Poker Playing on River Steamboats
An old steamboat captain recalls a river gambling night before the Civil War on a St. Louis voyage. Two professional gamblers fleece a stranger by a rigged hand, then the stranger reveals four aces while the pair hold four kings, and the interloper splits the pot after exposing the scam. The captain suspects the stranger substituted an ace for a six to secure the win.
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St. Louis
Billa
Atu
Vluba
Baltimore
Notable Notes From A Varied Day In 1900s News
California fruit dealers ship thousands of vans annually while Maine faces harsher winters and interspersed snows. A Eastern syndicate buys 33 thousand acres in Eastern Texas for a future sawmill, and tax changes threaten federal workers. The Cage heirs pursue a $20 million Ohio property, with hundreds of plaintiffs and defendants in a Cleveland suit. A Swiss hat ban remains, Plant City plans a 400,000 quart strawberry season, and currency reforms loom for federal payrolls.
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Cage Heirs
Lexington
Cleveland
Ohio
Remarkable Elephant Logs and Vienna Paper Panic
A circus elephant, sourced from a shipwreck, works like several horses, eats little, and is a record breaker in hauling logs. A Vienna exhibit caused fear in Tosalix Mayerhofer, a washerwoman, after a large paper spread her city with terror. The old temple market in France faces demolition, ending a historic landmark tied to knights, royalty, and a grim history.
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Nore
Elephant
Ircus
Vienna
Tosalix Mayerhofer
Dobling
France
Great Nile Dam Works Near Completion in Egypt
Sir Donn Aira and Sir Benjamin Maker begin a visit to England after inspecting the Aswan engineering works. The immense Nile dam spans a mile and a quarter with foundations nearly finished. Temporary dams cross the channel as permanent dam work proceeds, with granite masonry cut and ready to lay. Pumps to start next week, 180 sluice openings, and high expectations for the Nile flood season. The Assiut barrage and Thramteh canal head works progress, with thousands employed and diversions prepared for future water management.
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Donn Aira Ang
Benjamin Maker
England
Assaan
Nile
Ene Gineers
Vunthden
Oatal
High Nile
Assiut
Calta
Cots Steuerian
York
Att
Asaiut
Ie Kreater
Asshin
Egypt
Thramteh
Oahute
Chramier Canal
Vhatly
Ivory replacements threaten billiard ball standardization
The piece argues ivory balls will become scarce and bonneline or hֵullining alternatives may replace them in championship play. It notes ivory balls sold for 15 guineas post-match, praises bonneline for stability, heat resistance, and uniform coloring, and discusses practicality and preferences amid growing shortages.
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Billiard Association
Africa
India
Notice to co-owners on Linda Quarta Lode mining claim
Andrew Elstrom and heirs executors administrators and assigns are notified that Erick Reha and Erick Harmon, co-owners, have expended 108.00 in labor and improvements on the Linda Quarta Lode mining claim for 1897 and 100.00 for the year.
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Andrew Elstrom
Erick Reha
Erick Harmon
United State
Linda Quarta Lode
Lode patent notices and joint claim payment warning
In Montana during 1901, notices warn Andrew Estrom and others to pay one third shares of four years labor totaling 135.83 1 3 dollars for a Summit Mountain Silver Bow claim by March 1901 or risk forfeiture, while patent applications for Meighan and Violet Lodes in the unorganized mining district are published with detailed measurements and adjacent claims and filings.
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Summit Mountain District
Silver Row County
Montana
Andrew Estrom
Erick Rehn
Erick Harmon
Rutte
Mont
United States
Helena
John ¥. Johns
Butte Montana
Ustag
Pont of Discovery
N. E. Cer
Bar
Ko. A
N. W
Bay
Natares
Wren
Sur
Bow County
N. E. of
Nerth & Sur
T. J. Argyte
Ber
Ber. No. 699 and & W. of
Keaty
Wil
Dennis Driscoll
W. of
Ivasoy
Cameron
James A Murray
W. E. Smith
Patrick Clark
N. W. Ts Sur
Charles
Warren
John Zille
Lis Exient
Patrick Claris
George D. Graexr Pregieter
M. L Baker
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Fosselman Drug CO
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Dial
Simon Bank
Main Street
Hong Ark
John Millen
Butte
SEA
California
Maine
Texas
Eastern
Switzerland
Plant City
Fis
Czar
Yildiz
His
Congress
Ohio Capitalistes
Florida
St. Johnna River
Jacksonville
House of Commons
Spencer Charrington
Robnan
Berlin
Chicago
Michigan
Saginaw River
Cape To Cato
Bulawayo
Wanki
Zambesi
Samuel H. Davidson
London
Rock of Gibraltar
Lorraine
Kansan City
Australia
Manitoba
Massachusetts
West
Coal Combine
New York
Best Hatters
Siegel
Broadway
Derby
Cadet
Christy Brown
Siegel Clothing Co
Butte, Montana
20Th Century Progress
Montana Electric
E. Broadway
Anaconda Copper Mining Co Hardware Department
Buttes
Manioon
Alsen
Salt Lake Portland Cements
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