Romance of a Vermont Mortgage on a Seven Year Old
In Peacham Vermont Captain Milo Green, a wealthy recluse, holds a $2500 mortgage on a seven year old boy named Claire Leseuer. He threats foreclosure if the father Jaques Leseuer does not sober up and support his wife Marie Mercier and child. A minister and neighbors note Green’s strange but protective actions as the family strives to steadiness.
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Milo Green
Peacham
Claire Leseuer
Capt. Green
St. Johnsbury
Guildhall
Claire
Jaques
Jaques Leseuer
Quebec
Magie Mercier
Leseuer
Green
Vermont
Marie Mercier
Lester
Milo
Esener
Hussband
Marie
Jer
Marie Leseuer
Jacques
My Old Comrade Pipe Remembrance From Belle Island Prison
A Civil War era poem honors a comrade and a rough pipe found at Belle Island. Alfred W. Harris, Corporal of Louisville Legion Fifth Kentucky Infantry, is named as the donor and bearer of memories from prisoner life and shared tobacco amid hunger and hardship.
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Belleview Hospital
Baltimore
Belle Island
Alfred W. Harris
Louisville Legion
Fifth Kentucky Infantry
American Tribune
Panic and discipline in Civil War rear guard actions
In western Virginia and at Stone River Generals and officers describe how panic spread among regiments under fire. The Twenty-sixth Ohio and other units faced confusion, while Colonel and General Thomas reined in the retreat. Panic varied by event and location, with rear actions often exaggerated in reports.
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Virginia
Chicago
Stone River
Thomas
Chickamauga
Longstreet
Shiloh
Extensive Citizenship Honors for Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie is described as the most widely granted citizen of many towns in England and Scotland for funding free libraries and other institutions. The text notes he will soon need a museum to house his citizenship caskets. Recently he received freedoms from Ilkeston for a library and Eastbourne, and joined the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards in London, receiving another casket.
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Andrew Carnegie
England
Scotland
Ilkeston
Eastbourne
London
The Best Soldiers Across Classes In War Experience
A Chicago Inter Ocean piece recalls Field Marshal Oyama on universal military service and compares Civil War experiences in the Union army. It highlights how nonprofessional men, through drills and war, became capable soldiers and formed bonds across class lines.
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Oyama
Fort Sumter
Branch
Buell
Shiloh
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Grant’s illiterate surgeon tale from Ogontz residence
Jay Cooke recalled Gen. Grant describing a northern regiment surgeon who treated a promising young officer. The surgeon reported three wounds and indicated two were fatal, while the third might recover if the officer could rest quietly.
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Jay Cooke
Ogontz
Gen. Grant
Grant
Engagement Ring Sparks Town Debate in Yonkers
In a small up river town, a girl shows off an engagement ring and claims it came from the city, noting the absence of installment jewelry stores locally. Her friend skeptically questions its origin, highlighting local scarcity of such shops.
Summer resort longing and rose imagery in verse
A collage from Chicago Daily News and Vick's Family Magazine presents verses exalting rural leisure and nature. It contrasts crowding town life with summer escapes and ends with a tribute to roses as divine craft. The piece mentions pests, rough beds, and blisters from rowing, then shifts to a romantic rose poem.
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Chicago Daily News
Poem Excerpt Reflections on Faith and a Woman’s Heart
Variant verses explore spiritual blessing and heaven’s drama alongside intimate portraits of a woman’s courage and longing. The passages juxtapose sermons in praise and the quiet ache of devotion, offering poetic meditations on love, fear, patience, and truth.
A Wee One Brings New Light to World’s Spring
S E Kiser writes in the Chicago Record Herald that a newborn changes the world’s mood and skies. The piece evokes softer winds, brighter roses, and a renewed grandeur as if the arrival of the child redefines beauty and promise.
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S. E. Kiser
Chicago Record-Herald
Would he feel surprise at what I think of him
A reflective poem fragment in a New York Times style, exploring hidden judgments and the urge to reveal private thoughts about a neighbor and a friend named Ana. The speaker contemplates honesty, revolutions of truth, and the fairness of speaking out.
Wandering Worlds Of Desire In Quiet Firmament
A lyric fragment reflecting wandering worlds and stars as a metaphor for desire. The verse notes a busy world within a calm sky, guided by love’s sun, attributed to Frank Walcott Hutt and printed in the Democrat.
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Raineath
Frank Walcott Hutt
N. O. Tizaes- Democrat
Contentment as the true measure of virtue
The quote argues that genuine goodness cannot be bought by appearances of contentment. It suggests even a noble knight, shown as happy in conflict, is not truly content and misleads others. The excerpt reflects Victorian era moral critique from Kenton Foster Murray in Reader Magazine.
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Kenton Foster Murray
Reader Magazine
Doorways and gates of hurry and leisure
A poet longs for a rural gate that opens to tranquil leisure. One side reveals a swain, the other a maiden, contrasting hurried city doors with calm country paths.
A Wrong Inference at a Polish Wedding
A poem line notes that language can mislead with varied meanings though a wedding between Poles is not a literal wooden ceremony, reflecting on wordplay and interpretation.
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Abun
Ce. Wes
Euers
Emil
Lejod
Marie Lesever
Woodlands
Eleanor A. Hunter
Vick’s Family Magazine
F. L. Stanton
Atlanta Constitution
Theodosia Garrison
The
New World
Ana
N. Y
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