Mountain Joe Wins Pony and Inez in Arizona Romance
A Tucson correspondent recounts Mountain Joe, a frontier hero, who earns a buckskin pony and the love of Inez Romaldo after rescuing her from Kickapoo captors. He battles Indians, falls into a cliff cave, and survives by wit and grit, finally marrying Inez rather than accepting vast wealth. The tale ends with plans for their wedding next week and lingering talk of the pony.
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Unield
Mountain Joe
Tucson
Arizona
Pittsburg Telegraph
Col. Priance Fitz Roy
Grand Plaza
Enrrisze
Orinail
Senor Romaldo
Pinto Road
Inez
Joe Set
Hig Head
Joe
Sonor
Romaldo
Romaldy
Toe
Inez Romaldo
Red Eagle
Jeg
Canrise
Col. Fitz Roy
The Great Wall of China Survey Details
American engineer Mr Unthank surveyed the Great Wall of China noting an eighteen foot height and fifteen foot top width. Towers twenty four feet square rise along a 1300 mile expanse with solid granite foundation and vast masonry.
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Great Wall
China
Unthank
Pyramids
Egypt
Crime in France 1875 criminal law statistics released
The 1875 French criminal justice data show 4701 cases tried at assizes, with 3042 literate defendants and 1567 illiterate. There were 4008 men and 783 women. Acquittals reached 947, over twenty percent. Of the 33 executions, only twelve were carried out.
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France
Sischanet
Words of Wisdom in City Reflections
A reflective excerpt on humility, self love, and virtue. It contrasts vanity with true merit, warns against hollow admiration, and urges self-reliance and moral action. It discusses the perils of ignorance, the value of inner merit, and the need to balance knowledge with tact and kindness.
Grapes Snagged by Prisoners in Court Yard
In Detroit Tribune account a jail yard grape vine trellis near a grated window becomes a site of improvised prison craft. Turnkey Blakely notes prisoners coax fruit with improvised tools and methods to reach and eat grapes through the window, including split handles and weighted strings.
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Blakely
Coriet
Detroit Tribune