Yellowstone Park hotel a four hundred room plan proposed
In Dexter Nebraska and Cheyenne notes the upcoming plan for a large hotel to accommodate Yellowstone Park tourists is described as having four hundred rooms. Reports mention local construction, railroad shop buildings, and delays in woodwork fittings as work proceeds under Superintendent Lane. The item also notes a missing conductor Peck and a growing wave of marriage licenses in Boomerang era.
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Yellowstone Park
Lane
Peck
Rawlins
Henry H. Wallace
Louie E. Marble
Herman Priegel
Augusta Nearpal
Charles N. Northrup
Mary L. Spawn
Greeley Tribune
Platte
Snyder
Julesburg
Union Pacific
LaSalle
Railroad Changes and Bridge Plans Stir Regional Rail News
Denver paper reports Union Pacific abolishing its claim department and Dodge taking full Rio Grande duties. Deer Lodge line accident noted. Colorado agents unite against scalpers. Galbraith resigns from Union Pacific shops. UP and Rio Grande plan a stone abutment iron bridge at Cherry Creek. Potter announces Law as general superintendent of multiple lines amid cut-off plans and line upgrades.
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Dodge
Rio Grande
Union Pacific
Colorado Pool
Denver Times
Colorado
Chicago
R. Galbraith
Potter
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Robert Law
St. Louisa
Northern Lights Dazzle Omaha Salute and Park Theater Fire Loss
Friday night sky offered a rare aurora borealis display visible from Omaha and Salt Lake City as red and green threads lit the heavens. Telegraph lines halted by the electrical disturbance while audiences recalled Park Theater’s eight year history of notable performances including Fechter Sothern Raymond and Mark Twain inspired pieces.
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Park Theater
Charles Fechter
Sothern
New York
Raymond
Colonel Sel Jers
Mark Twain
N. Y
Union Pacific to Add Five Story HQ in Omaha
The Union Pacific plans a new five story addition to its headquarters at Ninth and Forum streets in Omaha. Construction starts early next spring with pressed brick and terra cotta facade, a light iron bridge linking the second floors, and a direct sidewalk entrance. The second floor houses Auditor Gennett, with General Manager Clark and Assistant General Manager Kimball on the third. remaining offices to be decided.
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Union Pacific
Dillon
Omaha
Ninth and
Forum Streets
Gennett's Department
Clark
Kimball
Bee
Wyoming Smelting Works Begin at Hartville Camp
Hartville notes report the Wyoming Smelting company starting works and crushing ore with smelting to follow. Six mule teams haul ore to the smelter over ten days. Sunrise and Village Belle mines are active, with eastern capitalists negotiating for Village Belle. Rumor says Superintendent J H Bartlett may resign and return to Colorado. Deer and mountain sheep taken by Mesera Conly Nylin and Hoyes. Nylin plans new target shots and moves into a new building on the 20th instant.
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Hartville
Leadee
Wyoming Smelting Company
Bradley
Platte River
J. H. Bartlett
Colorado
Mesera
Nylin
Hoyes
Boz
Trouble with Indians Near Grand River Claims Hunters Lost Goods
Uncle Cashner reports buffalo hunters face clashes with Indians near Grand River. Jim Barnes and Bill Walton captured, 800 hides burned. Sam Jones and Bruce also seized, but escaped with guns and horses. Estimated losses approach $3,000. capture occurred last month near North Fork. War talk rises as frontier tensions mount.
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Deadwood Times
Uncle Cashner
Buffalo Range
Bill Gay
Jim Barnes
Bill Walton
Grand River Agency
Sam Jones
Bruce
Redskins
Jones
Barnes
Walton
Cashner
North Fork
Grand River
Mrs Langtry Reviews Split Critics On Stage Talent
Critics vary on Mrs Langtry noting she has sufficient talent to pursue comedy yet many call her unacceptable or uneven. Some praise buoyancy and temperament while others condemn her rawness. Oscar Wilde cites Hester Graze brook’s acting as a blend of classic grace and realism. Swift adds a rule about restrained conversation.
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New York World
Hester Grazebrook
Oscar Wilde
Bill Arp on People and Things from the Goat Age
Bill Arp muses on happiness, contentment, and the lure of new things. He jokes about office seekers, political rumors, and a playful encounter with a neighbor named Cole who miscalculates a calf’s pedigree. He reflects on aging and the practicality of goat ownership.
