The Kid's Career and Death in New Mexico Wild West Tale
A Philadelphia Times narrative recounts Billy the Kid, a beardless youth famed for rifle skill and notoriety, killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner New Mexico. It details Duncan a surveyor's escape and his meeting with the Kid during hiding in an adobe rancho with a spring, the Kid's elaborate dress, leadership, and brutal gunplay.
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Billy
Pat Garrett
Fort Sumner
New Mexico
McCarthy
Garrett
Sumner
Pete Maxwell
Desperado
Lincoln
Fort Stanton
Duncan
Kid
Renegades
Billy the Kid
Wild chase ends in fatal shot at barroom confrontation
A firefight erupts leaving a man dead as a ranger named "Ranger" dies near a barrel after wielding a Winchester. The incident follows a prison escape by Billy whose notoriety grows as his gang dissolves and the renegade narrowly escaped death.
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Gillis
Billy
Dun
Hilly
Great Eastern as Despatch Boat Sparks Market Talk
A New York Sun interview with Uncle Rufus Hatch centers on a English buyer for the steamship Great Eastern. He predicts Jay Gould could own her, using the ship for a vast rail and telegraph empire, broadcasting news and increasing circulation. He claims consolidation could let her move between New York and Sandy Hook, backed by politics and courts.
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New York Sun
Rufus Hatch
Rufus
Jay
Charley Ca Yorn
Gill Belden
Hank Smith
Chipmunk
Mexico
Herald
Jim
Great Eastern
Marine News
Gould
Bennett
Great Northern
Pop
Lier 1
Sandy Sheok
United States
Blaine
Congress
Stanley Matthew
Supreme Court
Angele Rufus
International Marine Reconstruction Co Plans Large Bond Issue
The article outlines a proposed International Marine Reconstruction Company with capital near 210,000,000 first mortgage bonds and 10,000,000 common stock among other securities. It notes high subscription demand, premium expectations, and a market reaction scene with streetcar and Wall Street references. It also includes a quoted reminiscence about Jay Gould and market sensationalism.
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Twenty-Eighth Street
Thirty-fourth Street
Bill Travera
Trunks and chaos in a country town parade
A lively poem depicts a dust crowed trunk carrier battling critics and clutter. The narrator vows to scatter and fling belongings across space, defeating doubt from women and men, and even shaking authority figures as he packs and unpacks with stubborn vigor.
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Sean
Tseorn
Washington Drunkards and Incoherent Inebriate Asylum Debate
The piece exposes political figures and officials accused of dipsomania and misconduct tied to an alleged inebriate asylum. It highlights the expense of committing drinkers, claims a Treasury auditor was moved after years in and out of treatment, and notes purported connections to high offices. It also mentions Christmas and Whitney as example cases and a fatal incident involving Christmas.
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Providence Hospital
Government Insane Asylum
United States
Treasury Department
Times
John Sherman
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Whitney
Bouquet From Graves Across Europe In Taunton
A Taunton woman received a garden bouquet said to include a clover from George Eliot's grave a violet from Melrose Abbey a porierdap from De Quincey's grave an olive sprig from Walter Scott's Abbottsford home and a bluebell from Helen Macgregor's grave near Loch Lomond Also mentioning Rm Lorenzo Waite Westfield endorsing St Phere Qul for sciatica.
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Taunton
Mass
Europe
George Eliot
Melrose Abbey
de Quincey
Walter Scott
Abbottsford
Helen Macgregor
Loci Lomond
Rm. Lorenzo Waite
Westfield
Indorses
St. Phere Qul
Sciatica
Scandalous Revelations on Official Promotion Practices
A Washington letter accuses high level clerks and bureau heads of lengthy paid leaves, lax oversight, and outright violations of the Revised Statutes. It details gifts to officials, patronage rings at the Patent Office, and calls for genuine civil service reform rather than spoils-system practices.
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United States
Mary
Mr. Webster
Webster
Czur
Russia
Turkey
Executive Department
Congress
Grant
Patent Office
Zachariah Chandler
Mr. Chandler
Interior
Veritas
Washington
A Peculiar People Of A Coastwise Boat Culture
In Raleigh News and Observer fashion the piece describes a coastal people living half in and on water. They fish shellfish hunt fowl and travel by sail even for court or funeral. They measure time by bells and dwellings feature tar coating and ships cabin doors.
