How To Write For The Press A Satirical Guide
A Burlington Hawkeye mock guide offers pointed rules for newspaper contributors. It lampoons tedious writing habits and urges impractical tips, portraying editors as merciless yet eager to correct errors while hinting at harsh consequences for sloppy copy.
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Matthews
Wonan
United States
Samuel Morrison
Lemuel Messenger
Hawkeye
Burlington
Indian War Dance At Chief Joseph Camp Near Fort Leavenworth
The Leavenworth Times recounts a grand war dance in Chief Josephs camp above Fort Leavenworth. Chiefs and brethren wore new colorful attire and borrowed garrison horses decked with skins bells and feathers. Joseph spoke through an interpreter to Captain Tiley expressing goodwill toward whites and presented a buffalo robe as a token of good faith. The ceremony lasted late into the evening.
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Leavenworth
Kansas
Joseph
Fort Leavenworth
Bear Paw Mountain
S. Liley
Tiley
Mr. Chapman
Tisley
Fever Tree Promises Health Boost for Southern Planting
The Galveston News highlights eucalyptus globulus as a beautiful medicinal tree, native to Australia, with proven malarial preventive qualities noted by French and German savants. It lowers marsh moisture through leaf evaporation, aiding lowland climates. Mr. Sidney Scudder promotes cultivation. notable specimens exist in Houston and in Mr. Ed Milby’s yard, reaching thirty feet in two years.
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Galveston
Texas
Sidney Scudder
Ed. Milby
Houston
Two Brutes in Cheyenne Fight Leaves Squaw Injured
A late Leader issue reports a brutal attack at Ferguson and Sixteenth streets where Crazy Horse's squaw was set upon by a terrier from Fort Laramie. The dog bit her legs and face for about fifteen minutes before the assailant released her, then rode away. Doctors Preshaw and Tuttle treated Crazy Horse's wounds, described as severe but not dangerous.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming Territory
Ferguson
Sixteenth
Crazy Horse
Fort Laramie
Turek
Roberts
Joslin & Park
Drs. Preshaw
Tuttle
M. D. Altman
A Crazy Woman's Freak in Battle Creek
Mrs Elihu Warriner a Battle Creek Michigan resident was seized by a freak and cruelly abused a young colored girl the girl from a destitute family waited at Warriner home for food Promised to bake a pie the lunatic offered a transformation to whiteness Using lye the woman stripped and scrubbed the girl causing severe pain Neighbors intervened and the lunatic was taken in charge The victim remains in slowly improving condition
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Battle Creek
Mich
Elihu Warriner
Royal Gifts From France for Spanish Royal Nuptials
The King of Spain receives a lapis lazuli casket from Paris for Infanta Mercedes, supported by four lion-claw feet, ten by twenty inches, with rose wreaths in gold and a rose-formed key. interior diamond studs hold a future eight-row Indian pearl necklace. France also sends two Sevres vases and a center piece, forty eight inches tall, light blue groundwork with oval paintings, for the marriage gifts.
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Spain
Infanta Mercedes
Paris
Varied Odds and Odds and Ends in Curious News
A compilation of miscellaneous items includes quirky maxims, humorous exchanges, and notes on science and history. Highlights touch on travel, labor, ancient and modern proverbs, demographics, and rare trivia such as beetle collections, wartime bread analysis, and Mesquite gum exports from Texas.
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Great Britain
Holland
Josh Billings
Japan
Horace Greeley
Cincinnati
Lucien Marc
New York City
Young Green
Y. G
Chicago
Great Lake City
Indiana
Worcester Press
Bexar
Tex New Mexico
Arizona