The Cottonwood Road Chapter in a Mining Camp
A lone traveler and Marcus Handy reach Cottonwood a mining town on the rise. Buck and the narrator watch a bustling camp scene with hotels, gambling dens, and an assaultive mob as a pickpocket is attacked amid escalating lawlessness.
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Ludlow's Pass
Cottonwood Courier
Marcus Handy
Quaker Creek
Cottonwood
Buck
Rockies
Alaska
Klondike Trail
Denver
Johnnie
The
Golden Eagle
Huffaker
Jim Huffaker
Plested’s
Miners Witness Stagecoach Hold-Up En Route to Colorado Gold Diggings
Robert Gilson and Buck Hayden, on their way to Colorado gold fields in the seventies, secretly witness a stagecoach robbery. Victims include Mrs Deane and her elderly companion. Bandits flee with an express box. both parties continue their journeys.
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Cottowood
Colorado
Robert Gilson
Buck Hayden
Deane
Thatched Roofs Through Four Centuries In England
The article describes thatching in England, focusing on Norfolk where reed gathering and thatching support boats remain common. A single family has practiced the craft for four centuries with little change, using tarred twine or iron pegs and a leggett tool to place reed tops on roofs.
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England
Norfolk County
Duel turns deadly as Perkins outsmarts Jessup in dark room
Perkins and Jessup agreed to a duel under old rules. In a darkened room each held a revolver. Perkins crawled into the fireplace and fired up the chimney, killing Jessup within seconds.
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Perkins
Jessup
Uncle Eben on loafers and untitled rewards
A Washington Star quote features Uncle Eben asserting no loafer goes unrewarded for beautifying the earth by his presence. The light remark comments on entitlement and recognition in everyday life.
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Eben
Washington Star
The Fishmongers Company and Its Historic Almshouses
The text notes the Fishmongers Company is very old, with archives lost in the great fire of London. Its 1864 charter from Edward III confirms medieval royal grants. Historically it kept Lent with fish, policed Bul lingsgate market, and punished buyers, with income supporting three almshouses including Jesus Hospital in Bray housing forty old people with six aged decayed members over fifty.
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London
Edward III
Bullingsgate
Jesus Hospital
Bray
Judge Freyfs Ruling in Rye House Trial of Algernon Sydney
The Rye House plot trial of Algernon Sydney resulted in his execution after a single witness fulfilled the law’s requirement. Judge Jef freys ruled it sufficient despite the two witness tradition. Sydney had authored an unpublished manuscript opposing monarchy.
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Algernon Sydney
William Penn
Sydney
Rye House
Jeffreys
Bayer Aspirin Ad Claims Safe Proven Since 25 Years
Ad promotes Bayer Aspirin as genuine when the Bayer Cross appears on package or tablets. It lists indications including colds neuritis toothache neuralgia headache lumbago rheumatism and general pain. Mentions small twelve tablet boxes and larger bottles sold by druggists.
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Allen's
le Roy
N. Y
Train Wrecks on Java Lines Kill 25 on Bridge
Train crossing a high bridge in Java is struck by a herd of wild water buffaloes. The locomotive falls into the river and 25 people die. A later derailment near the same bridge kills the engineer and injures the fireman. Ad runs and quotes follow.
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Java
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By Will Irwin
Assay Office
Golden Eagle Restaurant
Main Street
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Commodore Vanderbilt
Astor House
Pioneer
Palmer House
Feller
Barnaby
Cottonwood Road
Bill Talbot
Cottonwood Camp
Wat
eBoy
Kpkoxenokloloag
Old English Company
BAYER
Lucretius
Dr Scholl
Imopa
Hall & Ruckel
Waverly Place
New York
Allen
Grove’s
Icuticura
Cuticura Laboratories
Dept. M, Malden
Meas
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