City Park blooms with varied flora and Alpine chapel note
Sun reports Cheyenne city park shows profusion of flowers including pansies archiranthus emperor William and many marigolds surrounded by fountains grottoes and seats. Andrew Petersen notes rapid growing cottonwood and white ash shade trees while a central Alpine chapel display and octagonal band stand enhance the grounds attracting daily visitors.
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Cheyenne
Sun
Andrew T. Petersen
William and
Copes
Petersen
Switzerland
Union Pacific
Fence Proposed at Rock Pile on Ferguson and Twentieth
A reader notes a fence is needed around a rock pile at the northeast corner of Ferguson street and Twentieth to beautify the residence area. The spot could serve as a drop scene for a Pompeii depiction.
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Ferguson Street
Ferguson
Pompeii
Runaway Bay Horse Stuns Sixteenth Street Crowd
An excited crowd gathered on Sixteenth street yesterday afternoon as a bay horse harnessed to a phaeton broke loose from a ring and attempted an acrobatic stunt like Jay-Eye-Lee. The horse fell but was caught and returned to its owner M. E. Post.
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Sixteenth Street
Jay-Eye-Lee
M. E. Post
Market Prices For Spring Chickens And Produce
The table lists spring chickens at a rate of so cents each. The town market offers watercress parsley cucumbers asparagus onions radishes turnips peas beets lettuce spinach cabbage spinach strawberries cherries red currants blackberries apricots raspberries and peaches at reasonable prices.
New Badger Hotel Opens by J J Hauphoff
In Badger Ile a commodious hotel opens to serve travelers and mail and passenger changes for Dougas and the north. J J Hauphoff presents a fully prepared hostelry ready to accommodate guests and long lines of visitors.
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Badger
J. J. Hauphoff
Ile
Dougas
North
Hauphoff
Local Telephone Expansion Sparks Curious Onlookers
Workers string a 1% inch leaden pipe between Seventeenth and Ferguson streets to connect 100 wires for a new office. The company plans a 150 drops switchboard and a fusible lightning arrester. If wire delivery holds, they will move from Rhodes & Troxell to Riner & Johnson by late next week.
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Seventeenth and
Ferguson Streets
Riner
Rhodes & Troxell
Riner & Johnson
Three Young Children Found Sleeping On Street Corner
About midnight three young children, aged around two to three, were found lying together on the sidewalk near Twentieth Street and Central Avenue, covered by an old quilt under an electric light. Neighbors report this is a nightly occurrence caused by poverty or possible cruelty, with the mother away at night and the father not living in the city.
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Twentieth Street
Central Avenue
Figures and Markets. McKinley Would Throttle Foreign Trade
The piece argues the foreign market is vital to farmers and questions McKinley’s tariff stance. It cites exports of 814,287,061 and total exports of 887,230,468, noting a $117 million gap unaccounted for by trade, then warns that halting foreign purchases would hurt farmers more than manufacturers.
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McKinley
Maj. McKinley
Treas
Protectionista
Vral Propertiea
America
Europe
Ublicans
Mr. Y
Forge
Lnnemiens St
New Official Seals for Four Wyoming Counties Issued
Frank H. Clark district court clerk received fresh impressions of the official seals for Laramie Converse Weston and Crook counties. The seals will stamp state documents pertaining to those counties.
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Frank H. Clark
District Court
Laramie
Converse
Weston
Crook
Five Tramps Jump Freight From Union Pacific Yards
Police solved a costly vagrancy problem by sending five inmates to the Union Pacific yards to fetch fish plates. They fled the jail, boarded a freight, and likely caused further expense to another county while evading capture.
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Union Pacific
Water commissioners begin duties in district near Horse creek
Monthly reports come from across the territory to Elwood Mead, territorial engineer, who settles irrigation water division disputes. Water from canals covers specified acres on lands owned by individuals and companies, each allowed a defined feet of water.
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Horse Creek
Elwood Mead
Fire alarm box installed at Union Pacific shops
The city received a new Gamewell fire alarm box from Chicago yesterday. It will be placed at the Union Pacific machine shops and wired into the municipal fire alarm system.
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Gamewell Fire Alarm Company of
Chicago
Union Pacific Machine Shops
Reduction of Union Pacific Shop Hours Across System
Vice-President Holcomb orders cutting shop forces and daily hours to eight from ten across the Union Pacific system from Omaha to the Pacific coast. Some discharge expected, but temporary. fall return to full time. In Cheyenne the policy limits to 7 am to 4 pm with Saturday 7 am to noon. C. Mune, Superintendent of Shops.
