Death at the Barracks A Drummers Final Stand in Cuba
A vivid eyewitness description of a drums major execution in Whatertown Cuba. The condemned man, once rising from drummer to chief musician, faced death with calm, kneeling before his country’s standard as troops gathered. The ceremony featured a funeral dirge, lanterns, a silver cross, and a priest’s exhortations before four muskets fired.
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Santingo de Cuba
Lhfe
Bia Companione
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Courance
Henry
U. S. Infantry
San Antonio
Texas
Tilbey
Winter's End Hope Poem Fragment
A fragmentary verse contemplates the soul's renewal through harsh winters and fading memory. It contrasts memory’s pole with budding spring and declares that God preserves Hope in all things, even behind clouds and decay.
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Blasta
Drear O'era
God
Orange Tree and a Quakeress in a City Tale
Albert Morris, a young Philadelphia man, falls for Clara Atwood after a kind act by a poor elderly woman. He reconciles two feuding families, woos Annie Morris, and the orange tree motif ties love to virtue. Clara, now married to a wealthy suitor, must watch society play out.
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Morrie
Miss Atwood
Europe
Bella
Chestnut Street
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Morria
Morne
Levy
Morris
Philadelphia
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Trere
Albert
Annie
Gertian
Goeth
Ritcher
Korner
Ichtegel
Annie Mortis
Adam
Albert T
Little Street
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Walnut Street
Granary scheme warned by a debtor’s tale of fraud
A story recounts Jonathan Homespun selling weekly wheat to subscribers for a year at two dollars and fifty cents, then facing bankruptcy as many patrons refuse payment. The narrator urges subscribers to repay and laments the moral duty to support the rightful, wronged farmer.
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Jonathan Jame
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L. Yea
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Exiled Irish Patriots Send Farewell Letter
A group of Irish resistors consigns a farewell address through a mutual friend to fellow countrymen. They express sorrow at exile from land and seek peace, urging unity and continued hope for Ireland’s prosperity and independence. Names include Wittasw O Bar, Tuomas Francis Menanen, Jopnee Berthw, M Manus, Pataca O Desouve, and Rchmond Prison.
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Cpare
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The Sea Serpent at Newport Scene
A fake sea serpent was floated off Newport Beach after moorings were cut. Tourists and bathers fled in panic while the “creature” loomed in the water and many costumes dashed toward shore amid cheers and laughter.
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Ocean
Newport
Syltem
Laocoon
N. Y. Herakd
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