The Fall of Atlanta and Hood's Retreat at Jonesboro
Detroit Free Press chronicles Hood's retreat from Atlanta after failed attempts to cut Sherman's supply lines. It details cavalry raids destroying rails, Sherman's rapid repairs, brutal house-to-house fighting at Ezra Church and Jonesboro, and the city’s bombardment as Sherman closes in. Hood evacuates with rear guard destroying stores, while Sherman aims for Savannah, amid civilian casualties and explosive bombardment.
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Detroit Free Press
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Latimer
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Petersburg
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Macon
Ain
Jonesboro
Hardee
Cartermaster
The Gypsy Dance Described In Harper's Magazine
A Harper's Magazine dance portrayal follows a Gypsy performer as she rises from seated poise and delivers a poised, restrained but intense performance. The audience murmurs and cries of encouragement accompany a sequence of rhythmic, deliberate movements ending with a dramatic, spellbound departure.
Canada’s Moving Mountain at Wellington Bay
A Toronto Globe description of the Sand Banks near Wellington Bay on Lake Ontario, 10 miles from Picton. The crescent sand range rises 150 feet, forms a grand coastal panorama, with cedar woods, cedar-framed roads, and a shifting beach that slowly engulfs nearby fields.
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Wellington Bay
Lake Ontario
Picton
Little Lakes
Cedar Woods
Niagara
Indian Buffalo Hunt Describes a Great Chase and Rout
New York Sun reports a northward buffalo herd seen near Wolf Creek with Assiniboine hunters racing ponies and buffalo ponies across prairie. The battle features brutal close quarters, massed slaughter, and a chaotic retreat toward the Missouri river as riders pursue the dying herd and later reflect on the training of buffalo ponies.
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Assiniboin
Wolf Creek
Yellow Butte
Tom Henderson
Silver Creek Pass
Missouri
Anderson
Origin and manufacture of playing cards across nations
A New York card maker explains global production with Russia’s government licensed output in St Petersburg and Mexican and French methods. He traces card invention to Hindostan and gypsy influence, notes American early players Crehor of Boston, and cites five cent US taxes, hand-pressed history, and modern steam presses. He adds that marked or illuminated cards are not produced by reputable US factories.
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New York
Russia
St. Petersburg
Europe
Mint
United States Treasury
Mexico
France
Germany
Hindostan
America
Spain
Italy
England
China
Carda
Thomas Crehor
Boston
Calvin Bartlet
Zanzade
Crehor
Phila child’s plea at fountain spurs a hollow charity
A soda fountain worker ignores a starving girl with a broken family tale. She pleads for nickel aid, revealing a troublesome life of hunger and false claims as he dismisses her, offering a token donation and directing a march of pity through the scene.
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Justin
The Umbrella Saga in Ancient Lore
A curious New York Mercury piece ribbing umbrella ownership, noting a god as fifth incarnation of Vishnu carrying an umbrella to hell to avoid losing it. It uses myth to illustrate early umbrella theft and human distrust, contrasting gods and mortals in a playful parable about belongings.
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New York Mercury
Jishnu
Hell
The Good Man and the Melons
A moral tale about a good man who loses three watermelons to a neighbor. He first lends the neighbor a watermelon to shame him into restitution, then offers a second as a lesson, and finally the neighbor steals the last at night, realizing the exposure of his acts.
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New York
Wallack
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Theodore Hamilton
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Melbourne
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Charles Mestayer
Roosevelt Street
Tom Johnson
Uriah Heap
Captain Cuttle
Frank Chanfray
Mose
Frank
Henrietta Baker
Joe Sefton
Joe
Bill Ward
Stories of Show Folk Elder Booth as Advance Agent
A memoir recalls Baltimore in the 1840s through the eyes of actors boarding at Mrs O Brien’s house. It centers on Edwin Booth, Joe Jefferson, Boucicault, and others, detailing early struggles, rivalries, travels from Melbourne to New York, and the evolution of famed performers into later successes and fortunes.
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Queen of the Ants
Chicago Herald
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Lass
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Catesby
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Wilford
Palace
Sleeper
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Clark
Old Booth
Pratt Street
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Sleeper Clark
London
Peter Cunningham
Bailie Nichol Jarvie
Peter
Charles Pope
Pope’s
St. Louis
Australia
Melbourne
Joe Nagle
Philadelphia
Dolly Davenport
Dolly
Market Street
Luc
Justus Davenport Hoyt
Daniel Sickles
Key
New York
Lizzie Weston
George Christy
Charles Matthews, Jr
Frankie McClenland
Land of Dreams
New Orleans
Hildreth
Benjamin F. Butler
Frisco
Mrs. Russell
The Rise and Fall of Our Actors in New Orleans
A nostalgic reminiscence recounts theater life in New Orleans, naming many actors and personalities. It traces marriages, rivalries, and downfalls, noting figures like Hildreth, Poe, Booth, and Ward, ending with reflections on the O’Brien siblings and the Southern Express Company.
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St. Louis
Ward
Nelse Seymour
Stuart Robson
Mike O’brien
M. I. O’brien
Southern Express Company
Matt O’brien
Columbus, Ga
Southern Xpress Company
Autumn Verses and Heroic Duty Across News and Poetry
A collage of autumn poetry excerpts and dramatic prose threads, from brimming leaves and harvest nostalgia to a Western collision martyr story. It juxtaposes lament for the dying year with a railroad hero’s sacrifice and a romantic vignette in a city garden.
Battle of tarantulas fascinates Denver crowd for six hours
A Brown tarantula and a black one fought six hours in a glass-top box before the black spider died and was devoured by the winner. The scene drew local attention as onlookers mistook debris for the live creatures, which remained hidden during the meal.
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Denver Tribune
Collecting a Dividend on a Missouri Rail Line
A six foot stranger in early Missouri rail days demanded dividends from ten shares on the Blank and Dash road. The station master denied any dividends, but the man insisted and produced a pistol. He paid himself a 10 percent dividend from a salary agent and left. The road paid that dividend only once in thirteen years.
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Missouri
Blank and Dash Road
St. Louis
Duckwater Jim Seeks Heaven and Watermelon in Talk of Rest
A battered Piute named Duckwater Jim, claiming kin to Captain Sam, muses on heaven a place of rest and a future with white men at leisure. He imagines a golden harp, watermelons, and endless play, weighing what an Indian and a white man might do in the afterlife.
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Virginia City Enterprise
Duckwater Jim
Piute
Sam
Hneaven
Jim
One Legged Man Delivers Flour Scene At Washington Street
A mob of about fifty watched a peculiar tableau last week as a one legged man carried a sack of flour his wife wheeled a baby in a cab and his father-in-law lugged a codfish all three men reportedly drunk.
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Fulton Times
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