Hood's Nashville Move Defied By Frank Hood Plan Flaws
Hood's winter surprise on Schofield aimed to trap him at Columbia and force a collision near Franklin. The column failed to intercept as Schofield crossed the Duck River and Hood failed to seize the Columbia Pike, allowing the Federals to slip toward Franklin and Nashville amid quiet pursuit and misread orders.
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Sherman
Hood
Columbia
Duck River
Dhofield
Franklin
Nashville
Thomas
Eavelee
Prank
Peach Tree Creek
Lee
Jonesboro
Pempli
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Forest
Columbia Pike
Moint
Columbia Road
Spring Hi
Gettysburg
Spring Hill
Cheatham
Cleburne
Stewart
Johnson
Cueatiam
Mde
Roe
Erates
Apenas
Prodigal Son Prose on Generosity and Wealth
The essay defends spendthrift generosity as a humane force, arguing prodigality can aid the poor by funding startups and easing burdens. It contrasts generous impulse with selfish prudence, noting society’s harsh view yet praising the spendthrift as a high idealist who seeks happiness through giving.
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Junius Henri Brown
Benjamin Franklin
Flo
How Germany Makes Sunday a Day of Leisure in Berlin
Amos Keag recounts Berlin Sunday culture where all social strata enjoy the parks, gardens, and concerts from morning to night. Rich and poor share Beer, music, and strolls at Thiergarten and Kroll’s, with no fear of public judgment as Americans observe a restrained Sabbath.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Berlin
Macy
Germany
Deacon Brown
Elder Jones
Thiergarten
Dorfs
Myaheer Kroll
Knights of the
Great Ory
Shell Mound
Oakland
Chicago
Amos
Mr. Kaeg
Bohemia
Egypt and the Nile A Vision of Its Inundation and Origin
The essay explains Egypt why it is a rainless land made fertile by the Nile. It details how limestone and granite ranges shape the valley, the river's dramatic summer floods, and the sacred response of ancient Egyptians. It credits Abyssinia’s rains for the river’s existence and floods, describing White Nile clarity and Atbara Blue Nile silt enriching the land for harvest.
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Winwood Reade
Mediterranean
Nile
Tian
Africa
Speke
Baker Lakes
Lake Tchad
Mediterranean Sea
Arabian Gulf
Abyssinia
Risin
Indian Ocean
Eerpt
Atbara
Woole Valley
The Barber on Matrimony Blasts German Husband Folklore
A New York Sun excerpt features a German barber near Cooper Institute mocking marriage as a trap. He recounts a chaotic demotic tale of a two to three week marriage, a cramped St Mark's Place tenement, and a violent clash with neighbors over a ruined home life. The barber denounces wives as meddling yet admits fear of blame, then pivots to a boast about escaping punishment after a street scene, ending with satire on male folly and money.
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New York Sun
Cooper Institute
St. Mark’s Place
Yooman
von Vooman
Feller Vich
Mit
The Ontario Mine and its Silver Lode Descent
A Salt Lake City correspondent recounts a visit to Park City Utah and the Ontario silver mine. He walks the hillside mills, rides an 800 foot shaft, and watches tunnels, stopes, and a relentless ore tram through a gruesome yet forgotten factory of science. The piece blends Romantic mining imagery with stark, detailed, device by device mining processes yielding silver through stamping, roasting, and amalgamation.
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Lowell
Salt Lake City
New York World
Ontario
Utah
West
Park
Park City
Protective Committee
Rome
der Freischutz
Reigsicds
Company
Perth crowns Cornelia Szekly 20 as world’s most beautiful
The Small Mail Gazette reports Cornelia Szekly, aged 20, winning first prize in an international beauty tournament held in Perth. About 150 contestants entered. ten prizes awarded including a diamond bracelet. Her photo delayed by a millinery mishap, will be shared with illustrated papers soon.
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Small Mail Gazette
Perth
Cornelia Szekly
Cornelia
Europe
Asia
Africa
America
Piratical Origin of a Navy in Gentlemen's Magazine
The piratical origin of European navies explains plunder as a sea war feature and explains privateering. England's wartime fortunes in prize money during the 1748 Aix-la-Chapelle peace yielded about 2,000,000 pounds in their favor, with large ship captures and losses. The text notes why forefathers rang church bells at declarations of war as in former conflicts with Spain.
