Fall clothing sale with hats and suits up to 25
An ad urges buyers not to miss a full selection of clothing, hats, and furnishings with prices from 2.50 to 25. It touts suits, overcoats, hats, and undergarments, claiming unmatched stock and value, plus Youman Hats and a dress shirt at 50 cents. The piece blends a shopper’s pitch with sentimental verse about loss and longing.
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Youman
America
BR. T. Carter
Denton
Joseph Guest
Co. Chestertown
Court House
My Rebel Love at the Capital Campaign
During a G A R reunion in Washington, stories blend heroism and humor as two young Curtis children recall a Civil War raid on their Virginia home. Patty Curtis fearlessly imagines greeting Union troops with hospitality while Aleck weighs danger, reflecting enduring northern and southern loyalties through war memories.
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Major Drake
Virginia
Willard’s
Johnson
Stockton
Secret Service
Moseby
Curtis Place
Patty
Aleck
Pat
Patty Curtis
General Grant
Ratty
Politenesa
Rebel Major's Son and a Washerwoman's Masquerade
A Civil War tale follows Patty and Aleck in a daring disguise to aid against Union troops. Aleck, posing as Aunt Jane with a washtub, escapes detection until a cavalry patrol spots trouble, leading to a fortuitous meeting with a colonel and a future romance between Patty and the officer who later recalls the night at his New York home.
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National Capital
Cooper
New York
Aleck
Patty
Jane
Curtis Manor
Missy
Aunt Jane
Virginia
Avenas
Colonel Hooper
New York City
Margaret Spencer
St. Louis Republic
Burro in the West A St. Nicholas View
A St. Nicholas excerpt contrasts the burro of the western United States with donkeys in Kentucky and Missouri. It notes Spanish usage for burro in the Southwest, describes the westward donkey as lacking pedigree, yet praises its patient labor and value to industry and civilization.
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Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
Arizona
United States
Kentucky
Missouri
Topsy
St. Nicholas
A Shred of Silk and a Glass Case of Courage
A stained fragment of a Forty fourth Foot regimental color, worn since 1848, is kept in a Hampshire church as a testament to imperial endurance. The banner survived battles from Burma to Cabul, while the soldiers who guarded it lie nearby along the Cabul road, their memory preserved in glass and oak.
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Alvyerstock
Hampshire
Indian Plains
Indus
Cabul
Cabul Road
Temple Bar
Weight of Gold and Bills Challenge
Mr C IX Stout of the treasury weighs gold coins against fresh dollar bills. With $6000 or $10000 in double eagles on one pan and 27 one dollar bills on the other, 28 bills nearly balance. The reporter’s guess proved short by 973 dollars, a test of weight and value.
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Mr. Stout
Man
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
The Valkyrie Pronunciation Debate
A Boston Globe excerpt recounts a humorous dispute over pronouncing Valkyrie. A speaker consults folklore experts and recommends saying Volkerrie with a short first vowel, avoiding emphasis on the last syllables and delivering it as Volkerric, avenger of the slain.
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Germany
Volkerrie
Volkerric
Avenger
Boston Globe
Papa Was Cross Playful Product of a Family Moment
A brief dialogue in a children’s vignette shows a tense mood as a father stomps about the house. A boy explains his mischief with tacks and a razor, hinting at household frictions without harsh detail.
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Mamua
Ross
Beggar Pleas For Help Sparked By Witless Exchange
A man with a wife and six children begs aid, while a pedestrian retorts he cannot help with a wife or six youngsters. Separately, Mannheim, Germany, begins producing cocoanut butter by Dr Schluk’s method, said to be nourishing and headed for London market.
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Boston Transcript
Mannheim
Germany
Schluk
Ludwigshafen
London
Brave Soldier Quips After Losing Gloves in Crowd
A London Tit-Dita humor piece recalls a soldier addressing a colonel in a crowded scene, joking that he thought his arms were covered by diabetes, then clarifying he has not lost both gloves. The exchange highlights wartime morale and quick wit in public spaces.
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Doliabetes
de Tad Uisuy
London
The Wonderful Change on the Dying Bounty Jumper
Detroit Free Press recounts a dying bounty jumper shot by guards who curses and ridicules until a four year old girl visits his cot. She gently kisses his cheek and with that kiss the hard lines fade to a smile as death nears. The nurse notes the transformation as mercy briefly touches him.
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Mully
Detroit Free Press
Nooks With Their Backs to the Wall in Wimborne Library
A description from Notes and Queries details Wimborne Minster library’s medieval state with about 240 volumes in the treasure chamber. Books lie with cut edges facing observers, many chained to shelves, while a sloping consultation stand slides beneath.
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Wimborne Minster
Miinster
Short and Strange Epitaphs From British Graves
In Worcester a stone marks a departed Worcester auctioneer with Gone inscribed. In a Sussex graveyard the line He Was appears on a decease’s stone. Other odd epitaphs include Asleep (as usual) and Left till called for in Belfast. A photographer’s stone reads Here I lie taken from life. On Charles the Great’s tomb the words Caralo Magno appear.
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Worcester
England
Sussex
Cane Hill
Belfast
Charles the Great
Germany
Caralo Magno
St. Louis
Saving Trouble
A desperado proposes robbing a Pullman porter after passengers depart to avoid noise. The exchange shows a plan to minimize publicity as they discuss waiting for the porter to finish with passengers before striking. The dialogue mirrors humorous commentary from the Washington Star and Indianapolis Journal.
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Washington Star
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