Surrender at Appomattox Described by Porter in Century
General Horace Porter recounts the Appomattox surrender as Grant and Lee part, the chiefs exchanging handshakes, Lee gazing toward his troops now prisoners, and the halt of salutes while Grant orders calm as parolee prisoners depart and war ends.
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Horace Porter
Grant
Appomattox
Porter
Leo
Meade
Meads
Lee
Marshall
Vicksburg
Town Topics and City Notes Across Papers
A collage of brief remarks and items from papers in Toledo Chicago Detroit Philadelphia Washington Chattanooga New York and St. Louis. The clippings touch on public libraries bridge jumps dog attacks and sensational personal tales with sharp city contrasts and stray opinions.
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Toledo
Toledo Bee
Chicago
Detroit News
Philadelphia Times
Washington Post
Chattanooga
Georgia
Decean Springs & Co
Chattanooga Times
New York City
New York World
St. Louis
Atom Maintains Identity Across Compounds
Henry Smith Williams argues in Harper's Magazine that an atom never loses its personality as it forms different substances. While a molecule’s structure can change with atom positions, each atom remains its own brick, preserving size weight vibration capacity and affinities across diamonds coal sugar wood tissue or gun powder.
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Henry Smith Williams
Harper's Magazine
Railway ties and early rail developments
The article notes possible electric links from Buffalo to Albany and cites Pennsylvania restricting passenger ticket sales to railroad agents. It mentions an experimental automobile postal train Paris Beauvais at 22 to 46 mph, Austria Hungary total rail mileage 5,737 miles by 1896, with gross revenue 52,000,000 and net revenue 17,000,000 on 570,000,000 capital.
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Buffalo
Albany
Pennsylvania
Paris
Beauvais
Austria
Hungary
Accuracy limits of modern naval gunnery in warfare
A Cassier's Magazine excerpt discusses the uncertainty of long range gunnery on rolling ships, noting limited real combat data since the Yalu and Alexandria episodes. It highlights how luck, target similarity, and motion affect hit probability at about 2000 yards, with gunners often wasting ammunition and outcomes driven by chance rather than skill.
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Alexandria
United States Naval War College At
Newport
Alger
Indiana
United States Navy
Cassier
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Pinehurst
Charles D. Benbow
Pinehurst, N. C
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