Blood and Iron in Stewart's Plantation Fight Arkansas 1862
Albert G. Brackett recounts a fierce June 27 1862 clash near Stewart's plantation Arkansas as Union Ninth Illinois Cavalry led by Major Wallis and Brackett push to reinforce, face Colonel Matlock's Confederate force. Dense woods slow advances, heavy fire, and high casualties mark a stubborn engagement that slows Confederate foraging and gates a crucial quartermaster train, boosting Curtis's Helena march.
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Philadelphia Times
Stewart's Plantation
Arkansas
Matlock
Army of the Southwest
Illinois Cavalry
Wallis
Iowa Cavalry
Alvin H. Griswold
Ninth
Ilinois Cavalry
Village Creek
Brackett
Third Iowa Cavalry
Stewart
Texas
Captain Knight
Kentucky
Deller Lban
Confedrates
Corfield
Ninth Dilinvis Cavalry
Blackburn
Curtis
Mississippi River
Helena
Grandmother the Pioneer Healer and Family Pillar
A Detroit Free Press reminiscence honors grandmothers who tended fever with drafts and remedies, soothed mourners, and held families together. The piece remembers a gray haired, wrinkle faced matriarch who guided healing, comforted sorrow, and remained a revered cornerstone of home.
CampinG Out. Woodlands Life Through Green Glass Goggles
A humorous Puck essay catalogues the typical camping scene with tents, blankets, a hole serving as kitchen, a dog, and lazy campers. It wryly notes sunburned noses, improvised meals, and misadventures in boating and bathing. Romance is treated as safer away from camp.
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Puck
Or. IV
Life Under the Sea The Denizens of the Ocean and Their Habits
An Enquirer report details a diver’s underwater observations from a glass bottom boat and later a helmeted suit. He describes fish behavior, coral forests, a Spanish cannon wreck, early underwater photography hopes, and a tale of a land walking fish observed in Spice Islands waters.
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Cincinnati Rnquirer
Enquirer
Florida Reef
Spain
Queer Cures for Insomnia in a New York Letter
A Cincinnati Enquirer New York letter jokes about public speakers battling insomnia. John B. Gough says he reads to quiet the mind after two hour lectures. Lyman Beecher used sand in his cellar, moving it to soothe thoughts. A man recites Gray's Elegy nightly, another counts to 100 until sleep comes.
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New York Letter
Cincinnati Enquirer
John B. Gough
Lyman Beecher
Brooklyn
Gray
Life Morality Like Medicine Ends With Necessary Costs
Morality is compared to medicine, sharing letter start and disagreeable nature yet necessary at times. Both cost more than worth, better talked about than used, and serve lucrative professions. The text notes their use when a man is going ahead with life, implying a cautionary view.
Monster Water Fish Found Near Camp
A hunter fired at a creature that slithered through grass and woke others when killed. The six foot long fish had a small head and oversized scales. It breathed both air and water, fed on vegetation, and emitted a barking sound by expelling air from its air bladder as it roamed the flats.
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Australia
The Property Man and His Theatre Craft
A Philadelphia Times portrait of the theatre property man, detailing his crucial duties from organizing props and letters to making or securing furnishings and stage items. It explains how this backstage role prevents delays, handles firearms, creates counterfeit stage treasures, and sources borrowings to fit productions.
Leading a Calf on Michigan Avenue in Detroit
A determined woman walked a calf along Michigan Avenue toward Fifth Street. The animal balked and dragged her, prompting taunts from bystanders. After a tense, comic struggle, the rope broke and the calf fled while she shouted at the crowd and police for help.
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Detroit Free Press
Michigan Avenue
Fifth Street
Advertising Through the Ages A Watch on Public Notice
Long survey of advertising history from Pompeian tablets to modern street signs, shop windows and peripatetic bill posters. Describes ancient emblems for bakers and physicians, the evolution of signs in London and New York, the art of window displays, and famous 19th century advertisers like Dr Wagge, P T Barnum and Lydia Pinkham.
