Diggings of Tape Nome Reveal Origin of Deposits
Department of the Interior report by Schrader and Broos details Nome region gold origins from placer deposits across gulch and beach areas. Notes on bar placers, creek diggings, and bedrock pay streaks, with distribution patterns, driftwood fuel, tundra vegetation, and local wildlife while outlining copper mining firms and the formation of United Metals Selling company and key directors including Rockefeller and Rogers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of the Interior
Schrader
Broos
Cape Nome
Senate
Snake River
Nome
Seward Peninsula
Wil Yieid
Arctic
Moses
Betencee
F. V. Coville
Agricultural Department
Puget Sound
Cape Prince of Wales
Cape
Red Bluff Mine Reports High Grade Ore Find
Word from Red Bluff mine reports a body of very high grade ore in the Stewart level with assays around 270 dollars. Ore runs 15 to 18 inches wide and 20 feet of drift on the lead yielded a carload ready for shipment. Sinking in the shaft was interrupted by a management dispute but has resumed progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pony Sentinel
Red Bluf
Stewart
Red Bluff
Old Joe mine group near Pony to receive concentrator
John F. Cowan, formerly of Butte and now in Salt Lake, is expected to return soon to begin operations on the Strawberry group of mines near Pony. A concentrator will be built to treat ore from the Old Joe mine, part of a five or six claim group. Early ore was free but yielded to vein factors with depth. ten years ago Governor Hauser and A M Holter of Helena bonded the properties but halted work after investing substantial sums.
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John F. Cowan
Butte
Salt Lake
Strawberry Group of Mines
Pony
Old Joe
Hauser
A. M. Holter
Helena
United Metals Trust Controls Copper Output
The United Metals selling company incorporated at Trenton with $5,000,000 capital stock is said to control about 1 percent of U S copper output. The board includes William Rockefeller Henry H Rogers Leonard Lewinsohn Adolph Lewisohn and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles C. Beaman
Ated Copper Company
Lewisohn Brothers
Amalgamated Copper Company
Anaconda
Washoe
Parrott
Colorado
Boston & Montana
Butte & Boston
Montana
United Verde
Senator Clark
Old Dominion
Arizona Gopper Company
Arizona
Uten Consolidated
Utah
United Metals Selling Company
William Rockefeller
Henry H. Rogere
Standard Oil Company
Standard Oil
Evarts, Choate & Beaman
Lkely
Calumet & Hecla
Quincy Mining Company
Rosston
Stanton Group
Wolverine
Atlantic
Baltic
Mohawk
Mehigan
Winona
Lake Superior
Montana Ore Purchasing Company
Phelps- Dodeo
Utah Consolidated Properties
Waldrof-Astoria
Inlted Metals Belling Company
New Jersey
A. Fe, Owens
Los Angeles
Rockefaller
Rogers
Lewisohna
United Metals
Rockefeller
Rogera
New York Times
Trenton
Bia
United States
Henry H. Rogera
Leonard Lewinohr
Adolph Lewisohn
The Best Laid Plans and Wardrobe Missteps
A fragmented OCR line notes notes on resolutions and vows including Smarts pledging sobriety while Rigby reports a year of new lessons. The brief hints at personal discipline and plan making without detailed context or outcomes.
Taken for Granted in Washington Star Tale
A Washington Star witty exchange notes a man’s wife siding with the British in the Boer War era. When pressed, he admits he has no direct statement from her yet asserts she sympathizes with the British by observing Dom Paul’s wife remaining home to manage housework while he oversees combat actions.
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Mr. Meekton
Dom Paul
Washington Star
Unusual Heights Highlight Grenadier Guards Record
A notice notes extreme statures within the Grenadier Guards with the shortest soldier at 4 feet 6 inches and Private McCulloch at 5 feet 8 3/4 inches, marking a rare contrast in the unit’s physical diversity.
