Ironclads and torpedoes shaped by Civil War foes
Detroit Free Press recounts early torpedo development in the Civil War, detailing how Confederate ingenuity using powder, electric torpedoes, and spar devices disrupted Union ironclads on James and Yazoo rivers, with dramatic dives of the Cairo and Tecumseh, and Charleston harbor defenses evolving to thwart blockaders. It argues torpedoes and ironclads redefine future war methods and U.S. harbor protection.
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Detroit
James River
James
Confederacy
New Orleans
Charleston
Richmond
Wilmington
Liverpool
Cairo
Yazoo
Drumgool’s Bluff
Tecumseh
Farragut
Mobile Bay
Dueys
Ean
Ude
North
South
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Charleston Harbor
Stunter
Moultrie
Elt
Bar
America
The First Shot and the Fort Sumter Detail
General S D Lee corrects the record on who fired the first gun at Fort Sumter noting Captain George B James of South Carolina, later killed at Townsboro, fired the opening shot. The account recounts timing, messengers, and the March 11 1861 to April 12 events with Beauregard and Major Anderson.
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Tironsides
Charleston Bar
Sam
Fort Sumter
America
Charleston
South
Blerion
Marcel
Orney
Anderson
Lutmier
Moultrie
New Orleans Times-Democrat
8. D. Lee
Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Mississippi
M. Quad
Edmund Ruffin
Virginia
George 8. James
South Carolina
Townsboro
Beauregard
Chestnut
S. D. Lee
Sumter
Davis
Roger A. Pryor
Chisholm
United States
James Chestnut
D. Lee
8. C
Pryor
James
Somer
Edmund Noeffin
Morvis Isha
Uyst
George
Morris Ull
Spencer's View of Republican America From a Foreign Eye
The philosopher Herbert Spencer returns to New York and assesses American life. He praises vast material progress yet warns that form without substance threatens liberty, likening the nation to medieval republics losing freedom under press and power. He urges constant vigilance to curb domestic overreach and questions whether education alone can secure free institutions.
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Herbert Spencer
New York
Mr. Spencer
America
Fifth Avenue
Europe
Japan
Congress
Mae
Hamlet
Wright
The Clergy as Cooks From French Monastic Kitchens
A historical column notes that French clergy inspired many culinary luxuries and beverages. It cites Abbe Bonnetard and La Teste oyster culture, monks of Marmoutiers with rilettes, and various liqueurs and confections attributed to abbots, priors, and nuns across convents, linking ascetic life with inventive cuisine.
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Abbe
Bonnetard
la Teste
France
Canon Agen
Tours
Marmoutiers
Faline Justice
A Newburyport cat in the city shows even handed fairness with two kittens. The mother catches mice and feeds the first to one then shares in a clever division to keep both well fed. The creature seems to display a sense of justice in distributing prey between the offspring.
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Faline Justice
Newburyport Herald
Inalarin and the Absence in Springfield Reform Tone
Springfield Republicans lampoons public absence and reform tariff in a satirical piece. It notes missing faces in civic life and a leading doctor’s view on the altered tariff while poking fun at Dr Bull's Cough Syrup as a refrain.
Passage on future American civilization and progress
Fragmentary excerpt discusses Americans looking forward to a time when they have built a civilization surpassing any previously known. It reflects a broad optimistic vision of societal development and cultural achievement without specific events or individuals.
Slaves of the Styles New York Letter on Fashion Grievances
A New York society man image is mocked for tight clothes and garish wardrobe choices. The writer notes a Wall Street leader's departure from comfort to display, detailing his green striped trousers, bottle green coat, extended collar, derby hat, and single eyeglass. The piece portrays elite fashion as painful to spectators.
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New York
Washington Post
Wall Street
Washington
Peru
England
Twenty Eighth Street
Fifth Avenue
Knickerbocker Club
America
Mannish English Girls Stir Up Courtship Controversy
An Argonaut correspondent discusses English girls embracing hunting, gambling, cigars, and cigarettes challenging genteel propriety. It profiles a southern peer’s daughter who stylishly leads a selfsufficient life, hunts, runs her own wine cellar, and flirts by social code rather than public scandal.
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San Francisco
Argonaut
Kmpress
Austria
Louise
Beatrice
Atkinson
England
Amonuiladd
Marsala
Prince of Wales
Buckingham Palace
Insatiable Swamp Devours Railroad Fill Near Sharpsville
The Tamarack swamp near Sharpsville Penn was treated by the New York Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad Company with earth and then coarser fill. Since January about 5000 car loads of furnace cinders have been dumped into the bog, yet the swamp remains voracious and shows little sign of shrinking while water remains murky each morning.
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Bucks
A Feather in His Beard Chronicle
A well known Omaha Knights barber shares a curious tale about a feather growing in a man’s beard. The man recalls growth since beard development and refuses to have the feather removed, claiming pulling it worsens the growth. The feather is described as perfectly formed, resembling a chicken’s tail feather.
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Knights of the Razor
New Oxygen-Based Remedy Promises Rapid Health Benefits
Rapid rarification of the foad and revitalizing nerve centres claim to be achieved by a Compound whose magnetized form yields ozone. The remedy allegedly expands lung oxygen, improves diseased systems, and brings swift general improvement. A booklet titled Treatise on Compound Oxygen by Starkey & Palen offers free information from Philadelphia. Also promoted is Brown's iron bitters claimed to cure indigestion and related troubles.