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Holcomb
Union Pacific
Omaha
Pacific Coast
Cheyenne
Rauloves
The Eiffel Tower Outdone by American Wall Plan
Two congressional committees compare aims to outbuild Eiffel Tower with a colossal high wall and wall doors at seaports. Proposals claim trap doors will let ships pass while keeping foreign wares out, boosting wealth and national pride. The plans envision the wall as a world wonder, taller than Paris’s tower, redefining American greatness.
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Washington Monument
National Capital
Philadelphia
New
City Hall
Europe
Paris
Eiffel Tower
America
Protectionists Cite English Welfare Shifts in Pen Pictured Debate
The passage argues that English workers faced hardship under free trade, claiming Kay’s policy reduced her population by about 23 percent and cut pauper rates to one in forty one. It notes some states now have more paupers than four decades ago and characterizes the tramp as a modern issue.
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Kay
My Guest Poem Fragment
Fragmentary versified lines describe longing and a return visitor toward the west. The speaker envisions opening the door as the beloved reappears, conveying intimate emotion and poetic imagery from a personal lyric.
Old Age Portrait of a Breton Rector and His Dinner Table
The passage portrays a Breton rector of ancient lineage, describing his robust frame and heavy, somewhat Jewish-tinged features. It notes eight centuries of Breton life behind him and his dogmatic, Macaulay-like manner. At weekly gatherings he holds court for about half an hour, speaking from the grate and laying down universal laws.
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Resas
Ene
Manising Gondenn
Mme
Renan
Ary Scheffer
Cen
Macaulay
Gladstows
Boston Com spectacle gathers diverse topics for Puritan crowd
A Chicago Tribune clip describes a Boston event featuring cure tax astrology and socialism talks, with hymns, tambourines, band tunes, and waltzes. The scene is praised as orderly, exposing the Puritan audience to a wide variety of speakers and performances.
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Boston Comae Nanan
Cricks
Waltass
Chicago Tribune
Fragmentary 19th century street exchange in New York Sun
A brief, garbled dialogue depicts a man offering a dime in a street exchange about drink or food. The passage preserves period voice and informal bargaining, illustrating everyday urban life and money concerns as seen in the New York Sun.
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Eooney
New York Sun
Taking Up to Different Husbands
A fragmented tale from the New York Ledger recounts a mountain maiden questioned about multiple suitors. A young man asks for a reed from her, and she replies with a cryptic comment, illustrating a rustic morality tale.
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New York Ledger
Writing Advertisements As A Trade Says Helpful Tips
The piece discusses the craft of advertising and marketing, noting writing ads is a specialized skill. It cites Mme arta and mentions the challenge of creating engaging copy. The author suggests practice and practical tips for crafting effective messages.
Clockwork tambourine with bees marks hours
A fragment describes a tambourine shaped clock with a face at the head and bees circling the rim. Two bees move behind the head to indicate hours as a decorative timepiece, attributed to Louis Republic.
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Louis Republic
Fragmentary OCR Snippet with Incoherent Dialogue
A mangled OCR passage shows partial dialogue with garbled street and character names. The text appears as a scrambled scene fragment with stray phrases and no clear event, date, or identified entities to anchor a factual summary.
A Menta Phenomenon and a Fateful Quiet Ride
An evening with a mentalist recounts a police linked incident in New York. A passenger experiences a blank mind and a forceful memory of a living person’s name during a shared car ride. Weeks later, a critical case ends with a fatal Bowery shooting and a stranger’s whispered reply about identity. The tale blends nervous strain and eerie psychic suggestion.
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Washingtom
York
Record of Historic Heat Waves Across Europe
The text recounts extreme European heat years from 11th to 19th centuries with dried rivers, with notes of roasted trees, scents of decaying matter, and lakes shrinking. It cites years like 1122, 1152, 1646, 1679, 1715, and 1815, describing intense summers and agricultural damage across Lorraine, the Rhine, Seine, and Danube regions.
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Lorraine
Rhine
Seine
Europe
Switzerland
Bible and Masonic Ceremonies Marked Washington’s Oath
The piece notes a Bible used in the oath of office for George Washington at the National Capitol. It describes a Masonic ritual, a missing Bible incident, and the role of Key holders and the St Johns Lodge in preserving the Bible used during the ceremony.
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National Capitol
United States
Washington
Morton
Char BR. Livingston
W Ho
Masons of
New York
John Lodge
Pei
Violin Worth 10000 Thoura Dollars Sets Record
A 1710 Alard 1 violin from France becomes the most valuable instrument, surpassing previous records. The piece passed through notable hands and faced preservation challenges over two centuries, with famed owners linked to Chicago and other regions.
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France
Aland
Chicago
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