Blockade Running In The Civil War Afloat And Ashore
Federal cruisers and Confederate venture captains battled for profits and passage as blockade running thrived from Nassau to Charleston. Major Willis supervised purchases, prices surged, white blue-hued hulls and silent engines aided stealth, while cutters faced gunfire and near-captures in the risky game that funded the Confederacy.
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Detroit Free Press
Charleston
Confederacy
Reece
Lincoln
South
Europe
Wilmington
Pigot
Wilmings Harbor
Major E. Willis
Sam
England
Nassau
Battle of
Shiloh
Kate
Floriey
John Frazer & Co
Esplanade
Willis
Beauregard
Sumter
Landuade of the Face Phrenological Notes on Eye Motions
A phrenological extract describes how eye shape and eyelid movement reflect inner traits. It links round eyes with receptivity and less thought while drooping lids signal penitence, confession, and reflection, detailing signs for humility prayer truth and justice through facial muscles and wrinkles.
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Phrenological Magazine
Singular revenge statue over Potsdam houses honors Bismarck
In Potsdam a rich capitalist, mourning his son lost in the Franco Prussian War, erects mausoleums above his houses with Bismarck imagery. The gravestone features an owl face resembling Bismarck, three hairs, and cannons marking the hairs. Additional buildings show serpents weaving the hairs, prompting curiosity over future motifs.
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London
Prince Bismarck
Berlin
Potsdam
Bismarck
The Zebra Hat in Lewiston Maine Headlines Style
The zebra hat appears in Maine as a popular head piece for men. The felt garment features variegated colors likened to an animal and calico horse. Analysts joke it mirrors stock-husbandry trends and slush-bucket fashion.
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Lewiston Journal
Maine
Connecticut Cat Story and a Pan Fried Snake Tale
A Columbus Times field report recalls a 2 year old child in Georgia who ate fried rattlesnake mistaken for a meal. The incident allegedly caused violent spasms. Separate notes describe a Milford kitten bottle raising and a curious method with a quill and cask.
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Pineville, Ga
Columbus Times
Connecticut
Milford
Conn
Haturay
Baber
The Family Skeleton How They Live on Weak Humanity
A Chicago Times expose condemns blackmail as a pervasive industry in the city. It details private detectives, flower sellers, and young women who exploit wealthy victims, tracing schemes from hush-money extortion to public scandal, with vivid anecdotes of coerced payments and ruined reputations.
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Chicago Times
Chicago
Brotherhood
Board of Trade
Messiers
West Side
Lovelace
Demi Monde
Ackman
Venice
America
Naples
HACKS AND HACKMEN IN SAXONY
A Chicago News correspondent from Chemnitz reports Saxon droschkas vary in appearance but share equal job counts under a division of labor. Strangers obtain a depot check and ride by rotation, ensuring even earnings. The article argues social policy favors keeping people employed and shares of work, aided by law.
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Chicago News
Chemnitz
Saxony
Rose
Germany
Hhis
Ney
The Old Fiddler Remembered in Rustic Melodies
A nostalgic portrait of the old fiddler who once filled kitchens with heavy stomping rhythms and rustic tunes like Guilde roy and The Forked Deer. The piece recalls dancing, garb, and the enduring image of a beloved musician who vanished from halls and operas, traveling with a fiddle possibly carved from classic Italy.
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Italy
Vesuvius Visit Reveals Weird Desolation and Naples
A Cincinnati correspondent travels from Naples to Mount Vesuvius detailing harrowing lava flows, bizarre Italian horses, and the stark poverty seen in Naples. The feature blends travelogue with vivid scenes of ash, sulfur, and the dramatic crater, noting women who descended to the lava bed and the haunting beauty of the Bay of Naples.
