A Latin Room Triumph for a Sketching Heroine
Virginia Booth, a 16 year old student, faces expulsion after secretly sketching her Latin instructor Prof Gregg and classmates. When confronted, Gregg applauds her talent and suggests using her drawings for newspaper reports, transforming a tense moment into a career opportunity that saves her from punishment and aids her sister Salome.
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Salome
Virginia
Prof. Gregg
Miss Booth
Georgia
Weill
I Am a Bossy Tempered Child by Carolyn Wells
A poem from Success by Carolyn Wells portrays a child labeled fretful sulky and bossy. It contrasts claims of constant quarrelsome demand with a self view of perpetual cheer when allowed to have things their own way. The verses highlight temper, entitlement, and the desire to control play and feast sharing.
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Carolyn Wells
Spectacular Brussels Funeral for a St Bernard Dog
In Brussels a remarkable burial served as a public sendoff for a cherished St Bernard. The coffin custom made with a glass lid held the dignified dog’s head on a pillow as 200 employees, summoned by a formal order, filed past for a final view before the grave in a garden. The master led the procession, deeply moved as the workers were told they could spend the remainder of the day as they wished.
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Brussels
St. Bernard
Ted
Pretty Party Trick and Cruel Japanese Cooks
A water magic trick uses two full goblets A and B and a third C with red wine to transfer wine from C into the inverted B without A spilling. A wool fiber carries wine up between rims as water is displaced, demonstrating a curious capillary transfer. Also notes Japanese cooks are cruel for cutting live fish before cooking.
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N. Y. Herald
Glaciers and Ice Mechanics in a Simple Nature Lesson
A practical lesson explains glacier formation from snowfall and pressure turning to ice. It describes ice behavior, experiments with a weighted pail and wire as a saw through ice, and how cracks form as ice flows. It also covers a jackdaw mischief case at Dartmoor prison and Lady Allenvale’s jewel.
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Switzerland
Barnard
N. Y. Herald
Footnotes from Bloodied Trails of Haynes and Haynes
The recollection details a Civil War march from Missionary Ridge to Knoxville and Chattanooga. Haynes, captured with a Unionist civilian, escapes at night after a guard is knocked out, aided by a friend. They cross the Tennessee to safety, rejoin the brigade near North Chickamauga, and later return to camp. A calf theft attempt ends with the thieves paying five dollars to the farmer.
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Jack Jeffers
Bergt
Sam Grimshaw
Chicago
Knoxville
Burnside
Longstreet
Chattanooga
Clinch River
Con
Tesunga Valley
Chellanooga
Haynes
Bite
Tennessee
Cleveland
Blazes
Dave
True Blue
Remarkable Experience of Civil War Comrade Miller
Comrade Jacob Miller of Braidwood Illinois, a 1861 Loganport Indiana volunteer in Company K Ninth Louisiana, survived a Chickamauga musket shot that tore his forehead and blinded one eye. Believed dead, he crawled for help, rode in an ambulance, and reached Chattanooga, Bridgeport, and Nashville despite grave wounds. His lead fragment lingered, surgeons removed about a third of the ball seventeen years later, and Miller remembers the battle details while recalling the long road to recovery.
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Jacob Miller
Braidwood
Ludiena
National Tribune
Miller
Logansport
Ind
W. J. Salle
Robert Milroy
Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Bridgeport
Nashville
Indiana
Leter
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Annie Hamilton Donnell
Cicero
General Assembly
Virgina
Georgian Lovejoy
Virginia Booth
Gregg
Georgia Lovejoy
Virgie
Aater School
Grege
Hernard
Styte
Fergus
Dartmoor
England
Lady Allenvale
Eady Allenvale
Sphringing
Lilinoia Veleena Do Curcies & Ballet
Hie Drain
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