Spellin Bee at Angel's and the Wrathful James tale
A dramatic tale recounts Truthful James narrating a dangerous spellin bee at Angel's with grown men playing schoolboys, ending in a fatal barroom fight as the ill fated contestants confront a labored test of words and blades. The piece contrasts a rural schooling tale with a grim moral about violence.
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James
Jinny
Angel's
Jim
Sutter's Fork
Bilson
Lagrange
Angel
Bret Harte
Scribner
Plague Peculiarities at the South
A writer compares yellow fever patterns this year across New Orleans districts. Fatal cases appear higher in clean well kept areas like the Garden District and Magazine Street, while poorer filthy blocks show milder illness and recoveries. Observations include the Birckmier family near Washington Street Cemetery who have remained fever free.
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Nice
Isley and Son
Camp
West Charles
Magazine Street
Prytania Street
Barnes
Euterpe Street
St. Charles
Carondelet
Drayman
Washington Street
Washington, Sixth
Prytania
Coliseum
Birckmier
The Petersburg Mine Disaster and a Surgeon’s Tale
An eyewitness account of the July 30, 1864 Petersburg crater explosion. A surgeon recalls the collapse, the fate of Lieut Hill and Sergt Greer, and the desperate struggle to escape a buried living grave. Hill emerges pale with whitened hair and both men survive against the odds.
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Grant
Petersburg
Virginia
South Carolina
Fleming
W. H. Wallace
Judge Wallace
Williard Hill
Sergt. Greer
Federal
Twenty-Second
South Carolina Volunteers
Col. Fleming
McComich
Bridgis
Hill
Sergeant Greer
Greer
Toilow
Field Hospital
Lieut. Hill
No romance in station tragedy says Dr Huey Torano
Dr Huey Torano of Jacksonville Alabama states the events he witnessed are factual and undisguised by romance, asserting the subject still lives to confirm the account. The report reflects a direct, unsentimental recount from a medical observer.
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Brooklyn Navy Yard
Naval Bureau of Construction and Iron and Glass Manufacturers
Isherwood
United States
Faraday
Grace Church
Navy Department
Salisbury
Huey Torano
Jacksonville
Ala
Desperado Bill Longley Ends Dread Career in Texas
The New York Sun recounts William P. Longley alias Bill Longley, hanged in Giddings Texas, as a handsome yet ruthless figure who began crime at fifteen. He escaped multiple attempts on his life, killed a Methodist of former ally, hunted by vigilantes, and enacted brutal murders including Reverend Ray and a soldier, before final capture in Nacogdoches County and execution after lengthy appeals.
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William P. Longley
Bill Longley
Giddings
Tex
Longley
Texas
Rio Grande
Black Hills
Arkansas
West
Desperado
Nacogdoches County
New York Sun
Daughter and Wife A harsh maternal warning from a periodical
The piece warns that a sulky ill tempered daughter who shirks domestic duties will likely make a future wife wretched and a bad match for a worthy man. It contrasts such behavior with mothers burdened by chores and notes the value of practical aids like onions for sleep and a tonic Dr Burt’s Coven Syrup to fight a cough.
Farmhouse Recipes and Practical Household Tips
A compilation of cooking methods and farm care advice including pudding and pie recipes, beef tea preparation, sponge handling in stables, galls cure for draught animals, and rice croquettes with steps, ingredients, and serving ideas. The notes emphasize efficient feeding, garden value, and simple kitchen science from the era.
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Elmira Farmers’ Club
Beef and ham curing recipe and brief humorous snippets
A Boston Journal correspondent reprints an old beef and ham curing recipe with salt sugar saltpeter and saleratus plus water and molasses options and notes on keeping and refreshing brine. The page also includes a light joke about lighter men and a classroom quote with a Kansas school board advert.
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Boston Journal
Hop Bitters Cures Wife After Long Illness
A Detroit man recalls his wife’s decade of bed confinement and failed cures before trying Hop Bitters after seeing a flag advertisement. Two bottles restored her health at a cost of two dollars, and she is now strong again.
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U. S
H. W
Detroit
Mich
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Hop Bitters Mfg Co
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Country
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RGF
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Jackson Street
Aether
Johnson
Laurel Wreate
Sue
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Tilden
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C.H. Ditson & Co
J. EF. Ditson & Co
Chestnut St
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Lockport
Merchant’s
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