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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1900
Page
14
The piece profiles a ambitious wife said to rival a dowager empress, as chief adviser to her husband Col Dickman and notes his rise from West Point class of 1881, with prior cavalry ties and notable Texas frontier exploits. It also mentions Maj gen Chafee’s staff selections and other military ties.
Numerous brief items note Chinaward weather, publishers forming an association, Britain’s war expenditure, William Barnie’s death, and a Nicaraguan exhibit dispute. Also recorded are rail accidents, fires, deaths, a charity benefit, cotton market activity, cattle health, farm fortunes in Texas, and agricultural pest impacts across Texas and nearby regions.
Captain Michael Healy of the United States revenue cutter service arrived at Port Townsend Washington aboard the Hugh McCulloch from the north in a state of insanity and danger to others. Healy, 63, has served since 1865 with only a four year suspension from 1896 to 1900, and now lies restrained in a marine hospital in a straight jacket after becoming violent.
Misa Yardley of 710 Monroe Street in Chicago claims she has never seen George Washington. Born January 10, 1795 in Philadelphia, she has lived in three centuries and denies the tale that her mother once held her up to glimpse the first president during a parade. She attributes her long life to common sense and traditional upbringing.
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