The Captain Who Lost His Voice At Sea Wall
A Civil War era tale recounts Commodore H. H. Lockwood, a West Point graduate and mathematician, famed for his stammer. While drilling cadets at Annapolis, his tongue failed at the water’s edge, sending 100 cadets tumbling over the sea wall as officers nearby roared with laughter.
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H. H. Lockwood
Uncle Sam
Army
Navy
West Point
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Chicago Inter Ocean
Lockwood
Naval Service
Sea Wall
Stuart’s Tender Heart and a Confederate Hero
A veterans club recounts J E B Stuart’s tender side after his daughter Flora’s death. The tale recalls his stoic wartime bearing, faith in duty, and the moment he wept upon hearing the news. Brief anecdotes from staff and later comments mix with unrelated gossip columns about marriages and fortunes.
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New York Tribune
J. E. B. Stuart
Virginia
Jeb
Flora
van Borcke
Stuart
Sam
Philadelphia Bulletin
Mule in the War Delights Beem with a Mule Driven Rescue
General Beem recalls a Civil War anecdote from the Ninth Illinois cavalry using mules. Surgeon Grelick, riding a stubborn mule, faced Confederate riders in an Atlanta campaign skirmish. When pressed, the mule refused to move and the surgeon fired over his back at a rear foe. A Confederate rider fell his horse, broke free, and the rider was captured by Grelick as the mule urged the surgeon forward toward our lines. The doctor praised the mule’s stubborn cunning rather than blame it.
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Chicago Journal
Martin Beem
Ninth
Ilinois
Atlanta
Yellow Streak and Courage in a Civil War Tale
A veteran reflects on natural cowardice through a Civil War anecdote in which a Confederate soldier abandons front line duty but loses only part of a finger. The account contrasts bravest fighters with the man who failed under pressure and ends with a naval battalion’s comical retreat near Richmond under Admiral Tucker.
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New Orleans Times
Demorat
South
Confederacy
Maj. Stiles
Richmond
Lee
Appomattox
Admiral Tucker
Tucker
Home Gymnastics and Chair Exercises Popularize Physical Culture
The article notes a surge in home and chair based physical training as schools of body development spread nationwide. It highlights front-leaning poses, leg raises, and full extensions with chairs shoulder-width apart, praising benefits while warning about high fees and limited leisure time for many would-be athletes.
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Times
Domestic Gymnastics From Two Chairs
A household gymnastic method uses two solid chairs and 15 minutes daily to mirror a gym course. The regimen requires rising early or retiring later, simple loose clothing, and a structured home routine for body development without gym fees or fixed hours.
Chair Gymnastics and Back Leaning Exercises Guide
Instruction on seated back lean and arm movements to build strength and vigor. Emphasizes using deep seated, rounded backs chairs, gradual progression, and thorough rub down to conclude sessions. Highlights that regular, steady practice improves muscle suppleness and overall health.
Radium cures urged for pulmonary tuberculosis proposal
Scientist Frederick Soddy proposes radium gas as a direct lung treatment enabling irradiation of diseased tissue. He notes high cost and the impracticality of inserting radium into lungs, but suggests breathing radium gas with air could aid pathologists. Other notes discuss lupus cure and cancer implants.
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Frederick Soddy
Rutherford
McGill Universit
Montreal
Scientific American
Soddy
Queer Weather Station At Atlantic City Draws Crowds
A peculiar oval weather station near the Atlantic City Boardwalk, painted red white and blue, cost 3000 dollars and stands as a landmark visible for miles. It houses a glass front weather map showing daily forecasts and wind data sent from Washington to the state observatory, allowing visitors to study weather at any time nearby.
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Atlantic City
Pennsylvania Avenue
Minneapolis Tribune
Uncle Sam
Central Weather Bureau
Washington
State Observatory
Shell” Station
Fatal heart case in football tragedy underscores need for medical screening
A Baltimore medical student collapsed and died during a football contest while resting. The incident, noted by the New York Herald, shows the player had long suffered from heart disease and might have been kept from strenuous activity. The piece urges stricter prep and fitness checks in football.
