heavenly Blue Reflected in Art and Nature Across Ages
The article celebrates blue as a pure color beloved by women and painters, noting its rarity in nature aside from the sky. It traces blue through ancient Rome and Britain, Fra Angelico, and cultural meanings from beauty to purity, contrasting blue imagery with red and purple, and ends by linking blue to heavenly associations and calm virtue.
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Angelica
Ordor
Unts
Blue
Baganlence
Marguerite
A Point He Had Overlooked
Mr Zerbe recalls an eccentric inventor from Wisconsin with an automatic mattress and corn cob bed companion. The device sinks the occupant and closes sides for retirement, proving its charm yet raising questions about two people sharing one bed.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Zerbe
Wisconsin
Badger
Mr. Zerbe
Tartarian Duel Rules Among Crimean Tartars
Observers recount a brutal Crimea duel where two Tartars meet eight paces apart. They rush at each other with no hands or feet involved, head forward, until one collapses exhausted. A final attacker draws a knife and slashes the throat in a fatal, ferocious clash.
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Crimea
A Pretty Drinking Custom in Sweden
A description of a Swedish drinking ritual where after sipping wine you bow again and hold the glass, then gaze into your companion's eyes. The practice is noted as pretty, especially when the eyes are blue, reflecting a northern charm observed among many Swedish women.
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Alon
Camden
United States
Leadyilie
Middle States
Louis
Kansas City
Missouri
Omaha
Bayne
Lowa
Thad
Buck
Sweden
Tennyson Considers Memorial Poem for Queen’s Companion
The poet weighs composing a memorial verse for John Brown, queen’s associate, noting an abundance of rhyming words despite the challenge of fitting Brown’s name. He jokes that if the name were John Smith the task would seem harder to rhyme with “King of Terrors.”
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Tennyson
John Brown
Brown
John Smith
Smith
BRIC A BRAC MATTERS OF WISDOM AND MORTAL TALES
A compact compilation of maxims and fragmented verse recounts by Henry W Colby and others. It blends satirical moral scraps with short parables about lotteries sorrow and modest pieties. The pieces offer wry reflections on life death and belief in a pocket of literary aphorisms.
The Reporter and the Editor in a Nicer Time
A Louisville Chronicle piece contrasts reporters with editorial writers praising the reporter’s lively outdoor life. It notes reporters live briefly in safe shadowy immortality, while editors labor in long, dense prose and never truly die as memories fade from town to town. The lull of October poems closes the excerpt with vivid rustic scenes.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Nobod
Poems and Pictures of Youth and Loss in a Rural Paper
A collage of poetic fragments and sketches shows poets and artists pursuing simple tasks from painting grapes to roasting sweet potatoes. It juxtaposes schoolboys fleeing a policeman, a lecture committee amid a famed lineup, and a widowed woman's sudden release and forgiveness, ending with guarded homecomings.
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Donely
Greenleafs Arithmetic Recalled In Schoolyard Misty Tale
A memory in a New York Mirror piece recalls Greenleafs arithmetic used in a schoolyard. The narrator describes a scene with a boy named John and a girl named Lizzie, referencing long division, vulgar fractions, and chalk aromas as summer ends and chestnuts, sassafras, and chalky lessons fade into memory.
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Greenleaf
New York
Stetson
John
Lizzie
Fashion and Dogs in a Fragmented Scene
A garbled piece contrasts a satirical narrator scolding Fashion’s rule with a dog’s lament about harsh baths. The dog recounts punishment, wearing a paper soldier cap, hair plucked, and endless rolling in mud to seek relief from mistreatment. The text mixes satire and animal misery in a damaged excerpt.
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