Continent News Briefs From Oregon to Cuba
A condensed 1877 digest notes J Q Smith named Consul General to Canada and Henry Meiggs health improvement. Reports on Greek Russian monks at Mount Athos, Nebraska flour mills, Przyna population, Upton's Treasury post, and Circassian chieftain Rubaninski. Also mentions Gambetta, Hayes remarks, Samoa revolt, and a New York Evening Post dispatch on a Republican state convention.
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Tne
J. Q. Smith
Indian Affairs
Canada
Rpgiers
Peru
Henry Meiggs
Tre Porte
Mount Athos
Przyna
Christans
Mussulmans
Wm. M. Upton
Oregon
Plevna
Rubaninski
New York Evening Post
Rochester
Platt
Grant
Suyes
Conkling
Evarts
Schurz
Congress
Congressional Library
Union
Library of Congress
McCumman
New Jersey
McClellan
New York
Tweed
Jefferson
N. Y
Hayes
Curtis
Personal Literature and Habberton's Grandmothers Book
The piece discusses John Habberton's new book His Grandmothers amid a trend of family members becoming published material. It notes the era of personal works from Helen's Babies to Cousins and Mothers in American literature and comments on public appetite for such family biographies. It also references Dr Weir Mitchell's treatise on fat and blood and the resulting therapy of rest diet and massage, claiming it has transformative effects on nervous patients.
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Messrs
Putnam
John Habberton
Helen
Darling
Habberton
Twoke
Ecstacy
Billings
fTelen
Hfabil
Weir Mitchell
Philadelphia
Nuisance or Nobility A Turkish Ambassador Seeks a Daughter
Aristixchi Bey, the Turkish Ambassador in Berlin, courts a Prussian general's daughters. The general, amused by the mistaken Muslim identity, offers any daughter as a potential wife. The ambassador reveals he is Christian and seeks only one, provoking a wry remark about fortunes and marriage.
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Aristixchi Bey
Berlin
Bonin
Aristarchi
Mussulman
Vampires of the Household How American Women Are Described
The piece condemns nervous women as a social burden, calling them vampire wives and daughters who drain families and society. It critiques physicians for public cures and suggests iron regimens, air, and exercise as fashionable remedies while accusing doctors of oversimplifying medical knowledge.
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Oliver Wendell T.folmes
the Tribune
Rich Finds and County Seat Move in Rapid City Area
Reports describe rich cement deposits near Whitewood and a two story brick business house planned in Tridden Treasure, while Wambold Gunderson Co crushed ore at Lead City. The Pennington county seat will move from Sheridan to Rapid City and Sen. Spencer and party visit the Grand Central before returning east. Russian displeasure rises at sending a young Lt Greene to Russia amid war operations.
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Elvis
Holton & Malote
Whitewood
Keets Mining Company
Tridden Treasure Gates
Main Street
Central
Iills
Wambold, Gunderson & Co
Lead City
Pennington County
Sheridan
Rapid City
Geo. Br. Spencer
Alabama
N. G. Spencer
Watertown
N. Y
Grand Central
Washington
Rania City
Deadwood Vines
Sume
War Department
Europe
Hazen
Austria
Chambers
Turkey
Lieutenant Greene
United States
Greene
St. Petersburg
Gieene
Acustria
Russia
Wir
Bucharest
Ani
Colorado Clippings From Fort Collins To Deer Trail
A San Juan Sentinel note from Ouray reports Fort Collins papers lament drunkenness and Denver gamblers in town. J P Wurmer sold about 90 percent of this year’s beef steers to John Hutson of Deer Trail, four to five hundred head averaging over 1100 pounds at live weight above three cents per pound. Fort Collins licensed two liquor saloons to escape debt, then paid two policemen at 150 dollars monthly. A Carion City lady fished trout and fought a Mexican, ultimately trapping the man with a hook in his neck until he fled the country.
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J.P. Wurmer
John Hutson
Deer Trail
Surimer County Express
Fort Collins
Carion City
Autumn Looms Over Hills and Dales
Poetic scene describes the fading summer on hills and valleys. Autumn fills the landscape with incense and a soft, radiant air while sunlight rests on a grassy bank. Nature keeps a silent vigil as the scene rests in tranquil beauty.
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Penalyo
Smoke jokes and political notes fill late 1800s column
A collage of brief vignettes recounts humorous barroom scenes in Virginia and Paris, a banker’s odd shopfront, and a bishop’s amused encounter. It mentions Meigs plans for Washington, rail and express line quips, and various political chatter from New York to Sacramento with social and foreign notes.
Feisty Dahomey Chief, a Circus Bride, and a Ticket Saga
The piece recounts a Dahomey ruler claiming luck from alleged fetishes after oil loss and a broken ship. It also tells of an Auburn girl who married a circus man, later receiving his bank book and 336,000 in credits after his death. A Londoner buys a ticket for Alameda with a hidden dog, then learns he may travel as an ordinary passenger.
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Auburn News
Auburn
Oakland
Jerry
Alameda
MexicAn Mus Tang Liniment Praised as Universal Remedy
An ad extols MexicAn Mus Tang Liniment as a universal cure for pain and injuries. It claims to heal every sore and banish all aches, praised for burns sprains cuts and accidents, asserting it has saved more lives and restored more livestock than any other liniment.
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Thiers
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Supreme Court of the United States
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Rocky Mountains
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New York Evening Papers
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the Express
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