The Fall of Richmond and the Flight From Petersburg
An eyewitness account from April 1865 chronicles the Confederate collapse at Petersburg and Richmond. Sheridan breaches the lines at Five Forks, Lee orders retreat, and chaotic evacuations unfold as fires rage through Richmond. The piece describes moving scenes of civilians fleeing, Union forces advancing, and Davis’s precarious decisions before Appomattox.
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Murray
Washington Republican
Petersburg
Richmond
Sheridan
Pickett
Five Forks
Fitzhugh Lee
Lee
Warren
Fifth Corps
South Side
Confederacy
Union
Potomac
Grant
Appomattox
James River
Virginia Battalion
Pocahontas
Upper Bridge
Dre
Winter in Manitoba as Told by a Manitoba Exile
A Harper's Bazar piece laments a Manitoba winter's ferocity and length. It details frozen water and milk, ice encrusted clothing, frigid mustards and irons, and the constant need for fur wear, snowshoes, and friction to survive. It notes cattle, bearded visitors, Winnipeg policemen in buffalo coats, and the stark contrast between bleak days and bright aurora nights.
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Harper's Bazar
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Great Lakes
Modern Burning Bush Near Tuscarora Glows Nightly
A Tuscarora Florida Times-Star note describes a six to seven foot luminescent tree in a gulch near springs twelve miles north of Tuscarora. Its phosphorescent foliage shines enough to read by, with a parasitic light transfer and a name meaning witch tree. Indigenous people avoid it, calling it bad medicine.
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Tuscarora
California
A Little Surprise Party in an English Rail Carriage
In a curious railway tale a man asks a lady to turn to the window. She complies and then reveals she is a man in disguise, while he too has changed to a woman. They exchange a laugh as she declares her true role as Detective J of Scotland Yard, having shadowed him for two days. A bank robbery motive emerges as cuffs are locked on the startled mate.
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Commissariat
Main Street
Custis Lee
Richmond
Jerusalem
Ttus
O. C. Menderson
Lee
Jeff Davis
Davis
Scotland Yard
Bate
Puteoli
Arion
Nixey
Germany
Davy
Deva
Netherlands
Scotland
Ganges
Rosmer
Leviathan
Ehan
Ceylon
Holland
Dockum
Baltic
Theader
Artemus Ward
Rondelet
Francisco Boussueu
Ronderet
Boussueu
Norway
Arbus
Straits of
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Pontoppidian
Bergen
Denmark
Augustus of
Vennant
Tropical
America
Victor Hugo
Asutore
Nassau
Bahamas
Brazil
Steenstrup
Rosie
Bella
Bob
England
India
Bijou
Brighton
Both of Them Temple Bar Improv Comedy Snippet
Diners-out envy flares as Mr Hayward suffers a scandalous attack. Venom Tuft appears in Samuel Warren's Ten Thousand a Year. Warren jokes about dining with Lord Lyndhurst, then corrects Davison in court with a witty quip.
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Hayward
Samuel Warren
Mr. Warren
Davison
Lord Lynnhurst
Warren
Lord Lyndpureet
Just a Bit of Human Nature in Harper's Bazar
A young lady tells her pastor she has no influence with her Sunday school class. He suggests a harsher test, imagining preaching to hardened sinners for twelve years without success to show the value of continued effort and hope.
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Harper’s Bazar
Sea myths of ocean beings in Golden Days prose
A survey of sea legends from mermaids to Kraken, sea monks, and Neptune’s realm. The piece traces Tritons, Nereids, Sirens, and dolphins in classical lore, with nods to Norse kraken tales, Dutch sea bishops, and monk fish. It cites Pliny, Pontoppidan, and other sources, noting myth versus natural history.
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Neptune
Poseidon
Venus
Aphrodite
Proteus
Nereus
Glaucus
Nereides
Ordeal by Water Among Central Indian Tribes Described
Lyell notes a water test among Bheels where a bamboo marker and an arrow are used to judge innocence. A woman who stays underwater until the arrow returns is innocent. if she surfaces to breathe, she is deemed a witch. The account cites swinging, red pepper, and ritual beating as connected practices and discusses broader beliefs and methods of witchcraft punishment.
