New Star on the Flag and Utah Star Added
A Springfield Republican note explains the 45 star flag arrangement after Utah’s admission. It details row shifts to eight stars in the first, third, and fifth rows and notes the change becomes official on July 4 with all government flags updated afterward.
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Springfield
United States
Ledes Lamont
Herbert
Near Atas
Utah
Union of States
Arizona
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Fiddled a Sleep by Dark Hollow and the Snake Duel
Eph Griswold from Moore's Station New Jersey recounts a night dance ending in a chase with a seven foot racer snake on the road to Dark Hollow. He claims the fiddle calm and the music tamed the serpent, ending with him pinning the snake but crediting luck and the instrument.
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Eph Griswold
Moore's Station
N. J
N. Y
Eph
Conservatories
Europe
Moore’s Station
Snake
Wallachers Hold Cat Island in Missouri River Howl
Report from Joseph Missouri June 5 describes a large mounted posse's failed bid to seize Cat Island from the Wallachers led by a man named Wallacher. The island in the Missouri River near Doniphan County remains a lawless refuge with armed clashes, injuries, and arrests of three men whose fates and inhabitants are unclear.
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Joseph
Law
Cat Island
Doniphan County
Missouri River
Wallacher
Wallachers
Kansas
Niphan County
Cat 'Sland
Troy
Island
Doctor of the Slums Ends In Murder and Irony
In a grim London slum setting, Dr Angel, garroted and robbed of his watch, contemplates a lover's refusal to join a life in the squalor. A dated letter from Grace Arden hints at a doomed relationship and a stolen souvenir watch, as he sits by a fading fire.
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Ange
Angel
London
William Jebbs
Milbank Prissen
Jebbs
Athanasius Jones
Dr. Angel
Robert
Moscow Cor
London Standard
Big Ben
Grace Arden
Dulholm
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Milton
Raphael
Agian
Chambers’ Journal
Senator Gorman
Land of Nod
Mr. Gorman
Dark Hollow
Jefferson
Chicago
Joseph Jefferson
Fifth Avenue
Gen. Grant
Stone
Constantinople
Yildiz
Che
Charles King
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