Renowned Riverman Halts Gambler Den With Boat Tether
Uncle Billy Russell, famed for fairness and strength, used a steamboat to extract a protection from a notorious gambling house on the Mississippi. After a drunken financier was beaten, Russell ordered a rope to encircle the building and pulled it from shore, topp ling the house into the river as passengers cheered.
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Ohio
Mississippi
Billy Russel
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Billy
Las Prune
Uucle
Pasteboard
Russel
Natches
Hall
Kimmatu
EL Go
Raseel
Geo
Rive
Experiments Below Zero by M Pictet on Cold Effects
M Pictet conducts experiments using freezing mixtures to create wells of cold reaching 166 degrees below zero and explores effects on animals and humans. Frogs snakes centipeds and merobes show varying resilience while a dog and Pictet himself endure extreme cold before vitality fails. The article ponders how circulation behaves under such conditions and cites related law and historical anecdotes.
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M. Raor Pictet
Pieter Haas
Pictet
MO Pictet
M. Pictet
Quality Paris Journal
Four Eskimo Girls From Alaska At Home In Chicago
Four young Eskimo girls from near Port Clarence Alaska travel with Captain Mnor W. Bruce to Chicago. The oldest Ak meaning linder bodied is six. Riner is three. They wear homelike mink fur garments and sealskin moccasins.
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Anlaska Jlaiden
Rimer
Owen
Ao Kler Pea-Ak
Ar Kluk
Ner
Riner
M-nor W. Bruce
Alaska
Port Clarence
Chicago Inter Ocean
Amusing fold story game and a Lee family reunion
An old New York Tribune note describes a children’s parties game where players draw multi folded heads bodies and legs and pass them around to create humorous composite figures. The Youth’s Companion recounts General Lee meeting his son Bob at Antietam with a friendly exchange.
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New York Tribune
Antietam
Rockford
Lee
Bob
Virginia Institute
Ouc
Combers
U.S
U. S
Press Claims Company
Washington, D.C
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Canal &T
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France
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Julia Schafer
St Nicholas
Sears
Henry Stipsoyx
James Smith Woolen Machinery Co
Philadelphia
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Ayer
United States
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West 114Th Street
New York
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Sutter Street
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William T Dunwell
South Water Street
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Crystal
Hatch
Jamaica
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Hope Street
Court of Probate
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Sarah H Hoard
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James Hoard, Jr
Byfield Street
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Herber
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the News
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Fall River
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Washington, D. O
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Gene
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Washington
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Boston
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Action
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Main St
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Europe
S. A. Gardiner
Sar
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Brooklyn Drug Co
Fulton and Downing Lts
Brooklyn, NY
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