Mississippi saloon poker tale ends in tragedy
A Natchez crowd gathers as a cotton planter stages a poker game for odds and a raffie to raise money. A slave girl and her son are auctioned as a pair, with bets rising to a dramatic final throw. The boy and woman face a cruel gamble as fortunes hinge on dice and fate.
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Aketeli
Mississippi
Ner
Iid
Pennsylvahiay
Sheary
Cotton Phinter
Herm
Massal
Natchez
Gene Hemen
Gelierdl E
Ninette
Dice Thrills and Threats Surround a Saloon Night
A tense scene unfolds as a boy plays dice for his and his mother's future, rolling three sixes to win fifty-one and earn his own master, amid witnesses and hushed suspense. Separately, a later report notes anonymous threats and a failed assassination attempt at a hotel, with no clear suspect and lingering mystery.
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Tomy
Brighim Street
Tony
Marabal
Noeleon
Lake Trine
Fragmentary tale of a young woman and European war talk
A fragment describes a seventeen year old girl studying French and reacting to hear belle in a European war context. The narrator notes stammering and mentions Asiatic possession language through an imagined Sultan. A traveling educated lady writes of seeing a mysterious object on the Continent as part of a fragmented anecdote.
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Ashe Falta
Nuscura
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J. Ww. Wheelock
Porter
Notaries Public
Hutte
Montana
Associste Office
IL M. & de B. Powha
B. J. Porter
Butte
de Woll
Urrick
John F. Forbis
Butte City
J. C. Thornton
Warre, Montana
W. K. Mendenhall
Broom 2
May Building
Washington
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Innis
Particuinrly
General Land Offce
Department of the Interior
O. J. O'Stanthon
W. W. Dixon
der Lange
AL. T. Titty
D. L. McFarland
T. A. Bennett
Assayer
N. L. Turner
Buite-Cily
Gila
Representation of Mines
Teport
Nving
Warren & Porter
Henry Vn Onas
ATS
Ag, Wonxer
Singer Sewing 'd Machine Agency
Meo and Salertoom
Ilum’'S
Eagle
Lowe
William Wibbon
Wwe
Copperopolis
Ehlotel
Rosenthal
Pfaff & Sherman
Broadway
Main Street
Butth
City
M. 1
SAS
Placy
Scott
Deer Lodge
India
Sam. Scott
McBurney House
Deer Lodge City
Aylesworth & McParland
Girton House
Butte City, Mont
Robert Girton
Propertutor
Lodgera
Das
Piearant Patel
Nis
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Hotel de Mineral
Butte Cioy
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Hauswirth Bros
Cosmopolitan
Helena, Montana
Schwab & Zimmerman
M. Alexander
Mons Bot
Stock Ured
Housh
Granite Streets
Cohen & Stephens
Ione
Confectioners’, ‘Confectonery
UH Confectionery’s
Vanity Fair
City Meat Markets
Phil, Porcher
Sam
Phtl
Porcher
Butte, Montana
Citizens and Mining Companies
Butte, and Vicinity
Ws AU Mining
Vipond
W. Donnele
Larabie
Downel , Clark & Larabie
Butte, Mont
New York
Donnell
Law
Brody
Tommy
Gentemen
Tuck
Chanes
Tom
Tommay
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Nieensea
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