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Bill Arp
Cole
Jease
Atlanta Constitution
Ode to a Mule in Whitmanesque Style
Fragmentary satirical verse lauds a mule as a great Kroker figure amid comic warlike imagery. It mocks the beast’s prowess and the villagers, recalling a memorable kick and a legendary boss kicker with playful hyperbole.
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G. M
Winter Song Misread Lines From Journal Page
Fragmentary poem like entry describes a winter scene on a lake with odd nonsensical phrases about buckwheat cakes and a squirrel. The voice shifts to summer clothing and meat references then to robins and gardens before a sudden slip on ice and wild saying.
Pearls of Thought and Mottos From Classics
A collage of quotations from Whittier Emerson Eliot Whitefield Hale Garfield Jefferson Sedgwick Mann Smiles Longfellow. The snippets offer guidance on hope forgiveness generosity and self improvement through concise maxims and reflections by noted authors.
Wax Figure Prank Delights Musee Grevin Crowd
Miss Van Zandt visits the Musee Grevin with her mother and friends and sits motionless in a wax figure niche. Visitors mistake the statue for the singer, until a disdainful critic proclaims the likeness, and the figure suddenly laughs and walks away to applause.
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Miss van Zandt
Paris
Musee Grevin
Mlle. van Zandt
Gossip and Headlines From The Nation Of Oddities
A column of curiosities reports Stanley thriving in Africa and a drunken man scaling a Lewiston steeple. It notes Father Ryan’s Confederate poetry aura and Pueblo rumors of multiple deaths, then jests about Nellie Arthur at school and a bold Omaha vision for an overland opera train. It ends with a grand plan for traveling theater cars powered along railroad routes and staffed by top artists.
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Jules Verne
Omaha Bee
Overland Opera House Company
Omaha
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
United States
Chicago Nwell Society Sees Social Reforms Change City Taste
The piece notes Chicago society shifting from lavish display by nouveau riche to cultured leadership. Second and third generation families with education and travel shape entertaining, favoring harmony, symmetry, and guest comfort over cost conspicuously displayed by caterers or florists.
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Chicago
Muusicians’ and Gas Company
Arthur
Echoes of Altered Character Across Society
A reflective line on how individuals mirror the virtues and flaws of their surroundings, suggesting social behavior is shaped by the company one keeps. The quote attributes this perception to Joubert, emphasizing involuntary echoes within communities.
Western Gleanings Update on Diverse American Tales
Buffalo herds swell in the Black Hills with a 10 006 head drive while Hailey Idaho emerges as a new town with nine men charged in nine murders. Texas man George T Reynolds removes a steel arrowhead from a back wound after sixteen years. Richard King secures title to 136 square leagues of land. A Tucson woman endures a giant scorpion trapped in her corset. Chinese laborers on the Southern Pacific earn 1 16 per day, organized by San Francisco agencies. A Denver gambler pays a Negro a dollar to wash a wrecked man in court, Champion Vaughn once Leavenworth editor now state charity case. Vaughn’s Milwaukee past and Denver exile noted.
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Black Hills
Hailey
Idaho
George T. Reynolds
Griffin
Tex
Texas Land Office
Richard King
Arizona
Tucson
Northern Pacific
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Denver
Justice’s Court
Champion Vaughn
Kansas
Leavenworth Times
Denver Tribune
Vaughn
Milwaukee
Grant's the state and 800 ft shaft scene
An OCR fragment notes numbers and places like Rosita of Custer Fort and Durang streets with references to rope, liquor laws, a $500 stake, and remedies. It mentions Judge J, Mr Da arunawa, and names Portland, Union L, and Inman in a scattered legal or public notice style.
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Dexter
Cheyenne
J. C. Baird, Esq
Stebbins & Post
Utah & Northern
Deer Lidge
Hartville Notes
Walt Whitman
Pehuain
Emerson
George Eliot
Whitefield
E. E. Hale
Garfield
George Herbert
Thomas Jefferson
Sedgwick
Horace Mann
Samuel
Longfellow
Henry M. Stanley
Africa
Lewiston
Father Ryan
Pueblo
Continental
Blank
Nellie
Misa Nellie
White House
Washington Herald
Nwell” Society
Joubert
Grant
Rosita
Custer
Carey
Judge J
Allen
Mr. da
Arunawa
Durang
Robert
Heston A ‘Reid
Afi
Oregon
Trouble
Union L Portland
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