Dark Red Rose Hint in a Brooklyn Life Tale
Austen Warde travels after a broken engagement to San Francisco where he meets Marguerite Darlington whose brunette beauty and charm recall a dark red rose. A note with a rose leads to mistaken romance as Marguerite's sister recalls a similar Cavendish Hotel episode causing humorous social confusion.
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Asten Warde
Katherine Eldridge
Austen
San Francisco
Cavendish
Marguerite Darlington
Katherine
Miss Darlington
Room
Stepewey
Hecuba
New York
Susie Crawford
Mrs. Keppler
Los Angeles
Marguerite
Cavendiah
Millicent
Mille
Brooklyn
The Mystery Rider at Kenesaw Mountain 1864
Chicago Inter Ocean recounts a reunion story from Col Dan McCook's brigade at Kenesaw Mountain on June 27 1864. An officer on horseback rode toward the Confederate breastworks, his rider unseen and his fate unclear. Survivors and confederate officers debated whether the rider was McCook or another officer, with witnesses recalling a chestnut horse and a buckskin cuff inscription.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Spottsylvania
Kenesaw Mountain
Dan MccCook
Dan McCook
Nashville
Atlanta
Maj
Spencer Eakin
McCook
Col. Holmes
Sherman
Thomas
Col
Allen L. Fahnestock
Eighty-sixth
Illinois
Kenesaw
Eakin
J.G. Mitchell
Mitchell
Tennessee
Chicago
Col. McCook
Maj. Bakinaska
Fifty-second Ohio
Orcer
Maj. Eakin
Maj. Hakin
Rilea
Cook
W. J. Whitthorn
First Tennessee
Maney
Cheatham
Worka
John G. Mitchell
Jo Swan
Ohio
Cur Ling
Maj. Bakin
Animal Longevity Surprises With Century-Long Lives
An Insurance actuary style study reveals wide variance in life expectancy across species. Horses and donkeys top at about 35 years, cattle around 30, dogs 25, sheep goats pigeons and cats about 15. Birds show strange gaps with geese 30 sparrows 25 crows 100 and ducks fowls turkeys about 12. Elephants and parrots commonly reach beyond 100.
The Sand Man in Verse and Song
A brief item notes Paul L. Dunbar in Chicago Daily News presenting The Sand Man as a kind figure who brings dreams and bedtime, contrasted with Johnny Speaks voicing a child’s mixed feelings about sleep and play before bed.
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Johnny
Paul L. Dunbar
Chicago Daily News
Educated oysters and learned behavior
A New York Weekly piece recounts an odd tale of oyster schools where training teaches oysters to keep their shells closed out of water. Trials compare trained and untrained oysters, showing the trained one survives longer by staying shut, while the other dies when exposed.
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Philadelphia
N. Y
Dancing Egg Trick Says Philadelphia Press
The article describes a science trick using a hard boiled egg and a smooth plate. It instructs to keep the egg perpendicular while boiling then flip the plate to catch the egg as it spins rapidly.
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Philadelphia Press
The Civil War and Crime’s Enduring Influence
A fragmentary historical note discusses the Civil War’s lasting impact on crime and public morality. It cites Buckley’s The Present Epidemic of Crime and mentions John A. Logan’s prewar reputation incident in southern Illinois, illustrating postwar reputational dynamics.
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James M. Buckley
Southernlinois
John A. Logan
Logan
Ile
Weight of Shella Gun Mismakes and Weights
The 13 inch naval gun fired a shell weighing 1100 pounds and the 6 inch shell weighed 100 pounds.
Boy Hunter Kills 250 Pound Adirondack Bear Near Hatchery
An 11 year old New York boy, Jack Stearns, with his mother Mrs John Noble Stearns and guide Dave Charbonneau, shot and killed a 250 pound bear near the Coombs Spring hatchery of the Adirondack League Club. The bear was about 100 yards from the boy when the rifle fired and the first shot was successful.
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Adirondack
Jack Stearns
New York
John Noble Stearns
Adirondack League Club
Coombs Spring
Brein
Dave Charbonneau
Mousy and Her Tiny Mice in Oriole Nest Tale
A Mother Mouse searches for a home for five babies. She rejects a woolen stocking and a bonnet house, finally peering into an oriole nest high above cattails where four more baby mice lie, with the lone survivor missing. The scene blends domestic life with field creatures in a Detroit Free Press vignette.
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Mother Mouse
Mouse
Mrs. Mouse
Detroit Free Press
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