Yosemite Stage Robber No Match For Plucky Passerby Dusenberry
The San Francisco Chronicle recounts J W Dusenberry escaping loss during a five stage hold up in Yosemite country. He dropped not a cent and even tucked a watch and ten twenty dollar gold pieces into his waistband while others were plundered. He later found only sixty cents and a knife after a bold but bungled robbery attempt. Detectives recovered many items later as the bandit, masked and armed, disposed of loot with a linen duster spread on the ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Dusenberry
Yosemite
Dusenberry
Blosson
San Francisco Chronicle
Wsenberry
Wells Fargo
Express Company
Dusenperry
Oswell
Caps
Pursued by Wolves on Buck Creek in Indiana
Samuel Johnson of Indianapolis, age eighty three, recounted a near deadly encounter with wolves on Buck Creek while hunting twelve miles from the city. He described fleeing into a log house as a pack surrounded and bayed around the dwelling, then suddenly turning away before night fully fell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Johnson
Indianapolis
White City
Buck Creek
Mr. Johnson
Indianapolis Star
The Prisoner’s Escape From Chester Castle
A prisoner Sir John Trevanion used a cipher hidden in a condolence note to signal an escape. Every third letter after punctuation spelled panel at east end of chapel slides. He prayed in the chapel, the panel opened, and he escaped under cover of darkness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir John Trevanion
Colchester
Sir John
Boston Post Magazine
Bear Attack Turns into Wild Chase for Wisconsin Hunter
Elmer Hill, partridge hunter near Appollonia, Wisconsin, shot at a bear that leaped from brush. He struck the animal but was clawed five times in a fierce chase. Hill used a hunting knife after tossing his shotgun, barely surviving until help arrived to drive off the bear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appollonia
Wis
Elmer Hill
Elmer
Hill
Philadelphia
Plucky Rush Ends With Telegraph Help In SA Bush
A man lost for four days in South Australia found a telegraph line between Adelaide and Port Darwin. He climbed a pole, cut the wire, and waited as messages went along, reaching him just in time to save his life. The Kansas City Independent reports the peril and rescue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Australia
Adelaide
Port Darwin
Kansas City
Waste of the Cannery Turns Corn Shucks to Mules
Illinois farmers bartered three thousand acres of sweet corn by feeding shucks and offal to a growing herd of Missouri mules at Hoopeston. A four hundred mule barn, costlier than 12000 dollars, houses the stock. Mules fatten in five to six weeks, with daily rations of 4500 pounds. The cannery plans to continue feeding all winter, using mules to perform all farming chores on the operation. The enterprise supports local labor and soil fertility after harvest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Missouri
Hoopeston
Ill
St. Louis
J. L. Graff
Ravenswood
Talleyrand’s dinner script of beef by rank and courtesy
Talleyrand tailored his hospitality by guest rank offering beef with formal address to a prince duke marquis viscount and baron while an untitled guest received a simple inquiry and a silent glance at the carving knife for an inferior guest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talleyrand
Monseigneur
Secrets of Good Digestion and Chinese soil claim
Secrets of Good Digestion extols cheerful meals savory food and thorough mastication as the tripod for digestion. It notes individual tastes may vary and emphasizes well cooked tasty food taken in moderation. Even fried food can digest if chewed thoroughly. The Chinese soil claim states a square mile could support about four thousand people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Frightful Fragments and Odd Inventions of Times
Reading across a miscellany of late nineteenth century notices, the piece surveys patent medicines and cures for children including Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup and Piles treatment, then shifts to social scenes in St Petersburg with vagrant labor agencies, funerals drawing tramps, and wages. It closes with a bizarre Asiatic star tree that glows at night, tall and bare above forty feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Nikolski
Itchy skin cured with Cuticura Remedies testimonial
A Oklahoma reader Mary Metzger describes severe eczema lasting four months with relentless scratching until bleeding. She credits Cuticura Treatments for quick relief and full recovery. The note appears among other brief items including trial speeches and advert lines about Woolford's Lotion and a Brook Foss Westcott quote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T Hey
Mary Metzger
Sweetwater
Okla
Catarrh Cure Promises $100 Reward for Proof of Failure
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for catarrh with a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure. The copy urges internal use to affect blood and mucous surfaces and claims strong testimonials. It promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and notes Garden Plain Kansas merchants closed shop briefly to help harvest before resuming trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cuzney & Co
Toledo
Reforestation Struggles Across Sicily Mountains
Ancient poets praised Sicily's forests, but today mountains lie bare. The question of reforestation is hard as peasants tear down fences and release goats. Efforts succeed only under military protection, allowing new trees to be grown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sicily
Dr Pierce opens full ingredient list for medicines
Dr R V Pierce of Buffalo releases a complete ingredient list for his medicines and a free book proving no alcohol narcotics or poisons are used. The pamphlet cites Indian plant use and promotes Favorite Prescription for women's health and other remedies. Statisticians note land efficiency comparisons for various crops and foods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
Dr. Pierce
N. Y
India
Take To Cure a Cold in One Day Laxative Claim
An old patent medicine pitch promotes Take To Cure a Cold in One Day Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with Grove’s signature on each box and a promise of refunds if it fails to cure. The note adds a curious aside on bell life noting that ringing a bell has a finite lifespan under heavy blows. A 960-pound bell lasted eleven thousand blows at 178 foot pounds, while a four-thousand pound bell lasted eighteen thousand blows at 350-foot pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Cotton Oswell
Africa
Stael
Mr. Oswell
Tuel
Oswell
Seanake
Grove
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St. Vitus
British Medical Journal
Cutiura
Woolford
E. Detchon
Crawfordsville
Ihd
Garden Plain
Kan
Fresia
Zawese Thompson
Daisy Photo
Daisy Photo Copying CO
25Th Avenue
Menipiax Miss
Lewwis & Coo
Baronne Street
New Orleans
Pxia
WAC Dyna Ata
E Southern Cotton Oil Company
Lewis H. White
Blenville Street
S Commercial School
Mall
Bryant & Stratton Ba College
Dept
Lovieville
SHEEB
Paxton CO
Masten
Man
Sloan
Earl S. Sloan
Boston
Mass
U.S.A
York
Masson Strost
Atlanta
la Cresse
Corre
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