Roosters and War Tales From Bentonville to Lookout Mountain
The narrative recalls Civil War scenes with poets and soldiers, including a Bentonville episode where pack mules carried roosters that crowed in camp and battle. It notes Illinois One Hundred and Fourth’s frontline fights from Atlanta to Bentonville, highlighting pride in the unit and state.
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Bentonville
Sherman
North Carolina
One
Illinois
Atlanta
Averysboros
Chickamauga
Lookout Mountain
Missionary Ridge
Kennesaw
Record of Illinois Soldiers Regaining Lost Flags
A Chicago Record-Herald writer notes Illinois troops endured heavy losses to prevent Confederate capture, citing the One Hundred and Fourth Illinois known as the La Salle County Regiment. After Huntsville Tennessee on December 7, 1862, two flags were taken and later redeemed by the regiment. The unit had not fired before this date, and over 160 of its men were killed, prompting La Salle County to mourn as Ottawa women had once donate flags to the colors.
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Illinois
Chicago Record-Herald
la Salle County Regiment
Huntsville
Tenn
One Hundred and Fourth
Gen. Morgan
Cumberland Hyer
Quiy
la Salle County
Ottawa
Lacalle County
Printing Office Devils and the Badger Bulletin Tale
A wartime Extra recalls Major L H Drury in Gordon’s Mills and a Berlin Green Lake Democrat link. Printer volunteers form an improvised staff at Iuka after Corinth, publish the Badger Bulletin with front line gossip, telegrams, and brigade news, then become newsboys, and legends say the treasurer hid the funds from its single issue.
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L. H. Drury
Gordon’s Mills
Sign ‘Printing Office
Drury
Badger Bulletin
Iuka Badger Bulletin
Chicago Inter Ocean
Harlem veteran Gustav Schurmann dies age 55
Gustav A. Schurmann, who died at his Harlem home, was believed the Civil War's youngest veteran. He enlisted at age 11 as a drummer boy with the Fortieth New York, served as an orderly to Gen. Kearny, then as a bugler for Gen. Sickles, and even befriended President Lincoln's son Tad at the White House before finishing the war at age 15.
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Gustav A. Schurmann
Harlem
Grand Army
Fortieth New York Volunteers
Harrison's Landing
Phil Kearny
Kearny
Chantilly
Gen
Sickles
Schurmann
Pepperell's Victory Over Louisbourg in 1745
The narrative recalls the 1745 New England expedition against Louisbourg led by Gen William Pepperell born June 24 1696 in Kittery Maine. Despite doubts about their engineering, Pepperell's forces captured the fortified city on Cape Breton Island and earned the knighthood of the English crown.
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Pepperell
Great Britain
Dominion of
Canada
Quebec
St. Lawrence
Louisbourg
Cape Breton
Nova Scotia
Sydney
New England
William Pepperell
Kittery
Maine
New
Officers Named for G A R Departments in Kansas Missouri
Newly elected Grand Army of the Republic officers are listed for Kansas with P. H. Coney Topeka as department commander and George W. Thatcher Great Bend as senior vice commander plus R. D. Talbot Parsons medical director Dr George W McNalley Quenemo and Rev W H Irvin Lawrence as chaplain. Missouri follows with Henry Failback St Louis as department commander John M Williams California as senior vice commander A J Lan ning Brookfield as senior vice commander Dr Henry N Keener St Louis medical director and Rev T J Ferril Baw Ung Green as chaplain.
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Grand Army
Department of Kansas
P. H. Coney
Topeka
George W. Thatcher
Great Bend
R. D. Talbot
Parsons
George W. McNalley
Quenemo
W. H. Irvin
Lawrence
Department of Missouri
Henry Failback
St. Louis
John M. Williams
California
A. J. Lanning
Brookfield
Henry N. Keener
Chamain
T. J. Ferril
Baw- Ung Green
Brandy Seed Lettuce Fails Lettuce Heads For Chickens
A Barre Times item about soaking lettuce seed in brandy to sprout in forty eight hours led a reader to try it. After two days no sprouts appeared, the woman fed the soaked seeds to her chickens who then grew dizzy from the brandy. The tale ends with the reader realizing the chickens were not meant for such a diet.
