Yorktown Siege Manuscripts Discovered in Paris After 115 Years
A Paris discovery reveals a contemporary Rochambeau diary of the Yorktown campaign from August 15 to October 19, 1781, along with an engineer’s siege diary and a color map. The manuscripts, likely original papers carried by Count de Deux-Ponts, were secured by Dodd, Mead & Co. The Rochambeau material remains unpublished in full.
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Paris
Count de Roean
Hudson
America
George Washington
State Department
Washington
Count de Rochambeau
Department of War
France
Daniel
Gazette de France
Pennsylvania Gazette
Almon
Rochambeau
Duke de Lauzun
Segur
Count de Deux-Ponts
Department of State
United States
Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co
New York City
St. Louis Republic
Dwarf Casan Rises to Khan in Mongolian Battle
Mrs. Mary Shears Roberts recounts Casan the Tar tar dwarf serving under Genghis Khan. In a pitched river battle Casan leads troops on his charger, earns praise from the conqueror, and is proclaimed a khan with command of a large force.
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Mary Shears Roberts
St. Nicholas
Casan
China
Genghis Khan
Dasan
Western Sea
Lung Ting
Irush
Silk Worms Come to Europe Through Sticks
The article recounts how silk production reached Europe. Chinese rulers guarded their silkworm eggs, torturing any who attempted to smuggle. Two pilgrims succeeded by concealing eggs in staffs and presenting them to the pope in Rome, thereby starting Europe’s silk industry.
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Europe
China
Rome
Strand Magazine
Shakespearean Dollars and a Brave Trumpeter Tale
The piece cites Shakespearean uses of the word dollar in Measure for Measure and Macbeth, and recounts an Africa campaign story from Youth's Companion about Trumpeter Escoffier saving Captain De Cott. Escoffier's courage earns respect from Arab captors who admire his trumpet signals and bravely rallying the company.
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Africa
Escoffier
de Cott
College Fashion and Student Life at Harvard in the 1870s
The piece describes freshmen wearing tall hats and canes at term start, their theater outings on weekends along Beacon Street Boston, and a popular gray soft hat for daily wear. It notes hard times 1870s era men wearing old clothes and short pea jackets, with silk hats for a swell look. It recalls a class of 1574 suit of lively checks hung from a window, and yard life with window shouts Heads out. The Glee club performance of Nellie, Dearest maiden, and Ha-ha-ha, you and me is mentioned with Harvard lore.
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Beacon Street
Boston
Holworthy
Cambridge
Glee Club
Nellie
Harvard College
Robert Grant
Scribner’s
Primpas Praised For Breezy, Pleasant Demeanor
Pittsburg News notes Soxey and Knozey praising Primpas as one of the nicest men encountered, highlighting his breezy, bracing air and friendly manner in brief local testimony.
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Soxey
Primpas
Knozey
Pittsburg News
The New Woman and the Consul Debate
ELiza Archard Conner argues for women as consuls and civic participants, noting language skills and trade aid as duties. She cites American women able to fill ambassadorial roles, urges appointing widows and daughters of soldiers, and contrasts domestic labor with public service.
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McKinley
Major McKinley
Union
The Patent Medicine Man
A New York Sun profile recalls an inventor who tried a countrywide free-distribution plan to launch a patent medicine. He describes two decades of effort, early rejection by druggists, doctors, and fairs, and a staged relay driven marketing push that eventually sparked public demand after a long drought.
English Shopkeepers and the Sea: A Nation of Traders?
A London Spectator note argues Britons are by nature seafaring and struggle driven, not money focused. It traces historic disdain for merchants and bankers, the slow shift toward valuing industry and wealth, and the lingering social gap between shopkeepers and professionals.
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Tottenham Court Road
Brassey
Coke
Norfolk
lLondon
Literal interpretations lead to comical mishaps on street
A London Tit Bits tale recounts people misreading signs and acting literally from pawnbrokers to watch window placards. A farmer rings a caretaker bell after reading Please ring the bell for the caretaker, then questions why the bell cannot be rung himself.
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London
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Riverside Block
A. H. Haynes
Maynard, Mass
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South Acton, Mass
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Marlboro Junction
Jonathan P. Bent
Lorenzo Maynard
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Middlesex South District
Maynard
Stow
Henry Mason
Masons
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G.& C. Maynard
One Bird
Old Town Road
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Concord Road
New County Road
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Eapepsis
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H. Maker
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Horace Tuttle
Walden Street
J. C. Friend
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