21 Oct 1869
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Newspaper
Lancaster Gazette
Location
Lancaster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1869
Page
1
Window shades and fixtures advertised with a wide range of patterns and varieties. The notice highlights curtain aisles, linen shades, and parlor options while touting modern textures and improved materials.
A garbled OCR note references fashion, violet, and French terms in a fragmentary fashion. The readable parts mention fashion items or labels but lack coherent event, place, or person details for a full news-card summary.
A Wind River correspondent describes a bear encounter near camp. Private Eugen Lambert shot the bear, saved a nearby soldier with grave injuries from its attack, and Lambert was badly wounded but survived. The unit treated his scalp and facial injuries and prepared to continue.
A detail-rich diary entry chronicles a day near Smoky Hill Fort with Army and civilian observers. Cavalry, wagons, and ambulances move to the plains as Gene’s Legion, Lords Berkeley Paget and Henry Watirk, and scouts push into a buffalo herd. The hunt ends with dramatic scenes of buffalo driven, shot, and a rattlesnake captured by a scout, amid vivid prairie scenery and camp life.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions pens and slates, varietals and prices with uncertain names and garbled phrases. No coherent event or clear entities emerge to summarize beyond equipment and varieties.
A fragmented item notes mercantile hours in the county and mentions Gold Pens Hill with unclear context. The readable fragment references a generic mercantile house and its posted hours within the area.
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