Meeks Captures Kingfisher Williams in Buffalo Horn
A quiet stranger named Meeks, rumored as a Secret Service agent, arrests the feared outlaw Kingfisher Williams in Buffalo Horn. After a brief gunfight, Meeks and Williams are escorted to Four Mile Creek where celebrations follow. Williams allegedly murders Meeks later, triggering a county-wide manhunt.
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Meeks
Hall
Buffalo Horn
United States Secret Service
Buffalo
Mr. Meeks
Mart Winslow
Mart
Matt
Jim Wylie
Frank
Kingfisher
Williams
Mr. Weeks
Wylie
Kingfisher Williams
Lester Ketchum
San Francisco
Willie and Tad Lincoln remembered by Julia Bayne
Julia Taft Bayne recalls Willie Lincoln and Tad Lincoln as lively Western boys living in the White House. She notes Willie's gentle manners and Tad's quick eyes and temper, describing church Sundays, Tad's restless behavior, and a pocket knife incident. The article also comments on Senators elections and legislative procedures from Harrison.
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Julia Taft Bayne
St. Nicholas
Willie
Tad Lincoln
White House
Lincoln
Horatio
Budd
Willie Lincoln
Hally
Tad
Dr. Smith
Thomas Lincoln
Thomas
Government funding for White House maintenance outlined
Congress allocates between 40 000 and 50 000 dollars annually to cover current Executive Mansion expenses. The budget includes 5 000 dollars for the President's private secretary plus costs for stenographer, telegraph operators, messengers, doorkeepers, a steward, a housekeeper, and utility charges.
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White House
Congress
Executive Mansion
Old Gentleman Complains of Rain Leak in Railcar
In a Household Words snippet an elderly passenger tells a railway porter rain leaks through a lamphole while the porter reassures him the car is water tight noting the oil leak. The gag then shifts to a quip about two women whispering when a man is nearby.
First Oil Boom Begins with Drake and Oil Creek Discovery
The article recounts Col. Edwin Drake’s failed Prairie-era venture and the early oil surge along Oil Creek. It notes grassroots efforts to extract crude, the 1859 drilling start near Titusville, and the rapid boom followed by a price collapse as storage and transport lagged. It also mentions the regional rise in population and the lingering greenish scum associated with early streams.
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Pennsylvania
Col. Drake
Oil Creek
Canadian
Canada
Billy” Smith
Thug
Coli. Drake
Drake
Fountain Ang Empire
Brewer, Watson & Co
Titusville
Alleghany River
No Big Men Visit by Mountain Man in Washington
A Tennessee mountain man visiting Washington meets Congressman elect Brownlow and jokes that after thirty years in the hills he cannot find any big men in the capital except a joking reference to Abe Thompson who runs a Bristol saloon. He says he cannot locate the big men among the lawmakers.
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East
Tennessee
Washington
Capitol
Brownlow
John
Statesman
Waal
Walt
United States
Abe Thompson
Bristol
Washington Star
One Cent News Drives Mint Demand and Social Jokes
The Philadelphia Record notes three million one cent pieces in circulation fueling mint demand, driven by one cent journalism rather than plate collecting. The piece adds a quip that a woman with cold feet signals she is an old maid, reflecting period humor.
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Philadeiphia Record
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Secret Service
Wyte
Mr. Williams
Mr. Wylie
Walton
Four-Mile Creek
Winslow
Jim Wyle
Kingfisher Wiliams
Willie and
Ladies' Home Journal
Harrison
Joint Assembly
Senate
Mars
America
Harvard Observatory
Lowell Observatory
Mexico
W. H. Pickering
Douglass
Nomena
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