Marines’ Heroic Stake Turns Into Sea Wall Gaffe
Commodore H H Lockwood a famed officer and mathematician with a stammer turns a drill into a comic drowning scare. While teaching cadets at Annapolis a tongue tie causes a massive command failure as a full company nears the sea wall. The cadets plunge overboard laughing while officers howl with surprise. The incident, noted by the Chicago Inter Ocean, remains a well told tale of his career and nerve.
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H. H. Lockwood
Uncle Sam
Army
Navy
West Point
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Chicago Inter Ocean
Lockwood
Naval Service
Sea Wall
Offcers
Stuart’s Tender Heart and the Lost Cause Tribute
In a veteran club a former Confederate officer known as Jeb shows a tender side as he mourns his daughter Flora’s death. A staffer recalls his stoic life, including his May 1864 wounding and calm acceptance of death. Mrs Stuart’s delayed arrival after news reaches him.
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New York Tribune
King
Virginia
Jeb
Flora
van Borcke
Stuart
Delphia Bulletin
Mule in the War and Courage Tales from the Civil War
Gen Martin Beem recalls a story of a mule stubbornly carrying Dr Grelick during a retreat in the Atlanta campaign. The surgeon fired over his shoulder at a Confederate rider, then the mule chased the rider into Union lines, freeing prisoners and earning praise for the mule’s stubborn cleverness. A New Orleans Times Democrat memory recounts a Confederate soldier who faltered, losing a finger to a sharpshooter while others fought bravely, illustrating the odds of courage in war.
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Chicago Journal
Martin Beem
Ninth Illinois Infantry
Atlanta
Grelick
Alton
New Orleans Times-Democrat
South
Confederacy
Maj. Stiles
Richmond
Lee
Appomattox
Admiral Tucker
Tucker
Two Strong Chairs and Body Development Trends
The piece discusses chair based gymnastic training gaining prominence in a broad audience. It notes schools of body development rising countrywide, praising benefits while warning about two main drawbacks: high fees and limited leisure time that prevent many potential athletes from joining.
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Times
Domestic Gymnastics by Two Chairs and Fifteen Minutes
A guide promotes chair based exercises as a private gymnastic course. It claims rapid fatigue resistance buildup and full body toning with two sturdy chairs and daily fifteen minutes, detailing posture, movement, and cautions for safe practice at home.
Radium Uses Renewed as Lung Tuberculosis Remedy
Scientist Soddy proposes inhaling radium gas to direct rays at diseased lung tissue, potentially treating pulmonary tuberculosis. While radium helps skin diseases and cancer, its high cost may prevent wide use. gas form allows internal exposure without inserting material inside the lungs. Father Lynch seeks Irish immigrants for farming land in Alachua County Florida to settle a new colony. Benedict Arnold’s flagship Royal Savage to be raised from Lake Champlain with relics aboard.
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Frederick Soddy
Rutherford
McGill University
Montreal
Scientific American
Soddy
P. J. Lynch
St. Patrick’s Church
Gainesville
Fla
Alachua County
Florida
Green Isle
Father Lynch
Raine Arnold
William S. Turtle
Benedict Arnold
Lake Champlain
Plattsburg
Weather Shell at Atlantic City Stands As Eye Catcher
The peculiar weather station at the foot of Pennsylvania Avenue on the Atlantic City Boardwalk draws countless visitors. The steel and galvanized iron oval structure cost 3000 dollars, features red white and blue colors, and houses a glass front weather map connected to Washington. It offers near perpetual access to daily weather observations broadcast to the local observatory.
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Atlantic City
Pennsylvania Avenue
Minneapolis Tribune
Uncle Sam
Central Weather Bureau
Washington
State Observatory
Shell” Station
Football perils and a deadly lesson on unfit players
A Baltimore medical student dies of heart failure during a football contest when not in play. The article argues football demands careful screening and training to prevent such tragedies, noting no prior injury and stressing the need to identify physical weakness before hard exercises.
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Baltimore
New York Herald
Mythical American Touched by Royalty, Told in England
A London Truth writer recounts a continental hotel keeper who claims a mysterious American figure interacted with royalty. The tale, framed as a confided anecdote, suggests a surprising link between an American visitor and high society, told as a curious, sensational morsel from London.
