Cheyenne's Opportunity to Lead Wyoming Trade
A Wyoming periodical urges Cheyenne to extend rail links and establish wholesale houses for central and northern Wyoming. It argues Cheyenne as capital and gateway can attract miners, ranchers, and towns, with cheaper freight, local reciprocity, and new refineries, while keeping profits and capital within the state. Mr. Ali named postmaster of Green River.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
Denver
Omaha
Glenrock
Graphic
Cheyenne Commercial Company
Laramie
Rawlins
Miinois
Chicago
Nebr
Colorado
Denvers
Ear Mountain
Early Closing Wins Among City Merchants
A Sentinel reporter surveyed merchants about early closing and found near unanimity that it is right. Clothing, boot and shoe, gents furnishing stores, and grocers largely plan to close, with only three still considering joining the reform effort.
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Sen
Rates Sprint to One Dollar Passengers Across Lines
The Central Traffic association in Chicago debates reducing out and provision rates with a push to enforce price differentials. Burlington shows a one dollar fare Kansas City to St Louis and Cincinnati to St Louis, while Ohio and Mississippi matches the route. The Alton joins Burlington and St Paul in pressuring a settlement as Mulford and thirty ticket brokers travel on passes to Louisville to press their case.
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Denver Republican
Central Traffic Association
Chicago
Lake Shore
Burlington
Kansas City
St. Louis
Ohio
Mississippi
Cincinnati
Alton
St. Paul
Mulford
Louisville
Ticket Brokers’ Association
Subscriptions Boost Excursion Fund Over 1600
The committee posted new donations from named gentlemen adding to prior subscriptions, bringing the fund to more than 1600 dollars. Notable gifts include Rhodes and Troxell five dollars, Garland and Co twenty five, Bristol and Knake five and more from Frank Boehm Zehner and Beuchner J W Griffin and others, totaling over 1600.
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Rhodes & Troxell
Stone
W. H. Miller
E. R. Hurd
N. Marks
William Murphy
J- R. Dillman
Frank Boehm
Zehner & Beuchner
J. W. Griffin
H. Kimme
Garland & Co
John Chase
W. N. Hunt
Robert C. Morris
Theo. T. Woollens
Elwood Mead
S. Bon
A. Underwood & Bro
R. Berger
Thos. Conroy
J.C. Abney
Bristol & Knake P’t’g, Co
F. A. Stitzer
Harry Hynds
Russell L. Tracy
Louis Kirk
Rees Williams
Body Found After Bank Collapse Near Rock Springs
Rock Springs May 14 Special dispatch reports a dead man found while workers dug gravel near the railroad. Identified as George Rice aged 15 a section hand at Baxter Station missing since April 16. Authorities suspect he slept beneath a bank that caved in. he had no family or money.
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Rock Springs
George Rice
Baxter Station
A Good Time Coming in the Glenrock Graphic
E H Kimball lauds the Cheyenne and Northern railroad progress with a cheeky forecast that Cheyenne papers will arrive at noon the day they are printed. He imagines Glenrock to Cheyenne travel, dinner with Brother Carroll, a drink with Brother Slack, a noon prayer with Brother Caldwell, and a timely return for supper.
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E. H. Kimball
Glenrock
Cheyenne and Northern
Cheyenne
Brother Carroll
Brother Slack
Brother Caldwell
Rail rumors swirl over Boulder area road plans
A Boulder correspondent reports air is thick with railroad rumors. Burlington aims to enter the area while Sioux City has secured options near Idar. The old grade from Boulder to Left Hand Canon is under renewed interest and stockholders allegedly sold to Union Pacific, signaling possible railroad control and limited competition. The Keystone stamp mill is said to run at full capacity and profit from yellow metal.
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Boulder
Cole
Denver Republican
Burlington
Sioux City
Ider
I T
Canon
Tieves
Union Pacific
Keystone
Prejudice and patriotism in everyday life
The piece argues that while prejudice is common and often forces truth through conflict, excessive cosmopolitanism is illiberal. It defends loving one's own country, yet warns against deriding others for not sharing the same homeland. It condemns obstinacy and ill spirit in national comparisons.
