Rattlesnake Pete and the Bad Lands Escape
An old plainsman recalls a perilous chase by Indians in the Bad Lands. Ben Baker and I hid in a cave as rattlesnakes swarmed around. After bluffing through danger and trading beads, we fled to Chadron, with Baker emerging white as snow and I nicknamed Rattlesnake Pete.
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Judge Baker
Supreme Bench of
New Mexico
Hill” Liddiard
Omaha
Ben
Chadron
Baker
Indiana
Jordan
Rat Theonake Pate Baker
Egypt
Babylon
Bill
Bear Eagle
Rattlesnake Pete
Madame Patti in Albert Hall Concert Delight
Patti, aged 67, sang at Albert Hall London to a crowded house. She appeared ageless and in fine voice, though songs are now in lower keys. It marked over forty years since her Covent Garden debut and critics hailed her Faust jewel song as near perfect.
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Mme Patt
Adeling Patti
Albert Hall
London
Covent Garden Theater
Marguerite
Mario
Hogarth House purchaser linked to famed Shipway case
Lieutenant Colonel Shipley of Grove House Chiswick buys Hogarth House and vows to preserve it as a parish landmark. He became a victim in the Shipway Pedigree Case, where a swindler he hired to prove an old coat of arms misled him, taking substantial sums before exposure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hogarth
Shipley
Grove House
Chiswick
Shipway
London Chronicle
To Stamp Out Smallpox in Ontario Lumber Camps
Health authorities in Ontario move to keep smallpox from lumber camps where outbreaks ravage isolated workers. Forty two camps arrange medical attendants and build isolation facilities as the disease spreads across the province and other Canadian regions.
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Ontario
Onatrio
Lydia E Pinkham Remedy Promoted By Chicago Woman
A Chicago woman publicizes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for ovarian troubles avoiding surgery. She cites eight years of pain and hundreds spent on operations, credits the remedy with restoring health after five months and urges others to try it first. The piece includes promotional claims and a long list of related symptoms and ailments.
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L. A. Harris
Chicago
Lydia
East List St
Ill
Pinkham
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