The Yellow Horse Je Je A Tale of Camp Life and Longing
A Western era romance set at Camp Wikoff after the Spanish American War follows a western girl waiting for news of her beloved Hutchins. She tracks a yellow horse belonging to the Rough Riders, then finally locates him near a tented camp where he lies recovering. Her resolve to reveal herself endures amid the bustle of the camp.
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Aney
Suntiaga
Joors
Mantiuk Point
Suneca
Cuba
Meak
Rough Riders
Hutchins
Roosevelt
Mutehins
Utah
Hackhire
Wikoff
New York City
Texas
Indian Territory
Rough Rider Troop
Jack Hutchills
Wasatch
Uintah Ranges
Whitehins
Yellow Horse
Hutching
New York
Iutchins
Gen. Wheeler
Arizona
New Mexico
Dakotas
Milantic Seaboard
Gila
Tutehius
The Wasatch Girl and the Yellow Horse Tale
A Civil War era tale follows a Wasatch girl who courts a Western rider by a stable encounter with his yellow horse. Her ribbon message reaches Hutchins, leading to longing, farewell sermons, and a moral reflection on duty and love amid battlefield memories.
Soldier's Last Ride to Arlington Memorial
A black plume, a lone carriage, and a funeral march through the avenue mark a soldier's last journey. Though few passersby recall his long service and the harsh Decembers endured, he sleeps peacefully beside the gilt stars, in the line of battle and honor.
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Arlington
Butte
Maral
John A Joyce
Ln National Tribune
Pranks of Soldiers after Civil War Campaigns
A reminiscence from the Chicago Inter Ocean describes Eighty fifth Illinois soldiers after the Civil War pranks in Richmond and Washington. They challenged strict orders, overran guards at the bridge, freed a log punishment at Fort Slemmer, and briefly ran a makeshift streetcar line for fun, leaving a mixed record on postwar discipline.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Eighty-fifth
Stone River
Chickammanga
Kenesaw
Peach Tree Creek
Atlanta
Kentucky
Richmond
Halleck
Stanton
Sherman
North Carolina
Johnston
Department of the James
Malbeck
Aleer
Washington
Fort Slemmer
Fenic
Fourteenth Street
Fifteenth Corps
Dri Makes Stand On Guard In Bold Shootout Scene
In a satirical tale from Gacheller’s Dri and I, Dri thwarts a sergeant’s party on a guard post with a firm resolve and a warning, sparking a tense pursuit as captains and adjutants rush to recall missing troops. A second vignette recalls an old darky outwitting a grocer for credit, turning a dime’s worth of molasses into payment.
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Gacheller
D'ri
Detroit Free Press
Greenhorn
Gee
D'r
Dir
D'rl
Hawkins
Dri
Adjt Church
Dvd
Toon
Tle
Darky
Memphis Scimita
Teddy Roosevelt the boy prodigy of the Roosevelt family
A portrait of little Teddy Roosevelt, a precocious son of the president, detailing his mature tastes, love of sports, naturalist hobbies, and a taxidermy museum. The piece notes his zeal in sports, gardening, and collecting specimens, plus the charming Roosevelt family circle.
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Little
Eddy" Moosevelt
Teddy
Sagas More Hill
Peddy
Hocard
Archie
Zach
China
Chicago Record-Herald
Roosevelt
Alice
Theodore Roosevelt
Kermit
Bihel
Quentin
Nature’s wash saves Earth in gentle muse tale
A whimsical poem portrays Nature scolding the dusty Earth in rain and wash. Earth resists at first but is cleaned by a motherly Nature, leaving a fresh green world and cheerful birds as the daughter goes out to play. Written by Charles H. Crandall in 1868 Times.
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Charles H. Crandall
The Amateur Magician Delights With Simple Electric Trick
Aperiod piece explains a secret ready made apparatus for a harmless wand like trick. It describes using a lamp chimney bristle brush handkerchief tin foil cigarette paper and fine wire to craft an electric machine capable of astonishing effects. The steps include wrapping a foil band around the chimney and attaching a foil strip of precise length.
Electric brush and foil experiment from a 19th century paper
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune item describes a chim ney trick using a silk wrapped brush, foil, and cigarette paper strips to show frict ion electrification, transmission of electricity along metal, and repulsion of similarly charged bodies. The method involves charging a glass by friction, moving a brush in a chimney, and observing sparks and paper strands reacting under static charge.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
A Child Ends the Merry Go Round and Finds a Goal
A seven year old boy declines more rides preferring to stay under a tent and seek a meaningful destination. His grandfather muses that many chase endless movement, while real purpose comes from choosing a goal and traveling toward it.
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Johnny
Denver Woman Praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Mrs Ina L Roser of Denver writes of long illness and female troubles lasting two years. She credits four bottles of the compound for restoring health and energy, praising its effects and offering a testimonial to Mrs Pinkham for free advice. A $5000 forfeit warns against fake testimonials.
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Ida
Roseb
Denver
Lydia E. Pinkham
Fragmentary scrap notes from a varied 19th century page
The text lists damaged snippets on topics including lacquer damage from smoke and bituminous mixes, eastern Washington timber openings, a Kansas poison trial, and mixed trivia about antique markets, a burial in Westerville, Vermont apple varieties, and rice as a profitable cereal.
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Washington
Kansas
England
Italy
Henjamin Ruesell Fanby
Nellie Gray
Westerville
Calyabus
Springer
Chelsea
Champion Wing Shot Capt A H Bogardus at Ferris Wheel Park
Chicago November 4 Captain A H Bogardus the champion wing shot of the world has spent the summer here with a shooting school at Ferris Wheel Park. He recalls a near fatal brush with Kinney disease that developed into Brights disease. He credits Dodd s Kidney Pills for his recovery and praises their curative effect.
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Ferris Wheel Park
Chicago
A. H. Bogardus
Elkhart
Bright
Dodd
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Him
Theodore Nuonmrett
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Ida L. Roser
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Atlas
Rap and Ads Publishers
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