Seas and Spain and a Soldier’s Bravery on Slim Buttes
An excerpt blends a reflective verse about Spain with a Civil War era frontier narrative. The second tale recounts September 1876 at Slim Buttes, with Gen. Crook’s Third Cavalry pursuing Crazy Horse’s forces, noting heroic action by Philo Clark amid a deadly ambush and the rescue of noncombatants before Sioux surrender at Red Cloud.
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Custer
Sitting Bull
Yellowstone
Crazy Horse
Ogailallas
Brules
Dakota
Cook
Third Cavalry
Second Cavalry
Mills
Cieneral Crook
Black Hills
Slim Buttes
Seventh Cavalry
Myles Keogh
Colonel Mills
Wenzel
Hass
Philo Clark
Crook
Ile
Jim White
Buffalo Bill
Clark
West Point
Philo
Munson
Hiarm
Bear
Red Cloud
Washington City
Sheridan
Charles King
U. S A
Stranger in the Carbedberth Provokes Laughter on Snowbound Night
A Fort Worth Gazette account recalls a New York Central sleeper tale near Buffalo where an elderly passenger undresses on the platform in heavy snow. The scene ends with banter about the train’s missteps and notes on human pride and watered stock.
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Fort Worth
New York Central
Buffalo
St Lawrence County
Old St. Lawrence
Manu
oWell
Rise to Eminence of a Scottish Youth Carpenter
A Scottish carpenter who started as an apprentice walked seventeen miles to seek work and later met Walter Scott in Selkirkshire. Kemp, son of a shepherd, became a master designer and erected the Scott Monument after traveling, studying architecture, and drawing ruins across England and France. He funded his ascent with hard work and study. A separate feature describes a unique New York dog food and patent medicine factory started by a Scotsman, detailing its ground-floor raw materials, baker-like biscuit production, varieties for dogs and cats, and its line of veterinary medicines and dog products.
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Walter Scott
Selkirkshire
Edinburgh
Scotland
George M. Kemp
George
England
France
Chaucer
Spenser
Geordie
Kemp
Paris
Melrose Abbey
New York News
London
St. Bernards
No Match Maker Dr Bramestone Declines Matrimonial Appeal
A learned doctor, once interviewed by a homely parish couple seeking help for their son, is teased as Dr Brimstone while they press for support. He ends the visit by declaring loudly that his name is not Brimstone and that he does not make matches, excusing himself with an urgent engagement.
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Dr. Bramestone
Brimstone
Woman Tests German Guards With Curious Prank
A New York Times account recalls a young New York woman abroad in Dresden who, amused by sentry rigidity, slipped into a guard box and cried Koo as a soldier returned. The startled soldier dropped his musket and fled. The incident reportedly reached the Emperor, who wished to meet the audacious tester, though she doubted how it would be viewed officially.
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Rou
New York Times
New York
Dresden
Large dwarf from the Western Ocean visits Soochown
A 51 year old dwarf prodigy twenty inches tall arrived in Soochown dressed in English fashion. He speaks to a crowd of locals claiming origin from a dwarf kingdom in the Western Ocean and signals with an oversized bamboo pipe. He recites English phrases in a shaky voice, captivating the audience at Celestial Empire.
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Western Ocean
Celestial Empire
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Spain
Oéa
White Hand
Aea
Rony Bowers
Don Carlos
Missouri
Heart River
Evry One
Uly
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