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Vesuvius
Buchanan Road
Mount Vesuvius
Cincinnati
Great Britain
Continent
Serieux
Europe
Italy
America
Florence
Germany
Naples
Neaplitan
Jaly
Mt. Vesuvius
Bay of Naples
Mediterranean
Capri
Ischia
Crescent Bay
Read
Pompeii
John Bull and the North Pole and Hugo Beggar Tale
Saturday Review ponders English Arctic enterprise and national pride while noting a humane moment as Victor Hugo writes lines for a blind beggar. It contrasts imperial spirit with universal pity and recalls Captain Nares and Mediterranean sailors in a concise cultural snapshot.
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Saturday Review
North Pole
England
Nares
Victor Hugo
Cafe de Paris
A Tonsorial Congress Adopts Shaving Rules
Berlin barbers held a cannily worded congress with resolutions on shaving order left or right cheek, brush or hand soap, and barbers not allowed to hold customers by the nose. Debate raged over whether small talk should accompany shaving versus business talk.
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Tagblatt
Berlin
The Wreck of the Orient Storm Devastation Report
The New Orleans Picayune describes a cyclone storm on the morning of the 9th that struck the Orient at the Passes with an estimated velocity of 108 miles per hour. The ship lost masts sails bulwarks and deck while iron bolts and oak beams fractured under the pressure, illustrating the storm’s brutal force.
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Orient
New Orleans Picayune
Gulf
The Unpleasant Steam Whistle
A mechanical engineer criticizes the steam whistle aboard railways for being loud and wasteful. He notes the contrast with English carriages and questions the necessity of signaling two miles away for a mere fifty feet. The writer ends with humorous contempt for the overbearing device.
Bric a Brac Poem Fragment on Night and Loss
A brief verse about fragile moments on a summer night where a sigh and a kiss linger too long. It contrasts a winter day mood with a summer night and notes how easily things go wrong, leaving life altered by a mist and rain.
Refreshing misidentification at continental Hotel romance
An elderly Philadelphia woman is mistaken for a relative by a young man at the Continental Hotel and is cheerfully accepted as relieved by the accidental compliment. Elaine Goodale notes a reflective mood as night falls and distant roses fade.
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Philadelphia
Eantinental Hotel
Blank
Ten Little Merry Maids Poem Fragment
An anon poem fragment recounts ten little merry maids losing companions one by one as each encounters a fault or vice. The final stanza notes one maid left, with her sisters called “aunts” around the table.
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Anon
Lottie
Kate
Loo
Who is Maria Parker's dog sparks marital row
In a San Francisco Call item, Mr Brown awakens to his wife accusing him of loving Parker's dog. She recounts his nocturnal phrases including kissing the dog and declaring devotion, prompting Mrs Brown to flee to her mother. The column reads as a domestic farce centered on mistaken romantic entanglements.
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Nassau
Everene
San Francisco
Maria
Mr. Brown
Mrs. Brown
Parker
Sail to the Land of Nod and the strange Arkansas tale
A fragmentary verse about a dreamy voyage to a land where dreams rule and tables dwell. It is followed by a rustic Arkansas anecdote where a drummer encounters a boastful, unnamed stranger predicting the cyclone of prosperity and recounting local misfortunes, with quirky regional dialogue and comic fatalism.
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Nod
Go Back Brave England to Read the Obelisk of Egypt
Dark-browed speakers urge England to retreat from conquest and read the obelisk on the Nile. The speaker frames Christ and Egypt, condemning war and colonial plunder. A prophetic plea calls Albion to abandon ship and face moral consequence, citing Africa and Egypt as warnings.
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Joaquin Miller
Moses
England
Christa
St. Paul's
Nazareth
Christ
Hercules
Egypt
St. George
Awful
Africa
Young Albion
Red Seas
The Watermelon Ripeness Experts Take a Back Seat
A provincial note jokes that famed scientists falter in judging a watermelon's ripeness as a rural Southern colonel, uneducated yet plainspoken, takes the stage in a humorous compare and contrast moment from a Norristown Herald fragment.
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Norristown Herald
Proctor
Profesor Huxley
Earth
Merbert Spencer
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