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Lyell
Central India
West Country
Buster
Far East
Bay of Bengal
India
Shiuver
Himalayas
Samsun
Manners of the Moors contrasts with European customs
Pittsburg Chronicle reports a Tangiers letter outlining contrasts between Moorish and European practices. It notes differences in honor gestures, entry rituals, seating, hand kissing, umbrella use, meal times during Ramadan, attire at rest, Friday rest day, writing direction, and reading order, concluding no common ground between civilizations.
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Tangiers
Pittsburg
Inshat
Mussuman
Mussulman
Morocco
What a Bather Can Do in Salt Lake
The Salt Lake Herald notes that bathers can lie on the lake’s surface without effort or sit on the water with feet under, by using towels for support. The only exertion is balance, while the brine’s strength risks throat convulsions and possible choking.
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Salt Lake
Great
Strange Affection for Countess de la Torre and Her Cats
The Pall Mall Budget profile recounts a visit to Countess de la Torre at 33 Pembroke Square, detailing a sparsely furnished flat dominated by cats and boxes. She speaks of inherited philanthropy, losses funding Italian freedom, and nursing a menagerie amid legal notices and threats of nuisance.
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Pall Mall
Suffrage Fair Portrayal in a Wilde West Editorial
A playful polemic argues female suffrage works in the West but won’t magically fix wheat prices. It blends satire with marriage and social roles, urging Ethel to be practical, sane, and useful while preserving humor and individuality in a lively, period voice.
A Swim for Life Eludes Fierce Pursuers in South Seas
An old trader recalls a South Sea rescue tale from Queensland waters. A beautiful young woman leapt from a rock into heavy surf, reached a boat, and, while being pursued, signaled danger as arrows struck the sail. The crew fired, the pursuers fled, and the fugitive was landed aboard with fresh clothes.
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South Sea Islands
Queensland
Oard
Drinking customs traced from ancient feasts to modern toasts
The article surveys global drinking rites and the English loving cup ritual. It explains how shared cups symbolized marriage, how guards protected drinkers in Saxon times, and how that guarding custom evolved into modern pledging at social events and college balls.
A Convenient Time and a Revelry of Faithful Folks
A Tweedside laird and a faithful Abigail tend an old invalid who fears his end. The laird jokes about timing as the cow calving is linked to the end. In Savannah News style, a ward in Alapaha shouts with religious zeal to praise redemption.
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Peeblesshire
Tweedside
Abigail
Nancy
Savannah News
Alapaha
Good Brethren and Sisters
Bric a brac and college quips from era campus humor
A collage of humorous snippets from Harvard Yale and Amherst student papers. Jests on recitations betting jokes football and exams surface alongside light verse and classroom gags. Names of college publications and instructors appear amid playful clashes of Latin logic and English baffles.
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Woe
Kuip
Leutenant
Manchester
Mayo's Bridge
Baum Butler
Bermuda
Beauregard
Mayo’s Bridge
Lucy
Rich
Avelia Court House
Williamsburg Road
State Capitol
Capitol
Godfrey Weitzel
Temple Bar
Tritons
Panthers
Rams
Ulysses
Christopher Columbus
St. Domingo
Pan
Tzenarus
Periander
Plivy
Lohengrin
Pheg
Polonius
Hebride Isles
Basle
Central
Queer Cat Hospital
Garibaldi
Versailles
Suffrage For the Fair
Nye
Puck
Far West
Ethel
Pall Mall Gazette
London
China
Edward
Arthur Hale
Harvard Advocate
Polecon
Williams Athenwum
Yale Courant
Ming
Fretlich
Mr. O
CW. I. Stringham
Harvard
Advi
Yale Record
Martin
Cwilliams Athenium
Fra Angelico
T. C. Pease
Tempora
Mores
Yale News
Pew
Helen French
Acta Columbiana
Amherst
Newport
W. Curtis
Harvard Crimson
Condillac
LF. W. Loring
Miss Flyrte
Miss Flytte
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