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Vermont
Barre
Burlington Free Press
Peters a Maine Chief Justice Known for Wit in Bangor Speech
Chief Justice John A. Peters of Maine, famed for wit and civic leadership, spoke from a hotel balcony in Bangor to a rough rivermen crowd. He began with the line I cannot see you, but I can smell you, provoking laughter and a memorable moment noted for its humor.
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John A. Peters
Maine
Congress
Bangor
Peters
Postmaster Bowen Recovers Lost Fish Tale
In Shelburne Falls Massachusetts a fish cart vendor sells a fish to Postmaster Bowen who cannot take it home. Mr Merrill volunteers to deliver the fish. Bowen later visits the Merrill home finds the fish on the table and is invited to dinner.
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Bowen
Shelburne Falls
Mass
Mr. Merrill
Mr. Merrill. “All Right, Thanks,” and Mr. Merrill
Father Son Song of a Boston Bedtime
A playful verse from the Boston Transcript explores a father soothing his child with a ragtime lullaby. The poem depicts tickles, bed play, and bedtime hush as the father and son share cuddles and gentle sounds.
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F. Camp
Boston Transcript
Portraits and timing in a humorous Stray Stories aside
In a humorous Stray Stories exchange Captious Critice-O debates a portrait claimed as Gen Sir Timothy Hotspur with VS KCB. The critic insists the sitter’s fire in life contrasts with the lamblike, meek look in the portrait, while noting the subject was not at war and was accompanied by his wife.
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Sir Timothy Hotspur
Kcb
Sir Timothy
President Caswell and the student exchange a name joke
When Alexis Caswell led Brown University a student named Hetterly visited him and after a brief talk the president quipped about the name’s syllable. The student laughed and suggested Caswell’s name might improve without the final syllable, and Caswell replied in kind.
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Caswell
Alexis Caswell
Brown University
Hetterly
Deadly Pine Cone Bomb Found in Paris After Attack
M Chavigny discovered a pine cone shaped bomb in Rue de Rivoli near Paris after the Alphonso XIII and Loubet attack. A glass tube with concentrated sulfuric acid and fulminate mercury was removed by M Girard at the municipal laboratory who submerged the device to render it harmless. The bomb is linked to Barcelona anarchists, believed abandoned by an arsonist fearing arrest.
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Rue de Rivoli
Paris
France
M. Chavigny
Alphonso XIII
Loubet
Barcelona
M. Peschard
Gaillon Quarters
M. Girard
Porte-Cochere
Doctor Rushes To Man Who Mistook Morphine for Quinines
A Fort Worth man mistook sachet tablets Flora sent from Paris for morphine. A doctor treated him after a late night alarm, while his wife’s curt reply mocked the danger and hinted the bottle was marked morphine to deter tampering. The exchange ends with a bizarre cow auction insert from the same column.
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Fort Worth
Flora
Paris
Bill Nye's Cow Story Sparks Laughs Across Town
A man recalls a Bill Nye anecdote about a humorous advertisement Nye allegedly placed to sell a plush raspberry cow. The notice claimed ill health and listed a residence in township 19 range 13 with a dubious age and cow described as “undoubted courages” that supposedly yields milk.
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Bill Nye
Lnte
Nye
Ife
Misunderstood Remarks Spark Quiet Exchange
The Lady President of the Helpful Band of Uplifters complains of a political figure, while the Lady Secretary murmurs in response. The exchange hints at internal tensions within the group and evolving opinions among its leadership.
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Stratton Bough
Ice Cream Soda Fountain Ban Sparks Reform Effort
The Earnest Association of Sympathizers praises a reform-minded man who supports reducing public expenditures by curbing the drink evil. He declines direct action but then introduces a bill prohibiting ice cream soda fountains, signaling a controversial approach to reform.
Tommy Sets Clock Going With Hospitality Gaffe
In a humorous Tatler tale, Tommy dines with Miss Posse and guests, secretly places a lit Dresden clock on a table, signals silence, and after two minutes exclaims the clock goes, proving his father wrong about stopping the clock by his face. The mischief ends with laughter from Miss Passee and puzzled father.
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Miss Passee
Tommy
the Tatler
Open to Criticism in the Palm Shade
An elderly gent admonishes a young man for sitting long with a young woman in a hotel piazza corner. The youth defends himself, insisting on his honor and denying any kiss, while the older man insists there were opportunities for stealing a kiss.
