Mountain Dream and a Child of the Range
In a Montana cabin a painter befriends a nearly 15 year old girl named Carol Cleaves living with her cruel stepmother and outlaw father. She longs to learn to paint, dreams of safety, and returns daily to pose with Knight the dog as the artist vows to help her escape abuse and find a path to art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knight
Dlinois
Jim
Paradise
Gus
Montana
Helena
Denver
Helmer
Carol Cleaves
Cleaves
Mannella
Christ
Carol
Mercury
California
Mannelia
Jose
Mr. von Ranke
Dream Love Amid Forbidden Passion
A narrator recalls an intense obsession with a young woman who visits daily with her dog. He admires her hair and beauty, calls her a dream, and vows to protect her, though danger from society looms. He contemplates elopement but fears dishonor and death.
Vengeance and Memory in a Montana Tragedy Portrait
A narrator recalls love for an outlaw’s daughter, guard, and a fatal chain of events. Vigilantes seize the Mexican gang, sparing the girl’s memory, while the narrator vows devotion to her. The tale closes with reflections on war, regret, and the mountains.
Terrible Havoc and Poison Arrows in August 1887
Excerpted passages describe a deadly encounter with Avisibba savages in August 1887. Young soldiers faced poisoned arrows smeared with resin and odorant substances, some dying from tetanus or gangrene after injuries. The account, drawn from Scribner's and other papers, highlights the danger and improvisational medical care of the time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stairs
R. E
Henry M. Stanley
Scribner's
Longevity and Country Life Versus City Living
President C. W. Eliot argues that Massachusetts registration data over decades show rural populations enjoy longer life expectancy than urban ones with Nantucket leading at about 46 years. He notes higher death rates in dense counties and cites country training as a key factor in sustaining leaders in business and professions.
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Massachusetts
Suffolk County
Barnstable
Franklin
Nantucket
Suffolk
C. W. Eliot
Gladstone's Popular Daughter Revealed by Boston Letter
A Boston letter from a Newnham College student sketches Helen Gladstone as an original, lively, frank and magnetic figure. The writer notes her resemblance to her father, practical dress sense, and ability to amuse and dominate social gatherings.
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Gladstone
Boston
Newnham College
Cambridge
England
Helen Gladstone
Statesman
Sidgwick Hall
Miss Gladstone
Miss Brown
Chicago
Chicago Herald
Gasoline advice for moths in a cape tale
A reader recounts a druggist suggesting gasoline to treat a fur cape with moth damage. The warning notes gasoline hazards and emphasizes careful use to avoid fire while planning a subsequent airing and storage in a wardrobe to prevent further bare spots.
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Cape
Chang
Marital Bond Across a Raging Blue Lick Creek
Justice Weir, racing to wed a couple at Blue Lick, faced a flooded creek 200 feet wide. Harvey Taylor ferried Kate Neway across on a horse while the license rode in a handkerchief tied to a rock. The justice proclaimed the knot from his side as the torrent roared.
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Justice Weir
Blue Lick
Blue Lick Creek
Harvey Taylor
Kate Neway
Louisville
Cor
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Crippled musician travels by rail between Dundee and Broughty Ferry
A disabled concertina player travels the Dundee to Broughty Ferry line in Scotland. For ten to fifteen years he has performed for passengers, with regular subscribers who support his shows. Using a crutch, he moves between carriages with surprising agility despite his disability.
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Scotland
Dundee
Broughty Ferry
London
Obsolete fears and stray facts in a杂 miscellany page
A jumble of items includes fears of foreign threats with a new Springfield rifle capable of 2500 feet per second, notes on vendine poisoning, Emile Wetti’s Swiss presidency dates, married women using their own names in cards, Labouchere denying palace hiring, odds of being struck by lightning versus hydrophobia, Rev. John Elliott’s long Randwick tenure, Alps vegetation retreat and dead poplars, Uruguayan fish and insect diversity, Sherman Hoar as Harvard statue model, William Morris writing only on weekends, and fashion notes on slippers stockings and white gloves.
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John Elliott
Randwick
Alps
Uruguay
Sherman Hoar
John Harvard
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard College
Wiliam Morris
Real Colors of Metals Brighten Perceived Hues
Chambers' Journal explains how true metal colors emerge only after multiple reflections of light within the metal. Sunlight reflecting through successive surfaces reveals gold as bright orange, copper as carmine red, tin pale yellow, silver white, lead blue, with color stabilized after repeated internal reflections.
