Duel of the Dignity in a Mississippi Town
In a Mississippi town Colonel Bunker recalls a curious meeting with a self styled General Blum who pretends to Civil War glory. The tale centers on a duel proposal with scythes and farming tools to defend honor, a refused pistols duel, and public pressure shaping the episode into a dramatic local incident.
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Meares
Merey Wells
B. Lewis
Thad Gore
Mississippi
State Senate
General Blum
Gettysburg
Spottsylvania
Petersburg
Sun
Hin
Arange
Swat
Appomattox
Sub
Scyms
Bose
Honall
Sedar Mountain
Blain
Honah
Fim
Bunker
Geek
Duel Ends Without Bloodshed After Armistice Won by Chance
An account recalls a scheduled duel between a colonel and General Blum that was halted when a bystander burst through, collided with the general, and knocked him unconscious. After recovery, the men toasted reconciliation with cocktails as friends, declaring their enmity resolved by honor and public opinion.
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Sud
Sub
New Orleans
Tyre
Ani
Couse
Suk
Blum
Colonel Bunker
M. Quan
Death of the World Prompts End-of-Earth Theories
The article surveys unsolved scientific questions about the earth’s future. It cites Harper’s Monthly and Professor Darwin to note uncertainties about cataclysms, lunar influence, and possible fate scenarios. It warns that final outcomes remain speculative and may be resolved only by future science.
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Henry Smith Willams
Harper's Monthly
Darwin
Earth
Moon
Guto
Found the Ends Irishman Lands Job With Rope End Joke
An Irishman seeking work on a harbor vessel asks the captain for a job and is given a rope. He identifies one end, then the other, and finally throws the rope overboard claiming another end. The captain hires him on the spot. Accounting for humor and attribution to London King.
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London
Whistler Gallery Bid Ends With A Laugh
In a Paris letter from Vance Thompson to The Saturday Evening Post a Colorado millionaire visiting Whistler’s Rue du Rue studio asks for the lot of pictures. Whistler quotes a mock million price then coolly responds Good morning. The Sons of Clergymen notes add to science and military history in a broader remark.
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Whistler
Colorado
Rue du Ruc
Vance Thompson
Paris
Saturday Evening Post
de Candale
Deets
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