Sheridan Compared With Wellington and Blucher in Victory
A review lauds Sheridan for bold strategic vision in Virginia, likening his campaigns to Wellington and Blucher. It praises his late-war pursuit of Early, his rise to lieutenant general, and argues time proves the Union cause vindicated as leaders like Grant, Sheridan, and others gain lasting recognition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gath
Cincinnati Enquirer
Grant
Sheridan
Secon
Lea
Petersburg
Wellington
Blucher
Napoleon
Spanish
Virginia
Europe
Iberian Peninsula
Army of the Potomac
Army of the Southwest
Shurman
Les
Garnet Wolseley
Lee
Abyssinia
Dahomey
United States
South
Washington
Union
Sharman
Thomas Pare
Nics
Hudson
Chicamauga
Schofield
Lyon
Hancock
Gettysburg
Pope
Abraham Lincoln
McClellan
McPherson
Republic
Mourning Widow Guards Door After Tragic News
In a somber scene a wife learns of her husband’s death and weeps unseen. She mourns in silence, forgives his past shame, and heads to his home with longing to see him again, while friends keep watch at the door to protect him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sora
Applause from One-Armed Men in Swedish Fedora Performance
A crowd applauds Sarah in Fedora in Sweden but laughs at two one- armed men seen in the third gallery joining their limbs to applaud. The high society in boxes grows indignant as the duo’s act draws attention and sparks Reaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah
Sweden
Secn
Fretful Americans Said by British Critic
A British critic contrasts Americans as fretful and nervous in public spaces. He notes most Englishmen appear anxious while seeking their rights, and recalls a decade without such tension except when Herbert Spencer slept unable to stop winking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay Chariton
Herbert Spencer
Man Signs Year-Long Contract with Farmer for Daughter and Gun
A young man near Abbeville Alabama reportedly agreed to work a year for a farmer's daughter in return for a double barreled shotgun. He fulfilled the vow and is said to be content afterward.
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Abbeville
Do Fashionable Women Swear In Polite Society
A Cincinnati Enquirer vignette describes Clara Belle at the opera faust in Italian, her gown tearing after a heavy man tramples the train, and the narrator noting fashionable women's mild profanity as appropriate to New York society. Names and exact phrases reflect period vernacular.
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Clara Belle
Cincinnati Enquirer
Drafs
New
Opera House
Cristis
Faust
Marguerite
Tere
Toarbie
Fifth-avenue
Australians Demonstrate Curved Boomerang Flight in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia a group of native Australians astonished onlookers with crescent shaped boomerangs. They grasped the weapon by the ear and cast it to travel straight about 200 feet then curve upward, swing back behind the origin, veer again, and finally strike the ground near the thrower as the wheel like blades spun rapidly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Pitcaar
Mourning Garb Discussed by Chicago Scholar
Dr. Julia Holmes Smith presented a paper on mourning attire at a Chicago gathering of the Association for the Advancement of Women. She described global customs, noting examples from China, the South Sea Islands, Persia, Syria, Armenia, Egypt, and Jewish and Christian practices, and observed how grief rituals shift toward hopeful symbols over time.
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Chicago
Association For the Advancement of Women
Julia Holmes Smith
Sout Sea
Syria
Armenia
Peculiar Montana Camp Antidote For Drunken Boasts
A Colorado era letter describes an odd method at a Montana camp where inebriated boastful men are humbled by a trusted friend who administers a sharp corrective at the rear of a saloon before helping them to bed. The writer notes the remedy as straightforward, frank, and potentially broadly useful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anaconda
Montana
United States
Margery Sherman and the Circus Name for a Moment
Margery, an orphan raised in Heidelberg, marries in the Church of the Holy Three Kings after a life mixed with Uncle Jack and a European school. Timothy Twycross, the famed clown, secretly redeems a past by christening Margery’s future and watching from the margins as a ringmaster’s life and a professor’s face cross paths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. B. Wi
Independent
Fraulein
Margery
Margery Sherman
Heidelkerz
Jack
Robert Brown
Church of the Holy Three Kings
Dr. Brown
Margetry
Timothy
St. Paul's Rectory
Furn
England
Tommorrow
St. Paul's
Lakey
Nother
Bakey
Mila Elise Viviani
Milo
Elise
Sukey
Helderbers
John Sherman
Frau Morgenstern
Frau Zip
Heidelberg
Crown Prince
Sweden
Timothy Twycross
Sophie
Mr. Sherman
Imi
Tim
Jacl
Uncle Jack
Himelf
Fran Zip
Royal London Circus
The Tribulations of a Kunny Man
The editor of a humorous paper should be pitied he must wear caps and bells and write yards of humor whether he is in the humor. Old worn jokes are dumped on him, mailed by friends with praise and urged for publication. They predate the glacial era and have drifted through time, never losing their stale charm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peek
Sun
The Dullness of Humor in Proctor Knott Venture
Col Roberts G Ingersoll critiques Proctor Knott and Spofford's humorous literature project. He argues strictly humorous books dull quickly, praising humor drawn from contrast with serious life and newspaper records rather than pure wit. He envisions a work analyzing humor with selective illustrations by the right author.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Roberts G. Ingersoll
Proctor Knott
New York
Three Millionaires Show Money to Buy New Jersey
An New Jersey aging man visited a New York common pleas courtroom where Jay Gould Russell Sage and Cyrus W Field were present. After two hours of scrutiny he declared he could go home satisfied for he had seen three men with wealth enough to buy the whole of New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Herald
New Jersey
Common Pleas
New York
Jay Gould
Russell Sage
Cyrus W. Field
Forgot to Cry in New York News Brief
A short, simple scene shows a young girl crying on the floor while a parent explains she was not allowed to go downtown. The moment shifts to a cue of reflection and a Russian proverb about manners at table.
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New York News
A Rural Home Glimpse: Garden Views and Cozy Details
The fragment surveys a picturesque yard surrounding a cottage with latticed roses and a warm porch. It notes a bright autumn glow near the entrance, flowering plants, and simple furnishings like pressed ferns and small framed pictures. The writer muses on home life, suggesting a peaceful, nature-bound setting and careful, tidy care.
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