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Pompei
Philadelphia Times
Alto Reflevo
Rome
London
Wagee
America
Europe
Philadelphia
Paris
Chestnut Street
Northwest
Dr. Wagge
P. T. Barnum
Lydia Pinkham
Fishing with Cormorants Off Formosa
A narrator describes an elderly boatman in Formosa who trains cormorant birds for fishing. The keeper sits with a pipe as birds dive, catch carp and other fish, transfer them to live baskets, and discard oversized catches. The scene paints a colonial exotic practice with detailed observer notes.
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Formosa
Old Putwan
Prairie Hungry for the Prairies and Liberty of the West
A piece expresses longing for the prairie life across Kansas and Nebraska, contrasting it with mountains. The narrator imagines endless wind sweeping treeless plains, calling the prairies a symbol of freedom and escape, while noting planned Ardmore as a wait for the prairies to come.
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J. Burdette
Prairies
Indiana
Kentucky
Pararies
Boston
Great Plains
Kansas
Manhattan
Great
Larned
Sam
Sean
Ardmore
William H. Mahomet
Gait and character judged by stride in Alta California
A column analyzes how walking style reveals personality and vice, contrasting delicate steps with decisive strides. It notes petty theft risk, criminal treads learned in prison treadmills, and how noblesse gait signals integrity, while thieves often counterfeit but rarely succeed.
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Alta California
England
Neagtad
Alway
A Hotel in the Sea in Beyrout New Orleans Style
A hotel built over the water offers rooms with a glass balcony looking seaward as the Mediterranean shimmers. Sea conditions vary from gentle swashes to uproar, creating an illusion of being at sea. Fish gather beneath the balcony, with nets catching many and even a torpedo incident briefly occurring.
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Beyrout
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Sam
Mediterranean
How the Blarney Stone Its Kissed
Baltimore Sun report recalls Rev. Dr. J. W. M. Williams trip to Ireland. He describes being lowered headfirst to kiss the Blarney Stone at Blarney Castle with two helpers gripping his feet, nose in the way, and saluting a party member afterward.
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Baltimore Sun
Europe
J. W. M. Williams
Ireland
Cork
Blarney Castle
Embarrassing Blunder in a Message
Mr Saunders proprietor of Woodland Democrat sent a telegram to Oakland, California. The message read Cannot be down till Thursday foreman drunk then delivered as Cannot come down till Thursday forenoon drunk causing puzzling speculation among friends.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Saunders
Woodland Democrat
Oakland
Cal
I Wish I Was an Angel Way Up High
A Rehoboth Sunday Herald item retells Little Willie who threw rocks at schoolboys and hid. After a rough chase he burst into his aunt's house in tears, crying that he wished to be an angel where policemen could not catch him and his pockets would hold rocks.
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Rehoboth
Little Willie
Tiem Boya
Paris Figaro
Annual farewell of bric a brac items and verses
A mosaic of light verse and humor from a 19th or early 20th century page, listing short poems, quips, and songs. It weaves titles like Cleopatra and The World My Love and I with jokes about careless manners, flirting, and a ditty about a musical neighborhood, reflecting period gossip and entertainment.
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Sherman
Wue Wella
Aew
Knight
Albert G. Brackett
Jefferson Barracks
Grandma
Grandmother
Mexico
New York
Niagara Falls
Spice Islands
Hull
Old Pompeii
Jeremiah Green
Dickens
Captain Cuttle
Telon Parle Francaise
la Musee
Kensington
Fifth Avenue
Tom Rnson
St. Paul’s Church
Harlem
N. Y
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Coast
Russia
Rehoboth Sunday Herald
St. Savier
Moscow
Prince of Humorists
New York Star
William H. Hayne
Somerville Journal
Donald
Laird
Marcia Pakenham Beatty
Brooklyn Eagle
State
Ot Sveh
Walter
Edward A. Fuller
Oae
Cleopatra
Alexander Macauley
Antony
Egypt
CR. J. Burdette
Bill
S. B
Burdette
Buffalo Express
James
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