Cattle King of New Mexico Lives Humble Life
James Healey, a New Mexico cattle baron valued at a million with a million-dollar copper income, leads a frugal life in a pine shanty. He spends little on himself, gifts generous sums to vaqueros, and rests rarely while maintaining vast land and copper holdings. He stays near Cerillos on the Santa Fe route with vaqueros watching over him.
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James Healey
New Mexico
Healey
James Henlow
Texas
Ife
Sedalia
Sos
Astin Texas
Ist
Plains
Ranger
Iris Vaqueros
Corral
Great Range
Cerillos Station
Jim Healey the Cattle King of the New Mexico Border
Jim Healey rose from a Texas vaquero to a multimillionaire cattleman in New Mexico through land purchases, water rights, and copper claims. He survived the 1878 freeze and 1890s cattle downturn by reinvesting, and remains frugal, cooking his own meals, while living amid border-era fortune and hard luck stories.
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New Mexico
Jim Healey
Arizona Territorial Line
Healey
Jim Fennley
Santa Fe
Trinidad
Fort Dodge
Blealey
Jie
Texas
Sergeant’s Toast to Crown Prince Sparks Royal Banter
A London Illustrated News tale recalls a Willertemberg sergeant who, under Emperor Trederick era, cheerfully credits the Crown Prince with guiding past victories. The sergeant explains to soldiers that with the prince’s leadership four years ago they would have defeated the Prussians swiftly.
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Napoleon
London Illustrated News
Emperor Trederick
Weissenburg
Woerth
Willertemberg
Salary Comparisons Across U S Leaders
A humorous note lists daily salaries for public figures: Admiral Dewey 37.50, President McKinley 131, cabinet officers and Congress members 13.90, Vice President and Speaker, Chief Justice 294. The writer adds a quip about folly and speech, urging restraint.
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Dewey
McKinley
Supreme Court
Dirt Cheap at Dawson Square Meal Now a Dollar
A Dawson City miner M J Dowling says life in the Klondike is cheap with meals at a dollar. He notes sugar at 50 cents later, butter a dollar, pork 22 cents, beans 15 cents, and limited sickness with about 5,000 locals and 45,000 nearby. He explains transport by rail from Skagway to Lake Bennett then Dawson, plus through Seattle tickets for 135 dollars, and predicts open river service by late summer.
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Klondike
Dawson
Merchants
M. J. Dowling
Dawson City
Winona
Seattle
Dowling
Nelson Bennett
Skagway
Lake Bennett
St. Paul
The Bald Fagler at Home and an Electric Cellar Torch
An aged eagle patrols the shore daily, hunting carrion and fish while a coastal scene describes its grand glide and odor of its nest. A British electric cellar torch enables examination of brewers’ casks and vats with an insulated glass protector and folding mirror for interior viewing.
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Ed W. Sandys
Great Britain
Genuine Self-Control
A seven year old boy named Bob sits beside his mother as an artist reveals a spring landscape. The boy nearly blurts out his true reaction but restrains himself, saying he would like it better if he thought again. The scene highlights restraint and tact in reception of art.
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Bob
Turf Losses Worldwide Highlight Huge Annual Losses
A London magazine estimates global turf losses each year at 250 million dollars. Of this, 50 million is lost on English race courses and about 100 million on Australian courts. The remainder mainly falls in France, the United States, and British Colonies.
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London
France
United States
Harris Shuns Fame Yet Hosts Readings by Riley
Joel Chandler Harris, famed for Uncle Remus, avoids theater and crowds, choosing a quiet Atlanta home life. He treasures closeness with admired writers like James Whitcomb Riley, whom he meets only during readings, and stays focused on his Constitution work, with two books in progress.
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Rudyard Kipling
Caelo Remus
Joel Chandler Harris
Atlanta
The
Atlanta Constitution
James Whitcomb Riley
Stanton
Georgia
Indiana
Harris
Riley
Remus
South
Constitution Office
Saturday Evening Post
Number Eight Delayed by Freight Train Poem
Bill Blue recalls a freight conductor who rhymed about a delay of Number Eight eastbound on a trunk line. The wind and coal blamed in verse led to ten days off duty without pay, showing poetry could not save him from punishment.
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Bill Blue
Number
Friendship
New York
Hornellsville
Number Eight
Equally Great. Two neighbors discuss famed McPelt brothers
Two railway passengers discover they hail from the same neighborhood. The skull cap man asks about Harrison McPelt, now a ten dollar a column writer for a New York paper, and his brother Alfred, a four hundred eighty seven pound man in a dime museum earning good pay. Both are described as space fillers who found success.
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Harrison McPelt
New York
Alfred
Counterfeiting Ring Busted by Secret Service
The Secret Service uncovers another group of counterfeiters and seizes a quantity of bogus bills. The report notes imitators of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, praised for indigestion, dyspepsia, and constipation.
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Secret Service
Thostetter
The Maid Fixed It
A humorous dramatic note recalls a maid announcing two suitors in the drawing room while the daughter fears discovery. The maid devises a plan to unveil the cause of tears by claiming the father lost all his money, amplifying the comedy of mischief and social flirtation.
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Boston
Hood
Hall's Catarrh Cure and assorted health ads and quips
An assortment of old ad copy and social quips including Hall's Catarrh Cure priced at 75 cents, a warning about a rear seat couple racing a policeman, and various remedies and endorsements. Notable mentions include Allen's Foot Ease and Emperor Franz Josef etiquette. The fragment concludes with a social quip about unused tea sets.
What a Little Faith Did for Mrs Rockwell
A letter praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female complaints. A reader from Grand Eapips Michigan reports relief after using the remedy and Sanative Wash, claiming renewed strength and recovery from womb and urinary ailments. The testimonial also mentions Newark New Jersey participation and gratitude to the exercise.
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Mars
Rocx
S. Division St
Grand Eapips, Mica
Lydia E. Pinkham
L. G
Newark
N. J
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el Paso
Dragoon Mountains
Arizona
Millionaire Healey
Mulhooly
Ayer
Buckingham
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Ethel
George
Chicago Tribune
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Alten
Olmsted
LeRoy
WN. Y
Franz Josef
Austria
C. L. Baker
Regent Sq
Philadelphia
Washington Democrat
Fort Wayne
Chicago
George Bancroft
Arterlink
Ely
ELY Brothers
Warren Street
New Yorks
W. L. Douglas
Douglas Shoe CO
Brockton, Mass
Chicayre
Toroyo
St. Louis
Kansas City
P. E. Compacen
Voredy
Ohio
R. G. Thompson
T. A
Ind
Ension
Pension Bureau
Atermar
Monthly Register
Bor
K Chemical CO
Milwaukee
Wis
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N. U
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