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Starkey & Palen
Girard Street
Philadelphia
American Humor and the Trollopiad in 19th Century Critique
A historical survey of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, John G. Saxe, and Frederick S. Cozzens, assessing their humorous writings and lasting influence. It discusses Trollope’s influence on American perception, Holmes' Autocrat works, Saxe’s wit across poems, and Cozzens’s Sparrowgrass Papers, noting style, tone, and the era’s literary dynamics.
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America
Americans
Fanny Kemble
Mrs. Trollope
Irving
Longfellow
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Haselt
Dr. Holmes
Bean
Atlantic Monthly
Holmes
Munnor
John G. Saxe
Vermont
Burlington Sentinel
Saxe
Frederick 8. Cozzens
New York
Putnam's Monthly
Knickerbocker
Cozzens
Richard Haywarde
Sparrowgrass
American Minstrelsy Fathers Anecdotes of Presidents
Samuel Sanford recalls early minstrel troupes like the Virginia Minstrels, the Dumbleton group, and meetings with figures such as James K. Polk Henry Clay and Stephen C. Foster. He recounts performances in Philadelphia White Sulphur Springs and Pittsburg, the money earned, and initial works that shaped negro minstrelsy.
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Zip Coon
Samuel
Sanford
Barney Williams
John E. Owens
Owens
Uncle Tom
Baltimore
Virginia Minstrels
Whitlock
Emnett
Brower
Pelham
C. 9. White
Mr. Sanford
Dumbleton
Minstrels
England
Janes K. Polk
The
United States
Henry Clay
Polk
Tyler
Miss Gardner
White Sulphur Springs
Clay
G. Swayne Buckley
Fred Buckley
Crogin
Dan Raynor
Vicksburg
Tenn
Columbus
James K. Polk
South
Lucy Long
Dandy Jim
Aunt Sally
Dan
A Wonder of the Yellowstone Gorge Mystery
Helena, Mont. James Carroll, a Helena resident, reports discovering a Yellowstone Park gorge where sound seems to vanish. He sat with a Winchester, heard no noise, fired at a panther without report, and found his companions equally mute while returning through a "charmed air" to safety.
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Helena
Montana
James Carroll
Yellowstone Park
Nick
BRIC A BRAC On a Coupon by William J Berry
A short vintage poem about a lost romance seen through a black and blue coupon for two opera tickets. The speaker recalls smiles and glances shared, noting heaven then goodbye as the coupon remains as a memento of a departed love.
Old Stand-By Gone Bible and Pistol Tale
A Deadwood City miner Hogdon is killed after a coat theft. a bold thief dons the hymn book found with the man's money and pistol fire erupts. The hymn book reportedly saves the would-be killer from a fatal shot as the pursuer dies. The incident prompts questions about schoolbook writers and moral tales.
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San Francisco Post
Deadwood City
Hogdon
White
Rment
Guiteau
Ask Mother Baby Riddle Poem Essence
A playful verse asks who is the sweetest pet and brightest child, praising a baby as the sunniest gleam and fairest mould. The speaker teases readers to guess the subject, ending with a prompt about the baby’s identity.
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Lanon
Mother
A Keen Rebuke at Guthrie Station in Kentucky
A Louisville Post report describes a commercial traveler’s wait of three hours at Guthrie Kentucky while a party of young women including married couples and 48 matrons travel to Mammoth Cave. A Gainsboro clad brunette eyes a daring drummer who tries chat but is rebuffed with grace.
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Louisville Post
Bowling Green
Hopkinsville
Guthrie
Mammoth Cave
Gainsboro
Days Gone By From James Whitcomb Riley Poem
Poem excerpt recalling childhood in rustic scenes and simple joys. Lush imagery of orchards, meadows, birds, and river, with nostalgic tone on bygone days and a lost simple life.
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James Whitcomb Riley
Aladdin
You Are Getting Old In A Nation Of The Judge
A humorous meditation lists signs of aging in everyday life. It mocks vanity with gray hair undercuts, umbrella fuss on a sunny day, mislaid cane, old-fashioned watches, and the vanity of eye spectacles. It notes reactions to hats, churchgoing, and theatre pageantry as markers of aging.
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Page
Ballet
If You Want a Kiss Why Take It Proverb Poem
An anon poem advises romantically bold lovers to seize a kiss without delay. It uses playful Saxon proverbs and vivid imagery to argue that winning affection requires action, not lingering hesitation, comparing courage in love to crowns and cannons.
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Anon
Lucy a Young Lady in a Chicago Tribune Sketch
Lucy grows from a kind dog helper to a young woman who loves piano and flirtatious nights. Her workless schooling clashes with her father and his demand she cook and be practical. She hides tears with makeup, entertains a suave suitor, and endures a sharp quip about her singing.
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Lucy
Chicago Tribune
Ecru
Prague
Lucy Sonetimes
Luccy
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Nil Admirari
Pope
Tucker
Pennsylvania
Chestnut Street
Chestnut Street Theatre
John EF. Owens
Wth
Stephen C. Foster
Steven C. Foster
Kentucky
Library Hall
Pittsburg
Jenny Lind
Eighth and
Callowhill Streets
Harry Bluff
Lindsay
Old Park Theatre
New Bs
Edwin Forrest
Metropolitan
Yellowstone
William J. Berry
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