Hoodoo and a Frontier Driver's Tall Tales
A long stage ride from Fort Craig to Santa Fe sparks a driver's oration filled with vivid frontier slang and yarns. A Boston woman nicknamed Jack Seymour disrupts the journey, and a fatal shootout at a ranch alters the tale, leaving the driver to reflect on hoodoo and luck as superstition clashes with fate.
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Fort Craig
Santa Fe
Yellowstone
Brazos
South Fork
Sea of Galilee
Flood
Los Animas
Boston
Tucson
Max
Jack
Chicago
Arizona
Jack Seymour
Driver
Nick
Sun Distance Question Reveals Clerical Applicant
At a Treasury Department examination in Ashington an applicant, when asked how far the sun is from the earth, replied that the sun is not so far away that he cannot see to do his work if given the place he wants.
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Treasury Department
Ashington
Whispered rule book on street corner law
A Detroit Free Press note laments that an estimated 70,000 statutes lie in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Ohio, yet only by shouting at a street corner can a stranger locate the active laws, underscoring complexity and confusion in the legal code.
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Frank W. Knapp
Charles E. Scott
Knapp & Scott
Defiance
Ohio
Lewis
Clinton
3D Streets
New York
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Fighting Creek
Detroit Free Press
The Fecundity of Fish Their Age and Life Span
Bertram in the British Quarterly Review notes that sea fish like herrings cods and flat fishes produce enormous numbers of eggs yet face vast natural and predatory waste. He estimates a potential five to six year supply if reproduction ceased and current fishing stopped, citing ages of cod and large herrings as evidence.
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Bertram
British Quarterly Review
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Business Directory
Wabash, St. Louis and
Pacific
Pichtoing Express
Oas
Atlantic Express
St Louis
Pacific Express
P.M
Baltimore and Ohio Railway
New York Fast Line
Washington and
Baltimore
Wheeling & Cumberland Express
Chicago Fast Line
Chicago Express
MBW
Ayrmes Os
Belwyn N.owen
Jacob J. Greene
John A. Foust
P. Aldrich
Proner
Chas. P. Tittle
Ae Ee
John P. Precinicr
T. Michael Gorman
Levi Colby
B. W. Slagle
H. Schoonover
F. M. Thompson
J.J. Reynolds
J D
Eragle Block
Schultz Bros
Clinton St
Holgate Pike
Third Ward
L. G. Thacker
Buffington & CO
Clinton Street
Third
Clinton Streets
Fourth
Wayne Streets
W.S. Powell
G. W. Bechel
S + Drug Store
Jefferson and
Second Streets
H.W. Myers
Buffington & Cos
H. B. Harris
S.S. Ashbaugh
Harris
L. B. Peaslee
Law
Court Street
Defiance, O
J. W. Winn
K. V. Haymaker
Haymaker & Winn
Ttorneys AT Law
Key An Block
W.d.ill
B. F. Enos
Court House
N. G. Johnson
Higgin’s Block
Defianece
J. FF. Deatrick
Karst
Clinton and
Third Streets
Milton
Orcutt
Ralston’s Block
Charles E. Bronson
LAW Real Estate and Collecting
Harley Bros
S.T. Sutphen
Wolsiffer
R. Brown
Fourth and Clinton
Chenevert & Blanchard
Port Auglaize
U Chenevert & Blanchard
Opera House
Myers & Cole
Opera House Grocery
Constitution OF Ohio
Senate
General Assembly
State of
Constitutioner
N Oo
RS Lees
House of Representatives
R. Griceards
United States OF America
James W. Newman
State of Ohio
Columbus
HOUSE
Supreme Court
Courts of Common Pleas
Justices of the Peace
Congress
Circuit Courts
I.N. Hathaway
R. G. Richards
STATS
Pam
Dickman
Krotz & Morse’s
Seymour
Cap
Utah
Menger’s
San Antonio
General Armstrong
Johnson
Ben Johnson
Rocky Mountains
Carl
Concho
Washington Capital
The
Children’s Society of
Philadelphia
Gail Hamilton
Derrick Dodd
MG. Helubr & OD
Snyder & Gleason
South Clinton St
Joseph Derheimer
Chas. E. Miller
Cigars, Tobacco & Lipes
Babcock & Co
Bankers and Stock Brokers
Broadway
New York City
A. J. Yarlott
D. L. Warner
Yarlott
Warner
D. L.awarner
Whitehall Times
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