Prodigal Daughters and Plains Skirmishes Highlight Plains News
Juxtaposed items recount Prodigal Daughter themes with religious revival tone and a Platte region account of Howland organizing a unit train under attack by Indians. The piece blends moral reflection with frontier violence, noting a Missouri-Colorado context and a cautions tale of courage amid danger on the plains.
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Plains
Howland
Unt
United States
Colorado
Prisors
Michigan
Owland
Ceamnon
Fee
Denver
Kansas Y Journal
Picnic With Deaf Mutes Sparks Personal Reflections
A writer recounts a picnic with a group of deaf mutes by the factory river. He describes the silence medicine of sign language, his discomfort, and the social challenges of deaf institutions. He notes how speech, or the lack of it, shapes nerves and work in asylums, drawing on a medical friend’s view.
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Fartory
Campeon
Alfred Vrumbo
New York News
Primitive Virginia tobacco curing barns described by old planters
The piece details ancient methods on Virginian plantations where barns are square log structures with thatched roofs, no windows, a central trench for smoke curing, and a steady smolder rather than flames. Oak, hickory, sassafras, and sweet gum are noted as curing fuels, with tradition clinging to Indian origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clutter
Detroit Free Press
Height of European Soldiers in Napoleonic Era
A Boston Budget note cites a Russian military authority stating average French conscripts are about five feet six inches, shorter than many European troops after Napoleon era. It reports minimum heights vary from five feet one inch to five feet four inches across other nations.
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Lars
Ming
New York
Mail and Express
Europe
Russia
Engines Struck by Lightning on Railways
Railroad men say lightning sometimes strikes locomotives in storms but has never harmed crew in cabs. Electricity spreads over the engine and along tracks as bolts run off wheels, giving the impression engines act as lightning catchers.
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New York
Sui
Startling Discoveries of aloe cality Inhabitants Fever Remedy
The text claims that a universal fever remedy exists hidden in common texts and is tested across the Union. It asserts Potter’s Stonnieh Bibers as a cure eradicating malaria fevers and allied illnesses by latent action of still waters, promising relief for digestion problems and general systemic health, with wide claims of efficacy.
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Hptter
Fertl
Stach Brand Cards and Wap Tustabany Report
The fragment mentions Stach Brand Cards and a sequence of unclear terms. It reads as a degraded note with scattered phrases possibly describing products, brands, or a glossary. No clear event, date, or identifiable organizations are present.
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Lids
Berhien
Dargister
Noborths
New York Mail
Ind
St. Augustine
Mia
J. Me Buckley
meUry
St Men of Mark
Stach
Briven Live Stock Company
Tovey Baave de
Afters
Piisvatersat
Hps Catte
Ansie
Brantion Cudt-Coutter
Staares
Grasshopner
Misteien
Dion
Stont
Cam
NOMAD
Eli Ass
Brant
Sadie
Steer
Sadler
Beetty
Elling Sey Soman
Sam Jaguers
Heanack i
Morse Mreirte
Dillon
Mochtail
Deer Creek Valley
Joe
A. Browne
Glendale Weehead Co
Montana
Witch Creek
Sim
Estes
Deerhead County
A. Largey
Rate City
Uranc—Cattle
Horeca
Range Camp Creek
Rochester
Alex Metzil
Madison Co
Hames
Ruby Valley
Pereanson
Meting Ab
Jon Sins
Re Rock Poo
MT Urant
Catt
Ducg Praght
Ufurses
Red Rock
Belmont Park
Virginia City
Joun Temple, Sheridan Mn
Catte
Cattie
O. Willis
Willis
Mont
Smith & Pusson
Rock Creek
Uit
Basprink LE
Brand -Catthe
Ciba
Eich
Oscar Welcher
Sherdan
Zion Lef
Wide Creek
Nebres, Jarnis
White Go
Bozeman
Reapers
TIGER
Hollingsworth
Hina
Noxon Mills
NOXON
Smead
Y and Gen
Poindexter & Orr
Beaverhead County
M. T
W. M
Wayne, Ills
Percheron
Staluions
Dillon, Montana
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