A Child Witness of a Tragic Town Trial
In a quiet country town a boyish dreamer named Henry Dorbin commits a fatal act after a dispute with a blacksmith. A young girl, the narrator, testifies in court, sentences Henry to death later commuted to life, and decades later encounters him as an escaped convict begging mercy. The tale ends with the convict’s death and the narrator’s enduring guilt.
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Harry Dorbin
Msteceas
Derbin
Henry Dorbin
Father
Henry Corbin
Henry Derbin
Tam
The Ships Nearing Home Poem Excerpt and Legal Notice
A fragment from P L Stanton in the Atlanta Constitution presents a lyric about ships nearing home and harbor lights, with repeated refrains on voyage peril and welcome. The text also notes Germany’s April 1 1903 meat inspection law requiring new inspection stations and related building activity.
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Eta
Remembered the Dog and a General at War's End
Pension Commissioner Ware sits in Washington office when a brigadier general from the Civil War era visits. The man asks about Ware and then inquires what happened to the bulldog Major, once the company mascot. Ware eventually recalls the dog Iola Segister, amid a faded memory of their shared days.
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Ware
Washington
Major
Iola Segister
Gains a Friend He Who Gains Time Gains a Good
A concise adage from the Chicago Daily News emphasizes that gaining time translates to gaining friendship and value. The line frames time as a resource that strengthens personal bonds and goodwill.
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Chicago Daily News
Frail but pugnacious Sigel recalled by friend
A New York writer recalls Gen Franz Sigel’s stubborn spirit in a wartime anecdote. At a saloon he stood small yet defiant, protecting himself from the crowd as a rough patron derided Phil Sheridan. Sigel challenged the man, shouting in German for him to come forward and threatening to strike.
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New York
Frans Sigel
Washington Post
Broadway
Sigel
Ecibe
Park Row
Forty-second Street
Bronson Howard
Phil Sheridan
St. Hernard
Trather
Franz Sigel
Mutiny Quelled on Hartford In Civil War History
The Hartford at the navy yard in China faced a southern-officer mutiny as Civil War tensions rose. Rear Admiral Frederick Engle, famed for Vera Cruz actions, suppressed the revolt and steered the ship to American shores. The Hartford later served as Farragut’s flagship. A relative of Capt J Edgar Engle earned honors on Bermuda Hundred and Green Plains, amid seven wounds and loss of an arm. Bronze Old Guard medals derive from the Hartford propeller.
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Hartford
Navy Yard
China
Frederick Engle
Stribling
Engle
Washington Star
Vera Cruz
Princeton
Confederacy
America
Farragut
J. Edgar Engle
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Bermuda Hundred
Green Plains
Old Guard
Secret engagement prompts ring on wrong hand debate
Gerald proposes secrecy for their engagement and notes a ring should not be given yet. Geraldine suggests she could wear a ring on the wrong hand, prompting a humorous exchange with the judge present.
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Ovend
Gerald
Geraldine
Judge
The Atomic View Of Electricity And A Swallowing Study
The article reports on a magazine view that electricity is a material result of splitting atoms into smaller parts, with electrons as negative charges and Roentgen rays from cathode impacts. It also notes Dr. P. H. Eykman photographing internal body movement of the tongue pharynx and larynx during swallowing using an electric tongue contact to trigger X-ray imaging.
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People's Magazine
P. H. Eykman
Electric Fly Killer Inventor Aims Instant Insect Death
Edwin R. Greene of Providence unveils a ceiling or table mounted electric fly killer. The device uses insulating framing with vertical metal strips alternately energized to deliver a current and electrocute insects on contact. It includes bait to lure flies and promises no poison, reducing grocery contamination risk.
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Edwin R. Greene
Providence
Chicago Daily News
Air Ship of a Spider on the Texas Prairie
A Texas spider spins a balloon four feet long and two feet wide that she ties to a tree with a single thread. She leads her six offspring aboard, cuts the line, and the air ship sails away toward a distant prairie destination.
World coal production rises through the centuries
A Treasury Bureau of Statistics monograph shows world coal output climbing from 45 million tons in 1820 to 866 million in 1901. It notes three dominant producers, Britain, the United States, and Germany, delivering about five sixths of global coal, with the United States surpassing Britain in 1899 and maintaining leadership through 1901.
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Treasury Bureau of Statistics
France
Germany
Belgium
Austria- Hungary
United States
United Kingdom
Pennsylvania
Great Britain
Ireland
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Henry Dotbin
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Wee
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Eighty-eighth Regiment
Ohio State Guards
Camp Chase
Trimble
Company B
Leutenant
Thia
Lieut. X
Wales
P. L. Stanton
Atlanta Constitution
Sheridas
Gallamt
Electric Fly Killer
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