Elena and Jose share love under Uintah mountains at Acorn outfit
A shearing day in June ends with Jose claiming Elena and joy among Mexican workers. The narrator, homesick, joins a guitar filled camp near the corrals and vows to record Jose's ninety eight sheep as 108 for Elena. Night ends with Elena singing Home Sweet Home in Mexican.
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Acorn
Uintah Mountains
Wyoming
Joses
Jose
Secon
Butte
Elena
Formook
Furkhalter & Sullivan
Mr. Fornerook
Opee
Grebk
Elora
Mexico
Echoes of a Canyon Death and a Mexican Burial
A narrative recalls Elena’s death from a scorpion in the Uni tahs canyons and Jose’s grief as he lays Elena to rest in a lonely corral beside the Unitah mountains. The piece blends mining camp scenes with reflections on love, loss, and memory from a Philadelphia Inquirer excerpt.
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Unitah
Littl
Jose
Elena
Mercur Utah Emerges as New Gold Camp Center
Mercur Utah once Lewiston now grows as a gold mining hub in Camp Floyd district. The town, four hours by rail from Salt Lake City, hosts 135 families and reports gold ore with virtually no silver, claiming several ore bodies spaced five to six miles apart.
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Ophir Creek
Detroit Free Press
Mercur
Lewiston
Salt Lake City
Utah
Camp Floyd
Aversion to Women Explored in Westminster Gazette
A Westminster Gazette writer lists reasons for anti female sentiment, accusing women of parasol wounds, crowding trains, blocking omnibuses, annoying conductors, misplacing items, noise with music and poetry, and chasing fashion. The piece frames women as disruptive and inconsistent in manners and taste.
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Westminster Gazette
Women with astonishing feats attract big crowds
Dora questions sensational claims about women with magical strength as David recalls a tiny woman in Fort Worth who supposedly raised crowds with a simple finger gesture and a pink nail while onlookers gaped.
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Dora
David
Vie
Five Children Cited in Daring Cash Scheme
A fragmentary exchange shows a plan to target a family with a dubious treasure claim. The dialogue reveals a mother and daughter discussing limits and a possible deadline to resolve the scheme before proceeding.
Dr Kline Offers Trial Bottle For Fitz in Philadelphia
An advertisement promotes Dr. Kline’s Great nerve Restorer claiming relief for fits and offering a free trial bottle with a $2 trial to Fit cases. The notice directs readers to send to Dr. Kline at 31 Arch St Philadelphia Pa. The copy also notes superstition about cats as a cultural aside.
Are Abbreviations Proper in Reference to Language or Costume
An old columnist questions whether abbreviations refer to language or clothing and notes the distinction with a humorous example. The piece then shifts to a medical advertisement claiming Hall's Catarrh Cure can treat deafness caused by catarrh, offering one hundred dollars for a cure and listing products for sale.
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Washington Star
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Coo
Toledo
O. Seld
Mistress-This passes all bounds and a kitchen visit
Dialogue snippet shows a cook informing a mistress that three soldiers present last night, with a hussar already fed before arriving, and a line about selling a tenfreund.
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Anna
Hanson’s Magic Corn Salve Ad Declares Cure Guarantee
An old advertisement promotes Hanson’s Magic Corn Salve with a promise to cure or money refunded. It urges readers to ask their druggist for the salve priced at 15 cents and notes a historical aside about ancient sympathetic ink made from new milk.
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Hanson
Pliny
Syrup of Figs Comfort and Health Benefit Claim
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative aiding the kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them. It promises relief from colds headaches fevers and constipation and notes availability in 50c and 1 bottles from druggists and manufacture by the California Fig Syrup Co.
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California Fig Syrup Co
When you come to realize that your corns are gone
Realizing corn discomfort ends prompts cautious happiness. Hindercorns claims relief and ease after treatment, suggesting renewed comfort and daily ease following use.
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Alan
Roger
Senor
New York Recorder
Somerville Journal
Siegeman
C. C. G. Clark Co
New Haven
Deslow
Parker
United States
Japan
ST. Jacobs Oil
Northwestern Hardware CO
Wabasha St
St. Paul, Minn
Graves
Vinton
Paul, Minn
Oder
K. M
Berkee Boley
Orison & Co
Hai
Olis
Minn
T. M. Roberts
Nicollet Ave
Minneapolis
U.S
C. E. Ross
Lincoln
Ase M
Webster's Dictionary
Express
T.M. Roberts
Hobb
Hobb’s Medicine Co
Chicago
San Francisco
Rochester
A. CO
Dean T
Poco Dry Platts
ST. Paul
BAR
the Interior
Hoke Smith
Agriculture
J. Sterling Morton
the Navy
H. A. Herbert
Lord Chief Justice of
England
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Thomas B. Reed
Justin McCarthy
M. P
Naval Adventures
A. H. Markham
SEA Pets
T. H. Stevens
Lord Nelson
Sir George Elliot
K.C.B
Rangoon
P. H. Colomb
Rosamond
Eidian Heeadow
M. G. McClelland
C. A. Stephens
Elen Douglas Deland
Charles Adams
Columbus Avenue
Boston
Mass
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