Forty Frontiersmen Break Siege Without a Shot
The 40 men led by Captain McCabe walked 250 miles from Bozeman to Fort C. F. Smith to relieve the siege without firing a shot. They faced 1000 Sioux and numerous threats, yet arrived to escort 200 Union soldiers back to Bozeman with no casualties or scalps taken.
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Earth
Kentucky
Lincoln
Montana
Bozeman
Hazicock
Fort F. Smith
Fort C. F. Smith
Howie
Neil Howie
United States
Territory of Montana
Smith
Hancock
Montana Frontier
McCabe
Evers
Governor Smith
An English jail chapel a study in discipline and routine
The London Quiver describes prison chapel life with rigid separation of classes and sexes. Catholics and Church of England services run about 9:30 and 10, while condemned men near three Sundays before execution live under constant guard and isolation.
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London
Soup Scene Delights A Star At Marseilles Opera
A famous French prima donna, famed for dramatic talent, arrives in Marseilles and seeks her favorite soup. A humble restaurant supplies a gigantic tureen to the theater, carried to the stage and offered to the star amid an opera finale. The actress, mid scene, lifts the cover and serves herself the soup, interrupting the performance with a humorous remark.
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Marseilles
Mme. C
Lucia
Ravenswood
London
Blue Book proposed for Springfield society amid changes
The Springfield community eyes a new Blue Book after seven years, noting many women advance socially while others drift in or out of the charmed circle. Price & Lee prepare to classify local society with a three star grade, while the era of official recognition looms and parties await. The piece ends with a light exchange from the Chicago Tribune.
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Price & Lee Company
Springfield
Mass
Vladivostok Pen Picture From the Fortnightly Review
A vivid 19th century sketch of Vladivostok describing streets without pavements laid with long wooden planks, dusty conditions, and druskies driven by redheaded izvozchiks. It notes fare rates, regulations, and the distinctive troika era carriages, water carts, and the sunstride horse vehicle with cloaked officers.
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Vladivostok
Izvozchik
Lemon remedies and Georgia cotton mill opening
Lemon juice sweetened for coughs fever relief and foot care is described with methods using lemons and sugar to aid sore feet and chilblains. The report notes Miss Helen A. Whittier of Lowell presiding at Whittier cotton mills near Atlanta with 10,000 spindles and 300 to 400 workers, operations begun Jan 6.
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Philadelphia Times
Helen A. Whittier
Lowell
Mass
Whittier Cotton Mills
Chattahoochee River
Atlanta
Georgia
Lynn Linton Opposes the Bicycle Craze as a Cross
Mrs. Lynn Linton, praised as a severe critic and accused grave chronic grumbler, launches criticism of the English bicycling craze calling it a cross between the tight rope and the treadmill. She stresses she herself is not a wheelwoman.
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Lynn Linton
England
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