Calamity Jane the Fearless Frontier Woman to Peaceful Book Agent
A long profile traces Martha Canary known as Calamity Jane from government scout and pony express rider to hotel bouncer and frontier heroine. It contrasts legend with reality and notes her later life turning to literature after Deadwood's decline and a stint on the variety stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Canary
Jane
Custer
Nez Perce
Goose Creek
Gan
Indias
McCaul
Deadwood
Wild Birch
Miles City
Mont
el Paso
Calamity Jane Aims for Survival and Frontier Fame
A fragment notes Calamity Jane as Martha Jane Cannary Clinton born 1852 Princeton Virginia City era desperado who wrote a self made book to feed and clothe herself. It recounts her dealings with poverty violent towns and the Deadwood era lynching and frontier justice including her acts to save a captain and her vigilantism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hell
Mont
Shocely
Jane
Clinton
el Paso
Tex
Ivy
Martha
Pr'nceton
Virginia City
Gen
Crook
The Lacey Bird Bill Stirs National Wildlife Support
A communication from G O Shields of the League of American Sportsmen lauds the Lacey third bill passed by the Senate and House. It expands Agriculture Dept powers to propagate and restore game birds, bans misleading shipments, and restricts imports of wild animals, aiming to curb millinery and agricultural harm nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. O. Shields
League of American Sportsmen
Congress
Senate
House
Lacey
John IF. Lacey
Lowa
United States
Capitol
People's
Minnesota
Chicago
New York
Wisconsin
Michigan
Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Boston
Philadelphia
Lacey Bill Promises Huge Gain for Agricultural Interests
Discussion of the Lacey bill outlines new interstate and foreign game regulations. It details packaging and labeling rules, penalties, and police powers to enforce laws across states, urging farmers and nature friends to join the league at its New York office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
America
John F. Lacey
League
Prade
United States
West 24Th Street
His Handicapped Love and a Family Song
Poem fragment recounts a couple's transformation through a wife’s patient guidance and affection. It contrasts a once downtrodden man rising to noble bearing with a weary, aging wife bearing the burden, amid domestic scenes and references to Enid and the baby. The piece concludes with Robert Loveman in Lippincott's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enid
Robert Loveman
Lippincott’s
Hamlet originator of the cake walk claim shocks readers
In a late edition of the De tolt Free Press a remark from James Owen O'Connor at Shakespeare pub is noted. Snisington Smith delivered a remarkably fine paper claiming Hamlet originated the cake walk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snisington Smith
Shakespeare
Hamlet
Detolt Free Press
The Money and the Mourner Verse Fragment
A fragment notes the lamp burning as a slanderer clutches money and faces ruin. The lines imply a fall tied to wealth and moral failure along a quiet path.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Slamer
Premier Salisbury on Foreign Policy and Parliament Dissolution
London reports Salisbury may retire from foreign affairs while remaining premier as Parliament nears dissolution. Debate centers on an early election under a khaki platform and the Boer War outcome, with China policy and Newfoundland federation also regional issues. The piece notes Liberal and Unionist tensions and predicts no drastic policy shift.
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Associated Press
London
England
South Africa
Lord Salisbury
Spectator
Salisbury
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Kruger
Chamberlain
Roberts
China
Newfoundland
Canada
Highwaymen Rob Yosemite Stages Near Grub Gulch
Two bandits attacked Yosemite company stages two miles from Grub Gulch California taking about 400 from passengers including Prof Benjamin Wheeler of the University of California. They held up a private conveyance and two soldiers and escaped into the woods. The holdup happened yesterday in a thickly wooded area as stages approached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond
Calif
Yosemite Company
Grub Gulch
Benjamin the Wheeler
University of California
Blaisdell suit against U.S. claims dismissal
The United States Court of Claims dismissed the Blaisdell case, a major suit alleging $64,000,000 in bonds misappropriated from Charles Durkee’s heirs. It charged bonds from 1865 tied to Utah events and claimed funds were diverted with the government not accounting to Durkee or heirs. DOJ officials deny any legal basis for the claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States Court of Claims
Blaisdell
Charles Durkee
Kenosha
Wis
First Mort-Gage Pacific
Durkee
Utah
United States
Department of Justice
Wisconsin and Minnesota mills form General Paper Company
Appleton June 3 all the mills of Wisconsin and Minnesota producing print Manila and fibre paper have united in the General Paper Company of Wisconsin. The organization was perfected here yesterday with J. A. Kimberley of Neenah named president and N. H. Brokaw of Kaukauna named first vice president. George A. Whiting of Neenah also listed among officers.
Proops Called Out In St Louis Strike Settlement
In St Louis on June 3 a citizen's committee presented a settlement proposal to the Transit company and strikers. The plan urged restoring 1,000 old employees and at least 500 more within 40 days as vacancies arose. Union leaders rejected the offer, saying concessions promised by the company were not granted. The 1st Regiment National Guard was ordered to report this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Citizen's Committee
Transit Company
Gav
1St Regiment, National Guard
Johannesburg Accepted by British as Occupation Begins
Reports state Johannesburg was handed to British forces in an orderly transfer led by Roberts. Kraus arranged department staff to continue duties, with troops and naval brigade in town and orders to preserve order as Pretoria reportedly prepares to surrender and Kruger consolidates at Middleburg ahead of Machadodorp stand.
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Kruger
Middleburg
Burghers
Machadodorp
Pretoria
Johannesburg
Roberts
London
War Office
Kraus
Transvaal
Royal Field Artillery
Capetown
Argus
Delagoa Bay
Personalities and probate items from early times
Sarah Grand rejects the stepmother role while praising her bond with her stepson. The will of ex senator Nathaniel P Hill of Colorado is filed. widow and three children share the estate, each reportedly over 1 million dollars. London sculptor John Tweed completes a Cecil Rhodes statue model for Bulawayo. Reverend John Cameron Lowrie of Orange, New Jersey, a leading Presbyterian missionary worker, has died, born 1808 in Butler, Pennsylvania, after 60 years on the board of foreign missions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathaniel P. Hill
United States
Colorado
John Tweed
London
Cecil Rhodes
Bulawayo
John Cameron Lowrie
D. D
Baat Orange
N. J
Presbyterian Church
Butler
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
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Black Hills— Road
Pony Express
Captain Egan
Calamity Jane
Dakotas
Montana
Black Hills
John McCaul
Will Bill
Billi
Revie
Codey
Florida
Alabama
Louisiana
Maryland
New England
Agricultural Department
Nebraska
Shenandoah Valley
Virginia
Sam
Department of Agriculure
Land
James Owen O'Connor
Wheeler Held UP
Eastern Trust
Paper Milla Combine
Proops Called
Sarah Grand
Hoe
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