The Best Way to Win A Football Story
Walter Camp presents a Yale football tale where George Ardex and captain Harry Remington plot a clever play. Allen visits Wilton, news of Harvard Yale clash, and a late night practice reveals the team’s strategic details and pressures of training.
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Harry Remington
Harvard
Harry
George Ardex
George
Duffer
Joe
Nel
Ned
Rex
Dave
Kid
Neddy
Allen
Mr. Allen
Yale
The Winning Play and a Shameful Secret
A school football match unfolds with a daring end run and a dramatic last‑moment score by Ned. Fred Allen, having stolen a diagram, confesses at a postmatch dinner, chooses honesty, and earns praise from referee Harry Remington for his courageous admission.
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Ned
George
Harry
Sore
Fred Allen
George Ardex
Wilton School
Lewis
Fred
Wilton’s
Wilton
Allen
Jackson
Ardex
Jack
St. Pen
Waltons
St. Marks
Harry Remington
Joe
Wiltons
Remington
St. Mark’s
Rex
Wilson
Hawd
Doe
St Marks
Hillen
Harry Kengton
Amore
Mr. Remington
General outlines methods of battle planning and reconnaissance
The passage describes armies deploying cavalry and infantry to scout enemy moves and conceal intentions, warning that the foe may strike from the rear or lie in ambush during marches. It stresses uncertainty, quick decision making, and maneuver to force advantageous terms as a general forms a plan.
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Ech
Leuthen and the Master Plan of Frederick the Great
A narrative of Frederick the Great facing 80 000 Austrians near Breslau with 30 000 Prussians. Frederick’s bold maneuver behind the hills, a decisive en echelon assault, and the collapse of the Austrian left lead to a dramatic victory, with Breslau soon retaken.
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Leuthen
Frederick the Great
Frederick
Silesia
Breslau
Prince Charles
Potsdam
Schenberg
Juy
Borne
Friederick
Thought Him a Greeny Won a Large Sum at Billiards
A colorful account of Ank Adams a world champion finger billiardist visiting town. The piece details his remarkable shots such as freezing the last ball, placing chalk and a ball to draw a semicircle, and using double English to count three cushions. It traces his life from Norwich Connecticut birth to circus performer miner and later inventor, ending with a billiards challenge and a $1000 stake in a 100 point match.
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Barry
Feld
Harry
Rex
George
Fred Allen
George Ardex
Allen
Ank Adams
Norwich
Conn
Barnum’s Circus
Rocky Mountains
Michigan
Connecticut
Yank
Tonce
Deacon Charles Wakeman
Greens Farms
Bridgeport
Westport
New_York
Ira Lewis
Lewis
Texas
Deacon
Novel bets and a rail draw end in a table game tale
A gambler recalls a crowded scene over odds in a billiards style game. Bets escalated from $100 to $150 watch collateral as Joe Carter and Lewis push for longer rail shots. The narrator, hoping for profit, finally plays a decisive shot to bank the stake.
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Lewis
Deacon
Joe Carter
Mill Pond
Carter
Ala Texas
Gen Sherman and His Children Glimpse a Great Man's Character
Portrait of General William T. Sherman based on private letters to family and friends. The text highlights his literary ability, honesty, and confiding nature, noting his ideal domestic relations and close bond with Senator Sherman. It traces his early life from Lancaster to West Point and his ongoing correspondence describing events and his views.
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Pacife
Ays
Sherman
Washington
Senator Sherman
Minnie
State Military Academy
Larcene
Alexandria, la
Gen. Sherman
Louisiana
Lancaster
Ohio
South
Memphis
Farum
Gen
St. Louis
Lincoln
Grant
Gen. McPherson
Lovina Farum
William T. Sherman
West Point
Joan
Grand Game of Strategy and Nation's Fate
A historical analysis by Col. Theodore A. Dodge on how modern warfare differs from ancient single combat. It argues that campaigns hinge on strategic maneuver, terrain, and decisive leadership in a game of sparring for an opening, not open-field duels.
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Theodore A. Dodge
David
Goliath
Marius
Aque Sextin
Italy
Cimbri
Vercelle
Comparison of World's Fairs at Chicago 1893 Exhibit
A comparative table outlines the scale of the Chicago 1893 world's fair exhibition. The readable copy notes layout and large scale display elements to illustrate differences in presentations and exhibits.
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Chicago
Confidence in Bedclothes Salesman Advice
A Chicago Tribune item recounts a cautious sales exchange where the accommodating salesman urges trusting the firm that supplied the bedclothes. He insists customers must rely on the seller’s word about fill and origin, then shouts a demand to replace a torn comfort.
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Chicago Tribune
Rogers
Tin-plate claim sparks debate in Piqua dispatch
A 1891 exchange shows J B Reynolds disputing Cincinnati Corrugating Co claims of producing tin plate. Reynolds debunks terne-plate and asserts a McKinley badge piece is lead plated junk. He warns against poison risk and notes locals mock the supposed tin-plate plant amid swamped orders.
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Cincinnati Corrugating Company
Piqua
Newton
James Hicks
Gordon & Dilworth
Seamans Martins
J. B. ReyNoups
J. B. Reynolds
New York
Piqua Company
McKinley
Reynolds
Primitive Whale Killing by Indians at Cane Flattery
A San Francisco Examiner letter describes six whales killed by Indians near Cane Flattery, Washington, using traditional harpoons and buoyant sealskin bladders. The account notes canoes, lances, and a coordinated hunt that ends with the whale towed ashore and divided among the crew. The piece flags the Indians’ whaling as a Washington fishing industry and a potential World’s Columbian Exposition exhibit exhibit item.
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Washington
San Francisco Examiner
Robert Lewers
Penhallow
Honolulu
Fuca Strait
Cane Flattery
Tea and Its Consumption in Harper's 1890s View
The article analyzes tea imports to New York for 1889-90 totaling about 81 million pounds, with 80.8 million and 85.9 million in the two prior seasons. It notes price declines linked to long shipments from Britain and Canada after a 10 percent differential duty was removed, and calls for restoring duties. It cites Formosa oolong as popular, compares Foochow tea quality, and observes Americans are not a tea-drinking people with per capita use around 1.375 pounds for four decades.
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Harper's Magazine
China
Japan
New York
Chamber of Commerce
England
Canada
United States
Europe
Congress
Formosa
India
Ceylon
Subscription Offer for The Weekly Globe and Magazines
A historic advertisement promises reduced yearly rates to subscribe to The Weekly Globe and various magazines. It notes postage paid, limits on number of magazines per address, requires yearly subscriptions, and directs readers to mail orders to THE WEEKLY GLOBE.
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Weekly Globe
The
Globe
CLOBE
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