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Chambers’ Journal
Scots Baptize infant misheard in village anecdote
A mother’s high talk leads to a comic miscommunication with a minister about baptizing the bairn. The tale detours into a Detroit Free Press poem lamenting scrofula and the belief that Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery can cure blood taints and scrofula.
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John
Parson
Maggie
Detroit Free Press
Pierce
Various World and Local Highlights from Portland to Iceland
A Chinaman who died recently at Portland left property valued at $200,000. The Japanese census last year tallies the empire at 40,072,020 people. Bell Telephone reports 458,725 telephones under rental, up 38.5 percent from last year. At Kansas State University a student works as a barber to pay tuition. Wolves invade western Kansas grazing lands from the Indian Territory causing damage. Iceland establishes a five mile telephone line, its first on the island.
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Portland
Japan
Empire
Bell Telephone Company
Kansas State University
Kansas
Indian Territory
Miles' Nerve and Liver Pills Advertised
An old advertisement proclaims Dr Miles' Pills regulate the liver stomach and nerves with a new discovery. Claims speedily cure biliousness torpid liver piles and constipation for men women and children. 30 doses 25 cents. Samples free at C R Kirks.
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Miles
C. R. Kirk’s
Wintery Maine Birds and Long-Lived Theories Report
Robins sing through a Maine winter as reports question human lifespan limits. New York Fish Commission notes thousands of white fish caught in Ontario sold as herring. In Palmyra a souring quarrel leads to a signed contract to avoid further dealings.
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Maine
Robins
New York State Fish Commission
Tuake
Ontario
Palmyra
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L. Lewis
Lewis
the Patriot
Madison Street
Maples Block
Ucal Nutlueb
Hretaburthian
Chariton Business Directory
Ae Eee
Y M.kennedy , Co
Ximon Oppenheimer
West Side Square
Rooks & Hollinger
Queens Ware
Sane Cutlery
Onera
Pe Twa RC
Q. Storle
Wa Paper, &c
Opera
Gibbon
R. A
Physicans
F. H. Boyntan
M. D
Lqnare
L.P. Warrincto
Chariton
J. W. Culley
First It National Bank
Ity
Tom M. Throckmorton
O! Derby
Glenn's
Public Square
E. A. Temple
A. L. Yocom
Iowa
Whitlock & Co
s_ Drug Store
Main St
W.a.todd
Garden Grove
L. Palmer
J. A. McElveer
Ofice
Aptiss
Serraily Cash
Atainton
T. P. Stanton Tanton & Sow
YP Physicians & Surgeons
New Exchange Block
Curtis Milla
C. T. Brant
Manning & Penick
West Hin Wquar
W. S. Dungan
Dungan
Gc. W. Alexander
Whariton
Frank Q. Stuart
Insurance
Frank 8. Crocker
Rates Law
al Busideas
Firat Nationsi Bank
OF Chariton
Uapitel
Surgis
H. Mallory
A Temple
Frank Br, Crocker
Cashier
T. M. Stuart
Jos. Braden
S. H. Mallory
F. R. Crocker
Carters
Sida
Wile Setemont
Josephine A. Bowen
American Press Association
Chapter
Ilinois
Watler Farm
Ned
Tia
Gilsey
Queen Victoria
Bath
Princess Victoria
Duchess of Kent
Sydney Place
Victoria
Eugene Field
Chicago’ News
Chicago Tribune
Arkansaw Traveler
Templar
Isaac
York
Rebecca
Uncle Sam
United States
New York
Odds and
Emile Wetti
Henry J. Smith
Mr. Labouchere
Buckingham Palace
Marlborough House
Iceland
Island
The
St- Jacobs
JOB Printing House
H. D. Copeland
Lam
Lucas
St. Paul, Minneapolia and Mantoba
Minnesota
Uttercreek Township
Pleasant
English Townships
Belinda
Kaizer
Newbern
Lucas County
Marion County
Dow
Center School House
Pleasant Township
Russell
Wayne County
N. G. McCullough
Freedom
H.D. Copeland
Mormon Frame Road
Sectibia
Union Twnship
F’arley
Ghariton
Ucas County
Lincoln Township
Charles F. Nobles
Washington Township
William Williams
Union Township
T. T. Spicer
Depot
M. Coolbaughs & Brooks
Confidence
Fréedoui
Wayne Co
Lagrange
O.g. Miles
Cleveland
Young
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