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Palma
Chicago Tribune
Parrot Quips While Man Alone With Family Away
In St Joseph Missouri a family leaves a man home with a parrot for a summer vacation. On the wife’s return she asks if Polly has been lonely. The parrot answers with a jokey line requesting a stack of whites, reflecting a light home life anecdote from the News Past column.
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Polly
St. Joseph, Mo
London ambulances in demand as horse carriages fall short
Ambulances are in high demand in London with horse ambulances described as a crying need. A man who fell seriously ill in the street waited four hours before a conveyance could be found to take him to hospital.
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London
Depth of Panama Canal and battleship Connecticut analysis
A United States engineer’s drawing for the Panama canal shows future dimensions: canal width about 240 feet at water line, excavation 340 feet, side banks 10 feet high and 50 feet wide, water depth 35 feet, bottom 150 feet wide. The battleship Connecticut with 76 feet 10 inches beam and trials 24 feet 6 inches draft could traverse at low speed with nine feet clearance to the keel.
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United States
Connecticut
New York World
Poodle Adopts Kittens in Lebanon Barn Tale
Stricken with remorse Pansy a French poodle owned by D W Foster of Lebanon Ind has adopted a litter of homeless kittens after initially attacking them The dog once gave birth to three pups but later cared for the kittens in a box in the Foster barn Several weeks of feeding and nursing were observed before the poodle resumed maternal acts toward the kittens
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Pansy
D. W. Foster
Lebanon
Ind
Cincinnati Enquirer
Hidden Banker and Mirage Seen in The Sunday Magazine
A tale of a raccoon theft in Elk Brook New York World reports a quarry worker hid money in a stones hole then a raccoon chase uncovered $11. O'Toole contemplates banking options. Also noted is a Talbot county mirage described by Dr James H Chaplain from the Baltimore Sun as a half mile distant river illusion lasting about thirty minutes on a hot damp day.
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Coon
LN. O'Toole
Elk Brook
N. Y
O'Toole
New York World
Maryland
James
Trappe
Talbot County
John R. Mullikin
Baltimore Sun
West Virginia's Big Elm to be Cut for Rail Line
The largest tree in West Virginia, the big elm on the Hood farm near Shinnston, will be cut immediately as it blocks the proposed Fairmont and Clarksburg traction line right of way. The elm, famous from a Royer tale, measures eleven feet across and will be used for railway cross ties.
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West Virginia
Hood Farm
Shinnston
Fairmont and
Clarksburg Traction Company
Royer
Ciincinnati Enquirer
Absurd Official Blunder at Chatham Barracks Court
The British admiralty outfitted a grand court martial room at Chatham Naval Barracks with a brass plate proclaiming Court Martial. It was soon learned that naval courts martial must be held on the water, not ashore.
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Chatham
Surprise for the Bully by a West Bromwich Magistrate
A magistrate recounts a tale of a small dog that, after being defeated by a butcher’s bull terrier, gathered six other dogs, cached meat as sustenance, and led the pack to defeat the terrier in a publicized dogfight style anecdote.
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West Bromwich
Westminster
Court to Decide Knotty Point
Maine courts will decide if a will with a signature cut off remains valid. The contested document belonged to Miss Ellen Greene, signed and witnessed but later altered, and offered for probate in York county amid objections from interested parties.
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Knotty Point
Maine
Ellen Greene
York County
Fat Beautiful and Narrow Heads Across Cultures
Von Humboldt notes Guiana natives praise a woman who is fat and has a narrow head. A Asia traveler reports knights and kings value female beauty by fatness. In Maine divorce is easy but New Brunswick presents tougher avenues after six years of court consideration.
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von Humboldt
Guiana
Knghtz
Asia
Maine
New England
New Bronewick
Fredericton
Mrs Charley Walker Keeps Girlhood Dress at Reunion
Mrs Charley Walker entertained at Biddeford High School reunion in Biddeford Maine wearing the same dress she wore at graduation twenty five years ago. She did not need to change outfits or set out a single swim.
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Charley Walker
Biddeford
Parrot Dies After Mistress in Fitchburg
The pet parrot of Mrs. Lorenzo Corfle of Fitchburg died one week after the mistress. The bird, brought to this country forty two years ago from the Spanish Islands, had a limited vocabulary in English and Spanish.
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Rose
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Mak
New York Times
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Tilt
Benadette Beacher
James H. Bagwell
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