Maus Reminiscences in Wartime Letters and Scandals
The piece notes Maus Ges Hancock living with a friend in Yonkers while working on her Reminiscences, expected to be a valuable wartime history. It also mentions William Kissam Vanderbilt’s feared reckoning, Reuben H. Lloyd defending various San Francisco papers, and a Western farmer who lost $200 to a pig that chewed and spat the bills, yielding $40 reimbursement after Treasury search.
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Hancock
Yonkers, N
Wintiam Kissani
San Francisco
Reuben H. Lloyd
Treasury Department
Washington
Confederate Colonel to Debut as Texan Paper
Texas will launch a new newspaper named the Confederate Colonel promising political neutrality despite a statewide Democratic majority. The name reflects that many Civil War leaders were colonels, with over four-fifths of decorated soldiers in the era earning the rank.
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Texas
Historic fan portrait of Washington and other relics emerge
A Kansas City gentleman owns a painted fan showing a 17 year old Washington in captain’s uniform with angels, goddesses and Indians. The relic is praised as a notable historic artifact in good preservation.
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Kansas City
Martha Washington
Washington
Ingenious Can Lid Device and Dr Junker’s Uganda Escape
A novel can opening wedge described as clean and simple contrasts with older methods. Dr Junker, returning from Central Africa, navigated hostile tribes by selling himself as a slave to Arab traders for 1 500 Austrian dollars to reach Zanzibar, using an Arabic authorizing order to travel with the caravan and pass Ugandan king M wanga as the trader’s slave.
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Dr. Junker
Central Africa
Africa
Albert Nyanza
Waganda
Zanzibar
M’wanga
Uganda
Ehief
Junker
Peter’s Bear Story Ends With Clever Bail Joke
A rustic tale recaps Peter’s forest adventure with a berry picking bear. The bear gets a berry sticky muzzle and a collapsible tale of a tin collar reading Fifteen Pounds of Leaf Lord, followed by a comic legal caper as the bear is said to have bailed out.
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C. H. Gleason
Peter
Rosbris
Brain
Hull
Lost Treasure Ships and Notable Wrecks Recap
The article recalls the Lutine wreck of 1799 off Fly Island, once rumored to carry £600,000 then corrected to about £140,000 in bullion. It notes Captain Skynner’s thirty two gun vessel and the 1,000 souls lost. It also mentions James II era salvage of a Spanish ship with £300,000 found after forty years, with Phipps earning £20,000 and the Duke of Albemarle £90,000, and a commemorative medal issued in 1687.
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Texel
Antomnetta
Australia
Charles Dickens
Londo
Telegraph
Skynner
Fly Island Passage
South America
Phipps
Duke of
Vanderpoole the Young Novelist and World Wanderer
The Atlanta Constitution profiles Vanderpoole, a thirty two year old American author of Sebatana Ruhainab and rumored Democracy. A world traveler born to a French‑connected lineage, he pursues war correspondence for The Figaro and has survived perilous hunts, disguises, and travel across Asia, Africa, and the Arctic as a novelist, traveler, explorer, and linguist.
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Mr. Vanderpoole
George Sand
the Figaro
Vanderpoole
France
Asia Minor
Tartary
Africa
Orient
Alaska
British
America
Chicago
India
The
Figaro
Germany
Atlanta Constitution
A Pretty Good Bad Boy Autobiographical Image
In Portsmouth forty years ago a boy named Thomas Bailey Aldrich met the Governor Woodbury in a passing chaise and saluted with a gun in hand. The anecdote, recalled by William H. Rideing in St Nicholas, links the future American author to a moment of distinction and hints at his later celebrated works The Story of a Bad Boy and other prose and verse noted for refined style and picturesque invention.
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Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Woodbury
William H. Rideing
St. Nicholas
Willing to Do the Right Thing
A terse exchange between Dumley and Robinson escalates as Dumley demands an apology for a monkey remark. Robinson concedes he may have said something offensive and promises to apologize at first sight if needed.
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Dumley
Robinson
Harper's Bazar
Perils of Photography in the 19th Century Memoir
A Lech's Sun excerpt imagines future regrets about family photographs from 1887 era portraits. It mocks era fashions with Aunt’s bonnet and hoops, the awkward beau, and the shy child in a gaudy dress while imagining a spouse flicking through an album and recalling past loves and vanity.
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Nouveau Riche
Fred
Lech
Recuperative Power Shows Body Healing Through Years of Battle
A soldier wounded in the knee by rifle blast healed after five months with repeated surgeries and abscesses. Eleven years later an open sinus discharged brass and lead until surgeons removed half a flattened bullet. The cavity formed a firm capsule and the patient recovered.
Like Falling Stars and the Diamonds to Come
The Sydney Bulletin notes South African diamond yields at about a ton per month and warns hotel clerks bartenders and actors that cash will decide survival in a cold world. The piece satirically urges awareness of honesty and genius paired with money.
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Sydney Bulletin
Tender and True
A dialogue from the Somerville Journal shows a wife asking a husband to remember him while away and the husband replying he will be kept in mind by the bills he sends.
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Wuewn
Somerville Journal
Gorgo the brave little maid of Sparta and her deeds
A historic tale of Gorgo daughter of King Cleomenes who warned her father against a treacherous offer, then aided in decoding a wax tablet to reveal a prisoner’s warning. Her courage helped Sparta prepare for Xerxes and inspired Leonidas at Thermopylae.
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Greece
Gorgo
Maud
Ethel
Helen
Sparta
Aristagoras
Cleomenes
Little Gorgo
Gorga
Leonidas
Thermopylie
Xerxes
Liconidas
Thermopys
Not Investing in Futures Bits
A Tid-Bits fragment captures a sharp exchange where O'Reilly De Vere begs for a future with a girl. She coldly replies that her employer refused a raise and refrains from investing in futures this week, signaling a decision not to gamble on repayment or speculation.
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O’reilly de Vere
Child billed at circus price by Austin doctor
An Austin man who lost a child confronts a doctor over a $20 bill for ten visits claiming a child under ten should pay half price. The doctor replies that a visit costs $2, sparking the quip about shaving the house while whitewash proceeds.
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Austin
Texas Sistings
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