Fort Massachusetts and Ship Island in the Gulf Quarantine
The Gulf coast islands near Biloxi host Fort Massachusetts, begun in 1854, with ruins and a 15 inch gun. Dr. R D Murray, longtime Gulf Quarantine surgeon, lives with his wife and five children on Ship Island. The station includes yellow fever facilities, a hotel site, and a plan to make a seafaring hospital, amid palm stands, mockbird song, and phosphorescent gulf waters.
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National Cemetery
New Orleans
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Island Chronicles From the Gulf Coast and Ship Island History
Mosrs Ponsoat recounts Ship Island’s colonial ties to Louisiana and New Orleans, noting Lafitte pirates and Bourbon-era visits, Civil War fortifications, a Farragut era camp, and a submerged cemetery. He highlights canal, cable, and lumber trade prospects, Gulf fisheries, and evolving seaport plans as Mississippi’s Ship Island railroad nears completion.
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Good Manners in Boston Reflects Cosmopolitan Tastes
The writer muses on urban manners and social mixing in Boston, noting how ambition, class, and gender shape behavior. He observes daily rituals, from fashion to courtesy, and praises genuine decency amid a city of diverse roles and routines.
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Eliah Smith and the Greso Featured in Daily Diet Note
A New York Tribune item highlights Eliah Smith keeping a strict daily appetite, eating freely at dinner while demanding a top breakfast and starting each workday with enough food for ten hours. The piece underscores his unusual daily routine and appetite.
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New York Tribune
Editor's memoirs of old California papers and printers
A candid reminiscence by PRENTICE MULIORD about the hazards and humor of 19th century California journalism. He recalls waste baskets as fatal symbols, miners, poets, and the open office life from March to November with frontier editors, printers, and contributors shaping local discourse.
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Senate
Prentice Muliord
Portrait of the Youngest Railroad President in the Country
Special Correspondence from Battimore Maryland March 29 profiles Robert Garrett head of the Baltimore and Ohio and the youngest president of a major railroad. It notes his wealth, lavish lifestyle including a $20,000 ball, private car trips to the Montreal carnival, and a reported $1.15 billion deal shaping the industry. Garrett is described as fashionably dressed, influential, and his sister Ali Mary Garrett as the richest unmarried woman in the country.
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