Enforced companionship aboard a rainbound train
Sir John Hay and Miss Rosa Muir find uneasy attraction on a stalled journey to Swindon. Over a damp day and shared shelter they debate fate, class, and propriety as they pass time with talk and a lunch basket, hinting at a past connection and uncertain futures.
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John May
Sir John
Swindon
Sir John Hay
John Hay
John
Tyen
Times
Byeindon
Muir
Taunton
Mexican War Survivor Nickerson Recalls Civil War Service
Oraon Nickerson of Oconto Wisconsin, a rare survivor of the Mexican War under General Winfield Scott, recounts battles and his Civil War service. He joined Grant against his former commander, later serving in Sedgwick’s division and fighting at Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg before the Appomattox surrender. He migrated from Canton to Sheboygan Falls and finally Oconto, where he tends fruit and recalls a long career. Arthur MacArthur later rose to major general after entering service in the Civil War.
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Winfeld Scott
Mexico
Oraon Nickerson
Oconto
Wis
Mr. Nickerson
Conby
N. C
Scott
Robert BE. Lee
Ulysses
Grant
Nickerson
Lonishina
Col. Mosby
Memphia
Tenn
Canton
Appermattox
Washington
Sheboygan Falla
Holbo
Milwaukee Sentinel
Hoe
Banks
Arthur MacArthur
Corbin
Mac Arthur
Massachusetts
Wiscopain
Cotongue
Wisconsin
Swamp Angel battery built in Charleston swamp story
The 1862 Charleston siege tale recalls General Gillmore’s 19,000 men forming siege works on Morris Island. Engineers Serrell and Edwards probe swamps, plans for a 200-pound Parrott gun, 13,000 sandbags, and a trestle road. On August 24 the gun fires, then breaks, proving a battery could be built in mud to threaten Charleston.
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Chisaga
Eaptain
Inter Ovean
Charleston
Gilmore
Morris Island
Fort Wayrer
Gillmore
B. W. Servell
Ble Stalt
Gultiere
Peter 8
Michio
United States Engineers
Colonel Serrol
Nathan M. Edwards
Serrell
Ed Wards
Napoleon
Gilhmore
Midile
Treatle
Parc Rolt
Ar Hillerists
Angmy
Port Sumter
Trenton
New Jacket
New England
New York
Ohio
Fragmented verse riddle touches rebels and General
A garbled verse item hints at a wartime scene with a boy, rebels, and General Raralio Lo Riu amid national acrimony. The readable fragments suggest poetic narration of loyalty, danger, and counterrevolution. Names and clear details remain uncertain due to text corruption.
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Raralio Lo Riu
The Policeman Flynn and the Day Detective Dream
The piece recounts Horatio Mann, a youth craving detective glory, and Policeman Flynn who debunks romantic myths of detectives. Flynn stresses practical limits, explains that real work favors patrolmen, and challenges the youth’s idealized view with a mock burglary scenario.
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Barney Flynn
Horatio Mann
Thorntho
Flynn
Horst
Ft Hind
Piynn
Mel
Neoman Flynn
Fim
Policeman Flynn
Horatio
Policeman Blyon
Palseen
Tavathin
Flyon
Her Prerogative and Public Speaking Advice Mixes with Naval Wit
The fragment presents humor and dialogue from Her Prerogative and a Chicago Daily News snippet. A policeman and a speaker discuss public speak ing, rewards, and promotions amid playful quips about chutes and chattering sailors. The piece blends banter about practice speech making and discreet marital conversation as life advice.
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Joseph J. Howlen
Iim
Mins Muir
Hosa
Hls
Pasalen
Rosa
Ant
Gare
Falmouth
Marr
Mies Muir
Chance
Laine
Gen. Winfield Scott
Serrofl
Syed Dren
Ulaltet
Horraulo
Joxeon
Gunner
Guyer
Chicago Daily News
Houspton Pout
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