Marriage Brokers of New York City in Yiddish Quarter
A New York City feature examines schatchens or marriage brokers in the East Side Yiddish quarter. It describes legitimate brokers aiding hopeful brides and grooms while detailing crooked operators using employment agencies to lure vulnerable girls, and recounts a wedding scene with a hundred attendees, music, and ritual.
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Marriage Brokers OF
New York City
New York
America
Schatchen
Shotken
Riverton Street
Norfolk
Beast of Burden
Sehatehen
Blackleg
Schatchens
French Army Bids Farewell to the Drums
A Globe opinion notes Gen Faure-Biguet's Paris dispatch reporting that France will abolish drums and drummers in the army. The piece argues war shifts to a mechanical process with near smokeless and soundless battles, risking the loss of martial romance and artistic inspiration.
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Faure-Biguet
Paris
Thackeray
Kuipling
Boy Hero of the Civil War George Black Orderly Musian
A Philadelphia boy named George Black enlisted as a musician in fall 1861 at age under twelve. He served with his father George W. Black, a first lieutenant of Company H Ninety first Pennsylvania, in the Fifth Corps. He fought at Marye Heights Fredericksburg and later at Chancellorville, where he urged to stay with his father. He survived severe battles, aided a retreat at Culpeper Court House, was wounded, and returned to Washington with both arms in slings.
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Philadelphia
George Black Byame
William C. Reiff
National Tribune
George W. Black
H. Ninety-first
Pennsylvania
A. A. Humphrey
Fifth Corps
Marye’s Heights
Fredericksburg
Young Black
Jim Thompson
Black
Father
Culpeper Court House
Washington City
Mail service delivers man as parcel between islands
A Guernsey resident wished to travel to Sark and was treated as a mailable parcel. A tag was placed on him and a messenger accompanied the carrier. The post office charged five shillings and tenpence for the service.
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Guernsey
Sark
Painters Around the Adirondacks
A brief note on local artists with a wink at photo or film work, mentioning that occasional shooting takes place in the Adirondacks and hinting at a lively but casual scene among painters and guides.
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Adirondacks
Puck
Preferred Her Weekly Salary
A playful Town Topics item notes a dialogue in which a man asks to marry. the woman replies she will instead be a typewriter to him, presenting a humorous domestic quip about wage and role.
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Tory
Mansfield man’s Civil War bayonet found after 42 years
S F Bell of Mansfield, Civil War veteran, recovered the bayonet he hid near a rail during the Baker’s Creek fight on February 5, 1863. On visiting Vicksburg he learned from a local woman and her husband where the weapon lay under an old fence, now rusted but identifiable, enriching his war relic collection.
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S. F. Bell
Mansfield
Mississippi
Ohio
Vicksburg
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Bucktails of Pennsylvania Recall Squirrel Hunters Era
The article recounts Roy Stone forming a loose Bucktail unit in Warren County in 1861, with men sending themselves down the Allegheny to join McClellan. They marched to Pittsburg and were later organized into a Bucktail regiment and brigade famed for sharp marksmen at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania
Roy Stone
Warren County
Washington
Allegheny River
McClellan
West Virginia
Stone
Pittsburg
Richmond
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
Relics of the John Brown Raid in Martinsburg Citizen’s Possession
Adam P. S. Passal of Martinsburg West Virginia reports possession of John Brown raid relics from 1859 He aided the capture at Harpers Ferry and guarded the jail at Charlestown He says he owns an early United States Army button after the declaration of independence.
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John Brown
Adam P. S. Passal
Martinsburg
W. Va
Brown
Harper’s Ferry
Charlestown
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Aus
Vital Lagen
Boy
Union
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