Mackey's Rise From Saloon to California Millionaire
Louisville readers learn of John W. Mackey, once a Main Street saloon keeper, rising to wealth after joining the California gold rush. The piece traces his early labor, mining profits with Flood and O'Brien, marriage to a New Orleans widow, and later philanthropy including an orphan asylum in Nevada City.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
John W. Mackey
California
Paris
Main Street
Twelfth Street
Twelfth and
Main
Mackey
Pacific Coast
Flood
O’brien
San Francisco
Virginia
Sutter Street
Sle
Mas. Hungleford
New Orleans
Nevada City
J0eed
O'Brien
Pair
Nevada Bank
Louis McClain
Baltimore
Catholic Church
Children of
Circuit Court OF the United States
Tinois
National Furnace Company
Maiine Malleable Iron Works
Chancery
Moline Maileable Iron Works
Moline
Rock Island
Pitts, Gilbert & Pitts
Female Detectives Questioned in Early 1900s Inquiry
New York Sun reports that some officials question the need for women in crime detection noting doubts about reliability and influence while acknowledging limited roles in society events. A detective manager mentions female attendants at receptions handling wraps and potential misplacements.
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York
Correcting a Poet
A humorous note from the Bismarck Tribune mocking an amateur poet who sent a verse about a trysting place and a kiss under cold pale stars. The piece jokes that better poetic lines would be preferred and playfully reworks the imagery to mock the submission.
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Bismarck Tribune
Minnesota
Daisy
Our Hopes Let Us Carry Them to the Grave
Fragmentary verse laments fading futures and waning destiny. The speaker urges bearing hopes like leaves on waves and hiding them away in graves, reflecting somber meditation on life’s disappointments.
International death questions echo across nations
A witty passage contrasts how different countries inquire after a death, from France asking age to England wondering about insurance. The quip underscores cultural preoccupations with money, work, and fate in varied societies.
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Nieuwe Amsterdamsche. Courant
France
Germany
America
Italy
Russia
Holland
England
His Beautiful Cane or the Crawling Snake Cane
A chilling Arkansas tale reports a man finding a bright cane during cold weather. He walked with it all day then at home the cane moved to the corner and disappeared under the house. The article reveals the cane concealed a frozen snake.
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Arkansaw Traveler
Arkansas
P T Barnum Wealth Revealed Listing Businesses and Holdings
The text notes P T Barnum as a stockholder in two sewing machine firms, owner of three novagatiers with two in Bridgeport, about four hundred houses plus numerous vacant lots and a cattle ranch, 1000 Denver lots, and a New York building yielding 65000 dollars in annual rent.
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P.T. Barnum
P. T. Barnum
Novagatiers
Bridgeport
Denver
New York
Paris wine judged pure in only sixty of six hundred bottles
Municipal laboratory analysis tested six hundred fifty bottles bought in Paris and found only sixty to be pure. Arkansaw Traveler remarks on a man who always prays, implying guilt in intent to do wrong, reflecting local dialect humor.
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Paris
Moline
Moline, Ills
Morris Rosenfitd
Charles A. Benser
William H Gest
Said Corporation
Giants and monsters in ancient and medieval lore
In a compendium of antiquarian notes several tall tales are recounted. Accounts describe bone coffins with oversized skeletons such as a nineteen foot chevalier and a twenty five foot Teuton king, plus reports of 800 foot tall giants and Polyphemus. Many stories are flagged as misidentifications or legendary exaggeration.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Pliny
Alexander the Great
William the Conqueror
Nm Dlear
Rouen
Lo Cat
Tuantobechus
The
Teutons
le Cat
Mazaeno
Sicily
Palermo
Ginnta
Polyphemus
Suthor
Farragus
Orlando
Charlemagne
Bucart
Vivans
Deri
Crussel
Lichard
St. Germain
HaLu’s Hair Renewer Restores Color and Scalp Health
HaLu's Hair Renewer claims to restore gray hair to its original color, whiten and clean the scalp, cure dandruff and hair loss, nourish the hair, and leave it moist and glossy. Endorsed by medical men and Massachusetts State Assayer, it is marketed as economical with long-lasting effects and sold by all dealers.
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Massachusetts
Hall
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Wisconsin
Iowa
Dakota
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Hood
Lhenanon
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C. I. Hoop & Co
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Express
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West Pawlet, VI
Shallscome
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J. W. Atkinson
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Forman
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Davenport
Lows
P. Brady
Browning & Entrikln, Attorneys
State OF Illinois
Williams, White & Co
Milan Paper Company
Thomas J. Robinson
Rockland National Bank
Moses Uinman
Sidney C. Moody
Judd N. Cobb
Horace White
James H. Rela
Art George He Mash
Jobo YU. Wilson
Lott
Lotta Whitridge
Peter Fries
Circuit Cou
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Ingald
Moncay
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Nanacd
Stillwell & Merce Mfg. Co
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Harson
Jock Island
Inols
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Comp
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Port Byron
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Lona, Mo
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CHASE
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St Paul
Minn
Lahde
Paalfle
H.R
Chicago To
T. Paul
Chicago & North- Western
St. Paul
Chicago and North Western
Browning & Entrikin Attorneys
Rock Island County
Isa
A. D. —Williams, White & Company
Molino Madeaple Iron Works
Charles Hemenway
Israel Cassel
E. B. McKeever
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Cassel & McKeever
Robert E. Jenkins
Sti Iuan
Geo H. Will
Stephen L. Wilder
Tron Works
Charles F. Hemenway
Robert E.kins
Circuit Court
Said
George H. Till
Sald Circuit Court
Lev F. Harson
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Oul Corporation
D.C
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Deere & Company
Deere
Defre & Crompany
John Deehe
Sturuvn of
Verin
P. O. Olson
Skinner Block
Poutter
Teun & Co
Augusta
Maine
Tutt’s
W. . Edwards
Palmyra
Murray Se
Cilico
Murray
Burset
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