Stage Road Landlords and the Hungry Stagecoach Meals
Readers recall rugged Western travel as landlords and drivers schemed for profits with feastings that barely fed passengers. A notorious landlord clashed with Ben Stickney over spoons while a clever traveler fed his carpet bag, exposing the era’s comic dining warfare on the Comstock route and the frontier dining table economy.
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Boniface
Sierra
Nevadas
Ben
Stickney
Comstock
Cat Strawberry
San
Fran
Reinfordy
Ben Stickney
Golden Pagoda of Rangoon in Burma Describe its grandeur
A traveler describes Rangoon's Golden Pagoda as a vast gold leaf covered masonry monument with a jeweled apex valued at $50,000. He notes its ascent by many steps, secret passages for priests, and legends of a hollow heart sanctuary with a high Buddha priest.
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Rangoon
Burmash
Wilkie Collins
Ram-sammy
Mecca
Buddha
Cordelia and Howard in a Turbulent Stage Pair
Fragmentary OCR notes describe Cordelia and Howard in a domestic scene. A wife with two children appears amid the play’s ongoing tensions. The lines hint at origin questions and character dynamics in a stage version of a classic work.
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Cordelia
Tom
Modern Robinson Crusoe Finds Way Back to New Zealand
George Hosley formerly of Arlinge Vermont resurfaces at Ross on the West Coast of New Zealand after twenty one years missing. He had been seeking El Dorado rumors off the coast when a gale wrecked his party. Hosley survived using birds and berries for six weeks after drifting ashore badly bruised with only a few provisions and $1500 in gold. He later sailed toward civilization but reports of the rumored gold fields diverted him again.
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Ben
Boniface
Rascal
Tf T
Garson Valley
Johnny
Boni
Bridget
Oren
Aridie
Frites
von Moltke
Tris
Bulgaria
Egypt
England
Sherman
Europé
Duke of Cambridge
George Hosley
Arlinge
Ross
West Coast
New Zealand
Tantika
Fifty Cents Dearly Earned on the Canal
A report from Carrollton describes a man named Charron who offered to lift a heavy canal gate for fifty cents. He accepted payment, seized the crank, and the gate moved with his effort. Minutes later he collapsed, and in about ten days he died, leaving questions about the event.
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Canal
Carrollton
Charron
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