Sailor recounts war era wildlife near Apalachicola
An elderly sailor recalls blockading days aboard the Port Royal off Apalachicola Florida in 1863. He describes capturing a ten foot shark and fighting it with knives and boat hooks, plus encounters with an eight foot alligator and a rattlesnake, then later killing green turtles weighing 550 pounds. The passage also notes snakes, mosquitoes, and a rattler during shore forage and a humorous tale of turtle abundance before detailing quirky names of Southern Negroes.
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Port Royal
Apalachicola
Fla
Johnny
Abe
Neptune
Lincoln
Kingston Freeman
Alabama Correspondence From the Detroit Free Press
A concise dispatch notes that a writer from Alabama explains regional views and the local reaction to news, highlighting how the piece could be understood by different readers. The Detroit Free Press reprints may reflect cross state perspectives and media dialogue.
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Alabama
Detroit Free Press
How to Paper a Room from the Storkman
Instructions for removing old wallpaper and preparing walls, selecting cheerful papers, and hanging with paste made from wheat flour. Step by step guidance covers cutting, matching patterns, avoiding seams, and using border rolls for a period touch. Includes tips on corners, height adjustments, and finishing with neat baseboard alignment.
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Storkman
Hanging Ruloff Recalled In Eerie Tale Of Habit And Death
Dr John Thompson recalls the Ruloff hanging at Binghamton twelve to fourteen years ago. He describes the condemned man’s habit of hands in pockets as the noose tightened, noting an odd, swelling swaying moment before death. The piece also cites G Hell’s German Empire data linking lightning risk to soil type and tree species.
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John Thompson
Ruloff
Binghamton
Juloff
German Empire
G. Hell
New York
Mast
Broadway
J. W. McKiddleton
Arkansaw
Society Conversations and Gallery Gossip
A column of clipped vignettes shows people in public spaces sharing personal woes and social trivialities. Narratives swing from dental and back pains to family illness as a man in a crowd observes lifelike social fatigue and learns to read human nature.
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Sue
Imaginative Exchange Amid Bedbug Banter
In a humorous exchange from Washings Critic, Mrs Readyfurnished denies bedbug claims while Mr De Poykins declares imagination. Mrs Keady furnished admits ignorance of the greatest nation. The scene blends sly wit with household quips as the characters spar playfully.
A Conductor S fined For Slowing Behind Funeral Procession
A Dakota express conductor in Watertown was fined 50 dollars for keeping the train close behind a funeral procession and snorting along scaring horses, then discharged for running faster than schedule time. A medical note attributes pneumonia to microbe activity post chills, and the first U S census counted 3,921,326 in 1790-91.
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Watertown
Dakota Bel
United States
The Afghan Ameer Abdurrahman’s Reign and Court Rules
A Paris Journal des Debats letter outlines Abdurrahman as Afghan Ameer a former soldier turned bureaucrat detailing his daily duties weekly schedule of correspondence durbars and justice Diwan i Am and Diwan i Hass the limits on theft and the punishment for road theft and looting notes he has one wife Bibi Maliki 101 concubines five by four kaniz habibullah heir apparent age 16 recently married to Brigadier Mahomed Ameen of Cabul and that the Ameer 42 writes memoirs hoping for completion despite Ghilzai opposition.
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Abdurrahman
Herat
Candahar
Cabul
Pershawar
India
Cffcern
London
Ameer
Diwani-Am
Bibi Maliki
Kaniz
Habibullah
Mahomed Ameen
Leter
Paris Journal Des Debats
Don’t Laugh at Nervous People S Be More Careful
An old advertisement-style admonition urges sensitivity to nervous people and promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a remedy. It claims to relieve dyspepsia liver bowels issues and nervous trouble from fever age and prolonged strain, noting benefits for rheumatism neuralgia and kidney troubles while warning against substitutes.
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Jess
Pierce
Fierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Main St
Buffalo
N. W
Moody’s
Moody & CO
Cincinnati
Jay Bronson
Detroit
Warrma
Mrio
B.stevens&co
Metropol
D. Btephena
Lebanon
Ohio
Too Honest. A Jack Knife Returns on C O D
A Detroit Free Press quip recalls a man who sent his old fifteen-cent jack-knife to a Chicago drummer to sharpen a pencil. The drummer returned it honestly but C O D charges made it cost twenty-five cents.
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Express
Chicago
Detroit Free Press
The Cutest Little Things and Patent Medicines
The note praises Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Polleta as effective yet gentle. It also features testimonials for Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites showing weight gain in hereditary lung disease patients. Lairy’s Bile Beans are praised for mild, economical liver relief and growing trade.
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Pierce
J. 8. Combs
Owensville
Ohio
Scott
Negauner
Mich
Lairy
D. Cyr
M. D
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