Anecdotes From Henry Watterson and Boston Visit
Henry Watterson recalls a Boston trip with Murat Halstead Horace White and Carl Schurz. An Oxford World reporter duped Halstead with a staged interview, prompting a denial and World editorial note. Also notes on a Massachusetts reader’s package of sermons and an English coin die depicting a crown over the American liberty head.
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Waria
York Eon
Portavenrnsa
Henry Watterson
Steporter
Murat Halstead
Horace White
Boston
Carl Schurz
Charles Sumner
Sumner
Mr. Schurz
New York
Sam Bowles
Springfield
Maes
Brevoort House
Mr. Watterson
Oxford
Watterson
Halsferd
Halstead
The
World
Murat Hals
Ead
Mr. Halsead
the World
Wartersor
Mecn
Philadelphia
The Girls All Married in the Hills Tour Scandal
Aleck Bosus, a West showman, led a troupe of mainly young women into the Black Hills. After lucrative stops in Rapid City Lead City and Deadwood, all the ladies reportedly married their suitors in Sturgis, with Bosus collecting 250 for each release and planning another tour. He framed contracts to secure future earnings and claimed the women forgave him for marriage. He boasted of irresistible courtship and planned to return.
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New York
Suc
Sipney
Neb
Aleck Bosus~tow
Black Hills
Hills
Rapid City
Seren
Lead City
Rapid
Deadwood
Promised Land
Sturgis
Deadwond
Hin
Local Clothing Merchant Wins Lottery Prize in Houston
Ben Kiam of Kiam Bros learned his $1 Louisiana State Lottery ticket, number 91 960, won one tenth of the capital prize totaling $15,000. He cashed the ticket promptly and plans to invest part of his prize for the next drawing on the 8th of next month.
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Woustouian
Fauor
Post
Alexander, Jr
Ben Kiam
Kiam Bros
Kiam
George Washington
Grover Cleveland
Louisiana State Lottery Company
Alexander
Mr. Kiam
The Badly Mxed Heathen and Texas Grave Tribute
A reader recounts Eb Burdette’s disheartened missionary return and a satirical hoax about religious appeals by multiple denominations. The piece shifts to a Huntsville Texas grave of Gen. Sam Houston, urging a monument to honor Houston and tell Texas history, celebrating San Jacinto heroes and linking to broader patriotic memory. An Erie Northwest line critiques tax policy on essentials, labeling it piracy.
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Huntsville
Tex
Sam Houston
Gen. Houston
Texas
Houston
San Jacinto
Battle of
Earl of Cardigan
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Pang
Leliotype
Heay
Neil
Warner
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New York City
W. Wood & Sons
Richmond
Parker
Geast
Tiel
West ‘Stat Bt
New 'York
Merarnterd
Addrent Nanz & Neuner
JEANS
MR. Watterson Tegua Story
Massachusetts
Ingersoll
New and
Latter House of Israel
Chatham
Eng
Christ
Jezriel
Hersel
Napoleon
Whealley
Thornton Wheatley
DR. Goods
Cele
Ghorgia
Gllea
Georgia
Alabama
Harrold, Johnson & CO
Mor‘ou
W. P. Jowers
Preston
Webster County
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