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H. Grace
Batalion
Grenadier Guards
McCulloch
Aaet Evidier
Queen's Army
Suttons The Convicts Daughter Performed At The Theater
The bill at Suttons theater begins Sunday with a matinee for the full week and a Saturday matinee featuring The Convict's Daughter a four act drama about prison life with a wrong man wronged and the just outcome. The vaudeville portion features Billy Price and Lizale Peasly plus the Zoyans and Lindsay triple bar act, new to Butte patrons.
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Butte
Billy Price
Lizale Peasly
Zoyans
Lindsay
Notes of the Stage Highlighting Global Theatre Moves
The piece surveys theatrical plans and prospects across New York London and Europe. It notes Robert Taber with Lawrence Irving in Bonnie Dundee at the Adelphi, Verne Woods Horatius with Frederick Warde, and Fay Templeton Cleopatra in From Broadway to Tokio along with Ada Rehan star turns. It mentions Smyth and Rice dissolving their partnership, Hope’s Rupert of Hentsau, and future bills for Wilson Barrett and others. It reports Berlin Vienna independent theaters and Anna Held’s evolving public reception, plus an Oberammergau Passion Play hall opening May 24 with 4000 capacity.
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New York
London
Robert Taber
Lawrence Irving
Adelphi
Geof Aiemander
Wiong Hope
Rupert of
Theater notes on Cyrano casting and Tangtry gowns
The article discusses Cyrano de Bergerac in English in London, actor Tevinge declining the role, and Mang el and Wyndam considered. It highlights Mrs Tangtry in Paris gowns, detailing three act costumes and jewelry. It also cites a Hebrew Actors Union manifesto about Jewish actors facing poverty, low pay, and insecure salaries despite fame.
Thieves Talk and Slang From an Old Cleveland Paper
A Cleveland Plain Dealer piece explains criminal slang used by pickpockets and thieves. It defines terms like harness for a policeman in uniform elbow for a civilian, Molly Buzzer for a woman pickpocket, work the shorts for stealing on streetcars, and two stitches for years in prison. The glossary covers proscenium theater codes, house prowl, and other coded language.
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Heeler
Carnegie Lyceum
New York Times
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Ghost Amateurs Stage Sussex Play In Poor Fashion
A queer play titled The Ghost attributed to A E W Mason with dialogue by Henry James and others was performed by amateurs at Stephen Crane’s Brede estate in Sussex England. The piece is described as rather poor with backstage mishaps involving dampened scenery and a brief fire behind the scenes.
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A. E. W. Mason
Henry James
Robert Barr
George Gisning
Rider Haggard
Joseph Conrad
Marriott Watson
H. G. Wells
Edwin Pugh
Stephen Crane
Brede: Place
Sussex
England
Map in Kitchen Sparks Curious War Talk
A London householder found his cook had pasted a map of South Africa in the kitchen. The map colored British possessions with Transvaal brown Orange Free State yellow and Portuguese lands. When asked if she took an interest in war she replied no but she said she keeps the map for a skirt skeet and to keep it by the stove.
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London
South Africa
Transvaal
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Joe
the Metal Selling Trust
Rigby
Jones
Frederick Warde
California
Verne Woods
Horatius
Macaulay
Bres Williams
the Duke
Jesse
Keto Rorke
Squire
Pinero
Kendula
Fay Templeton
Cleopatra
Broadway
Tokio
New Yorl Theater
Ada Rehan
George Clarke
Eugene Amanda White Whittlesey and
Mounet-Sully
Paris
Greece
Athens
Oedipus
Chambers
Henry Ty
Wilson Barrett
Barrett
Parece
Parson
Berlin
Vienna
Charles Wyndham
Henry Arthur Jones
de Volk! Hopper
Della Fox
Mr. Hopper
Misa Jessie Mackaye
Charlatan
Anna Held
New York Herald
Earl of
Oberammergau
Tevinge
Didot
Traw Coquelin
Mr. Mangel
Ecutl
Hebrew Actors’ Union of
East Side
Cltixens
Diocletian
Chris Tlam
Genetun
Edward E Rice
Arin
Charles Wyndam
Dendon
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