Wild Bill Hickok and Agnes Lake Bride in Cincinnati Museum
A Cincinnati museum display preserves Wild Bill Hickok memorabilia including a marriage certificate to Agnes Lake Thatcher dated March 1876 and a letter from Hickok to her. The exhibit also features a lock of Hickok hair sent to his widow and later bestowed to the United States Playing Card Company.
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Museum of the United States Playing Card Company
Cincinnati
Ohio
Bil Hickok
610 West
James Butler Hickok
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Agnee L. Thatcher
F Warren
M. B. Church
Minnie Moyer
S L. Moyer
Lake
Wild Bill
Bill Lake
Granby
Missouri
Jake Killian
Bill
Council of Four
Mrs. Lake
California Joe
Wachitas
Texas
Jack Omohundro
Buffalo Bill Cody
Ned Runtline
Scouts of the Plains
Rochester
N. Y
Wyo
Black Hills
Moyer
Hickok
Buell
J. B. Hickok
Agnes Lake Thatcher
W. F. Warren
Captain Jack
Jack McCall
Wild Bill Tetter
Wild Bill Hickok
Colorado
Charlie” Utter
Thieves Who Rob Women Flogged in English Case
A Liverpool Assizes case reports Albert Grunshaw given twelve cat strokes and six months for attempting to rob Miss Elizabeth Cottam at the sub post office in Bolton Road Lancaster after firing blank cartridges and blinding her with pepper. The article weighs flogging versus imprisonment in sex crime deterrence and notes other cases.
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Liverpool
New York State Crime Commission
England
Albert Grunshaw
Charles
Bolton Road
Lancaster
Grunshaw
Elizabeth Ellen Cottam
Miss Cottam
Short
Crowd Helps Starving U. Graduate In New York
A 23 year old University of Virginia graduate, Hynest Barber, fainted at Broadway and Eighty eighth street after three days without food. A passerby brought coffee and sandwiches, an ambulance arrived, and a $100 crowd fund was raised. A woman offered lodging and train fare home.
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New York
Broadway
Eighty-eighth Street
Hynest Barber
University of Virginia
Commons Approve 500000 for Radium for Cancer Hospitals
House of Commons approved a 500000 appropriation to distribute radium for cancer treatment in hospitals. It was revealed that 54000 people died of cancer in Great Britain during 1927.
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London
House of Commons
Great Britain
California Fig Syrup for Mothers and Children
A familiar household note promotes California Fig Syrup as a gentle bowel cleanser for infants and kids. It urges mothers to instruct the pharmacist to supply the genuine product with age directed bottle labels and to refuse imitations.
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California
What About Call Money Inside Story of the Market
An inside look at the Call Money Market explains who fixes rates and how the machinery influences it. The piece outlines dangers and mechanisms behind the market, with a note about postage to J. Joseph & Co Inc Desk A Park Avenue New York City.
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J. Joseph & Co., Inc
Desk A
Park Avenue
New York City
Point of Comparison Hard on the Russians
Ronald McPherson, a prominent Pittsburgh promoter, reviews Russian moral sensibilities after returning from Russia. He contrasts with a tale of Gobsa Gould, a profiteer, dining with a bishop and staff, highlighting etiquette and propriety in a genteel home. The anecdote ends with Gould joking about dining with his knife.
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Ronald McPherson
Pittsburgh
Russia
Gobsa Gould
Gould
Fines Returned to Speeders in England
England police set up a speed trap but discovered it was five yards short. The home office chose a sporting approach and returned the fines along with apology letters to the offenders, who were still guilty of speeding.
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England
Scotland Yard
British Home Office
Wedding Presents Finance a New Home Furnishings Decision
A light dialogue where one character asks how to furnish a new home and the answer proposes using wedding presents to fund the household. The exchange hints at social norms around marriage and household support.
Fishing and horse racing Compared as Enjoyable Yet Empty Talk
A brief musing notes the similarities between fishing and horse racing as activities that are pleasant to enjoy but lack substance when discussed at length. The reflection highlights simplicity and enjoyment over verbose debate.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Dead Wood
Dacota
Agnes
Emma
Wid Bill
Deadwood
Calamity Jane
Wild Bul
Wild BI
Wye
James William Buell
Dick” Seymour
Custer
Cincinnati Museum
Jack Crawford
Virginia Evening Chronicle
Will Bill
Agnes Darling
Wild Bills
United States
Trimon WI
Wild Billus
AIS Wik
Britain
Gobsa
Hanford
John Kenrick
Dallas
U. S
Drysork Co
Demenil
St. Louis
Tou
Metahr Duco
Miller Machine CO
Springfield
Mass
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