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London Truth
Sold Her Husband's Grave For World Fair Profit
A widow, after her husband bought a prime cemetery lot, had his body exhumed and moved 50 miles to Chicago for the World Fair. She then sold the lot for 600 dollars, spending about 75 dollars on reburial, illustrating a sharp if shady financial move.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Chicago
Mecca
Death in the Pennsylvanian coal banks unseen by day
The New York Sun notes the painless death of workers caused by burning culm banks in Pennsylvania’s anthracite mines. Fires glow faintly at night through ash layers, with flames hidden beneath, while tramps and others encounter the dangerous, smoldering piles as they roam nearby.
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Pennsylvania
New York Sun
Lurid Tales and Oddities From a Bygone Age
Anecdotes recount an American paying £20 to sleep in the same bed as a queen in a hotel, only to learn she travels with her own bedding. Other items note Galileo Urban VIII, hops production by the United States, a sleeping bank danger, a pink-faced macaw, rotating houses for heliotherapy, and Alaska supplying half the world’s salmon.
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Ture
Republic of
Panama
Roosevelt
New England
Colombia
The Dark and Native Language Tone Amid Sioux Scalp Coat
A fragment from Youth's Companion references The Dark and a night scene with children fleeing a looming figure. It notes Hattie Whitney and a 25 year marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Jordan, Washte speaking Sioux, and Will Jordan named Red Cloud on his eighteenth birthday, wearing a Sioux scalp coat fringed with Crow scalp remnants amid historical war context.
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Hattie Whitney
Jordan
Wee‘Washte
Will Jordan
Red Cloud
Spotted Tail
Romance of the Wests Siouxborn Leader and White Scout
The piece recounts Will Jordan, a Sioux band chief who is half white, tracing his ancestry to Magpe Luta Red Cloud and to John DeCoursey, Lord of Gallinger. His father Col. Charles Jordan married a Sioux princess, and a council allowed their union with limits: Wee-Washte must learn no English, Sioux only at home, and children may talk English away from home.
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Will Jordan
Gallinger
Mayo
Will
Magpe-Luta
Red Cloud
John DeCoursey
Galinger
Jordan River
Jordan
Charles Jordan
Great Plains
Col. Jordan
Plains
Wee-Washte
Brooklyn Eagle
How a Bird Dresses
A Detroit Free Press inspired piece notes that birds keep their plumage in order like humans. Canaries preen to maintain warmth and cleanliness, while sparrows fluff feathers to insulate in cold weather. Wet feathers threaten survival for water birds.
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Canary
Detroit Free Press
King A Poor Horseman And Other Paris Notes
Parisians discuss the Italian king at Paris as he avoided mounting his horse before the crowd. Le Crina de Paris claims he mounted from a stool in a tent while pupils trained to stand the horse. Gen Andre rode a white horse, drawing cries of Vive Boulanger. A French scientist notes wild animal seasickness and the sea tolerance of polar bears, igors, horses, oxen, elephants, with remedies. Cheese varieties in France and Europe are listed, with Holland, Switzerland, Italy, and Denmark counts.
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Paris
Italy
le Cria de Paris
Ecole de Saumur
Review
Andre
Boulanger
Nita
Igor
Toothpick Infernal Machine Demonstrates Fiery Assembly
An ad hoc diverging toy shows five long toothpicks arranged across a table with two crosswise supports and a top toothpick forming a cross, a bread crumb or wax head, a cork body, and whittled limbs. The setup rests on a tumbler foot and is ignited at one end to illustrate a small fiery display.
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Frogal
N. Y. Herald
Ard
Eas
Thimtane
Queer Weather Station
Shell
Philadelphia Press
Turkey
England
Senor
Philippe Bunau-Varilla
Galileo
Urban VII
Simplicio
Urban VIII
Urban
Inquisition
United States
Eugene Petit
Pellegrin
Alaska
Senor Bunan-Varilla
M. Bunau-Varlila
Romance OF the West
Will. Jorda
Young Red Cloud
France
Holland
Switzerland
Denmark
Burns
Boston
Globe
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