Bill Hooper's legal lore in Deadwood courtroom saga
In a camp shaded by vigilantes and six shooters, Bill Hooper courts justice with a $100 fee gambit to defend a client in a makeshift court. The tale details a tense clash between law and frontier custom, ending with the prisoner freed and Hooper exposing courtroom farce.
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Bill Wooper
Bill
Gill
Kitn
Dill
Cheyenne
Sidney
Justice of the Peace
Hooper
Nop
Jim
Bill Hooper
Deadwood
Poison of the Centipede and Spider Fears
The piece notes centipedes carry venom only in the first paired claws with hollow poison bags, warns a large eleven inch specimen could kill a weak person, and contrasts tarantulas as less offensive though feared. It cites Chambers' Journal on bushmen reacting with fear to a small creature called a triantelope.
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Chambers’ Journal
Favorable Point Exchange on Polar Discovery
A playful exchange in the Chicago Negis imagines a boxier for the man who finds the north pole. The dialogue suggests the discoverer becomes a life saver, prompting the remark that explorers would stop venturing if such a figure existed.
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North Pole
Chicago
Negis
Across the Ocean Letter from a Missionary to Africa
Miss Marie Stephens of Cherryhill Township, now in Kunso West Africa as a missionary, writes of her Atlantic voyage to Liverpool during Christmas 1901. She describes seasickness, shipboard companionship with nine missionaries bound for Free Town, Queenstown and Liverpool views, English streetcars, a low-cost organ recital, Jan Mace Jaren preaching in the city, and visits to the Blue Coat Orphanage and Medical Mission where street children are fed. She notes cheaper woolens in Liverpool and the need to learn English money and customs. The letter previews further dispatches from the mission field.
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Marie Stephens
Cherryhill Township
Kunso
West Africa
Miss Stephens
Atlantic Ocean
Liverpool
Rouse
W. AF
Sierra Leone
New York
Freetown
Queenstown
Americas
St. George’s Hall
Jan Mace Jaren
Bonnie Brier Bush
Blue Coat
Jmen
England
Maziz Stephene
Pittsburg Times Highlights Six Day Week Model Paper
A Reliable Daily Paper with no Sunday edition, the Pittsburg Times prides itself on accuracy and brevity. It aims to mirror the world with special correspondents, robust church coverage, a keen sports page, and a well edited women’s section, all for six cents six days a week.
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Pittsburg Times
the Times
Politica
Times
Pittsburg
The
Teachers Institute Sessions at Parkwood Creekside Cherrytree
A condensed program lists two days of institute sessions at Parkwood Schoolhouse and at Creekside and Cherry Tree churches. Friday February 14 and Saturday February 15 feature addresses, debates, recitations, and topics on The Successful Teacher and The Social Standing of the Teacher along with child study orthography and citizenship. Debates oppose natural vs acquired ability and centralization of school aims. The program includes morning and afternoon sessions with named speakers, music, and discussions led by local educators and clergy.
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Parkwood
Creekside
Cherrytres
K E. Harbicon
Geneva Johnston
J. R. Forsythe
Hallie Nichol
Armstrong Town
D. W. Anderson
Thomas Anderson
Deny
D. W. Davis
N. M. Bothell
J.C. White
Minnie Carnahan
Mantle Couch
R. E. Russell
Alma Calhoun
J. M. Robinson
Vernie M. Johnston
H.kerr
Bessie Craig
ER. E. Harbison
William Johnston
Clarence Swan
Rev
Wilson
Mies Trazal
Dr. Bryson
Miss Miller
Clarence Groft
M. Ida Miller
W. L. Johnston
Miss Fairman
Mr. Fleming
Rev. Schmucker
Phonograph
Cherrytree
Presbyterian Church
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George F. Canis
Harper’s
South America
Baron Munchausen
Africa
Berkey
Porter Kinport
Freda Brilhart
H. E. Anderson
Sarah Nugent
Foster Williams
W. T. Manffey
Duct
Helen McKeage
Fisy Smith
J. T. Stewart
8. L. Barr
H. D. Condron
Dr. Cameron
C. A. Campbell
J. H. Peterman
Prideaux
E. E. Brilhart
S. K. Rank
Porter Rinport
Misses Moore
J. M. Rowles
J. B. Williams
H. E. Smead
Bad Boy
Barr
J. M. Campbell
Campbell
Fossestons
He, Anderson
Emma Braughter
Birde Duck
Gibson
Stewart
H. Kleber & Bro
Fifth Avenue
KNABE
Henry F. Miller
Straube & Crown
OPERA
Gilmore
Burdett
Apollo
Washburn
Duquesne
Virgil
Sapolio
Penn Run
G. E. Frantz
Pennsylvanea
S.de
Indiana County
Pioneer Insurance Agency
Farmers
York
Ben Franklin
Allegheny
Insurance Company of North America
Philadelphia
Hartford
Conn
Phenix
London
Ina
New Hampshire
Manchester
N. H
Royal Insurance Company
Eng
Fire Association
Continental
Connecticut
Delaware
Home
Deposit Bank B’ld’g
Indiana, PA
McFarland Dé Turner
I. McFarland, Smith & MacCartney
A. L. Smith
Clymer Manufacturing CO
Philadelphia St
Vogel Bros
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