The Charge on Randall's Battery by a Confederate Soldier
Private John Negley of the Eleventh Alabama recounts a wartime romance amid battle. Rival Le Sarge dies after an attempted murder on Negley, saved by Helen, Negley’s beloved, who appears as a guiding apparition before a real reunion and marriage.
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Randall’s Battery
Alabama
American Press Association
John Negley
Negley
Helen
Rafe le Sarge
le Sarge
Lincoln
Sumter
Miss’ Garvin
Fragier’s Farm
Randall
Lea Sarge
Outlaw Tricks and a Crash on a Bicycle Ride
In Harmony Maine an old farmer Eb Jones tries a bicycle. The ride ends with a crash into a barnyard fence and a scolding wife. In Kansas, outlaw Rube Burrows outsmarts Sheriff Stiltson by threatening to drop a powder keg pipe, then escapes as the keg proves empty.
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Maine
Harmony
Joe
Eb Jones
Ed Jones
Kansas
Rube Burrows
Missouri
Stiltson
Burrows
Desperado
William G. Patten
Taft of Point Shirley Quips at Dinner Guests
A Boston Herald note recalls Landlord Taft of Point Shirley boasting to guests that any bird or fish in season not in his larder would make their dinner free, a bold challenge guests always paid for.
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Taft
Point Shirley
Boston Herald
Spoon Cabinets in New York and Washington
Many ladies in New York and Washington have cabinet tables made to hold valuable souvenir spoons. They are oblong with a sunken velvet lined top and a plate glass cover through which the spoons can be viewed. This feature appeared in Once a Week.
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New York
Washington
The Nuisance of Inartistic Advertising
London Saturday Review decries street posters and sky signs that mar public spaces. It cites Frederick Walker and Sir John Millais works as better but still unsuitable, laments banners on rail sides, and praises a society formed to curb this nuisance while noting public funds should not corral so-called taste.
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Frederick Walker
London Saturday Review
German Goldsmith Stiglmayr’s Quest to Cast Canova Statue
Casting Great Statues, Stiglmayer, a German goldsmith, journeyed to Naples to study Canova’s Charles III statue but was barred from secret techniques. He deduced them, returned home, and endured delays in three attempts to cast a Venus statue. The first failed after molten metal spilled, a second failed, then a Christmas Eve pour succeeded as the mold filled and the metal spurted from the air hole. Pasquale kissed Phidias’s head in the celebratory moment.
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Stiglmayer
Naples
Canova
Charles 111
Venus
Pasquale
Phidias
Preparation as the Key to Opportunity in Invention and Law
The passage argues Edison’s lamp discovery came after months of exhaustive experiments with soot and materials. It compares this to a young lawyer and a surgeon who gain sudden distinction only after extensive preparatory training. A great chance is valued by what precedes it in a person’s background.
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Edison
Thomas Erskine
William Mathews
Harper's
Young People
Wismar Pawned by Sweden in 1803 Half Mecklenberg Debt
A Baltic port town story shows Wismar near Mecklenberg's grip after Sweden pawned it in 1803 with a century deadline to repay a large sum. The dormant treaty resurfaced amid land concessions to customs authorities, revealing a centuries old financial pact. A separate snippet recalls a schoolteacher’s Washington quiz from Everett, with children giving idealized answers about the first president.
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Pawan
Wismar
Baltic
Montague Tigs
Sweden
Mecklenburg
He Had Gone Prepared
A young woman slips away as a man heads to the library to confront his fate and the old gentleman bears pain with whispered oaths. The scene hints at a stalled marriage or romance arc, with tension mounting as destinies hang in abeyance. The Detroit Free Press captures a moment of quiet domestic drama and unspoken futures.
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Detroit Free Press
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J. C. Berry
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Riverton
Neb
J.C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
Mase
Ail Ruggists
Phur Ats
Brent Vodpuvifier
Tata
BP. Ordway & Ca
Kirk
JAS. S. Kirk & CO
Chicago
Tral Soap
Teen the Handa
America
True & CO
Augusta
John
Tsisanum
Everett
George Washington
Boston Journal
Castoria
Santa
Samuel Pitcher
G. C. Osaoon
Lowell, Mass
J. ¥. Kinckener
Conway, Ark
H. A. Ancorn
M. D
Oxford St
Brooklyn
Children's Department
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Boston
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the Centaur Company
Murray Street
New York City
WH. H. Holmes
Pennsylvania
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Holmes Co
Water St
First Ave
Huptaburgh
de. Judd
C. B. Judd
Detroit
Mich
Burre City
Mont
Judd
D. M. Newsre Drug Co
C. B, Judd
On & Honths’ Trial
Hoxsie
Buffalo, N. Y
W. Jarvis
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