Deserted Shacks to Dust Trailer Ride Ends in Vengeance
A Missouri household endures a summer strike as pap works a notch on Alkali Flat. Lish discovers his death by a gunshot in a labor dispute and, after vigil, loads him home on Old Jim. A hidden gunman watches from the canon as the daughter plans swift retribution.
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Lish
Alicia
Pap
Alkali Flat
Blue Buttes
Lisi
Jim
Buttes
Old Jim
Otes
Jose Garcia
Canon
Hersice
Tea tasters and rules across seas from a San Francisco Chronicle note
A San Francisco Chronicle excerpt recounts tea tasting amid criticism of American tea habits. It describes training in London and Chinon, salaries for tasters, and the method of judging tea from dry leaves to wet leaf aroma. It prescribes a single correct brewing rule with precise timing and measurement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
United States
London
Lane
Chinon
San Francisco Chronicle
History of the Word Bureau in Furniture Origin
The article traces how bureau named furniture for writing arose from a woolen textile strip used in old parchment days to protect book bindings. The term migrated from a French word to describe desks with protected writing surfaces. It notes a curiously evolving linguistic link. Also mentions Russian soldiers being supplied handkerchiefs by the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau
France
Pittsburg Dispatch
Billarpes Letter and Promises on Travels and Texas
The author blends travelogue and political jottings, praising Texas dreams and critiquing public morals. He recalls meeting Henry Grady, contrasts rail robberies with imagined restraint, and muses on Third Party politics, Blaine, and a Cleveland White House era as hopes for calm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goa
Texit
Mr. Blaine
Maine
Blaine
Ben Hil
Georgia
Weaver
Fielt
Lento
Texas
Bert Worth
Bogardus
Amon
Lila
Theas
Henry Grady
Biu Juns
Thiere
Grady
Commune
Tethchild
Paris
France
Janis
Henry
Herojam
William Tellerv
Straiy
Hin
Rome
Lows Graves
Sam
Vexan
Alatam
Florida
Fire Damages 75000 At Paragord Ark And Other Notes
Telegraphic Gleanings reports a $75,000 fire at Paragould Arkansas. It notes other items including commemoration events in New York temples, delays in a Peck case in Albany, the swamp angel of Arkansas killed near Memphis, and a string of brief regional dispatches.
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Paragond
Ark
America
Bepn
Ehidren
New York City
Commissioner Peck
Albany
N. Y
Tack Thorn
Jack Smith
Arkansas
Awamp
Memphis
Richmond
Ind
Buffalo N. Y
Georgia
Tennessee
Texas
Kentucky
Alexandria
Washington
Robert Allison
Olneiing
W. B., Mackellir
Philadelphi Dent
Sanderson
Pittabur
Supreme Court
New York
Tillman
South Gerling
W. T. ©. Bates
South Carolina
Joe W. White
Georgia Railroad
W. J. Leahy
Rork Island Railroad
H. C. Holybird
Erie Railway
Indiana Supreme Court
Indianapolis
William M. Runke
Darlington & Runke
Philadelphia
Pennsylvanian Mutual Company
Chicago
Illinois National Guard
United States
Ambush near Piintville leaves two officers dead
A party of six internal revenue officers were ambushed Friday near Piintville Lincoln county Tennessee in a close quarters battle. Two officers were killed and Joe Spurrier was shot in the back and paralyzed. A moonshiner was killed and the remaining attackers fled into the mountains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internal Revenue
Piintville
Lincoln County
Tennessee
Joe Spurrier
Alabama
Also Mentioned on This Page
Delhi
North Georgia
Dahlonega
City Drug Store
Eine Toilet Soaps
Sutton & Pitchford
Cleveland, Ceorcia
Cleveland Real State Agency
Georwin
Piedmont
F. B. Sutton
Clark, Bell & CO
Manufiet
Gainesville, Ga
Trita
Hias
Elizabeth Akers
Alkatt Flat
Lossip
Billarp
Buenos Ayres
Argentina
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