On the Verge by a Confederate Battlefield Vision
A narrator recalls a dreamlike field visit from Mechanicsville to Seven Pines when a guide describes a trench with a hundred and fifty dead. The moonlit redoubt reveals a slain Confederate officer who appears alive, bonds with the narrator, then dissolves into blood before awakening in a Richmond hospital, haunted by the memory and the nurse’s presence.
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Earl
Richmind
Mechanicsvile
Seven Pines
Itn
New York
Ghanon
Gans
Redoubt
Apollo Belvedere
General Lee
Jefferson Davis
Richmond
Mitchel
Women Butchers: Paraguay’s All Female Meat Trade
Paraguay after a devastating war developed a unique industry where women alone run the butchering trade. Public markets, municipal stalls, and low prices shape a daily scene as women cut, weigh, and sell meat. The piece notes wages, bargaining ardor, and the shift of labor to women after the war.
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Paraguay
Brazil
Uruguay
Milwaukee Sentinel
A Democratic King Visits His Doctor
The king of Denmark, famed for democratic ways, visits his doctor unofficially in Copenhagen. A maid refuses entry, hearing the king’s title, and her alarm sends her rushing to inform the doctor. The doctor arrives to find King Christian on the doorstep laughing at the reception.
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Denmark
Europe
Copenhagen
Prince Valdemar
Christian
Emerson as a Missionary in 1827
G W Cooke in the Christian Register reviews Emerson's early missionary efforts as a Unitarian outreach in 1827. The reserved youth, then frail, was sent to preach in various country pulpits, found ill suited to the work, and did not linger. He lamented a vagrant life and longed for leisure and study, noting he was a shuttle rather than stiff necked.
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Emerson
G. W. Cooke
Christian Register
Unitarian Association
Giant Kaiser Dock Crane at Bremerhaven
Built for the Kaiser dock at Bremerhaven the largest crane in the world weighs in to lift two hundred tons. It features two four legged towers supporting a revolving jib with a counter balance on one end and a crab that travels to the tower edge. The crane can carry a test load of 200 tons.
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Kaiser Dock
Bremerhaven
Immortal Cadet Tale At West Point Becomes Service Honor
A New York Tribune yarn recounts West Point customs where top grads bear a star and the last, the goats, sparks a tale of a cadet who hoped to be immortal. The joke turns when the cadet earns lasting fame after graduation in national service.
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West Point
United States Military Academy
New York Tribune
Poison In Parsnips Sparks Cautionary Tale
A fragment discusses wild parsnip as a skin poison that harms when dew is present, likening its effect to toxic plants. It notes dry parsnips may be safer and mentions a fatal poisoning linked to tooth marks from eaten parsnips. The piece then wanders into unrelated dialogue about social ambitions and a peddler heritage.
The Dream Joke About a Sharp Wife
A Chicago News joke recounts a dream in which a man believes a sharp object pierced him, waking to find his wife had emptied his pockets. The punchline shifts to the man noting his wife is sharp enough. The quip plays on wordplay and marital thrift.
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Chicago News
Prodigy and Freddy duel on B and GC in school talk
New York Times shows Extremes Meet with a joke about marriage positive versus negative. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune cites photographer O C Harlan of Eaton Ohio who found relief from indigestion with Electric Bitters. Advertisements note porch materials and 15 day Niagara Falls excursion tickets from Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburg Railway.
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Little Freddy
Freddy
New York Times
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
O. C. Harlan
Eaton, O
Daugherty Bros
Indiana, Pa
Wm. L. Moore
Homer City
Niagara Falls
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway
Punxsutawney
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Lion Coffee
Cash
Mia
Mr. Dash
Daven Eury
the Equitable Life Assurance Society
S. W. Guthrie
Gen. Agt
Indiana
Penn’a
F. C. Buterbaugh
Jack Building
Philadelphia Street
Tam
John G. Cameron
Life, Fire & Accident Insurance
Farmers’ Bank
Indigna
J.C. Conner
Frantz Bros
Rossmoyne Flouring Mills
Rossmoyne, Pa
Teeompson
Deposit Bank Building
Pal
Work & Son
Ee PS
United States
Ivers & Pond and Packard
Estey
Packard
Wheeler & Wilson and
Standard Or New Home
Court House
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