Sheet-Iron Jack and California’s famed desperado tales
Chronicles the outlaw Sheet-Iron Jack, a highly educated horse thief in Northern California. From disguises to river escapes, a mountain ball flirtation, and a clever German swindle, the piece blends daring exploits, bold letters, and local lore about the most colorful frontier criminals.
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California
Black Bart
Joaquin Murietta
Tiburcio Vasquez
Obd
Hin
Shasta
Tehama
Jack
Red Bluff
Sacramento River
Coast
Hosa Agin
Utaret
Lorter
Lawhawks
Close of the Doc Season Four Thousand Drowned at the Pound
A Pittsburgh Dispatch style piece recounts the pound keeper John McMahon describing drowning four thousand dogs in the season and selling dog fat as a rheumatism remedy. He shows a pile of quiet, varied mongrel dogs and notes plans to send some to barren island for disposal.
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N.Y. Weraid
John McMahon
Barren
Dave
Bert
Plague in Naples shocks Italian cities and people
Reports from Naples describe a severe cholera outbreak with theaters closed and insistent disturbances. King Humbert and Archbishop rally relief efforts as mobs clash over prices and funerals fill streets amid a rise in religious revival and hospital strain.
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Cnephs Cor. N
Duchessa
Via del Purgatorio
Piazza del
Ctand
Naples
Garibaldi
Humbert
Europe
Amadeus
Fondaici
Christendom
Sile
Toulon
France
Italy
le Spezia
Turin
Cosenzi
Parte
Maurizio
Traly
The Great 1870 Treasury Theft Recalled in Vault Upgrade
The article recounts a 1870 Treasury robbery during Spinner’s tenure, where two thieves swiped a package of 340 tons of dollar notes from the counting room amid a carefully staged distraction. Despite sharp pursuit and telegraph help, the culprits escaped with the only fractional note bag taken, while the vault upgrade proceeds.
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Vwiteh Qae
Mwhoaton
Treasury Department
Spinner
Treasury
Washington
Root
Kon
No. 1
Panama
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Byes
Mosquito Bites and Tobacco Smoke in Odd Tale
A quirky account from Jensville describes heavy mosquitoes and painful bites this season. A city official and Judge Old test a tobacco smoke theory, lighting Havanas while fishing, with mixed, comic results and a tale of a mosquito chewing on the judge's face.
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Dridge
Jensville Democrat
Actus
W. W. Old
Wels
Stump
Death of Wallace Riley in Oil Creek Fire Disaster Twenty Years On
The Saylizville resident Wallace Riley, a burned survivor and fiancé of a local farmer’s daughter, died years after the 1861 Oil Creek disaster. The huge gusher near Harley and Merrick wells ignited, killing many, maiming Riley, and leaving him blind and scarred. The event killed dozens, ruined fortunes, and left a lasting memory in Warren County’s oil region.
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Wallace Riley
Saylizville
Oil Creek
Harley & Merrick
Wallace Hiley
Tenty-Four
Meadville
Doa
Riley
Cobb's
Wesley Skinner
Shar Y
Sully
Warren County
Bouseville
Mr. Rouse
Walker
Clarion County
Wattsburg
Joan Stevens
Judd Mason
Albert Gardner
Fie
Bendant
Dacine
Rich Men's Old Shoes and the Banker's Forgotten Pair
An anecdote in a New York shop reveals a cobbler who stores customers shoes to pressure timely pickups. A rich bank president orders costly repairs but forgets them, while the shopkeeper explains a system: shoes left unclaimed six months are sold. Many customers never reclaim, allowing the dealer to profit from forgotten wealth.
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Cour
Aml Cl
New York
Femoinoine Fortunes and Newport Wealth
A witty lament on women's rising wealth in Newport, listing prominent names and fortunes. The column catalogs Mrs Gammell, Mama Catherine Wolfe, Mrs Paran Stevens, Mrs William Aster, Miss Frances Lyman, Miss Ellen Mason, and others with multi million dollar sums. It blends social satire with local gossip about society women and Bellevue Avenue, ending with a plug for Hood's Sarsaparilla.
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Newport
United States
Gammell
Catherine Wolfe
Paran Stevens
William Aster
Frawrnce Lyman
Ellen Mason
Rachel Kennedy
Jibbes
Gardiner Brewer
Bruen
Et Baldwin
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Claude Duval
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Avis
Nome
Venice
Parma
Wey
Aan
T Murrigh
Hood
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