Robber tale of a telegraph operator on a stagecoach
In a San Francisco to Sacramento journey, a telegraph operator notes a plot to rob and murder passengers. He aids an elderly banker, battles two robbers Ah Wing and Ah Lee, and helps capture them after a dangerous chase past a place called the Big Jump. The banker Mr Stamford marries Blanche Stamford, while the operator survives with scars and a vow to never forget.
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Bay Vis
New Jersey
San Francisco
Mr. Stamford
Sacramento
Rose Hill
Gully brothers acquitted end Kemper County murder case
The acquittal of Virgil and Houston Gully ends the Chisolm tragedy saga. The trial centered on John Gilmer’s murder. jurors hurried to verdict after sensational accusations and mob violence. The piece condemns northern indifference and southern impunity for political killings.
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Gully
Chisolm
Henry Gully
Virgil
Houston Gully
Judge Chisolm
John Gilmer
Kemper
Gilmer
Cornelia
Johnny
Kemper County
North
South
N. Y. Tribune
Egypt's Scattered Obelisks Stand in Europe
The text notes thirty Egyptian obelisks transported over time now stand in Europe. Eleven are in Rome. four exceed the New York obelisk in height. The tallest is 106 feet without base before St. John Lateran. St. Peter's piazza obelisk is 82 feet 9 inches. Pedestals reach 44 to about 50 feet, making total heights around 150 feet and 132 feet two inches respectively.
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Egypt
Kegypt
Europe
Rome
New York
Church of
St. John Lateran
St. Peter's
St. Peter's Obelisk
Farmer Discovers Basin Focuses Sunlight Sparks Bolt Fire
A farmer driving home from Jessup Iowa found that a galvanized iron wash basin with a bolted package inside focused sun rays to ignite the wrapping paper. The incident occurred when the concave basin concentrated light onto the package, causing a small fire.
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Jessup
Iowa
Democrats Vote As One To Pension Jeff Davie
The U S Senate all members vote to pension recipient Jeff Davie amid formal action and pattern of last-term benefits. The measure proceeds through chamber, reflecting party alignment and procedural steps.
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U. S. Senate
Jeff. Davie
Whipped and Brideless Bridegroom Publicly Rejected
In Odessa drunken grooms are refused marriage by priests. A drunken man is whipped, his bride given to another, and the offended bride’s father proclaims any willing suitor may wed her on the spot. Two aspirants stepped forward. one is rejected and the other becomes the groom.
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Currie
Jersey City
John Henry
Odessa
Harlem
Rebels haul down National colors in Huntington
After a Democratic meeting in Huntington West Virginia a large crowd surrounded the Republican pole and removed the National flag. Earlier in the same city Democrats tore apart a flag displayed in front of the M FE Church during a festival. In Texas land sale: three million acres in the Panhandle surveyed and offered at 50 cents per acre.
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Huntington
West Va
M. FE
Texas
Which is the most delicate sense in a debate at Columbia
A professor at Columbia College asks which sense is most delicate. A student answers feeling. The professor asks for proof with an example. The student says his friend can feel his moustache, but no one can see it.
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Columbia College
Fragmented 19th Century Ads and Anecdotes
A collage of old notices praises Day's Kidney Pad for kidney inflammation and a nervous twitching illness, cites a Prof. Swing quote on profanity, touts Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup, and a Harlem minister’s wedding quip. Also promotes Rhinehart’s Worm Loren and notes Ice Lake on Saw-Tooth Mountains near Bonanza at 12 000 feet.
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Day
Saw-Tooth Mountains
Bonanza
Hetop Lee
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Tsaw
Blanche
Blanche Stamford
Potomac
Ah Lee
Yunker
Frisco
Ah Wing
Charles
Albert Copely
McDaniels’ P. O., O
David Swing
St. Paul
Chicago
Dr. Bull
Ouse
Rhinehart
FE. R. Lash
Day Kidney Pad Co
Toledo
John
Graham
Laird & Graham
Winchester
Cash OR Coods
John Craham
Athens
BANKS
the Bank OF Athens
Athens, C
United States
John Brown
J.D. Brown
Cashier
Board of Examiners
Athens County
C. C. Farquhar
Zanesville, Ohio
Warren House
South High Street
Col. Mbus, O
I. Reitz
Chas, C. Bode
Reitz & Bode
Portsmouth
Ohio
Eran Jes
Modest Home County
Jose Eee
Ivannes
Athens, Ohio
Elmer Golden
Railroads
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway
Columbus
Delaware “ Galion
Crestline
Cleveland
Dunkirk
Buffalo
Ning
Falls Ly
Rochester
Syracuse
Athea
Schenecta
Albany
Boston
Hoosac Tun
Boston Vial B.& A. RR
Eric R. R
Hornellsv
Elmira
Lehigh V.rr
Waverly
Mauch Chunk
Bethlehem
Philadelpha
Columbua, Oe
Springfield Uton
Ine Nnati
Union
P.m
M. Ia
Iz P.m
Wigs
Pha
Leeeneanmersterr
Haat
West
B. Tho
A. J. Smith
He. Jan. de Woxin
Pasa. Ag’t
Columbas
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