King's Mountain Siege and the Night of Bloody Struggle
The narrative chronicles the rain drenched delaying hours as mounting forces approach, Ferguson and Tarleton, major De Peyster, and the brutal close quarter fighting at King’s Mountain. A brutal defense at the wagon barricade ends with De Peyster’s wounded leadership and Shelby and Campbell negotiating surrender terms for prisoners. The narrator recalls near death, the gray dawn burial, and a dramatic confrontation with a loyalist spy, ending with reunion and relief among patriots.
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Sax
Ma Ferguson
Rassault
Fer- Leonent
de Peynter
Wwe
Tory
Tybee
Toonies
de Peyster
Ferguson
Isaac Shelby
King’s Mountain
Sevier
Shelby
William Campbell
Ten Cent Smoke Delights Old Time Narrator
A narrator recalls smoking a dime seegar given by a traveling man and compares the sensation to music and birds singing. He jokes about heaven and a box of seegars, saying he would choose remaining with the smoke over heaven with Pete.
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Pete
Big Room Underground Cavern Found Near Burnham
A Chester hunting party in Mifflin County Pennsylvania discovered a cave in the mountainside a few miles from Burnham. They entered a six foot wide passage and descended a steep natural stair to a large subterranean room that could seat about 600 people. Torches revealed attractive stalactites.
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Mifflin County
Pennsylvania
Burnham
Facts for the Census Man
A census taker questions a farm family about occupants and overnight sleep. The plump 18 year old girl explains no one slept there due to illness and injuries among her family and workers.
The Bride's Cake Gaffe Hits Grand Dinner
An Independence girl visiting relatives tried to bake a cake after marriage. She heated the gas oven but forgot to light the flame, causing the batter to harden instead of bake, much laughs follow in the family kitchen.
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Kansas City Times
Hobson's Choice Portrait In College Tale
A story told by Thomas Hunter of the New York Normal College finds a village woman choosing teaching over marriage. The exchange reveals her joke that she would rather marry a widower with nine children, provoking a reaction about societal expectations.
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Hobson
Thomas Hunter
New York Normal College
Consolation for the Ice Man from Harper’s Weekly
An evangelist in Boston is portrayed as devout to the point of avoiding secular thoughts. His bright six year old daughter once answered the door to the ice man and told him Father is not home but perhaps Mama will pray for you.
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Sano More
Tybee
Sher
Ithe Hill
Cleaveland
Ferguson
Evenson
Campbell
Dua
Thasmane
Scotamin
Will Chronicle
Mecklenburg
Tarleton
Isaac Shelby
Shelby
Ireton
John Whittlesey
Ben
Davie
Charlotte
Mr. Pengarvin
Pettifogger
Lord Cornwallis
Commonwealth
Owen Pengarvin
William Campbell
Richard Jennifer
Ephraim Yeates
Harper's Weekly
Boston
The Martyrdom of Statesmanship
A Chicago Record Herald piece portrays a senator defending inflated election costs. The punditry notes the apparent graft and chicanery, while the senator cites future attorney work for corporations as compensation for his sacrifices to public service.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Republic
Temptations of a Valet in a Philadelphia Tale
A Philadelphia Bulletin snippet recounts a valet's tale of temptation and a tailor’s overcharging manager offering a bribe to boost his boss Henry's bill. The anecdote centers on a roughened stick advised to scrub coats and touch up trousers, promising a larger annual bill and a $50 yearly gain if used.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Dangerous Railroading In A Foreign Perspective
A newspaper writer in Red Bank New Jersey asks Lord Brassey if American railroads are feared. He replies they kill many but carry many, comparing unfavorably to Scotland and France. He recalls Dr Norman Macleod journeying Scotland where a servant jokes about insuring and robbing corpses.
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Lori Brassey
Red Bank
N. J
Lord Brassey
France
Scotland
Norman Macleod
Been having trouble in the church choir Uncle Ephr’m
A Chicago Tribune note mentions church choir tensions with Uncle Ephr’m and Bruddah Cop ley, once end man in the Jubilee Minstrels, who struggles when excited in meetings singing ragtime tunes. Germany’s African war has already cost taxpayers nearly 50 million dollars.
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Chicago Tribune
Ephr’m
Bruddah Copley
Tennah
Germany
Affair at Metropole lounge changes love triangle fate
In a crowded Metropole lounge, Hearn Clifford contemplates marriage to Barbara Revere while a flirtatious hint from Miss Varley complicates his loyalties. A telegram reveals Mrs. Revere’s husband has died, shocking Hearn and sealing Barbara’s decision to leave him forever.
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Metropole Wolke
Mr.Clifford
Garbara Revere
Barbara
Miss Varley
Sir Archibald
Mrs. Revere
Hearn
Herm
Mr. Clifford
Jtwo
Hearn Clifford
Leas
Archibald Hamlyn
Re‘vere
Mr. .Clifford
They Worship Smallpox. Missionary Sparks Horror in India
A Minneapolis Journal piece cites a missionary describing western Hindustan where villagers worship a smallpox goddess out of fear. He notes offerings of flowers and a shrine tended by a priest, yet urges that funds be redirected to vaccine efforts.
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Minneapolis Journal
Hindustan
Her Cure for Club Nerves
A New York Press piece recalls a woman who declines joining a society calling it “club nerves.” She admits loving social invites yet plans to limit participation to two clubs to avoid winter fatigue and overextension.
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New York Press
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Francie Lynde
Victis
Bill
Bry
Geraldine Perrie
Barbara Revere
Hearns
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