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Raleigh News and Observer
Mozambique Islands
Madagascar
Dancing Pilgrims of Germany at the Whitsuntide Dance
London Telegraph reports on the yearly dancing procession near Echternach in Prussian Luxembourg area. Up to 20,000 pilgrims join priests and musicians in a ritual commemorating a medieval St Vitus dance epidemic. Dancers perform two hops forward and one back repeating for hours, ending at St Willebrod church. Observers note drunkenness and debauchery in inns after long fasting.
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St. Vitus
London
Berri
Eehternach
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Whitsuntide
Arade
Abraham
St Willebrod
Luxembourg
Law of intestate succession in old English style
The verses outline how an estate is inherited when a person dies intestate. It details per capita distribution to direct heirs, then per stirpes for differing degrees of kinship, collateral succession to siblings and their issue, and finally ascension to grandparents, aunts, and uncles if nearer lines fail. The text ends with a medical advertisement and a request for summer boarders.
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Hving
The Effect of Heat on the Human System
A historical look at vital signs and heat study, detailing how body temperature remains near a standard level amid external heat differences. It covers early experiments by Dobson, Fordyce, and Blagden, the作用 of animal heat, and the influence of temperature on pulse and respiration with referenced instruments and observed ranges.
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Washington
Dobson
Liverpool
England
Fordyce
Blagden
Conalles
Dalton
Man in Disguise Sings in Park Then Arrested
In New York on July 25 a man posing as an old singer in Madison Square Park drew a crowd. He confessed he was Henry M. Fairweather, a healthy English actor and former St. Paul’s Choir master. He told how hardship in London led him to disguise as an old man to solicit pennies, was jailed, then released with help from Swedenborgian supporters and offers of work.
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Halloo
Winchester
Sumner
Billy the Kid
Ying
New York
Thompson
Madison Square Park
Fulice Court
Henry M. Fairweather
London Post Office
Beaith
London
Dick Deadeye
Olympic Theatre
St. Paul's Cathedral
Thurlow Place
America
Sardinia
Quebec
Montreal
Astor Place Hotel
Haugu McAvoy
Jusice Bixby
Fairweather
Blackwell's Island
Thirty-fifth Street
Jantioe Bixby
Court
Astor Place
Stampede of rats reported in Lyndonville Vermont
A Lyndonville Vermont report describes a mass rat movement last Monday night with tracks seen Tuesday morning from stores and homes along Chapel street toward Lyndon Centre and Lyndon Villa. Similar tracks appeared in Lyndonville, leaving residents unsure if migration occurred, though the village noted a general departure.
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Lyndon ( Vt.) Union
Chapel Street
Henry Chace
Lyndon Centre
Lyndon Villa
Lyndonville
Real Estate to Be Sold Today in Kingdom of Heaven
Sheriff Thompson of Walla Walla county Washington will sell a portion of the Kingdom of Heaven real estate to cover 1056 dollars unpaid on a judgment awarded by Judge Wingard to Cilley Evans and others in the Davis tuberculosis case. The sale is set for July 16 with the proceeds to satisfy the remaining debt.
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Kingdom of Heaven
San Francisco Examiner
Thompson
Walla Walla County
W. T
Juddge Wingard
Cilley
Evans
Perihelion Perils Reported With Severe Winter Outlook
An old newspaper column links planetary conjunction to a sun shift and harsher seasons, predicting a long hot summer and higher mortality. It promotes Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure with a testimonial from D. W. Bartine of Orange New Jersey detailing illness recovery after use.
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Warner
D. W. Bartine
M. D
D. D
Orange
N.J
Col
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Philadelphia Times
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State of Texas
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Kia
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Vegas River
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Billy Coyle
Donovan
Springfield
Til
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Valencia
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Scakdalous
the Globe
Office of Register of Wills
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Brown
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District of Columbia
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Wetster
Welster
Segular
Register of Wills
Civil Service
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Civil Service Reform
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House
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Hatteras Banks
Dancing Plgrims
Germany
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