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N. ¥. Ledger
England
United States
Walking With a Lady on City Sidewalks
The Boston Traveler argues that in cities a gentleman should walk on the outer or right side to shield the lady from bumps and crowding. It notes social leaders might promote this custom, predicting a future tradition benefiting Boston ladies.
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Cit
Boston
The Typewriters and Women in the Workplace
A Western Plowman letter defends women stenographers and typewriter operators against jokes that mock their roles. It condemns ridiculing women and urges respect for their energy, pluck, and contributions in business, arguing humor should target wrongdoers, not capable professionals.
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Amanuensis
He Must Catch His Mule in Virginia
A Buffalo Commercial correspondent recounts a doctor and traveler helping a balky mule by injecting morphia. The mule reappears, walks away, and the old driver asks for payment, noting he could have paid ten to twenty cents for the fix.
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Buffalo
Virginia
Darky
Paria Street Sweepers Propose Wage Increase and Pension
In Parly pendey, 2600 men and 600 women employed as street sweepers earn $1 daily for masters and 75 to 80 cents for deputies. Women work shorter hours at about 46 cents daily. All supply their own tools. Proposal includes higher wages and a pension of $100 per year at age 60.
Paper Restaurant planned for Hamburg to be all paper
A Hamburg project proposes a restaurant built and furnished entirely from paper. The concept highlights novel use of paper architecture and interior elements as a temporary structure for public dining.
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Hamburg Soomd
The Shirt Finisher
A shirt finisher laments low pay and strict rules at a workhouse like facility. She describes long hours sewing shirts for $1.50 per dozen, tight quality requirements, self-paid thread and needles, and insufficient room and light. She hopes to earn $5 weekly to live with dignity.
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Attons
Tribune
Moral torpidity of education and social ills
The piece argues that a purely literary education fails to form ethical citizens, citing embezzling bankers, dishonest officials, and the exploitation of working girls. It links selfish capital, trusts, and monopolies to societal decay and a drift toward practical slavery and moral harm.
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New York City
Ernaent Aelfiah
Vision for Education Reform Inspires Broad Civic Training
An Arena editorial argues for a sweeping upgrade to intellectual training to include ethical and industrial education. It urges teaching core principles of right and wrong, justice, fraternity, self-respect, sincerity, spirituality, and heroism to shape childhood minds toward pervasive goodness.
Monster Tombstone of Henry Scarlett in Georgia
The largest tombstone in the world stands at Henry Scarlett’s grave in Upson County Georgia. A hermit with rumored misanthropy, he chose a giant boulder as a miniature mountain tomb chamber carved by a marble cutter. After his 1888 death, kin and neighbors placed his remains beneath the rock per ante mortem directions.
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Henry Yh Sedfe
Upson
Ilett
Scarlett
Henry Scarlett
The Tapir: East Indian and American Tapirs Compared
Describes the East Indian tapir with its short trunk and black and white body, habitat in Sumatra and Malaya, solitary marsh dwellers that eat fruits and roots, and its nonaggressive nature toward humans. Also covers the American tapir’s hoglike form, four fore feet and three hind, long ears, thick skin, and nocturnal forest life in South America, especially Brazil and Guiana, with careful movement and swimming ability.
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New York Ledger
Sumatra
Malaces
South America
Guiana
Brazil
Paraguay
Stimulant for tired shoppers lecture overheard
A fragment describes two well dressed women in a restaurant catering to shoppers. One woman complains of exhaustion from shopping and requests light fare while the other offers a health advice message about maintaining well being during busy days.
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Charlie
Milk and digestion lecture on drinking pace
A reconstruction of a Tribune piece discusses how milk curdles in the stomach if swallowed quickly and how sipping aids digestion. The speaker argues hot milk loses density and sweetness, beer offers little real strength, and a warm broth is rising in favor for health and beauty.
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Aia
Nlyl Tribune
British Bank Tellers and Counter Tricks Described
An article explains bank teller techniques in Britain including coin handling by two hands, rapid counting of mixed coins, and misdirection in counting. It notes differences between Scotch and London counters, and mentions heightened dexterity and the geometry of counters.
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England
Scotland
London
Lninburgh
Sea Little Island
Boston Commercial Bulletin
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