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Posted inDaily News Invention

Something New Under the Sun

Mr. Prince, of New York, has invented a "Fountain Pen" which bids fair to prove of great utility inasmuch as one can write with it a quire of paper without…
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Posted inMaritime & Naval History US Civil War

August 15, 1861 – Privateer Dixie’s Prey Retaken

Another recaptured prize arrived at New York on Sunday—the schooner Mary Alice, belonging to New York, from Porto Rico, loaded with sugar. She was captured on the 25th of July…
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