Buried Box of Gold On Arroyo Seco
A legend tells how Spanish Don Tiburcio hid two iron bound boxes of doubloons along the Arroyo Seco and marked a cross to reveal the spot. After his death his son Ramon searches vainly, finding only three dropped coins and no treasure, while rumors claim $500000 awaits discovery.
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Sonora
Cal
Don Tiburcio
Mother Earth
Arroyo Seco
Don Turbido
Ramon
Cucamongo
San Jose
Rascal Castro
Hell Gate Explosions Explained by General Newton
General Newton clarifies Hell Gate underwater blasting methods in New York harbor. Charges will be small, under three inches diameter, and split into fractions fired with micro intervals to avoid earth wave effects. Explosions will not occur on the Fourth of July but late July or August.
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Hell Gate
New York Harbor
Newton
Bayer
Bear hunter in Tejon Mountains outwits grizzly
The Southern Californian tells of Walter, a famed bear hunting sailor, who, snowbound in Tejon Mountains for two weeks with little to eat, shot a deer and strapped quarter to his back. A grizzly loomed as he climbed a tree, the bear charged, and the hunter narrowly escaped. He still fears sleep after the close encounter.
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Walter
Tejon Mountains
Anecdote of Major Andre from a Monticello memory
In centennial year a Monticello resident recalls an incident near Kipp's Point in New York City involving Major Andre and Polly Kipp. The tale describes Andre's friendly visit, a jesting farewell, Polly's half playfully cursed reply Oh you be hanged and Polly's later regret when learning of Andre's fate.
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Monticello
Jones County
Iowa
New York
Twenty-eighth Street
Kipp
Jacobus Kipp
Irving
Major Andre
Polly Kipp
West Point
Goodby
Polly
Andre
Harper’s Magazine
George Eliot a Living Master of Letters
The renowned novelist George Eliot born Marian Evan in 1820 in the north of England is wife to George H. Lewes. Her career began at 18 with anonymous sketches and grew through Silas Marner Adam Bede The Mill on the Floss Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. She and Lewes live near Regent's Park and enjoy a comfortable quiet life together.
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George Eliot
England
Marian C. Evan
George H. Lewes
Oxford
Scanes
Silas Marner
Adam Bede
Baniel Deronda
Regent’s Park
Train baggage receipt leads to $315 beyond loss claim
Philip A. Madan arrived by the New York and New Haven line and received a receipt from the New Transfer Company limiting baggage liability to $100. He stored it without reading. The baggage was stolen and the jury awarded $415 after Judge Sedgwick instructed them to decide if the paper showed a contract. Also noted: four thousand cattle died in Utah due to deep snow and lack of grazing.
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Philip A. Madan
New York and
New Haven
New Transfer Company
Mr. Madan
Sedgwick
Utah
Panowe
Grase
Pouring Tea and the Art of Tea Service
The housekeeper notes there is more to pouring tea and coffee than appears. Properly served, cups vary in strength from first to last, and the elder should receive the stronger cup while strangers get the weaker. In England a skilled pourer waits for all cups to return before refilling so all may share alike.
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Ngland
Roy O T Walker
D. D
Bowdoin Square Church
Providence
R.J
Walker
Rei
Trangit Street
H.R. Stevesa
Bowdoin Sq
Boston
Snowbound Mount Hamilton road promises sleighing lure
The Mount Hamilton road terminus has seen frequent snow depths up to two feet this winter. When finished the upper stretch through pine regions would offer prime sleighing after snow storms, evoking a New England sleigh ride in a Santa Clara setting.
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San Jose
Cal
Mercury
Mount Hamilton
Samount
New England
Laughing Driver Steals Wallet at Providence Railroad
On April 1 at the Providence Railroad station in Boston a wallet lay on the curb as six coachmen watched. A driver grabbed it, kept it, and opened it to count over $20 in bank notes plus change and car tickets, then laughed while his companions reacted.
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Providence
Boston
Cleaning Floors with Oranges From St Nicholas May
The piece notes Jamaica uses scrubbing brushes from oranges to clean floors, with servants scrubbing a polished wood surface using halved sour oranges. It also touts Juniper Tar Soap by Caswell Hazcard & Co. as a superior skin remedy and mentions a dealer’s quip about moving wood to a cellar.
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St. Nicholas
Jamaica
Afr
Gosse
The Successful Physician from the St Louis Globe
A tribute to Dr R V Pierce of Buffalo praising honest skill and patient care. The piece lauds specialization and his Common Sense Medical Adviser as a valued reader resource, noting his business integrity, fair fees, and large staff.
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R.V. Pierce
Buffalo
Pierce A
Pierce
Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup Promoted for Lung Health
Dr J H Schenck of Philadelphia touts Pulmonic Syrup Mandrake Pills and Sea Weed Tonic as remedies for pulmonary diseases. He claims the trio cleanses the stomach and liver, ripens lung morbid matter for easy expectoration, and helps the lungs heal with protection against fresh cold. Office visits offered Mondays at 814th and Arch Streets. Medicines sold nationwide.
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Schenck
J. H. Schenck
Philadelphia
Enck
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