Ancient Trees Hidden Beneath Nevada Coal Shaft
Read as a single paragraph from the Virginia City coal company shaft report: a four foot diam fossilized tree trunk carbonized to coal lies deep underground with iron pyrites, suggesting a once forested region long before current valleys. Nearby petrified trunks and surface remains hint at ancient megaforest drifting from Sierra Nevada foothills during extinct lake periods.
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Virginia City
Nevada
Natin
Virgiinia City Coal Company
el Dorado Canon
Lyon Unity
Washoe
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Where Boys Marble Games From The Marble Mountain
A fragment describes a Austrian marble mountain near Salzburg with blocks carved into palaces and small pieces made into marbles for children. Water mills make the rough pieces into smooth rounds, then children use them for games, a vivid early lesson in marble production. The piece shifts to political notes about New York unions and Louisiana scandals, with anecdotes of forgery and tax assessors’ value gaps, as Illinois face similar issues.
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Chicago Tribune
Esmiareh
Kiel
March’s
Salzburg
Austria
New York City
New York
New Jersey
United States
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Gans
San Domingo
Costa#t Rica
F. W. Hayden
Colorado
Justice Daily
American Geographical Society
A. Winter
Hamilton
Cheap Cash Store
Adam Snyder
Marx Street
West Hamilton
Bill Heads
Greatley
Levy & Son
Basin Streets
Hamilton, O
Fred
Jacob Maas
Merchant Tailors
Third St
J.B. Brown, M. D
Front Street
First Ward
Butler
Kees
Main Street
Ohio
A.P. Richardson
Opera House
Alleghanies
Hort Axp Corp Balls
J. H. Long
Miami Valley
H. Beardsley
Wascsactt
Ersar
Examiner
Phillips
Tre Philips
A, A
Pritts
Ooodt& Clothing
W. Prechtling
Wike Goons
Cottonades
ALA
GE Stock OF
China
Glass and Queensware
H&w. Frechtlige CO
Pols
Louisiana
Mansfield
H. Lee
W.S. Custer
Kellege
Bunnell
Custer
Ler
Shreveport
Agai
Wisavis
Derickson
State Board of Equalization
Illinois
Pyros In, CA
Peter Utz &Co
Hasietacer Aed
Basin Hamilton
Neatty Cox
Chas E. Durst
OPP
THE
Straus House
Hamilton, Ohio
Herbank Broa
Splendid Spectag
Ise
Caali
EFO
Ify
Patent Agency
C. M. Peck
HL. P. Peck
Eckert Proce
Hawl
Tor
OBIO
Wa. Hupen
N.W
P. H. Gilbert & Co
Undertakers
North Side High Street
Third and Railroad
Jino.l.walker
Geo. H. Phillips
Walker & Phillips
N. E. Cor
Hamilton, Onio
Charles Richter
Second St
Bet
Mamilton, Ohio
Joseph Long
B.H. Holbrook
Namilton, O
Aiuliad
B. H. Wellinghoff & CO
Bullpine Stone
Cor
High St., and C
MH. & D. Railroad
M. A. Tron
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