Veterans of the Rebellion Recall Civil War Memories
The Louisville summary reports a decline in Grand Army of the Republic membership from a peak in 1860s, with deaths rising yearly and about one half of new recruits still living. Personal recollections recount acts of bravery and human warmth amid battles, prisoner exchanges, and cross‑confederate friendships.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Louisville
Jaume
Union
Grand Army
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Eyx
Cnough
Tou
The Tragic Return of Sergeant Stone
In a New Mexico fort a morose Sergeant Stone endures three years of silence and mystery. A past romance with Adele resurfaces when he finds her singing at the Major’s house, triggering despair and a pistol shot at the parade ground.
Notions of Home Stirred by a Soldier's Longing
A weary soldier in a hot garrison yearns to see Adele and plans a furlough and marriage at home. He imagines her love, recalls childhood paths and family graves, while a nearby private comments that Major Stone has suddenly become civil.
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Stone
Tie
Adele
Ife
Chicago Chronicle
Dean
Finnerty
Oliver
Ile
Mayor's intervention halts cruel practice on train platform
A Tennessee city memory recalls a war veteran mayor who stopped a juvenile cruelty at a railway station. A boyish prankster cheated a girl peddling apples and fled as the train moved. The mayor offered a hundred dollars to recall the train, officers arrested the offender, and the girl received her fifteen cents back.
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Tennessee
Ife
Famous Stone in Mexico Sparks Search at National Palace
Antonio Garcia Cubas claims data shows the famous gladiatorial stone buried just meters below the surface in front of the national palace entrance. He has obtained permission to lift pavement and believes results may be announced within days before Oct 20 amid a congress meeting in Mexico City.
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Mexico
Antonio Garcia Cubas
National Palace
Mar. Cubas
Cubas
Congress of Americanistas
David
Feud Over Matrilineal Match Surfaces in Humboldt Trails
San Francisco Post recounts a peculiar feud between two brothers in Humboldt County. One brother sent for a Swedish sister-in-law, but upon arrival she pleased the unmarried brother, who wed her and refused to compensate the other for his expenses. A rifle shot wounded the second brother, who was left in a hospital for three months, and both men now skulk the mountain trails ready for renewed conflict.
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Finnerty
Luis
Tim
New Mexico
Sergeant Stone
Tie
Pinnerty
Happy Launting Grounds
Sergeaant
Vinnerty
Tle
Staumer
Sergmint Stone
Wilkins
Amd
Piberty
Brent
Answed Mome
Adele
Dad Associates
Tomorow
Sle
Ile
Plains of
M.C. Allen
Humboldt County
Brodder
Humboldt
Sweden
San Francisco
Remarkable Vendetta Follows Loss in Alaska Walrus Tale
A San Francisco Call account relays Captain Debney on a Russian trader in Alaska driven to kill walrus by grief. The man created a skull fortress, hunts sleeping walruses, and decapitates them to build a memorial to his son.
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Debney
Puebla
Alaska
Sound
Tie
San Francisco
Choate Jokes At Court Echo Minnesota Ruling
In a court anecdote Rufus Choate misreads a deposition, saying sheeting instead of shirting. The Minnesota Supreme Court recently ruled you need not employ a drunkard to drive a locomotive, tying the jest to a Massachusetts chief justice. Choate quips that a Supreme Court decision wasn’t needed to prove the fact.
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Rufus Choate
Supreme Court of
Minnesota
Massachusetts
Choate
Supreme Court
Storgize and the British Mamma Word Fever
A London paper coins storgize meaning to indulge maternal affections excessively. The term surfaces amid editor boredom as a 3 year old’s anecdotes prompt the new coinage. The transcript notes readers wonder if the go is hard or soft.
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England
London
Boston
Women Prompters Preferred at Covert Garden Theater
The theater has success with women prompters whose voices carry better on stage and are less audible to the audience. A man running an amateur show or hosting a baby at home jokes that it will be the last one.
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Covert Garden Theater
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