Humiliating Lesson in Cowboy Valor at Montana Depot
A Milwaukee Sentinel reprint recalls a Northern Pacific station agent near the Montana line who described three boundlessly bold cowboys pestering a New York jewelry traveler. The man warned them off, then calmly fired three shots to split apples midair, leaving the cowboys cowed while noting the traveler’s rapid shooting and a medal for marksmanship.
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Sentinel
West
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Montana Line
New York
Milwaukee Sentinel
A Great Novel Reader and a Small Salary Postmaster
An anecdote features a novelist praising a reader who admits never reading much, and a North Carolina postmaster earning nine cents annually facing no charges of offensive partisanship. The exchange highlights literary vanity and a tale about public service pay.
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Arkansaw Traveler
North Carolina
North Terrace
Anreek
St. George’s Chapel
Windsor
Osborne
Eaton College
London Sojourn at Windsor Stoke Pogis and Cheshire Cheese
A traveler recounts visits to the Duke of Westminster Gallery and Windsor, Stoke Pogis, and the Cheshire Cheese tavern. Highlights include Reynolds portrait of Mrs Siddons, Rubens and Murillo works, the Queen at Windsor, Gray's Elegy at Stoke Pogis, and Johnson's famed haunt with the rumpsteak pudding.
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London
Duke of Westminster
Felix Moscheles
Gainsborough
Joshua Reynolds
Murillo
Christ
Raphael
Elizabeth
Mary
Savior
Claude Lorraine
Pousseir
Rubens
van Dyck
Oscar Wilde
Windsor
Stoke Pogis
Gray
York and
Lancaster
Fleet Street
Johnson
Shakespeare
Boswell
Earth
Samuel Johnson
Gough Square
Sala
Goldsmith
Voltaire
Pope
Bolingbroke
Congreve
Ben Jonson
Edinburgh
Notable 18th Century Figures and Local Notes
The text mentions Oliver Goldsmith born November 10 1728 and died April 4 1774, supposedly living at 2 Brick Court Temple near Blackstone's Commentaries. It adds Jennie June and James D. Fish of the defunct Marine Bank working in the penitentiary shoe department, with solitary walking in transit.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Goldsmith
Brick Court Temple
Blackstone
Jennie June
James D. Fish
Marine Bank
Dave
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Jennie
Europe
the Duke of Westminster
Windsor Castle
Dr. Johnson’s
Dence
Marchioness of
Salisbury
Duchess of
Teck
Beatrice
Frogmore
Charlotte
Whippingham Church
Prince Henry of Battenberg
Cicerone
Hosborne
Balmoral
Model
Great Park
Victoria
Albert’’ Bridge
Eaton and Eaton School
Prince of Wales
Coleman
England
Cheshire
Temple Churchyard
INTE
Cherlintes
de Hwnsons
Hanna
Harris
Eeania
ST. Luis
Pruggiss
J. F. Smith & CO
St. Louise MO
Pyelz Bregeera
Bass Bros
Terrell
Texas
Sage
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