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i+ Baltimore
New York Herald
Ical
TOLD IN ENGLAND. Royalty Myth Told By Continental Hotel Keeper
A London Truth writer reports a continental hotel keeper told a friend a tale about who teaches royalty in America. The anecdote frames a myth of tutelage and influence, reflecting gossip on royal circles and U S social hierarchies.
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London Truth
Woman exhumed husband’s grave to fund trips to fair
A widow in a southern city exhumed her late husband from a cemetery plot bought before their marriage. She had the body railroaded 50 miles away and reburied, then sold the original plot for $600 and spent the proceeds on attending the world’s fair in Chicago, portraying herself as a shrewd financier.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Chieese
Mecca
Painless Death in Anthracite Mines Cited by Sun
The New York Sun notes the silent danger of burning culm banks in Pennsylvania mines. Fires burn beneath ash layers, emitting a dim glow at night while robbing miners and passersby of safety as thir precarious flames go unseen.
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Pennsylvania
New York Sun
The Dark and Sioux Names in a Fringed Coat
A narrative fragment describes The Dark leaving a village at night while children fear him then sleep peacefully until dawn. It references Hattie Whitney of Youth's Companion and mentions Will Jordan receiving the name Red Cloud on turning eighteen. A photo shows him wearing a Sioux scalp coat with crow and older chief Spotted Tail heritage. The article notes the fringe is made from many crow scalps and that such coats were once common but are now rare.
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Hattie Whitney
Jorian
Wee- Washte
Will Jordan
Red Cloud
Spotted
Romance of the West Noted Sioux Chief Is White Descent Hero
A Brooklyn Eagle account chronicles Will Jordan a Sioux chief and halfbreed linked to Magpe Luta Red Cloud and Castle Jordan in Ireland through a noble English Irish line. His father Col Charles Jordan wed a Sioux princess Wee-Washte, with a council granting consent under strict language provisos for their marriage and future offspring.
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Will Jordan
Gallinger
Mayo
Will
Magpe-Luta
Red Cloud
John DeCoursey
Galinger
Jordan River
Jordan
Castle Jordan
County Meath
Ireland
United States
Charles Jordan
Great Plains
Col. Jordan
Plains
Wee-Washte
Brooklyn Eagle
Gtand
How a Bird Dresses and Other Odd Bits From 1900s News
A Victorian style collection notes birds preening to stay warm, why canaries groom feathers, and how clean plumage preserves heat. It adds Paris gossip on the Italian king’s horse mounting and a French scientist on wild animals sea habits. Also lists cheese varieties by country.
The Badge of Regal Night in a Hotel Parlor
A wealth American paid £20 to sleep in the same hotel bed as Queen Victoria. The plan collapsed when it was learned the monarch traveled with her own bed and bedding. Galileo and Urban V are discussed regarding Copernican debates and Inquisition politics. Hops output and odd notes on animals, architecture, and Alaskan salmon feature in this miscellany.
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Galileo
Urban
Simplicio
Urban VII
Inquisition
Infernal toothpick contraption described in old instructions
A fragmented set of steps explains constructing a demon figure from toothpicks, cork, and wax. It details laying two crosswise sticks, placing a third to divide the cross, adding two more across the ends, shaping limbs from toothpicks, mounting the figure on a tumbler, and then lighting a match to ignite the apparatus.
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Burns
Bostos
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Lake Champlain
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Philadelphia Press
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Detroit
England
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Romance OF the West
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Detroit Free Press
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Italy
le Cria de Paris
Ecole de Saumur
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Boulanger
France
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Switzerland
Denmark
Senor
Philippe Bunau-Varilla
Eugene Petit
Pellegrin
Alaska
Senor Bunan-Varilla
Republic of
Panaxia
Morgan
Alabama
Nicaragua
Panama
M. Bunau-Varilla
Roosevelt
New England
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