Vision from the Plains leads to capture of two killers
In 1849 Abram Wilder ferried a crossing on the Platte. His wife Mrs. Wilder, camped at Forest Hill with two children, is haunted by a dream of his murder. Indian disguises and two men Sears and Malloy later confess to Wilder’s murder at Bear Gap, with the knife found linking them to the crime. Mrs. Wilder’s foretelling vision helps track and convict them.
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California
Mississippi Valley
Pacific Coast
Abram Wilder
Malloy
Sears
Bill Wilder
Givorge
Forest Hill
Platte
Sacramento
Joe Harris
Forestill
Tom Cook
Mrs. Wilder
Prairies
Rocky Mountains
Sears and Malley
George
Wilders
A.W
Tirrell
Bear Gap
Villians
Wilder
Mammon
Colfax and the Robinson county whisky tale
A Fort Wayne Sentinel correspondent recounts a southern carpetbagger’s stash of prewar Robinson county whisky. The buyer mails kegs to the White House and to Colfax, provoking a curious exchange and a joke about rheumatism among White House staff and the Vice President’s office.
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Colfax Hog
Fort Wayne Sentinel
Robinson County
Washington
White House
Caret
Dent
Colfax
Wheat flour and salt hemostatic method aids bleeding
A historic remedy states mix equal parts wheat flour and common salt to bind on a cloth to stop bleeding. For severe wounds one to three pints may be used and left on for hours or days. A person claims it saved a horse by stopping arterial bleeding within five minutes.
Ear Corn Ration Order Sparks Army Quotation
Fragment mentions corn in ear affecting hearing and voice when green. Notes rations setting where colonels are served first before men, implying a wartime Army context and ordering priority.
Amusing Contretemps in Hotel Elevator in California
A late California earthquake story unfolds in a hotel elevator where a young couple, in Eden like attire, awaken to the shock and hide from reveling onlookers. Laughter from hallway guests ends as the pair head to their rooms while a porter spreads the tale, driving the young lady to seek the springs for the season.
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California
Garden of Eden
Boots
Rat Skin Graft Heals Woman’s Leg After Accident
A woman injured in an accident receives a graft from rat skin to cover a leg wound. The surgeon removes a skin patch from a two thirds grown rat, applies it, and covers with plaster and collodion. The graft heals by ten days with hair growing on the graft area. Cats and terriers cause mild irritation due to the unusual transplant.
Mammoth Century Plant Heads to New York Exhibition
A colossal century plant forty feet tall and weighing three and a half tons was shipped from near Jacksonville Florida to New York buyers. Nearly two hundred years old its leaves span at least eighteen feet and the central column stands fifteen feet high. Growing six inches daily, it will bloom in weeks with white bell shaped blossoms stretching four feet below the apex. The purchaser paid a large price for this remarkable specimen likely to attract attention during flowering.
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Wisconsin
Chesterfold
Pennsylvania
Jacksonville
Florida
New York
Improved stock on farms attracts growing attention
The author argues that raising better stock is as essential as good machinery, noting annual improvements draw more interest from farmers and are rightly valued as key to farm success.
Rough Tales From The West And A Funny Misfire
An Army detachment surveys a route cutting seventy miles off the Santa Fe distance, aided by eighty men and a Navajo who insists on tail docking his dog. A crude accident yields a mangled dog and a quip in the Indian dialect. Separate anecdotes recount a runaway wife with false teeth and a humorous wife’s ruse about conciliation.
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Santa Fe
Overland Monthly
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