Lincoln Visits City Point War Hero in Hospital Ward
A Washington Post account of President Lincoln visiting Captain Charles H Houghton in a City Point hospital ward during April 1865. Lincoln, dusty and travel worn, comforts Houghton with a kiss and a fatherly goodbye, expressing sorrow for the war and hope for the wounded captain. Major Greenlough records the poignant moment and Lincoln's personal care for each patient.
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Yaipshire Volunteers
Thomas L. Livermore
Boston
Calumet and Ueeln Mining Company
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
City Point
William 8. Greenlough
Archbishop Ireland Hid as Chaplain in Civil War Near Death
Washington Post reports Archbishop Ireland served as a chaplain in the Civil War. He fell gravely ill and was ordered to a general hospital in Vicksburg. A nurse defied doctors for him, and he survived the voyage, remaining ill for weeks but ultimately recovering his strength.
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Archbishop Ireland
JM. L. Thornton
New York City
General Hospital
Vicksburg
Vickaburg
Catholic Church of
Stonewall Flanked the Angela Bronewall Died Story
A favored Jackson era tale recounts Stonewall’s death as two angels descending from heaven to take him. They search his tent and outposts, then the prayer meeting, but he is not there. In heaven, they discover he had already reached after a tank march, ahead of them.
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Houghton
Ninth Corps
Fort Stedman
Petersburg
Charles H. Houghton
Fourteenth
New York Heavy Artillery
Fort Stedmen
Fort Haskell
Wort Stedman
Hines
Stonewall
Angela
Bronewall
Jackson
Bia
Los Angeles
Valencia
Branne
Burgundy
Hock
Presenting at Court Reveals Levee Dress Dilemmas
An American in London nearly misses his chance at a royal levee after misreading dress requirements. He is fitted with theater attire, and, amid rapid room changes, is effectively presented. The piece notes the costs, pomp, and social pressures of drawing rooms, including bouquets, carriages, and photographer fees, shaping court life and marriage hopes.
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His Majesty’s Theater
London Court
St. James’ Park
Lonfion
Milady
Mary Ann
Ancestral Feasts and Feats of the Medieval Table
A humorous tour of historic dining habits and grand banquets. It recalls 14th century Valencia wedding menus with crane, lamprey, peacock, pheasant and lavish courses, then moves to Renaissance Italian feasts and Louis XIV meals. It notes physician bans on excess and lingering indulgence across eras.
Fans through history reveal royal power and charm
A compact look at fans as symbols of authority in Mexico before conquest and in English courts. References to Queen Mary in 1550 and Queen Elizabeth show fans as royal gifts and status markers. Historical anecdotes describe oversized Italian fans hung from ceilings served by four attendants.
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Mexico
Mary
England
Elizabeth
Jean de Balzac
Italy
Louis XIV
Genevieve Defends Sinless Stone Verdict at Service
Genevieve listens to a sermon while her father, occupying the pulpit, quotes Let him who is without sin among you the first to cast a stone and she remarks only sinners have sinned. Her mother towed her from the ministerial pew as the congregation departs. Genevieve sighs and notes no one threw a stone.
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Genevieve
New York
A Thorough Optimist
A small boy asks what an optimist is and a man explains that an optimist prefers favorable weather bureau forecasts and congratulates himself on their unreliability when predictions fail. The Washington Star quote frames optimism through weather, forecasting, and self-justification.
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Weather Bureau
Washington Star
Lifetime Watch Claim Sparks Skepticism at Counter
A jeweler touts a watch as lasting a lifetime while a customer questions its value and insists the numbers prove its quality. The exchange highlights skepticism over costly timepieces and credibility of promises in a showroom setting.
Not Inherited. Fond Papa My Baby Says Bright Things
A fragment reflects on heredity with a quip about a baby’s bright remarks and a dyspeptic uncle urging belief, while a note mentions Garrick attempting to abolish prologues and epilogues but audiences of his era resisted.
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Baltimore
Garrick
The Montmirail Chasseur Who Asked His Dose
In February 1834 during the battle of Montmirail a veteran chasseur of the guard had his leg shot off near the knee yet calmly asked the surgeon if he had “got my dose” and could do more. Major Bancel tended the wounded as the rider stayed placid atop his horse amid the terrors of combat.
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Montmirail
Europe
Bancel
Colums
Chan Beur
Lincoln's Grocery Debut: Hunger and Thirst in Partnership
A vivid sketch of Abraham Lincoln's first business venture with Berry, the Barry & Lincoln grocery partnership. The rustic, undereducated founder faced failure, while Berry's thirst dominated the wet goods side, highlighting a comical clash of aims and early missteps before rise to prominence.
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Harvard
Lincoln
One Berry
Barry
Lincoln and the grocery stock tale in Putnam's
A fragment from Quarles in Putnam's describes Jack Sprat and his spouse facing hunger and thirst, a failed sale of stock, and Lincoln's struggle with inabilities. It notes a legal lesson that a partner is liable, a buyer’s default, and Lincoln's discovery of Brickstone's Commentaries beneath a barrel, which diverted his focus from groceries to law studies.
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Jack Sprat
Mr. Lincoln
Bolido
Lincoln
Brickstone
T. ¥. Quarles
Putnoms
Sunset and Soufriere Birds of the West Indies
The Minneapolis Journal notes legends around two Caribbean birds. The sunset bird cries Soleil couchers and is blamed for death to any hunter. The Soufriere bird nests near the Soufriere volcano with a belief that the first sighting of it brings death and that killing it invites torture by spirits.
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West Indies
Mwarts
Minneapolis Journal
Child Drinks Gasoline in Hazardous Stunt at Union Iron Works
A 14 year old in San Francisco Union Iron Works drank gasoline after watching men siphon it from a barrel to a hose. The quick flow filled his mouth and throat with a pint of gasoline before the adult could stop him. He was treated at a hospital.
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Union Ironworks
San Francisco
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