Peg-Leg Billy and the Ranch That Became a Boom Town
A New Mexico cor ing story recounts Peg-Leg Billy from Montana who finds his ranch transformed into a thriving city overnight. Banks, hotels, papers, theater, and saloons occupy the former homestead as settlers rush in, leaving Billy to pay a hefty pound for trespass and lose over a thousand drinks in one swoop.
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Socorro County
States
Peg-leg Billy
Montana
Billy
First National Bank
City
Ripsnorter
Alhambra
Maverick
New Mexico
New York Tribune
Hydrophobia remedy bill in New York history sparks controversy
The 1806 New York Legislature approved a bill rewarding John M. Cronn with 1000 dollars for publicizing a supposed hydrophobia cure. Senate members including De Witt Clinton and Joseph C. Yates backed it, while the House añad amendments that were later dropped by a 65 to 20 vote. Governor Morgan and legal authorities backed the measure, though the bond to reclaim funds if the remedy failed remains unfound. The remedy prescribed odd ingredients and exposed the era’s credulity in upstate New York where a Hessian deserter prospered from public gullibility.
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New York
Greene County
John M. Cronn
Senate
de Witt Clinton
Joseph C. Yates
Ezra L'Hommedieu
House
Council of Revision
Lewis Morgan
John Lansing, Jr
Ambrose Spencer
Daniel D. Tompkins
James Kent
Crous
George I
IL Cons
Athens
Buffalo Courier
A Noble Husband and Wife Take Luncheon on Steps
A man and his presumably married partner sat on the Mechanics' block steps amid their bundles at noon, sharing a simple luncheon. The man laid a handkerchief as a surface and began eating bread, meat, two bananas, and two onions, while the wife did not assist or partake as the scene unfolded.
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Wan
Property for sale in Lawrence Kansas farms and homes offered
A Kansas real estate note advertises Douglas and adjoining counties farms and Lawrence city homes. It highlights a 10 room brick house with 100 ft frontage, near the University, streetcars, water, barn, shade trees, and low down payment. Also lists multiple 5 to 7 room houses with terms, corner plots, and an inexhaustible water supply. Also promotes farms from one acre to thousand acres, with terms and incentives for city and rural buyers. Contact Hundley in Douglas County.
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Kansas
Douglas
Lawrence
Territory
Oklahoma
Douglas County
United States
Hundley
Dougies County Beak
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