Two Christmases in Camp and a Colonel's Dog Tale
The excerpt recalls the winter of 1861 at Perryville Maryland where soldiers endured cold tents and moved to barracks on Christmas day. It also recounts Christmas 1862 after Fredericksburg with fires in tents and moldy Christmas boxes, plus a tale of Colonel Morrison and a dog killed by a townsman and the women who kept the secret.
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Col. Smedberg
Perryville
Washington
Fredericksburg
Doebler
San Francisco
Haner
House of Representatives
Waterloo
Col. Morrison
Lord Salisbury to Publish Chemical Analysis Essay
The Atheneum says Lord Salisbury may publish an article in a magazine outlining results from chemical analysis. His essay, should it appear, will likely be thorough and free of uncertain, weak elements.
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House of Lords
Pulteney
Fox
Plato
Pitt
Bolingbroke
London Daily News
Napoleon
Madame
Corin
Ernest Renan
Eugenie
Mme. Cornu
M. Renan
Ham
Louis Napoleon
France
the Invalides
M. Ernest Renan
London Daily Telegraph
Lord Salisbury
Atheneum
Deceptive Furniture Tricks Warned By Our George
In the Belfast Maine Journal, Our George mocks modern furniture sales where a bookcase may become a bed with linens, a sideboard may strike a buyer, and a writing desk reveals hidden charges. He recalls inflated promises and misleading displays, highlighting inflated lodging costs and misrepresented products.
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Belfast
Columbus
George
New Year Advice and Humorous Vignettes from The Bee Hive
A collage of short pieces from Goodall Chicago Sun and Chicago Rambler includes a healthfulSavings parable urging penny pinching over vices, dialect sketches about New Year festival prep and a cautionary poem on resolutions. It closes with a Springfield Homestead exchange about vaccination and smallpox.
Age and knowledge clash in a busy street car scene
In Boston Gazette style dialogue a debate about age and wisdom plays out among Jones Smith and a young doctor. A street car moment shows a gentleman giving his seat to a stout woman, provoking silent tension and comic relief. A Brussels Independence gag ends with a jab about smallpox fees and a physician.
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Boston Gazette
Jones
Smith
Brown
Brussels
The Brightest Newsie Voice in Local Paper History
A boastful motto piece extols the paper as the brightest and best source for farmers mechanics and lawyers, claiming unmatched clarity and usefulness in everyday community life.
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America
Vanderbilt
Wicked Furniture
The
Bee Hive
Dodge
Goodall
Chicago Sun
Macon
Chicago Rambler
Holt
Susie
Springfield
Popper
Mr. Brown
Koz Mommer
Greeley Tribune
Family Newspaper
Colorado
Weld County
the Tribune
Carver & Dunning
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