In Search of Glory and the Cowboy Myth
Eastern youths write to Western men seeking cowboy work while idealizing frontier life. The letters to Pony Bill Davis reveal romantic yet crude notions of Indians, range life, and a desire for adventure, contrasted with harsher realities faced by aspiring countrymen. Also recounted is Beecher’s rare silk hat moment, when he wore a cardigan and led children in a street scene before catching a ferry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yime Newsl
Cowboy Association
Denver
Col
Denver Range Journal
Texas
al Paso
San Antino
Plains
Bill’ Davis
Janes G. Higgins
Daredevil
Jim
Chicago
Pony
Sam
Po Howard
Bill McFadden
Philadelphia
Bill
Pru Leach
Booneville
N. B
Phil Leach
Kentucky
Buying Dry Goods and the Art of Dress
A Victorian era guide on household budgeting and dress, emphasizing economy, taste, and practicality. It advises choosing black as a versatile base, selecting quality materials, and tailoring by skilled hands, with cautions against wasteful spending and overtrending. The piece laments shopping mania and stresses prudent garment repair and careful purchases by households, especially for women and children.
Large French Families and State Education Credits
The article notes a historic French law allowing one son per family of five children to be educated at state expense, with more seven-child families than expected. The Minister of Public Instruction granted 304 awards from a 1,000,000 franc credit, and next year a potential 10,000,000 franc credit may be requested. Debates split along Conservative and Radical lines over credit distribution versus educational privilege and extension to six-child families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
N.F. Post
Echoes of Shipwrecks on the Barnegat Shore
A brisk reminiscence tour along Barnegat and Beach Haven recounts wrecks and grisly memories. Immigrant losses, the steamer Reindeer, and the White Wings haunt the coast while locals share harrowing nights, burials, and ghostly shipboard tales from Norfolk to Chester. A Stanley anecdote closes this vivid coastal reminiscence.
Oddities at Riverside Street Music Hearings
An organ grinder drew a crowd at Riverside where the hat yielded odd contributions including two nickels a tracker piece a bottle fragment and miscellaneous tokens. A garbled note mentions a marriage broker ad seeking a ready-made bride with foreign knowledge and help, while a widow’s dowry is said to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside
Orgat-Grinvers
Industrial World Briefs Reflect 19th Century Industry
The Industrial World notes eighteen million pairs of boots and shoes are produced yearly in prisons, while the Connecticut river powers 2,298 mills with 118,026 horsepower. Three new cigar factories planned at Key West will employ about one thousand workers. A St. Louis popcorn dealer prepares to ship five thousand bushels of corn to England. Claims emerge of the Mannlicher rifle’s high rate of fire for the Austrian army. Pittsburgh firms buy land for workers’ homes on easy terms. Britain’s farmholding data show 555,855 people with non-agricultural holdings in the country, most under acres, plus Silk industry growth in New Jersey with Paterson silk mill plans and capital increases. Pine tar oil production expands in the South. A Hudson River shop uses a water-cooled forty-eight inch circular saw to cut railroad rails, enabling quick stock processing. Andrew Carnegie plans a million-dollar castle on the Alleghenies near Cresston Springs, built with uncarved, unweathered stone and moss preserved.
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Connecticut
Key West
St. Louis
England
Pittsburgh
Burgh Chronicle
Great Britain
New Jersey
Paterson
Herald
South
Hudson River
Albany Journal
Andrew Carnegie
Allehenies
Cresson Springs
Castle
Walla
Carnegie
Péllsburgh Post
Fragmented Comic Snippets From Old Newspapers
A collage of humorous quotes and misread lines from various papers. The Lake Huron remark and scattered jokes reveal a mosaic of era wit, from pun-laden exchanges to misheard conversations and stage banter across papers like the New Orleans Picayune and New York Sun.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Major Pond
Beecher
Mr. Beecher
New York Tribune
Mrs. Beecher
Umea
Benny
Tha Bost
Smith
Frances C. Mizter
M. Quad
Detroit
Buffalo
St Srprise
Afurre
Sttl
Chester
Petrel
Stanley
Liverpool
Mr. Stanley
Branlv
Steampacket
Dover
Broain Patot Ino
Ted
Industrial World
Lake Huron
New Orleans Picayune
Lowell Courier
Holland
Charles Mathews
John
N. Y. Sun
Harold
Roe Harold
Commission
Selig’s Insurance Building
I.N. Vanhoesen
Whitcomb
Well Say
Paris
Iowa
New York
Burbanks
Michigan
Ohio
Rattan Goods
National Bank
Hill
Mendenhall
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Sabeston
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