The Famous Punch Table and Hood's Song of the Shirt
The piece discusses a special Punch table signed by many staffers and how Thomas Hood created the powerful poem Song of the Shirt for Punch. It covers its reception, Dickens praise, and its global impact including translations and merchandise, with notes on Hood’s feelings and Mrs Hood’s prediction fulfilled.
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Punch
Institut de France
D. M
du Maurier
William Makepeace Thackeray
John Leach
England
Thomas Hood
Lambeth
Holland
Hunger
Hood
Mark Lemon
Joseph Hatton
Lemon
The
Times
John Bull
Nasly
Dickens
George Eliot
An Equine Hero Rescue of an English Officer
Surgeon Captain Grey, a Rhodesia veteran, recounts a cavalry retreat under heavy fire during Mashangambi’s assault. Horses fell in large numbers forcing a retreat as Captain Turner ordered a scramble for safety. Grey was shot in the thigh near 600 yards, his mount carrying the rear guard as he fled.
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Grey
Rhodesia
St. James
Mashangambis
Turner
Dr. Grey
Naval Construction Proposes Light-Draught Warships
The annual report of the Secretary of the Navy urges Congress to appropriate funds for three light-draught battleships and twelve torpedo boats. These vessels would give American harbors and the Mississippi mouth a permanent base of supply and rapid deployment capability, a strategic edge over foreign fleets. The report notes a doubling of commissioned tonnage during the recent administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Navy
Herbert
Congress
Mississippi
Porous plaster story from Richmond Dispatch
A mother applies a porous plaster to her son Tommy whose back aches. Tommy explains the holes are to let the pain out, as Mabel notes the punctured square and asks their purpose in this brief Richmond Dispatch snippet.
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Tommy
Hite
Mabel
Richmond Dispatch
Uncle Sam's Lighthouses Established in 1716
The article notes sixteen lighthouse inspection districts with army engineers and naval officers as inspectors. It details roughly 2,600 to 2,700 stations nationwide, highlights Boston Light (1716) as oldest, Nantucket Brant Point (1746) second, and the Garnet near Plymouth (1769) as third oldest, with counts for Pacific, Great Lakes, and eastern districts.
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Ghiest
United States
Army
Navy
Scribner's
Atlantic
Gulf Coasts
Great Lakes
California
Alaska
Mississippi Valley
Pacifi
Boston
Little Brewster Island
Boston Harbor
Brant Point
Nantucket Harbor
Plymouth
Railroad Without Cars In Oregon Forest
A railway in the Bridal Veil Lumbering Company area near The Dalles uses log laden trains without conventional cars. Locomotive pulls a string of logs sliding on boards, reaching mills two miles away for processing into planks before shipment.
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Oregon
Bridal Veil
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Illinois
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Uncle Sam
Bt. Helen's
Lancashire
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