Uncle Sam Still Largest Owner of Coal and Public Lands
The government remains the biggest owner of coal oil phosphate and water power lands in the United States holding more than ninety million acres. Since 1906 withdrawals and classification by the Geological Survey aim to develop and restore lands for entry while pricing coal land by tonnage and quality.
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Uncle Sam
United States
United States Geological Survey
Congress
Geological Survey
Montana
California
Oregon
Wyoming
Utah
New Mexico
Colorado
Louisiana
Idaho
Florida
Montana Hogs Sell Well in Chicago Market
Huntley Montana produced a carload of hogs that sold in Union stockyards Chicago on March 29 for 7.95 per hundredweight. The average hog weighed 189 pounds and the sale marked the year’s top market price. The report attributes the high price to Montana quality over quantity and notes the Huntley reclamation project and local alfalfa and sugar beet feeds as factors in producing quality hogs.
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Huntley
Mont
Union Stockyards
Chicago
Montana
Yellowstone River
A Certain Shot in London Answers
A village audience hears a gamekeeper recount Parson Sharpe the blind hunter who shot at birds and sometimes hit cows horses pigs dogs or even a man. The tale emphasizes the parson as a certain shot with a notorious record.
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Parson Sharpe
London
Spiking Slips From Past To Modern Arms Disablement
The passage explains how older guns could be disabled with a nail or spike driven into the touch-hole. It then compares to modern guns, noting the breech block is held by screw threads and can be blocked by a hammering action on the threads, preventing the breech from closing and preventing firing.
Office Lawyers and the Rise of Practice Without Court
A lawyer quotes that office practice dominates the field as the best path to high earnings. He notes many lawyers in New York profit from advising large enterprises and wealthy clients, avoiding court litigation and delays.
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Jlaw
New York
Puts End to Bad Habit Blues With New Life Pills
A short health promotion notes drastic mood lift from liver cleansing. It claims Dr Kings New Life Pills expel bilious poison and banish the blues. Suitable for stomach liver and kidneys with a 25 cent price at Potts the first.
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Dr. King
Beetle Devastation of Lodgepole Pines In Beaverhead Forest
A bark beetle of genus Dendroctonus is killing lodgepole pine across a wide area from Pindar Creek to Thompson Creek and beyond. The insect has caused massive timber losses, including over a billion feet in the Black Hills. It attacks living trees after building extensive galleries under the bark, with pitch tubes signaling the initial attack. Birds and winters help, but control is difficult. experts note potential biocontrol methods like lady beetles used against different pests, urging further study for this beetle.
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Pindar Creek
Gibbon
Black Hills National Forest
South Dakota
Beaverhead Forest
Thompson Creek
Saw
Pit Creek
Big Hole River
Ralston’s
Bureau of Entomology
Rattlesnake Creek
Black Hills
San Jose
Electric Bitters Promised To Restore Health After Illness
The advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a cure for weakness nervousness loss of appetite and disordered liver and kidneys following illness. It claims the tonic strengthens nerves rebuilds the system and restores health and spirits with a 50 cent price and satisfaction guarantee from Potts the druggist. The Taraune notes it as all the news all the time.
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Potts
Wall Street Name Origin Tied to Dutch Earthen Wall
The piece recounts how Wall Street derived its name from a 1654 Dutch earthworks wall built to defend New Amsterdam. Dutch guards patrolled the river to river barrier with gates at Broadway and the East River, marking the town’s northern boundary as English colonists pressed claims from Connecticut toward Westchester Creek.
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Wall Street
Connécticut
Ocean
Westchester Creek
Bronx
New Amsterdam
Broadway
East River
New York Times
Heiress to Beau de Beau Fights for an Heiress
A New York man in a wintering Nice match steps back when a market crash hits. The Count Beau de Beau reassures him, joking that with a title he can marry another heiress tomorrow. The tale, from Exchange, mirrors old social comic tests of fortune.
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Philadelphia
Washington Star
New York
Nice
Count Beau de Beau
Overhang Houses in New England Settlements
By 1670 wooden chimneys and log houses gave way to two story homes with second floor projections. The overhang, often linked to frontier defense, is a myth. it mirrored English Elizabethan houses the settlers copied in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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Plymouth
Bay
Atory
England
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
England's Silver Greyhounds and Lord Palmerston
The article notes the king's foreign service messengers as the silver greyhounds, wearing a silver disk stamped with a galloping greyhound and crowned. It cites Lord Palmerston stating the chief qualification is the ability to hold one’s tongue in several languages, reflecting trusted roles and diplomatic discretion.
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England
Foreign Service
Lord Palmerston
London Express
Portraitist Refuses Task to Paint Self Like Napoleon
The Duke of Wellington sought David the painter who portrayed Napoleon to execute a self portrait in the style of the former emperor. David declined saying he paints only historical characters.
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Duke of Wellington
Napoleon
David
I Shall Make You Love Me Yet
A dramatic exchange unfolds as Mr. Stinsray vows to win the woman’s affection with relentless effort. The girl challenges him, stipulating a perfect stone weighing at least a carat and pure white as the condition to interest her.
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Mr. Stinsray
Quote on sermons cuts short in Detroit Free Press
A reader notes sermons feel brief and abrupt, joking that they end before a man can sleep. The exchange reflects a humorous critique of sermon length in the Detroit Free Press.
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Detroit Free Preas
Belle-Edgar's bold ring game shocks Nell
In dialogue on engagements and ring drama, Nell notes Belle-Edgar expertly wins and loses engagement rings with each girl, highlighting his crafty tact and recurring pattern.
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Belle
Edgar
Nell
Life's Tick to Each Man's Path in the Server Era
A terse aphorism on individual fate and timing in modern life. reflections imply personal agency within a depersonalized, tech mediated environment. The tone suggests social commentary rather than a discrete event or figure.
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