Backbone and grit mark Civil War era heroes and prodigies
Charien Sumner extols backbone as essential. Lincoln defends Grant’s resolve, while Sheridan and Jackson show relentless grit. The piece surveys young achievers from 20s to 40s across battles, invention, literature, art, and nation shaping feats. It honors perseverance and ambition as drivers of historic success.
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Charien Sumner
Lincoln
Grant
Richmond
Lee
Galena
Shiloh
North
Congress
Phil Sheridan
Sheridan
Jupiter
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
South Carolina
Bell
Manassas
Jackson
Kitto
Kitton
Establishing the Plural in a Farmyard Tale
In a September Delineator piece, four year old Fred visits his uncle on a farm. Returning home he recalls the geese and a big dinner scone, while his father tests him on plural forms asking how to tell goose from geese. Fred grins: geeses on goose and two gooses make geese.
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Fred
Fashion Hints and Mottled Notes From a Bygone Page
Fragmentary fashion hints describe black velvet trim and a touch of elegance. The text mentions minke overcoat details and wartime era vocab. Read as a clipped antique column with garbled names and odd phrases.
Victories of Youth in Arts and Science Across Ages
A meditation on youth as the foundation of success, noting notable figures who achieved greatness at young ages. It cites Victor Hugo at 16, Mozart at 17, Mendelssohn at 18, Watt and others by 19 to 23, and references pivotal works and roles across literature, music, art, and science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ife
Victor Hugo
Academy
Bossuet
Pascal
Bacon
Mozart
Germany
Washington
Morning Chronicle
Mendelssohn
Bryant
Lafayette
Beethoven
Alexander
Thessaly
Tasso
Jerusalem
Paul Potter
Ell
the Hague
Campbell
Browning
Paracelsus
Halley
Festus
Wigner
Phengrio
Gelo
Politicians as Playwrights in Historical View
The New York Press notes Clemenceau as a former premier turning to drama and contrasts this with American figures Augustus Thomas George Ade and Theodore Roosevelt La Follette and Bryan. It suggests statesmen could become playwrights, citing their experiences and ambitions.
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New York
Clemenceau
Augustus Thomas
George Ade
Roosevelt
la Follette
George Broadhurst
Bryan
Holding His Own in Nottingham Courtship
A bashful young man and his sweetheart Angelina walk the lanes of Nottingham suburb. He asks how his courting is going and gently encircles her waist. She replies that she thinks he is holding his own.
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Nottingham
England
Angelina
The Dying Veteran Remembers Comrades and Death
A fragmentary monologue from a dying veteran reflects on fear of death and the afterlife. He recalls comrades and generous kindness, notes a lifelong simplicity, and ends with a song-like cadence as a funeral march plays. The voice stresses conscience, sacrifice, and shared humanity.
The Slapstick in Bohemian Stage Comedy
A Bohemian piece explains the slapstick as two joined barrel staves with a handle. When struck on a solid surface it makes a sharp click. In skilled hands the click conveys many meanings from tag to annihilation and prompts uproarious response from the audience.
Studying Japanese Seen as Tough for Army Officers
Army and Navy Journal notes that learning Japanese is strenuous for anyone with less linguistic talent. It calls out 214 signs, dual written and spoken forms, and the need to translate written Japanese into colloquial speech. Mastery of 2,500 to 3,000 ideographs is required for higher class newspapers.
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Army and Navy Journal
Army
Africa
Delaying Summer by Kate Carter
The poem contrasts farewell and desire to stay amid a rural landscape. It depicts a speaker torn between departure and lingering, with vivid imagery of hawthorn, nuts, plowed fields, and desolate lanes. Nature’s quiet beauty returns after wind and rain, as the sky clears and a swallow is implied to brood.
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Parewell
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Claus
Idan
Aeschylus
Greece
Coleridge
the Ancient Mariner
Don John of
Austria
Howe
Sewin
Roger Williams
Areu
New England
Benjamin Franklin
Richard
Mark Anthony
Rome
Hannibal
John Wesley
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
Eli Whitney
Calvin
Napoleon
Raphael
Thomas Moore
Lalla Rookh
Pollock
Scipio
Zana
James Watt
Shelley
Luther
Charlemagne
Cortez
Mexico
Alexander Hamilton
Horace Greeley
New York Tribune
John Howard Payne
Renni
London Bridge
Lescot
Louvre
Christopher Wren
St. Paul's
London
Champollion
Maurice of Saxony
Passau
Clive
India
Rubens
Sir Philip Sidney
Schiller
Joseph Story
Supreme Court of
United States
France
Shenandoah
Wolfe
Abraham
Quebec
Canada
Correggio
Magdalen
George Stephenson
Edison
Gray
Poe
Raven
Thomas Jefferson
Byron
Burne
Columbia
Robert Fulton
Kate Carter
Pole Discoverer
Wife
Frederick A. Cook and Wife
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