Dakota Farmers Describe Vast Marvest Operations And Laws
A Dakota speaker touts enormous grain farms and cheap labor while detailing vast wheat yields and county frontiers. The tale includes rural hardships, land laws, and a proposed public land commission to simplify unorganized counties with oaths and affidavits under federal law.
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Post
House of Representatives
United States
Senate
United States of America
Congress
Quips and Quips from 1881 Newspaper Snippets
Various brief quotes from period newspapers touch on politics, literature, and society. Notable lines reference Boston politics, navy appointments, Irish seafaring wit, a reader asking about moon travel, and a kidney cure testimonial from Newcastle Indiana dated May 30 1881.
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Newcastle
Ind
N. H. Warner & Co
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Advert Published
An old advertisement promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a safe pleasant remedy for teething babies. It claims immediate relief, bowel regulation, and rest for mothers, citing a respected female physician. Sold everywhere for 25 cents.
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United States
Wedding Day Recalled in Rural Harshness and Hope
A speaker recalls fifty years of marriage amid rural ceremony details and family warmth. The narrator contrasts old fears with enduring love while describing a country wedding, parson, kin, and children building a lasting memory. The poem frames memory, pride, and the pull of family across time.
Incendiary Fires Alarm Laramie City After Rail Work Firings
Laramie City faced a spate of arson attempts targeting U P Ry property over four days. Fires were started in the oil room and supply house, with later blazes at the railroad hotel’s water closet and the New York House barn and wash house. Watchmen remain vigilant as authorities fear communistic schemes behind the incidents, though no major damage has yet occurred.
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Laramie City
U. P. Ry
New York House
Serkys infusion claimed to slow aging and aid beauty
A 19th century note praises Serkys as a Turkish beauty herb used by Eastern European women. Described as a mountain Lebanon herb, a spoonful steeped in hot water makes a tea like infusion said to purify blood and preserve skin, with claims of a fuller bust and youthfulness. The potion supposedly spread from Dr. Lucas to Ninon des Enclos and Paris doctors, costing five francs an ounce.
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Serkys
Europe
Lebanon
Paul Lucas
Louis XIV
Ife
Hassan Pasha
Lucas
France
Ninon Des Enclos
Paris
Turkey
Frontier Humorist Finds Solitary Station Keeper on Western Frontier
Gen Forsythe of Sheridan's staff encounters a humorist during a tour who discovers a lone station-keeper living in a hut of four animal stalls and a combined parlor kitchen and sleeping area six by ten feet. The exterior proclaims Hotel de Starvation far from hay, wood, and water. Interior walls bear police-pub pictures, a long chalked blessing, and a wanted notice for a girl to work inside.
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Given River
Forsythe
Sheridan
Hotel
The Ways of Two Women On a New York City Car
Two women board a fully seated Third Avenue car. One looks aged and nearsighted while another is plain and carries a large bag. A stylish young woman offers her seat. men offer seats to her, but she declines. The grey haired woman asserts she can stand as long as anyone, while the basket carrying woman occupies a narrow space and wonders at the scene.
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Brooklyn
New Utrecht
Gravesend
Dakota
Yankton
Myrtle Avenue
Wal
William
Chandler
Navy
Blaineite
Denver News
Moon
George Hazeal
Be Sensible About Kidney- Wort Treatment
An Albany Argus advertisement urges readers to use Kidney- Wort to restore health by claiming the product will revitalize the bowels liver and kidneys and make the user feel well again. The tone is promotional and instructive promising quick relief from longstanding ailments.
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WELLS
Richardson & Co
Prop’s
Burlington, VT
Albany Argus
A Toilet Luxury Sozodont Perfumed Delight
A Toilet Luxury. SOZODONT is a luxury as well as a necessity. Placed where it should always be upon the toilet, it adorns it and gratifies the taste and senses. It sends out a delicious perfume and gives pleasure and health to its users.
Wyoming cattle market to boom as summer nears
The spring receipts show many stock men and others completing transactions signaling a lively summer in Wyoming. A large cattle transfer worth thousands is noted elsewhere. Our townsman Chas Riner now owns a sizable sheep ranch, purchasing Culver’s Muddy property near Egbert along with about 6000 sheep. The ranch is regarded as excellent, well located and desirable.
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Wyoming
Chas. Riner
Riner
Culver
Egbert
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