Foolish Luck in the Last Chance Mine saga in Rockies
Rivers of anecdote recount the fatal grip of luck and greed in 1860s mining camps. Relf, Gadsen, and White star in a stream of ventures near Idaho and Utah, where a fool's luck fanned fortunes and then vanished, leaving legends of Bowers White and the Last Chance as cautionary tales for the frontier.
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Rockies
Zhoss
Relf
Goose Creek
Idaho
Elf
Gadsen
Silver City
Col
James Fisher
Fisher
Gadeen
Col. Fisher
San Francisco
Gadaen
Tooduck
Missouri
Bowers & White
Sandy Bowers
Washo
Lorenzo D. White
Ganblad
John the Baptist
Bowers
White
Bank of California
Nevada
Serias Iosses
Maine
Marsedes
Rio Grande River
Colorado
Arge Maes
Simeone
Inteen River Valley
Utah
Nut People From Simple Household Materials
A bag of peanuts and common odds and ends become a playful craft. Using toothpicks as legs pins as arms and glue, make figures like the froggy who would a wooing go and other characters such as Little Red Riding Hood. With ingenuity, a boat from a large peanut and a parasol toy emerge, offering entertaining experiments for children.
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Quean
Good morning world and theatre notes mix in verse
A poem opens with a childlike greeting to world then shifts to a theater column noting Janauschek's farewell year and actors Jeffreys Lewis Land Agnes Booth and Nellie McHenry. It references Miss Lewis in La Belle Russe and Annie Pixley projects.
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Janauschek
Patti
Denk
Joseph Jefferson
Harry Land
Land
Agnes Booth
Jeffreys Lewis
New York
Eyburn
Lewis
Nellie McHenry
Annie Pixley
Bludbilder and Cole's Carboli salve advertised cure all skin diseases
An advertisement touts Bludbilder a vegetable head purifier and Cole's Carboli salve for skin and blood diseases. It claims Bludbilder cleanses blood renews vigor and treats scrofula erysipelas boils tumors and rheumatic conditions. Mentions dosage price one dollar and six for thirty five. Prepared by J W Cole Co Black River Falls Wis, sold by druggists.
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Cole
J. W. Cole & Co
Black River Walls
Wis
Madicina
Nerve Bean Co
Buffalo
Browning & Son
City Advertisements Notice in Indianapolis Street Opening
Public notice records that the City Clerk of Indianapolis Indiana announces proposed street improvements and related actions for city planning. The notice requests input or objections from residents and stakeholders by a specified deadline as part of official procedures.
Declaratory resolutions order city street improvements in Indianapolis
The Common Council and Board of Aldermen proceed to improve Fletcher avenue, South street, and Massachusetts avenue with asphalt pavement or brick, assessing costs per front foot on abutting properties, with portions charged to city or Citizens Street Railroad Company, payments in ten annual installments, and notices for public objections in Room 4 of the City Clerk’s office on specified dates.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
General Assembly
Cammon Council
Clifford Avenue
U., Lo
Citizens Street Railroad Company
State of
E. B. Swift
Bouard
Newman Street
Urnokside Avenue
Newnan Street
Clifford and
Brookside Avenues
General Assembly of
Finhiana
Fletcher Avenue
Citizens’ Street Railroad Company
Roun
Swift
Coty
Gqghy
Gryven
Goard
Fty
TPR
Common Council
Board of Adopmen
City of
Indianavalis
Vrelinus Avenue
Noble Street
Fife
State of Indiana
Wss
City Clark Co
BK. B. Swift
Neluce GY
Indianapoli
Tediana
Khoardot Aldermean
Common Co Board of Aldermen
Indisuiapolis
Ind
Michigan Street
White Liver Bridge
Lermont Avenue
Unchinapoliss
General Assembly of Indiana
KE B
Board of Aldermen
Wits
Common Council Ang Board of Aldermen
Massachusetts Avenue
Pennsylvania Street
Indana
Hols Hersb
Common Council and Board of Aldermen
Exposition Avenue
Fifteenth Street
Clark
Apri
Isso
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Notice of Proposed Street Improvement in Indianapolis
Official notice from the Indianapolis City Clerk proposing to improve Hi Inds street from Washington to New York by Mandard Trinidad Asphalt. Assessments based on linear front foot, with portions charged to Citizens' Street Railroad. Objections due by the 8th of May at Room 4, City Clerk's Office.
Consumers Gas Trust announces annual lighting rates
The Consumers Gas Trust Company sets 1890 rates for Welsbach incandescent lights across stores and homes, detailing per light charges and renewal quantities. It also invites applicants for gas service connections from April 10 to July 10, outlining stock subscriptions required for dwellings of six rooms or less and more than six rooms, plus the need to fund extended supply and new wells.
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G4s Trust Company
Bement Lyman
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