Oregon Town Seymour emerges amid land claims and growth
Oregon City Texas reports the town of Seymour settles survey lines and school land disputes with claim jumpers ignored. It notes post office progress under J T Ingram, new weekly and triweekly mail routes, and rising commerce with stone and frame buildings.
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Oregon City
Texas
Berg
Luta Lever
General Land Commissioner
J.T. Ingram
Spring Creek
Oregon
Seymour
The Folly of Virtue and Odd Anecdotes From The Times
A chain of humorous vignettes and moral points opens with a pious young man seeking a clerical job and failing due to strict habits. It includes quips on education, manners, and social foibles, plus a cartoonish exchange with a lawyer over a seasonal calendar and a Midwest election note.
Leadville mining fever brings misery to settlers
The inland rush to Leadville Colorado’s silver mines has left many without shelter as hundreds travel daily from across the Union seeking quick wealth. Correspondence from St Louis notes a wave of more than five hundred enslaved people arriving from Mississippi and Louisiana heading to Kansas to receive land and stock.
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Leadville
Col
Union
Wauce Ly
Aminer
Mississippi
Louisiana
St. Louis
Kansas
Sitting Bull Quiet After Prolonged Silence
Blaine’s allies believe a change of scene in Canada could aid his health as the northern atmosphere is seen as beneficial for his condition.
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Sitting Bull
Blaine
North Carolina to Test Bell Punch System
North Carolina plans trial use of the Bell Punch System, evaluating its feasibility for official procedures. The move aims to streamline processes and reduce error in handling records and ballots during operations.
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North Carolina
Mrs Myra Clark Gaines Seeks Long Life and Land Ambition
The seventy plus Mrs Myra Clark Gaines declares she stays strong and plans to live another thirty to forty years. She aims to become a major landholder if she survives and prospers.
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Myra Clark Gaines
Largest Landers
Postmaster Pays Six Months For Dead Paper
The Milton Iowa postmaster settles a six months subscription to Pomeroy's Democrat after not notifying the publisher the issue remained dead in his office. The action is presented as a lawful consequence and a deserved outcome.
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Milton
Iowa
Pomeroy
Democrat
Printing Outfit Sold. Waco Reg ister Becomes Times
Mr W Kh Chase of the Waco Register sells the printing outfit to Mr C J C Puckett who will publish a new paper named the Times. Chase notes the paper has not paid for itself and hopes friends understand the change. He argues editors must endure hardship and that lack of proper reward would slow knowledge.
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W. Kh. Chase
Waco Register
C. J.C. Puckett
The
Times
Chase
Remarkable endurance on Trinity River mule incident
In McKenzies Bend a man rode a captured young mule as it bucked. His rein broke, his foot caught in the stirrup, and he rode for two days and three nights through a wild horse drive until herders boxed and rescued him. The account, vouched by caretakers, claims near-precedentless peril. A Park squatter’s sign offers fresh eggs laid daily by Mrs Dooley.
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Mercer School
Baptist
Thomas Criswell
J. A. Morrison
John Miller
Stafford
Goose- Neck
Duff Prairie
South Bed
Arkansas
Cleance
Joumuie Cake
California
Europe
Nentuck
Randall
South
Congress
Ft. Worth
Democrat
McKenzies Bend
Trinity River
East Texas
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Fish Creek
J. H. Kemble
John Walsh
Thos. Price
Graham
Belknap
Phrockmorton
Stephens
Clear Fork
Germany
Eli Perkins
Switzerland
Alps
Spain
George Alfred Townsend
France
Talmage
Giod. Ruskin
Kentucky
Michigan
Yale College
Cornell
Sam Clark
Griswold Street
Sam
Walt
Detroit Free Press
Harry
East Texas Beacon
Waco
Garland
United States
Marshel Seward
J. H. Hatfield
St. Clair
Hatfield
Missouri
Mra. Dooley
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