The Scottish Brigand and a Border Tale of James V
A Rusty border chronicle recounts Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie and his doomed siege under James V. The tower, raids, and a royal summons lead to a brutal execution of Armstrong and thirty-six followers. Personal recollections document a perilous freight train chase and a life among southern bound tramps during October migrations.
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Johnnie Armstrong
Gilnockie
Scotland
Engle
Cassell
Newcastle
Hole House
Ask
Dumfrieshire
James V
Westmoreland
Moss
Euesdale
Langholm Holm
Armstrong
King Harry
William's Latest Craze for Excalibur Diamond Crown
The German Emperor seeks the world's largest diamond, Excalibur, valued around 5 million dollars and found in South Africa last June. Britain has offered 2.5 million as William of Germany pursues a crown jewel to boost his public image amid a broader pattern of restless royal ambition.
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William
Berlin
South Africa
Bowens
Germany
Brooklyn
Russia
L Hood & Co
Lowell, Mass
Hood
Tramping With Tramps on Railroads Across the West
Extract from The November Century recounts how a young American disguised as a tramp rode rails across the Midwest and West. It notes Illinois and its rail system as favorable for travel by hobos, mentions the Illinois Central and the C J Q lines, and warns of dangers riding moving freight and desert stretches.
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Illinois
Iowa
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Colorado
Washington
California
Ilinoia
Ilinois Central
Hybrid Coinage Plan and Colorado Penitentiary Crisis
Gov Waite backs a plan for a hybrid silver coin with Mexican and Colorado marks to aid silver interests and fund bullion certificates. A separate coup at Canyon City Penitentiary sees S J Toy seize control, deposing Warden McLester and ejecting the former deputy, amid a staged entrance and credential swap.
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D. H. Waite
Colorado
Waite
Teneo
Toy
McLester
Otter Gate
Telegraph messenger boy delivers telegrams by bicycle in Boston
A Boston telegraph messenger boy rides a bicycle through town delivering telegrams. A California inventor creates a device to stop gas from escaping when blown out. A German discovers a method to reduce smoke from coal combustion. A Florida resident named Bell plans a large hotel among live oaks. The Mississippi River bridge at New Orleans is planned to cost five million dollars and built by Chicago men. Toboggan express trains aid freight in Montana. Wardrobe trends include stone-cutting blades, tunics, overskirts, and new velvet jackets with ruching.
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Boston
Florida
Bell
Mississippi River
New Orleans
Chicago
Boulder
Montana
Career of the Confederate veteran Gen Beauregard
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, born near New Orleans May 28 1818, rose from West Point to top engineer posts and fortifications along the Mississippi. He led in Civil War conflicts from Bull Run to Shiloh, surrendered to Sherman in 1865, and later headed a railroad, state adjutant general duties, and Louisiana lottery management.
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Pierre Gustave Toutant Deauregard
New Orleans
Chiss Rabl
West Point
Fort Adams
Newport
Fort Mackenry
Maryland
Mexico
Tampico
Vera Cruz
Cerro Gordo
Chapultapec
City of Mexico
United States
Mississippi River
Gulf Coast
Florida
Rio Grande
Robert Anderson
Sherman
Teauregard
South
Arizona Fortunes and Fables From an Odd Column
A garbled colonial-era miscellany ponders how Arizona got its name from a Big Nose tribe and Oregon from large ears, then shifts to English marriage stats and a tale of tailless Manx cats cast off from a New Jersey wreck.
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St. Louis Republic
Arizona
United States
Oregon
England
Wales
Manx cats of Barnegat coast prized for daring beach hunts
In Barnegat woods and beaches a strange life unfolds as Manx cats, agile and bold, roam the coast hunting fish and shellfish. They leap with short hind legs and outpace ordinary dogs, often catching prey carried in by breakers. Long Beach, a famed summer resort, has seen many such cats, sometimes tamed by humane visitors, though tourists have also frightened or killed them.
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Barnegat's
Long Beach
Snakes and Sauces and a Quaker Tea Tale
A comic collage from a New York Journal pages recounts a telegraph lineman’s tale of a giant snake eaten to near emptiness after a trek with a crate and train. It shifts to A French Cook’s Treatise On Cookery’s sauces and Careme’s fame, then to a Quaker village vignette with a stern gray girl refusing candy. A final note covers a Bloombury court case on a stammering patient and the price of a three minute operation.
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South America
Nero
Careme
Raphael
Philadelphia
William Penn
New York
Bloomabury County Court
Bacon
Browne
Lord Glerawley
Lord Annesley
Andrew Clarke
Costa—N. Y. Journal
Ancient catacombs and world landmarks noted
The passage cites Egypt's catacombs over 4000 years old, the British Museum housing the finest antiquities, Moscow's Kremlin housing the largest bell at 433000 pounds, Oxford as the largest university with twenty one colleges and five halls, and Fairmount Park in Philadelphia as the largest American city park at 2740 acres.
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Egypt
British Museum
Kremlin
Moscow
Oxford
Fairmount
Philadelphia
Free Northwest agricultural weekly promoted in Portland
The Northern Pacific Farmer, published in Portland, Oregon, enters its twenty first year as the Northwest’s weekly agricultural paper edited by Frank Lee. It offers 16 to 32 pages weekly with farm, horticulture, stock, poultry, market reports, and household items. New subscribers paying one year in advance to Tae Press receive a free year of The Northern Pacific Farmer.
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Northern Pacific Farmer
Portland
Oregon
Northwest
Frank Lee
Granger
United States
Tae Press
Great Northwest Journal
Receiver notice for the C. A. Barrett Co. accounts
The undersigned appointed by the court as Receiver for the C. A. Barrett Co. calls all parties owing the firm to wait and settle their accounts. C. A. Barnett, Receiver.
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C. A. Barrett Co
C. A. Barnett
Estate notice in Oregon county court
In the county court of Oregon for Umatilla county the estate of James is acknowledged by the executrix Euraa J as attorney. The undersigned notices the guardianship of the estate and requests filings by the end of January.
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State of
Oregon
Umatilla
James Vale
State of Oregon
Janby Euraa J
Ge. Att
Assignees Named In Insolvent Estate Notice
The undersigned duly appointed assignees of the estate of Alexander Moore announce the insolvent debtor case under Oregon law. The notice references a writ of assembly act to secure creditor debt division, with dates and procedural steps implied by the text.
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Alexander Moore
Tiue
State of
Oregon
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Paris
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G. T. Beauregand
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Rel
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Tam
J. M. Pats
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Wash Phi News
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Pacific Farmer
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Erie
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