Ghosts in the Mojave Desert Buck Pomeroy’s fate linked to railroad ghosts
Colonel Whitehead relates a Buck Pomeroy haunting tale from a survey run in the Mojave desert between Rogers and Llort Tejon pass. A will o the wisps sighting spooks Buck, who later disappears. The plot of a rival railroad scheme collapses as backers die in rapid succession, and Buck is presumed dead. The tale ends with Buck’s mysterious disappearance in Bagdad, Colorado Desert, 1889, as recorded by the San Francisco Call.
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Colonel Whitehead
Atlantic
Pacific
Sheeps
Kern County
Mojave Desert
Antioch
Llort Tejon Pass
Buck
Rogers
Gorman’s Station
Mount Frazier
Lancaster
Owens Lake
Carnet
Henry D. Minot
Washington
General Beale
Baring, Magoun & Co
Southern Pacific System
Bagdad
Colorado Desert
Buck Pomeroy
Luring the Trout The Fly and Other Lures
Robert W. Chambers argues in Harper's Weekly that fly angling remains primary for trout but notes trout respond to many lures. He recalls August heat driving trout to spring holes and describes using diversions from worms to spinners and even unconventional baits, while confessing squeamishness at moorhen or other live lures.
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Robert W. Chambers
Marper
Marcus Aurelius The Stoic Emperor Of Rome
Marcus Aurelius born in Rome in 121 AD rose through Hadrian’s favor to become emperor with Verus in 160 and sole ruler in 168. He kept a calm, duty bound life, wrote meditations in campaign fields, treated time as precious, and remained grave yet humane, admired as the best pagan of history.
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Marcus Aurelius
Rome
Hadrian
Marcus Titus Antoninus Pius
Caesar
Faustina
Lucius Verus
Marcus
Marcus Aureolius
The Monkey Puzzle Tree Born From a Seafaring Seed
During Vancouver's expedition a Chilean viceroy hosted dinner in Valparaiso where seeds of the Chile pine were given to surgeon Archibald Menzies. He planted them in Kew Gardens, producing Europe’s first monkey puzzle tree loved by William IV. The historic tree died in 1893, but its species thrives in British climates.
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Vancouver
Pacific
Northwest Coast of America
Valparaiso
Chile
Archibald Menzies
England
Xew
Europe
William IV
Kew
Menzies
Child splits time after parents divorce and remarriage
A mother who recently divorced and remarried shares custody with her ex husband who has also remarried. The decree assigns the daughter half her time to each parent. When asked how she spends her time the girl says she alternates months visiting her father and mother, then mother and father.
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Harper’s Weekly
Amusing Anecdote on American Servants Gentility
Sir Philip Burne Jones recalls a railway waiter refusing service because another servant will attend. The first waiter then confers with a colleague nearby and repeats the request in front of him, highlighting perceived American gentility in service. The exchange ends with the second waiter being asked to attend to the patron.
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Medii
McCall Bazar of
Sir Philip Burne-Jones
Sir Philip
Cat confronts swallows on Maidstone chimney
A man on a Maidstone bank premises watched a huge cat attempt to reach a swallows nest under a brick course on a disused chimney. The parent swallows swooped to drive it away and returned with nine companions, flinging themselves at the cat and forcing it to retreat to safety.
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Maidstone
England
Might Be Useful In the Family Subbubs-What
Mrs Subbubs explains buying an artificial arm as a bargain. He jokes about needing it for travel on the railroad and potential mishaps. The exchange reflects domestic humor from the Philadelphia Press.
Trail of the Jaguar in South American Rivers and Forests
The jaguar hunts along rivers to fish and prey on water animals, often stalking prey from a water edge and striking the neck. It swims bold and can raid on land when river food is scarce, ruling South American forests with apparent supremacy.
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Marie Antoinette
Princess de Lamballe
Rio de la Plata
Buenos Ayres
South America
South
North America
Clockmaker's Yes Clock Sparks Curious Inquiry
In a railroad town a jeweler kept a large regulator clock for railroad workers. To avoid disputes over accuracy he pasted a bold Yes across the front. Customers and passersby repeatedly asked what the Yes meant, prompting the shop boy to fetch a stepladder to wash it off.
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James
Chicago Record-sferald. Oy
Physician Rivalry Over Bitter Cures Revealed
A Chicago doctor recalls a rival physician who gave bitter medicines to a patient, noting the rival’s visit to the convalescent home to fix the patient’s relapse. The incident ends with the rival supposedly curing the patient but sending Dr. Brown to remove the bad taste from his mouth.
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Chicago
Caricature Tale Sparks Chicago Society Mockery
Sir Philip Burne-Jones recalls an encounter in Chicago where a reporter asked him to sketch faces including a yawn ing lady. He drew imaginary typical heads and a caricature of himself, which a journal later reproduced with captions implying they depicted Chicago socialites.
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Chicago
Philip Burne-Jones
Laughing man saved by telegram visit turnabout
A man suddenly unable to stop laughing, believed doomed by doctors, is saved when a telegram announces his wife's mother will visit briefly. The family gathers in expectation of the end, but the unexpected message brings relief and the man laughs no more.
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London
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Swinney’s Department Store
the Bridge
Wai
GUNS
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LAW Building
Denton, MD
Hancsck
Nain Surehur Natere
Hancock
Baltimore, Md
Eless
Denton
Maryland
Mr. Nowell
T. H. Evans & Company, Fruit and Produce Commission Merchants
Light Street
Baltimore
Obi
Best Store
Howard and
Lexington Streets
Paris
America
Hochschild, Kohn & Co
J. Harry Rose
Lexington Street
Likes, Berwanger & Co
Clothicors
Trail OF the Jaguar
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