War Guns and Fortifications Across the Niagara Era
The article reviews Paixhan and Dahlgren guns including 9 and 11 inch shells, their ranges, fuse timing, and handling. It notes Niagara ship armament, fortification features like casements and embrasures, plus terminology such as barbatte and loopholes. It then runs brief tidbits on preservation of text, dental care, cow urine yields, and advertising tips.
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Dahlgreen
United States Navy
Niagara
Broooklyn Navy Yard
Scientific American
The Kentish Couple And St Mark The Saint Night
A tale of Master Giles and a Kentish dame quarrelling over a fowl liver ends in shared superstition on St Mark night. They rival each other to the church porch and, after a humorous misread of fate, endure years of tepid coexistence and mutual doom talks.
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Lewis
Giles
St. Mark
Virgil
Caotr
Dame
Gore
St. Martin
St Thomas
Theo
Fairthorr Gap
Earthquake Tales From Chile Reach The United States
A Providence Post letter discusses a severe Chilean earthquake of April 1861. Mendoza and San Juan were destroyed with vast loss of life, while Santiago suffered minor damage. The account notes widespread ruin, collapsed churches, and displaced residents, with only fragmentary news reaching the east. A later item recalls a Massachusetts regiment arrival at Broadway and Fifth Avenue and local anecdotes from New York Evening Post.
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Providence Post
Chili
Sastiano
Cains
Aiias
United States
Callao
Mendoza
Santiago
Saino Fite
Agentine Republic
San Juan
Walla
San Martin
Manurenran Soliigen
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Massachusetts
Marblehead
New York Evening Post
Lincoln Proclaims Volunteers and Expanded Navy 1861
President Abraham Lincoln declares a call for 42,034 volunteers for three years and increases the regular army by eight infantry regiments, one cavalry and one artillery regiment, plus 18,000 naval seamen. The proclamations outline enrollment details to be issued by the War and Navy Departments and urge citizen cooperation to restore peace. The document also includes a separate, lengthy sermon-like passage reflecting on Christian life amid persecution.
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U. States
Abraham Lincoln
United States
War Department
Regular Army
Department of War
Naval Service of the United States
Department of the Navy
Pan
Congress
Washington
WM HI Seward
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Enoch Breere
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Richard J. Arnold
William Foster
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WM. P. Monro
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Hope Street
B. Tilley
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Whitney
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Faber
George H. Whitney
Pape
George H. Farrington
O’ Wolf
Eason L. Slocum
Westminster Street
Exchange Bank
Providence, RI
Neason W. Pierce, Jr
Picture Frame Factory
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