The Bandit Cortina and the Caribbean Love Ruin
The Mexico of the era is recalled through the Cortina case, a brutal bandit whose raids spanned the plateau. He is captured, paroled for a year, and finally slain by a mysterious Caribbean lover whom the government allegedly paid to end his life. The piece probes why authorities spared him while hinting at political complicity.
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Mexico
Central America
Cortina
Cotntry
Tie
Hlan
Corthin
Everybery
Corthia
Caribbean
Lin
Peoples National Bank
Peoples Bank
Ancient ax heads used as money in early barter
Nar per's Weekly notes Schuemann digging at a supposed Troy site found massed silver ax heads. Gatze argues they were money, not tools, with bronze ax heads and rings suggesting a common value unit. The idea links these artifacts to ancient ox head coinage and the Jericho wedge of gold tale.
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Schuemann
Troy
Gatze
Tenedos
Achian
Jericho
Joshua
Narper’s Weekly
Youthful Joke Linked to Mark Twain Tale
An essayist recalls Mark Twain as editor of the Virginia City Enterprise. A Lovelock servant girl named Miriam Rogers unexpectedly inherits $300000. Twain allegedly printed a sly editorial note urging Rogers to visit the paper, suggesting she would gain from bachelor editors.
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Mark Twain
Virginia City Enterprise
Franklin Inn
Philadelphia
Lovelock
Mirrian Rogers
Virginia City
Miriam
Enterprise
Alri: Rogers of
New York Press
What He Remembered. Who was the man in the fron mask
A brief New York press item recalls a baseball moment asking who wore the mask and who pitched, with a hint that the catcher’s name is forgotten while the pitcher is named by Ben. The note captures a reader memory of a game and the obscurity of certain players.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fron
Bo Dow
Bens
New York
Ress
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Bandit Chie
Walter Maillard
American Press Association
Coritna
Ax Head Moncey
Eclipse
All
Hoda
Baltimore
Oliver
the Peoples National Bank
Denton, Maryland
Albert G. Lowers
Henry T. Nuttle
Thos. F. Johnson
William H. Nuttle
Teller
Sherman E. Hignutt
Board OF Directors
Joseph H. Bernard
Greensboro
Albert W. Sisk
Preston
Robert Jarrell
Goldsboro
Thomas L. Day
Ridgely
Albert G. Towers
Denton
George S. Raleigh
Frank P. Covey
Paul Holsinger
Andersontown
H. Clay Hobbs
B. F. Jackson
Somers Blake
The
Savings Department
C. C. Deen’s
Fowling Creek, MD
South Bend
New Casaday
Mullin
Wilmington
Mattings
Nuttle Hardware Co
Wall Street
Choptank
Choptank Canning Company
W. M. Wright & CO
W. J. Wright & Son
Er Gee" Waters Russell
Chestertown, Md
Maud Johnson
Fifth Avenue
Timothy
R. J. S. Bullock
Smithville, Md
W. I. Keefer
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York, N. Y
M. H. Downes
Journal
Geher Ldabilitien
C. C. Deen
Nortil Bripisit & Mercantile Ensurancle Company
London
Eng
Scecatt Zan
Tile Palatine Ensuranchompany of
de- Mae Taw
COCR
Seoeenees
Csce
RAT Mere the
Royal Insurance Company
Taverpool
Scottish Union & National Insurance Company
Edinburgh
Scotland
Guaranty & Surely Company of
Scranton
Deae
Eee
National Save Insurance Company of
Prudential Insurance Company OF America
Newark
N Jo
Association Niber
Franklin FU Insurance Company
Philadelpha
SPATS
German Alliance Insurance Company of
Waoanshier TE TU
Esccarene
Raea Hanover Fire Insurance Company
Home Insurance Company of
Eees Ocate
Insurance Company OF North America
Phaenix Insurance Company
Martford
Conn
Ques
Providence-Washington Insurance Company
Provedence, KR. L
Cccsere
TH Spring Garden Fire Insurance Company
Escesececetec
Thisp & Marine Insurani
Springfield
Mass
Decemk Capital
Ring Field Fire CH Company
Rer
Aetna Life Insurance Company
Hartford
Ceesenee
Reewee & Suppths
Ecenaseensesune
Meigs & Hersse
Haltimore
Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company
Java
Ceeeee Saleen E Nig
Purplus Eh Ees
Dixie Fire Insurance Company
N.C
Tauren Neces
ST. Paul
M.oinsurad
Minn
Lou, Capital
SRI Cuo
Ec Esc
Eeese
Niagara Insurance Company of
Wis
National Union Fire Insurance Company
Pittsburg
Firemen's Insurance Company of
N. J
Petersburg Savings and Insurance Company
Petersburg
Ceneeeseneenweren
Citizens Insuranclt, Company of
St. Louis
Mac
Coneh Colley
D.H. Cook
Easton
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