How I Killed My First by Buffalo Bill from True Tales
A boy recounts his brutal frontier youth in Iowa and Kansas during the slavery conflicts. He helps a freighting firm, endures Indian attacks, and along a perilous trek to Fort Kearny, defeats a chief with a rifle shot, and survives with the aid of friend Dave Phillips after a bear attack and a long winter siege. The narrative culminates in the rescue when Phillips, after a desperate journey, finds the dugout and frees the starving youth.
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Buffalo Bill
Tabor
Iowa
Kase Fas
Salt Creek Valley
Kansas
Charles Dunne
Lim
Dourhold
Overland
Ruswell, Majors & Waddell
Leavenworth
Majors
Fort Kearny
Albert Sydney Johnson
Balt Lake
South Platte River
Frank McCarthy
Boas
Platte
Alzill
America
Pike's Peak
Valley Grove House
Deve Phillips
Republican
Phillips
Gred Orst
Cave
Dave
Mother
Iast
General Custer
the Little Big Horn
Philips
Beans and poles spark a village joke in old Yankee tale
A quaint Yankee plans to whitewash his henhouse and tests a bean pole with the brush. A passing driver jokes about whitewashing bean poles. The farmer quips that beans grow better on birch poles and the exchange ends with a pun about widening ex.
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Manchester Union
Nevada Wealth Surges Amidst Growth and New Railroads
The Ely Min ing Record reports Nevada’s taxable wealth rising faster than any state relative to population. Despite panics, the state progresses, with valuations expected to reach about 87 million for 1909 1910 and possibly higher, aided by new buildings and railroads like Western Pacific and Ely Goldfield lines.
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Nevada
Union
Ely
Western Pacific Railroad
Ely & Goldfield
Government Alcohol School Opens in Washington for Farmers
The government hosts an alcohol school in Washington to teach U S farmers how to produce denatured alcohol. A model still near the Department of Agriculture yields 75 0 gallons of 95 percent alcohol daily from 25 bushels of corn. Agricultural experts will train regional farmers to build and operate such plants and apply the method at home using crop refuse.
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Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
France
New York Sun
Hic cough cure by nerve pressure and corn power fact
A medical tip explains pressing the pneumogastric nerve to halt hiccups within a minute. It cites relaxation and head motion as aids. Also notes calculations from a corn crop yielding 2.5 gallons per bushel to estimate 20,000,000 horsepower for a year. Mentions Claus Spreckels, San Francisco sugar magnate, as cube sugar inventor.
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Ohio State Journal
United States
Claus Spreckles
San Fransisco
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Bily
the Brown Hotel
A. C. Florio
Scheeline Banking & Trust Co
Reno, Nevada
Ie Alea
W. Sahm
Ommoersland Truce Man Cr'Ntonailin
Ams Kitbesdelena
Dudal Meyer
Tnderson Banking Company
Unicorp
Savings Department
Hleo
Eureka Brewery
Eureka’s
Paul Yost
Main & Clark Streets
Johnson Mercantile Co
Hiram Johnson
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