Frontier Day Held in Cheyenne Planned for August
Cheyenne Wyoming reports the sixteenth Frontier Days celebration set for August 14 to 17. Officials expect attendance to exceed prior years with high profile guests once, including past visitors Taft and Roosevelt, and a lineup of wild west events like wild horse races broncho busting steer roping and relay races featuring top riders and ropers.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Taft
Roosevelt
Col
Opium Smuggling Foiled by San Francisco Inspectors
In San Francisco an opium seizure of a $5,000 consignment aboard the Pacific mail liner Korea ended with gunfire as officers halted smugglers Charles May and Otto Lengfeld. May escaped but Lengfeld was wounded, and opium was recovered from a boat and water beside the vessel. Authorities plan to press ship officers for cooperation while pursuing charges against Captain Henry Zeeder.
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Cal
Pacific Mail
Korea
Charles May
Otto Lengfeld
Lengfeld
May
Enlow
Hoad
Enlon
United States
McNab
Pacific Mail Company
Henry Zeeder
Brown
Zeeder
Colorado Baptist Church Members Reach Nearly Fifteen Thousand
The American Baptist Year Book reports Colorado has seven associations, 132 churches and 118 ordained ministers. Last year 831 baptisms occurred and 120 members died. Total membership is 14 885 with 103 Sunday schools and 1 206 officers and teachers. Sunday school scholars number 11 665. The state has 79 meeting houses and Baptist church property valued at 834 057 dollars.
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Colorado
Thte
Seized With Cramps and Drowned
Colorado Springs youth Lewis Snyder aged 17 drowned while swimming in Prospect Lake in view of four companions and about twenty onlookers. The body was recovered an hour later from twenty feet of water and Coroner Jackson will investigate. He is the son of Mr and Mrs W H Snyder.
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Colorado Springs
Prospect Lake
Lewis Snyder
Jackson
Young Snyder
W. H. Snyder
Dry states intercept liquor shipments under new bill
The senate judiciary committee authorized a favorable report on a bill giving dry states power to intercept shipments of liquor bound for wet areas. The measure, merging the Kenyon and Sanders proposals, would bar shipments where any party intends to violate a state law and revise the Wilson act to base commerce on the arriving state's laws before delivery to the consignee. Some committee members doubt constitutionality.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Cummins
Kenyon
Sanders
Supreme Court
Consignee
Silk Hats Adorn Mourning Chinese At Coast Funeral
San Francisco on July 23 reports Chinese mourners turned out in silk hats and frock coats for the funeral of Wong Lew Ching, a wealthy merchant. Automobiles led the procession, a band of forty Chinese played Chopin's funeral march on modern brass, and no roasted pig accompanied the rite.
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San Francisco
Wong Lew Ching
Styx
Midshipman Killed on Hartford Mast in Annapolis
William L. Bullock of Corsicana Texas a Hartford warship midshipman fell from the mainmast to the deck. His neck was broken and he died instantly after attempting the mast climb and cap transfix on the top spoke. Strong tradition led to the perilous stunt.
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Annapolis
William L. Bullock
Corsicana
Texas
Naval Academy
Hartford
Bullock
Cash Offering At Zion City Barrel Procession
In Zion City Illinois a flour barrel draped with flags stood before the tabernacle altar for the annual Christian Catholic Apostolic church offering. General Overseer Voliva led 5000 members who formed in line and dropped in paper money and silver, totaling 7500 dollars.
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Zion City
Zion City Tabernacle
Christian Catholic Apostolic Church
Voliva
Americans Guard Homes From Rebels
In El Paso on July 23 reports describe rebels attempting to disarm Americans and searches of homes in Madera Chihuahua triggering a clash between 500 federals and rebel forces under Gen Campos. Rioting has continued since Saturday, prompting American families to be moved to the border by special train as Madera serves as a rebel staging point toward Sonora.
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Texas
Madera
Chihuahua
Campos
Madera Company
Sonora
Pearson Company
Reno troupe thrills crowd at Air dome with feats and film
The Reno troupe of athletes and equilibrists performed at the Air dome to a large audience last night. Ben Beno wowed with slack wire feats while the three sisters sang and danced and the four Benos closed with an aerial act that drew loud applause.
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Airdome
Ben Beno
Four Benos
New York Office Boy Irritates Chicago Expat Gerald Jones
Gerald Jones, a Chicago native, visits New York and complains about the office boy system. A tiny clerk at the mahogany rail forces him to present a full card and history before seeing P Norval Smith. Jones prints new cards bearing boxing-world names to bypass the boy and stays satisfied with his workaround.
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New York
Cincinnati Times-Star
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Jerry Jones
Jim Jeffries
James J. Corbett
Packey McFarland
Cut Throat Jenkins
Gulch
Bloody Hand Ben
Sierras
Tom Sharkey
Worthy of Great Monarch The King of Sardinia Helps Duke
King Charles Albert of Sardinia supports a wounded Dutch ally by asking the Duke of F to select horses in Bohemia for a Prague journey. The king offers to cover expenses since the trip serves his royal service, allowing the duke to visit the royal family without personal financial strain.
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Charles Albert
Turin
Prague
Bohemia
Fresh air and willpower calm nerves urges advice
The piece urges quick self control when nerves threaten to derail work, recommending stepping outdoors if possible or leaning from a window to reset. Sleep with open windows is advised for two nerve benefits, while raw vegetables and olive oil are suggested as nerve foods, but the chief remedy remains strong will and obedience of the body to the mind.
Balloon Carnival Highlights Pike's Peak Event in Colorado
Colorado Springs plans include a balloon race from Pike's Peak summit and a large auto parade with more than 1,000 drivers from across the United States. A masquerade ball will cap the festivities with a street long dance and Midland music.
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Colorado Springs
Pike's Peak
Midland
Ants Love Green Bugs in Garden Drama
City Forester W F Gale cites evidence on ants and green bugs attacking pea vines. He notes armies of green bugs are followed by black ants that tap and take the juice, returning for more until the bugs abandon the plants. The observation comes from a Springfield letter to the World.
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W. F. Gale
Forester
Gale
Springfield
Mass
The
New York World
Mammoth Skeleton Found in Pas de Calais France
Harper's Weekly describes a mammoth skeleton unearthed in Pas de Calais measuring 4914 feet in length with a well preserved head and Siberian type molars, suggesting an ice age France. A Danube banquet sketch recalls prehistoric food: cabbage soup, horse ham, roast pork with millet, turnips, dried pears and honey.
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Pas de Calais
France
Danube
Harper’s Weekly
Exaggerated Expectations in Card Game Banter
Bronco Bok frets that Piute Pete's view of gaming is off. Pete insists a hand with fewer than three aces means the deal was unfair, revealing warped thinking about the game.
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Bronco Bok
Pete
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