Escape and a daring card game test in Confederate prison
A Union captive narrates a perilous escape plan amid a prison camp guarded by sentries. He trades a letter for a ring and a bill in a staged poker game with Major Berante, then uses deception and a girl Margaret Beach to aid a night escape. They flee through fields toward the timber and creek, seeking shelter as pursuit closes in.
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Bernite
Bos
Berante
Ron Alt
Berante Hlappening
United States
Confederate States
Lam
Hitle
Margaret Heagh
Margaret Yen
Margaret
Lobert
Tstre
Yank
Ivan
Margaret Beach
Charlenre
Tean
Marcaret
Margaret Deach
Night Escape From a Confederate Plantation
A narrator exits through a wood and over a rail fence into a cornfield fleeing Confederate forces. He hopes the general has returned to headquarters and plans to reach that location, using a clear starlit night to navigate toward the north star.
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Lavenac
Voyage Time Through History Shrinks From Three Years
A Chicago Tribune reader summarizes long navigations around the world from Magellan’s nearly three year voyage to Cavendish’s 26 months and beyond. The piece notes 140 day trips in the next century, the opening of the Suez Canal, and current best times around 52 days with future reductions possible, plus Panama Canal’s expected impact.
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Franca Drake
England
Cavendisit
Plymouth
Buck
Suez Canal
Panama Canal
Chicago
Cook and Policeman
A short comic exchange from Puck portrays a couple in a late night scene. The wife quips about the husband not marrying a cook or a policeman as muffled footsteps hint at burglars, creating a light, domestic moment.
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Puck
Inside a New York Steam Laundry How Clothes Are Cleaned
A detailed tour of a six story modern New York steam laundry reveals reception of dirty linen, sorting into piles, and processing in disinfecting chambers. Workers handle washing with belts, circular washers, and multiple mangles then pass items to drying, starching, ironing, and finishing before bundle pickup on Saturday night.
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New York
John Chinaman
Chinaman
John Chinaman Avith
Dever
Tim Reefer
United States
Prent
Viet Mtn
Borton
San Francisco
Chicago
Troy
N. Y
Boston
Mass
Ing
England
Pretoria
Transvaal
South Africa
Europe
China
Board of Health
E.T Gundlach
Point to Point Hurdling and Wartime Changes
A historic note on point to point steeplechase origins at hunt events with long-standing prizes and social interest. It details how war disrupts hunting fixtures with fewer gatherings including hunt balls and polo, and mentions Imperial Yeomanry recruitment. The piece ends with a light dialogue exchange from the Detroit Free Press.
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House of Lords
Hurlingham Club
Imperial Yeomanry
Farmers and Fat Men In Contentment Question
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip questions general farmer satisfaction and notes satire about fat men being married, illustrating social pretension and economic stereotypes in a humorous exchange. The line contrasts agrarian optimism with urban vanity.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Noted Husband Prefers Clear Dinner Plans
The quotation describes a husband praised for careful, conscientious behavior. He ensures his wife is informed before he returns home for dinner, reflecting reliability and consideration.
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Puck
Reading Struggles Highlight Grace at School and Grandfather
A child narrates friction with a teacher who criticizes slow reading and spelling. At home the grandfather fosters reading by letting her pick a book and reading aloud, while suggesting she may one day teach the district school. The piece reflects early 20th century child literacy themes.
Tailor Made Home by a Costa Rican Oriole
A Costa Rican black and orange oriole uses banana leaf edges as a needle and thread to sew a leaf pocket into a nest site. The bird stitches along a leaf vein with grass fibers, creating a hidden nest where the mother lays eggs and rears her young.
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Costa Rica
Power of a Tiger's Eye Tale Sparks Cabbie Fear
A tale about a man who lost an eye, replaced it with tiger eye from a taxidermist, and the ensuing misadventures with trains, fares, and a surprised cab driver. The piece ends noting the tiger eye’s power when seen in a man’s face.
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Frederick Talbot
Billingsgate
N. Y ¥. Tribune
Lazy wildlife and parasitic cunning in nature
A playful critique of animal laziness and parasitic habits. The piece catalogs sloth, kestrel, sparrow hawk, cuckoo, sparrow, house marten, and Raven like birds with odd nesting habits, plus ants enslaving other ants and creatures that rely on others to do their work, including fishhawk, remora, Brazilian catfish mouth link, pea crab and hermit crab.
Goose Shows Sense In Clever Feat At Ardglass Ireland
A writer in Our Animal Friends recalls that a goose learned to open a door by striking a hook and ed as a herd entered the barn. In another instance pigeons startled a horse to shake out oats, repeating the tactic until feed was exhausted.
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Our Animal Friends
Ardglass
County Down
Ireland
Did they give you a tip asked the restaurant proprietor
A Portland Oregonian joke notes a new waiter who, after serving his first customers, learns the tip is to carry a hod. The proprietor asks if he received a tip and the reply confirms the advice.
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Portland
Oregonian
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West
Perante
Earth
Detroit Free Press
Destrict
Elizabeth L. Gould
St Nicholas
Central America
Papa
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