How I Killed My First Buffalo Bill
A young boy recounts frontier trials from Iowa to Kansas in the 1850s. He details a wagon train attack by Sioux and a brutal trek along the Platte to Fort Kearny, where a single shot felled a chief and saved the group. Later, a trapping expedition ends with a broken leg, a loyal companion named Dave Phillips, and a dramatic rescue during a blizzard.
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Iowa
Kansas
Salt Creek Valley
Wis
Blaife
Nan
Charles Dunne
Yvung
Russell, Majors & Waddell
Leavenworth
Mr. Majors
Fort Kearny
Albert Sydney Johnston
Salt Lake
South Platte River
Frank McCarthy
Platte River
Byittle
Indiana
America
Pike's Peak
Valley Grove
Dave Phillips
Phillips
Cave
Dave
Billy
Mother
Foley's Kidney Remedy Ad Promises Vitality and Wellness
An advertorial piece extols Foley's Kidney Remedy as the most effective kidney and bladder treatment, claiming it corrects irregularities, rebuilds energy, and restores vitality. The testimonial tone attacks fatigue and improvement in appearance, urging readers to try the product.
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Foley
Brilda
D Kooefel
Fashion Fancies and Geographical Puzzles in a News Column
The column covers fashion notes on skirts with bias seams and plush details, a school dress pattern number 4147 for girls six to twelve, corduroy and velveteen suits by Paquin, and a wide sling sleeve trend. It then explores old mysteries like Ultima Thule and Atlantis, noting Pytheas’ voyage and Plato’s possible imagination.
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Amart
Paquin
Ultima Thule
Pytheas
Massilia
Albion
Shetland
Norway
Iceland
Atlantis
Canary Islands
America
Plato
St.—Chicago
Explorer Cameron Alleged Theft In Africa Case Details
A tale from Cameron in Ga boon Africa describes a native who paid a sub agent to acquire goods but Cameron locked up the items. The thief fled with the money claiming Cameron caused a $200 loss and demanding restitution and the goods’ value. Outcome not stated.
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Cameron
Gaboon
Africa
Mr. Cameron
Counterfeit Money Linked to Local Remedy Ad
A fragment notes counterfeit money cases and mentions Foley's Honey and Tar cough remedy cited as a cure for obstinate coughs. The garbled text references D. Kacefel and suggests a connection to a local advertising or notice context.
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Foley
Lange
D. Kacefel
Philosophical humor and social notes in a 1920s column
A miscellany by Duncan M. Smite mixes quips on manners, labor, fashion, and marriage with light satire. It weaves cartoonish vignettes about salary talks, women’s fashion, and everyday temptations, interlaced with brief jokes and puns on travel and science.
Gems In Verse by Chester Firkins
Poem notes a speaker who reflects on motherhood and separation as a son leaves to marry. The speaker contrasts her lack of maternal presence with the son’s achievements and her soft, grieving memories. The verse centers on love, loss, forgiveness, and enduring maternal attachment.
London Poem Describes Ailing City Voices
The Pall Mall Gazette laments London as a city torn by desire and pain. It portrays the metropolis as cruel yet alluring with complex secrets and undying energy, a maker and unmaker of men amid ruin and dreams.
Bubbles and the Hollow Promise
A reflective verse contrasts childhood scenes of bubbles and golden stars in a creek with adult weariness. The speaker recalls watching light drift through bubbles and wonders if any heavenly gleam remains beneath life’s deeper current as each bubble bursts. William Dean Howells.
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William Dean Howells
Nature and Ocean Poem by Lord Byron
A Byron verse explores nature over human endeavor, contrasting the deep blue sea with man's ruin. It meditates on becoming one with the universe, the ocean’s vastness, and the transient mark of humanity, ending with a grave-line about being unknown beneath the waves.
Atavism in the Jungle by Laurence Hope
A poetic fragment set in a dark jungle where a speaker recalls calling to his season’s mate and attacking foes near Kadapu trees. It contrasts pristine nature with human laws and longing for the wild and cubs. The narration blends animal instinct with colonial imagery and evokes a savage, sensuous mood.
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Laurence Hope
Never Too Late to Mend A Mother’s Evening Duty
Anonymous recalls a mother who spends the day washing dishes sweeping dusting and cooking for her children. After tucking them in she still must mend socks and clothes by lamplight, finding no rest until every tear is fixed. Her weariness ends only with the last stitch.
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Mother
Fire Alarm Stations List for Vincennes and Nearby Areas
A dense roster of fire alarm station intersections across Vincennes and nearby streets including West Seventh Ohio streets West Tenth Floyd Pearl Main River City Ha Spring Lower Fourth Market East Fourth Culbertson Ave Thirteenth Market Eighth Oniberteon East Eleventh Vincennes Beeler Spring Main Vincennes Oak Thomas Fears Union Green Poplar Thirteenth Stone Eighteenth Easy Lower First Southern Railroad Chartres Cherry Constitution East Ninth East Tenth Elm Fifteenth Culbertson Charlestown Road Robinsons Pants Factory Elm East Seventh Chartres Main Mast Silver Willow streets.
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East Eleventh St
Vincennes
Beeler
Vincennes and
Spring Streets
Main
Oak and
Thomas
Fears
Oak
Wast Union
State and Green
Poplar
Thirteenth
Eighteenth
First Stone
Chartres
Cherry
Constitution
East Ninth and
Market
East Tenth
Elm
Fifteenth St
Culbertson Avenue
Charlestown Road
Vincennes Street
Robinson's Pants
East Third and Railroad
Elm Avenue
Pine Needles Patchwork Imagery by Paul Hamilton Hayne
A compact observation on nature and artistry by Paul Hamilton Hayne. The speaker likens leaves and vines to fabric being mended by Nature using needle like vines and cobweb threads as practical imagery.
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Paul Hamilton Hayne
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Williap
Cody
Pheres’s
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
Dr. Pierce
Disransany Munical Association
R. V. Pieres
Buffalo
N. Y
By Duncan M. Smite
Turkey
Millonaire
Luxury
Croesus
John D
Pacific Coast
Los Angeles
Boston
Lec
Chester Firkins
London
God Badet
Pall Mall Gazette
the Tribune Company
Pearl St
New Albany
Ind
Lord Byron
Sambur
Ely
Ely Brothers
Warren Street
New York
Indianapolis, Columbus and Southern Traction Company
Hae Hoosier Limiteds
Seymour Northboned
Columbus
Edinburg
Franklin, Greenwood
Indisuapolis
Seymour-miianapolis
Seymur
Franklin Greenwood
Indianapolis
Azalia
Taylorsville
Whiteland
Seymour
Gat
Kas
Greenwood
L & L. Traction Co
Louisville
Southern Indiana R. R
A. A. Anderson
Gen. Mer
Coluambas Ind
Telephone and Telegraph Co
West Baden Springs, Ind
MONON
Chicago
West Baden
French Lick Springs
B. E. Taylor
W. H. McDort
Reed G. P. A
J .G. Play
New
All
Bloomington
French Lick
NorthWest
Loulhville
Pullman Palace
Atratos
F. B. KA
Renee
Castoria
Zilllithe
Physiolene Effidevita
Thie
Agta
Mele
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