Butler Joins Prize Fight Incognito at Manchester Pond
Gen Butler attended a Boston prize bout arranged near a Manchester New Hampshire pond. Disguised in a corduroy suit with a fishing rod he mingled with reporters as a spectator while Charles G supervised the bout. After the match Butler praised the entertainment and left.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen. Butler
Washington Capital
Massachusetts
Charles G
Butler
Boston
Levitt and
Finnegan
Charley
Manchester
N. H
Journalism and Authorship in the Press
Edmund C. Stedman reflects on New York journalism's demanding pace and the strain on writers who must produce regular leading articles. He notes the weekly stipend as a stabilizing factor, the clash between authorship and daily press demands, and the jealousies and rivalries journalists face in major capitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmund C. Stedman
Scribner's Monthly
New York
Hood
London
England
France
Kit Carson's Indian Wife Dies After Heroic Journey
Devotion to her brave miner husband drives an Indian wife to travel hundreds of miles on a mustang to reach him. She reaches him weakened by exposure and pneumonia, dies in his arms. The shock contributes to Kit Carson's death from a broken blood vessel. they are buried together.
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Kit Carson
West
San Diego
Cal
The Society Young Man and Entry to London Society
A London Society column notes that a young man with no notoriety can enter society through talents like singing, private theatricals, music, or entertainments. Social access is treated as a commercial exchange where noble status or wealth earns welcome, while non-elite entrants offer professional talents in return.
Child at Murder Scene Draws Cries From Mother's Body
Police found a three year old girl clinging to her dead mother and smeared with blood near Cannon's barn in Carson City. A one year old lay nearby in a willow basket as investigators described a brutal killing attributed to a squaw hiding in Slater's hay yard. Two squaws were jailed, others arrested and later released. a buck was taken near Cannon's drunk, with Indians claiming they bought the whiskey from Cannon.
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Slater
Cannon
A Lawyer's Opinion Joke and Life Table Curiosities
A farmer seeks an opinion from Roger Sherman and pays four and sixpence for a written note he cannot read. The tale mocks legal puff and notes a London life expectancy table used by assurance firms. It laments overwear and cleanliness obsessed women, contrasting domestic anxieties with quiet humor.
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OOS Toy
Excelsior Man ‘Ky
ST. Louis
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Nate Bear
Sth St
St. Louk
M ' Reet
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lynn, Mass
Pinkhar
Lydia
PAOD
Pinkham
Western Avenue
Lynn Mote
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Twombs Kitt Machine Co
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the Society
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Corrad Cook
West Side
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Everghreen
John Wilson
Phills
Albaugh
Hathaway Block
Phillip Albaugh
Hostetter
Biggers
G. W. Bence
Green Castle
Nothing
Mulhern
Evans & DE Vore
Physicians and Surgeons
Taylor’s
Lyie
Donnahue & Lewis
Landes Drug Store
Washington Greencastle
Ind
Hems & Newer
Landes’ Drug Store
Ton Street
Miller Moo
Law
de Ind
T. T. Moore
Bayne
James
Smiley Attorins
Public Square
Eher
Saselsa Af
Willis G, Neer
Neff
Albin’s Black
South Side
Newcastle
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Milton Jay
Bennett Medical College
J. D. Tuthill
Magnesia
Lillie Conners
Indianapolis
Henry Suutherland
Lillie
Southerland
Carson
Roger Sherman
John
Iasin
Polly
Longstter
Pazar
Ote
Himelf
Fife Assurance
London Westrrance
Ague Cure
Serge Izzi Apex
Dr. J
Ayer & Co
Lowell
Mass
J.N. Tabler
Jay Bronson
Detroit
Mich Garpenter
Tgenta
En Orn County
EE. Roth & Bero
PMNS
Sprer
Oporto
P. J
SPEER
Alfred Speer
Passaic
N. J
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