A Flying Roll Sermon on the Newspaper's Power and Trials
Dr. Talmage frames the newspaper as a flying roll that educates and shapes society. He lauds editors, reporters, and printers while warning of abuses, stresses dangers of overwork and temptation, and urges faith and ethical duty to uplift journalism and humanity.
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Christendom
Italy
Venice
Solyman II
Dalmatia
England
English Mercury
Secret Owl
Heraclitus Aidens
Bells Weekly Dispatch
the Standard
The
Morning Chronicle
the Post
Times
France
Napoleon
Paris
United States
Germany
Boyle
de Tocqueville
Xenophon
Herodotus
Percival
Lazarus
Death
Hell
Pulaskis
Peter Scheffer
Hamlets Authorship Debate Spurs Mixed Feelings
A countryman who saw Hamlet buys the play and asks who wrote it. The bookseller notes a dispute over Shakespeare or Bacon as authors. The countryman grumbles that whoever wrote it was a darned feller, musing that a buss never comes with the front.
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Hamlet
Shakspeare
Bacon
War Annals Anecdotes of Battle and Camp Life
Old soldiers from both sides recount past campaigns the weary marches and the campfire humor of Civil War era campaigns. Tales cover the front lines marching ordeals and moments of rest as veterans reflect on enduring memories.
Tales of Paggy and the Eleventh Infantry Pranks
A 1864 Alexandria Virginia camp tale recalls Corporal Paggy leading a late night liberty plot. The crew uses a culvert bluff and a guard trap then feigns discipline with a log push to escape. Captain Rivers at Harper’s Ferry earns praise for a bold counterattack and no quarter.
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Eleventh
United States Infantry
Alexandria
Virginia
Corporalile
Paggy
Alexandria and Richmond
Pagzy
Chicago Ledger
Nighttime Siege at Harper's Ferry 1864
In January 1864 twenty thousand troops, led by General Sullivan, manned winter quarters around Harper's Ferry as Maryland Heights Bolivar and Loudon Heights bristled with cannon. The frosty night offered no danger thoughts to men as fires burned and guards marched, while the icy Potomac and frozen river bridges framed a stark, silent standoff.
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Harper's Ferry
Virginia
Maryland
Sullivan
Maryland Heights
Potomac
Bolivar
Loudon Heights
Horrific Confederate Prisoner Car Scene From Wilmington
Report from Philadelphia Sunday Republic describes a morning arrival near Wilmington of Confederate prisoners on iron platform cars. Guards fled, officers aided dying men, civilians offered tea, and a brutal march of emaciated, naked figures followed.
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H. G. Dodge
Philadelphia
Sunday Republic
Atmin
Wilmington
Hell
Dante
Morgan
Florence
Knapsacks and War Tales From a Civil War Rebel
A New Yorker and former rebel soldier recalls ill fitting packs in the war era. He describes de Neuville prints showing heavy marching gear and his own stripped down kit favoured at Gettysburg. He notes boiled shirts, bric a brac, and finally packing light with a blanket and poncho while enduring hard conditions.
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de Neuville
Gettysburg
Soldier's Fun at Barracks with Bold English Interloper
A Boston Budget contributor recalls barrack life where two to three companies camped in shelter tents as a tall English private in Company F, nicknamed The American Protector, shares a bent nose and eccentric habits. He boasts bluffing skill, plays for cash, and claims no living relatives.
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Boston
A Soldier’s Death at Shiloh Told by General Hickenlooper
The account recalls General Hickenlooper at Shiloh describing a torn tent scene with two wounded men, a Union boy and a Confederate, the boy’s dying words to tell his mother where he was found, and the enduring sorrow of mothers awaiting their sons. The reminiscence ends with a poem by d. W. Wickham in the Chicago Ledger.
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Horace Greeley
Christ
God
Canal Street
Judgment
Dives
Mam
Throne of God
Willie
Seelyn
Camap
North Carolina
Burnside
Hickenlooper
Shiloh
Aseus
Stumaner
D. W. Wickham
Chicago Ledger
Child with Papa's Gun at Gettysburg Legend
General Hancock recalled a girl near the Union lines at Gettysburg. She carried her father’s rifle, cried that “Papa’s dead, but here’s my papa’s gun,” and inspired Hancock with quiet reverence for the cause.
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Hancock
Gettysburg
General Hancock
Papa
Coneral Hancock
Herose Candee
Wedding Party at Rice's Station Split by Whirlwind
A violent whirlwind struck Rice's Station breaking up a wedding party and injuring nearly 100 people. Local authorities assist as injured guests receive aid and the scene is cordoned off for damage assessment.
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Rice’s Station
Terrifying Minnesota Cyclone Leaves Death and Desolation
Reports recount fifty eight killed across St. Cloud Sauk Rapids and Rice Station with over one hundred injured. Devastation hits Sauk Rapids and St. Cloud core as a wedding party perishes near Rice Station. homes and depots destroyed, bodies and wreckage scattered for miles.
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Cloud
Minn
St. Cloud
Saukes
Rice’s
Sauk
Rice
Sauk Rapids
Northern Pacific Railroad
Agyrahauge
Deswoyer
le Byer
Register of Deeds
Beaupre
Rice Station
Northern Pacific Road
John Shuiz
Mamie
Gustavus Smith
Eyelone
Ony
Addy
Mamitobs
Jamestown
Oak
Minnesota
Wisconsin
J. A. Demeules
Nea Georgee
Dors
Cyclone disaster sweeps Iowa towns with multiple deaths
Dispatches report a powerful cyclone moving at near ninety miles per hour across Griswold Audubon Taylor County and Pocahontas County. Dozens of dwellings destroyed, several killed and many seriously wounded, with extensive property loss and fearsome damage to barns and stock.
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Omaha
Iowa
Griswold
Audubon
Taylor County
Pocahontas
Wheeler Grove
Bedford
Knox
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Cardinal Wolsey
Church of God
Hazlitt
Sheridan
John Milton
Grub Street
London
Oliver Goldsmith
Linaces
de Foe
Johnson
WAR Annals
Shenandoah
Saul
London Heights
Potomac Home Brigade
Captain Rivers
Baltimore
Loudon
Sibley
Rivers
Major Jones
Daizell
Ter
Aurora
Tex
Wetmore
Kansas
Schubert
Neb
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