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Gentlemen’s Magazine
Europe
England
Aix-la-Chapelle
Spain
The Richest City in the World Frankfort on the Main
Frankfort on the Main, home to about 100000 people, is described as the richest city of its size. If wealth were equally shared each person would have around 4000 dollars. The city hosts 100 residents worth 4 to 7 million dollars and 250 worth 38 million dollars and up. Banking dominates with 2 billion dollars in capital and Rothschilds holding the parent lease. Annual bill exchange totals exceed 1 million dollars.
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Ontario
London
Paris
Vienna
Frankfort-on-the-Main
Europe
Faithful to the Dead Seventy-Five Years
Elizabeth Drinkhouse of Philadelphia died at 96 and was buried at Zion's Church graveyard in Pottstown. Daughter of revolutionary-era Jacob Drinkhouse, she refused remarriage after fiancé Joseph Mintzer died before their wedding. On her deathbed she asked for her engagement ring to be buried with her.
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Philadelphia
Elizabeth Drinkhouse
Zion’s Church
Pottstown
Jacob Drinkhouse
Revolutionary Warfame
Dave
Swan Skins and English Complexions in a 19th Century Query
An English statistician claims about 7000 swans skins are imported into London for making puffs for face powder. Each skin yields sixty puffs, totaling 420000 puffs annually. He questions English skin whiteness as a myth and notes large rice and wheat powder consumption, lamenting waste that could feed the starving.
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London
Bit of Pencil and Happy Moments in Newsprint
An old Philadelphia News item quotes Whittier as saying happiness comes from the first note of a movie in early spring. A Syracuse correspondent adds a twist by recalling a lark rather than a robin as the source of joy, sparked during a concert saloon chat.
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Philadelphia News
Whittier
Syracuse
Robin
Sea Shells and a Racial Split at the Tabernacle
A poetic fragment depicts Sea Shells by a yellow beach while Texan Siftings reports a division at the Austin Blue Light Colored Tabernacle. A visiting chaplain’s sermon uses slang prompts, sparking a racial quarrel as dark members exit with mixed reactions about the preached doctrine and color lines.
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Austin
All the world a wardrobe in seven fashion ages
Anon catalogs the sexes through seven stages from infant to grandmamma, each modeled by garments and social roles. The verse traces changing dress and desire from nurse to schoolgirl, bride, matron, and beyond, ending in oblivion save love of fashion.
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Anon
Hirst
Circe
Grandmamma
le Follett
Garden of Eden dispute erupts on Kingston platform
On a Kingston Georgia platform two Black men argued in a heated scene. Moses, a local resident, mocked a stranger from Rome claiming to know the Garden of Eden. he warned others to keep clear as the argument escalated into threats and a possible fight.
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Kingston
Rome
Moses
Bells of heaven and a child’s laughter in verse
A lyrical piece by A C Swinburne evokes heavenly bells birds winds and wells with a child’s laughter at dawn. It contrasts golden bells and the radiance of a child’s voice with nature’s harmonies and the imagined sweetness of a nightingale if the golden crested wren shared that song. The poem celebrates pure joyful sound and the unseen beauty of early joy.
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A. C. Swinburne
Heaven
Harper
Detroit resident voices telephones woes in mixed dialect
A Detroit Free Press reader laments faulty phone service at company headquarters. He notes interruptions hinder calls to a coal man, City Hall, and a saloon debtor, fails in hearing names clearly, and fears customers cannot hear him. He suggests his son Shon might handle conversations with better luck.
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Detroit Free Press
Ello
Sam
der Council
Bohemian Bohemians And a Monnerk of the Jungle
The piece spans Bohemian life among artists on sunny downs and quaint towns, then shifts to an unruly, comic scene from the San Francisco Argonaut about The Roll Bengal Taggar. A drunken heckler provokes the monnerk of the jungle as the crowd recoils and the creature prepares to defend itself.
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Oregon
Taggar
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