European notes and colonial curiosities span a restless world
The item collection describes Lisbon publishing a Hanslet Portuguese translation, Louisvile carriage horses sold to a New Yorker, a House of Representatives chaplain once a West Virginia shoemaker, and court witness recollections. It covers Russian nobility diamonds offered to a treasury, wage-driven strikes in England, and various oddities from Charleston to Baker's Island with notes on Troy and the new Atlantic tunnel plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Representatives
West Virginia
Traile
Eureka Sentinel
Senate
England
France
San Antonio
Charleston
Dives
Nurumody
Willia the Conqueror
de Caunount
Tires
August G. Bartlett
Chivago
Graud- Jess
Enigmatic Cook in a Sacramento Chronicle Tale
A rambling 19th century anecdote from the Sacramento Chronicle describes a cook in a gang who attempted a frugal feast by improvised methods. He stacks pots and pans with apples, mice and fruit, until a four handed intruder collapses, bursting and dying in a grimly comic misadventure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gunibert Webber
Mr. Daniel
Santa Clara
Sacramento Union
Lacy
Fu. Chronicle
Railroading in China and the Inter Ocean View
A detailed 19th century critique of Chinese rail policy recounts English capitalists building a nine mile line near Shanghai to Woo Sung, government opposition, and impending traffic suspension. The piece contrasts Chinese traditions with Japan’s modernizing path and warns that halting the railroad could hinder industrial progress and foreign influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inter-Ocean
Sianghai
Woo-Sung
China
Kormosa
I ‘Ul-Keen
Shanghai
Wie
Avery
Ile
Aml
Clina
Yperwion
Siberia
Tale
Chima
India
Mie
Japan
Two Highwaymen Captured After Cheyenne Stage Robbery
Cheyenne dispatch reports the capture of two highwaymen who robed a southbound stage near Fort Laramie. Pursuit by Lt Chase and a Third Cavalry detachment led to a brief chase and the robbers surrendering at Fort Laramie with plunder seized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Murpins
Black Hills
Voorhees
Fort Laramie
Desert
Livut
Chase
Jeffer
United States
Sweezy
Deadwand
Sobuery
Fort Lavanne
Third Cavalry
Reed
Port Larnie
Webster
Cuny
Slavary
Engia
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Ate Jie Wean &Co
LEE
Foster &Co
New Firm
Rutta, Me. T
Grochrs
Bulie
Cgeo.t. Hale
GIST
Butte
Montana
Wal
Groveries
Sid Provisiang
Turkey
Russia
D.cohen & Bro
H Ning
Graivels
Deer Lodge
Pioneer
Dewer's
Tanits
Broadway
D. Cohen & Bro
J. P. Allens
Lost Creek
Cnn Aw
J. F. Allen
Butte, M. T
Silver Butte
William Wilson
Main Street
Broadsay
Butte, Montana
Dulblix
Incom
Athe
Hunt, Douglas & Stewart
Iran
J. O. Stewall
Georgetowin
Col
Wil. Puervine
Buite
Fraser, Chalmers & CO
Cuscado
Iminais
Parchen
D’acheul
Helena
East
Fort Benton
Casa Photograph al
Butte City
York
Pullip Tipromeda
American Bar
Deer Ledge County
Montana Territory
Rotiuet
A. J. Poznainsky
Summit-Valley
Cain
Ash
Mitchell
Hrdhive
JTF
Butte and Vicinity
Vipond
Ficinity
THE
Butte Miner
Rose
Hanslet
Portugese
Portungal
Lisbon
Louisvile
New Yorker
Constanes
Sir Anthony Rothschild
Cyril Flower
John Ernest Luther
Dy Ls
Sermiter
Berlin
Baker's Island
Pacific
Tonolulu
Captain Hall
San Francisco
Arkansas Tob Springs
United States Mint
Henry Troemmer
Philadelphia
Consolidated Virginia Assay Office
Trenels
Channel
Che Turne
Xole
Bront
Ie Coourton
Caplore
Garcer.of
Wyoming
Lamon
J. Worthing
Liverpool
Utleves
Daly
Muglant
Charity Organization Society
Crasel
Washington
Hareb Sentinel
Leech
Mercer County
Pennsylvania
Tras
Ihre
Dee
erFet
Eaker
Chicago
Dellinger & Eyde
Butler
Stone House
Crockery
Jessop
Sanderson
Naylor
Rock & Wright
Schuttler
California Powder Co
Hercules
Zivery and Dferd Stables
MAM Motel
Park Street
Buitecity
Tite
Werk
Bay
Niger
Herp Wri
Canzeau Pris
Goop
Saunie Fousks UK
Bucs Pris Igitxn Promptuy
AyIny
Ane
Hay
Dregan & Stoner
Euro
Hest
Tutte
Butte City Stable
Weat of Main
Simon Hauswirtil
Proprietar
Salem, Ped
Liveryt
Owsley
MonTaxa
WM. Owsley
Malu Street
EU Hestlers
Owstley
Cyril Nissler
Proprielor
Butta
Billiard Room
Hutte
Alderm N & CO
Proprietors
Albert Doud
Albert Dowd
J.m.bowes
Nthe States
Portor
Gilcrest
John M. Bower
CHE
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