The Opening of a Heart in Floral Charity
Clare Burnham, admired yet aloof, meets Ben Watts and a democratic suitor Godfrey Frisbie. After giving a Rose to Ben, she visits his family at 1123 River Street, arranges flowers for his mother's funeral, and encounters Frisbie who sent the box. Ben praises Frisbie as a kind benefactor.
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Are Burnham
Clifton
Grace
Clare
Mr. Burnham
Godfrey Frisbie
Clare Burnham
Godfrey
Miss Burnham
Ben
Ben Watts
River Street
Amilax
Father
Watts
Gordon Frisbie
Gordon Friabie
Frieble and Clare in a quiet wedding resolve
Ben Watts, the tall young man, helps reunite Frieble and Clare after a funeral and a shared memory. He witnesses Clare’s softening feelings and confesses his own love. In time, Frieble and Clare pledge love, and Ben prepares roses for their wedding, uniting two unlikely friends.
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Frisbie
Ben
8 Boyt
Clare
Miss Burnham
Kerridge
Mr. Frieble
Godfray
Ben Watts
Keeping Passengers Awake in Rail Station Waiting Rooms
A feature describes station officers whose duty is to keep travelers awake in waiting rooms at major railroad stations. It covers methods to rouse sleepers, including nonlethal pressure, cold-water douches for intoxicated passengers, and the dangers of deep sleep among travelers, with anecdotes of confrontations and deterrents for boarding sleep-induced errors. The piece notes women’s heightened anxiety and class differences in attention, and ends with a brief note on new food preservation chemistry involving formaldehyde compounds and milk.
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Breed Street
Reading
Baltimore
Bnd
West
Two Sunsets Day at Leek Staffordshire Landmark
A local tale explains Leek in Staffordshire hosts two sunsets daily due to a mountain to the west. The first sunset is followed by gas lamps and artificial night, then daylight returns as the sun reappears beside the mountain. After a second sunset, night remains.
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Leek
Staffordshire
Pneumonia Surpasses Consumption as Leading Death Cause
Pneumonia has now given way to consumption as the leading cause of death. Pneumonia is essentially a disease of vitiated germ polluted and overheated atmosphere. Consumption, while also a communicable germ disease, has all seasons for its own.
A Study In Longevity Demographic Facts
From birth, mortality tables show 312,000 reach 70 years and 107,000 reach 80 among 1,000,000. Survival beyond 90 includes 3,841. at ages near a century the counts drop to 245 at 97, 119 at 98, 54 at 99, 23 at 100, 9 at 161, 2 at 102, and 1 at 103 per million births.
An Old Confederate Scout and a Union Officer on the Big Black
A Chicago Daily News excerpt recounts Col Montgomery, chief of Gordon's staff, meeting a Union officer across the Big Black River near Edwardsville during the Vicksburg campaign. Montgomery crosses to propose a truce over whisky and shelter, sharing a night in the enemy’s quarters before returning to the river. The anecdote ties to Champion’s Hill and the broader Vicksburg fall, with both men never reuniting.
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0. H .Williams
Chicago Inter Ocean
Mississippi
Montgomery
Gordon
Staf
Edwardsville
Big Black
Champion
Champion Hill
Battlefeld
Vicksburg
Grant
Vickaburg
Big Black River
Johnny
Yank
Jackson
Champion's Hill
Black River Bridge
Edwards Station
Soldier Poem Echoes of War and Return
A lyrical wartime piece extols soldiers marching to drum and trumpet, promising bold exploits and vivid battlefield sounds. It intertwines pride, danger, and the hope of peaceful remembrance when veterans return home from conflict.
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Boldier
Lincoln's Way Round Story of Beardsley’s Discharge
A Middlesex club tale tells how Abraham Lincoln resolved a Civil War case. Connecticut figures Brandegee and Dixon pressed for a boy’s release from fraud enlistment. Stanton refused. Lincoln ordered the discharge. Stanton relented after Lincoln’s envelope note. The boy returned to his mother in Bridgeport.
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Abraham Lincoln
Middlesex Club
Boston Herald
Bridgeport
Judge Beardsley
Codgreseman Brandergee
Dixon
Connecticut
Secretary of War
Lincoln
Beardsley
Toth New York Regiment
Washington
A. Linco
War Office
Brandegee
Stanton
Mr. Lincoln
Remarkable vitality in Civil War hospital case at Lexington
A Thirteenth Missouri, Company E soldier was hit by a cannon ball at Lexington in September 1861. Despite early hopelessness his wound care was delayed until evening yet he survived. Captured later, he endured imprisonment and, though scarred, lived on to tell the tale of leading a charge with one arm.
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Lexington
American Tribune
Missouri
Price
Old Soldier’s Experience Prompts Kidney Pills Claim
E J Hicks of Dennard Arkansas recounts long battle with chronic pain, heart flutter, and fatigue after the Civil War. He credits Dodd’s Kidney Pills for relief and renewed strength after years of illness and multiple medicines.
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Dennard
Ark
E. J. Hicks
Mr. Hicks
Bede
Dodd
Chinaman's Report: Editor Deflects Question With Witty Retort
In a San Francisco Wasp anecdote the Chinese Daily World editor, reticent by race, encounters a boastful paper seller who asks whether he is Japanese or Chinese. The editor responds with a courteous bow asking the drummer to identify his own key, and whether he is a monkey, donkey, or Yankee before answering.
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Dix
San Francisco
Wasp
New Chippewa Settlement Offers Hardwood Riverland and Fishing
In Sawyer county Wisconsin near the Omaha Road lies a growing Chippewa region with rich hardwood lands and abundant bass and pike fishing in the rivers. A jaunty applicant for a stenographer position boasted she can spell well and has grammar to spare, citing a quote from the Woman's Home Companion.
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Sawyer County
Wis
Omaha Road
Grammer
Practical Poetry and Oddities Sparked by Coughs and Dyes
A collage of remarks from diverse papers includes a boastful poet, a tailor setting a price for a deed, a restroom joke about a good steak, a cough medicine note, and a dye ad. Also mentions liquor cures and a comment on lending a dollar as a deed of trust.
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Belle Maniates
Flo
Chicago Daily Newa
Eilenes
Beanette
Ohio State Journal
Conan Hual
Washington (Ja
Democrat
J. Woolley
M.D
Atlanta
Putnam
Chicago Daily News
Lydia E. Pinkham
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