Campaigning on the Plains by Buffalo Bill
Excerpt from William P. Cody recounts life on the western frontier. He describes solitary plains travel, the mental strain of vast emptiness, and the need for cunning scouts and lead horses. The piece recalls Kershaw the Fifth Cavalry bugler and a night raid on a hostile Indian camp.
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Fort Sheridantroop recollections of frontier warfare and blizzards
Narrative recounts cavalry exploits against plains Indians near Fort Sheridan with Lt Bache Col Royal Major Brown Captain Bache and Gen Carr. Describes buffalo hunts ambush tactics from a hogback ravine signaling aid with smoke and a bugle, plus harsh winter campaigns and frosty rescues.
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Untitled Patent Medicine Ad Claiming Alcohol-Free Remedy
An advertisement extols a claim free alcohol remedy that avoids habit forming stimulants. It asserts the product discloses all ingredients on the bottle wrapper and confirms truthfulness of its claims.
Vanity's Visions and Fashion Notes from Judic Chollet
Fashion description with gloves in day wear styles and colors. One button gloves highlighted as preferred for day wear. Notes on blouses in white crape de chine with patterns and sizes, including a mail order offer. Mentions handbags, buttons, ermines, and embroidered trimmings as popular styling cues.由 Judic Chollet
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Indiana State Teachers Association to Meet in Indianapolis
The fifty fifth annual session of the Indiana State Teachers association will convene in Indianapolis December 29 to 31 with headquarters at the Claypool hotel. Sessions will be departmentized across Tom Jason hall Caleb Mills hall St Pauls church assembly room and rooms in the statehouse to handle the heavy program. The County Superintendents association will meet on the same days.
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Agar Save There Was Nothing Criminal in His Transactions
Henry E. Agar telegraphs from San Benito Texas to Princeton Indiana editor claiming no embezzlement, saying a drowning scare and grain gamble prompted his disappearance. He recounts a corn barge accident and a stock exchange win before relocating to New Orleans and San Benito.
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Instructors Quote on Ignorance and Banquet Etiquette
A lecturer notes that ignorance makes fools, telling of a man who examined knives at a dinner table and a waiter correcting him. Then a humorous tale contrasts a global temperature claim with a joke about Broadway navigation and a daughter’s marriage consent. The fragment ends with an ad for Mother Gray’s Australian Lear.
Tragic Death After Train Robbery Suspect
Roanoke Virginia December 21 Charles Kreiar an Italian died by hanging near Graham Virginia after a train robbery claim. He displayed a roll of money on the Cincinnati to Bluefield run and was left behind at Bluefield with his wife and twelve children. Police believe robbery and murder occurred with money and tickets found on his person. His body was sent to Petersburg for burial. In Greensburg Indiana Cecilia Cameron aged twenty eight died from burns after her clothing caught fire while attempting to move a pan of burning meat.
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Invented Seismograph Pioneer Dr Thomas Gray Dies
Terre Haute Indiana December 21 Dr Thomas Gray vice president of Rose Polytechnic is dead. He ranked among world’s leading scientists and worked with Lord Kelvin. Born in Scotland in 1850 he authored many books and while at Imperial University of Japan invented the seismograph to record earthquakes before moving to the United States in 1868 where he joined Rose Polytechnic.
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Young man kills himself over wedding money troubles
Lawrenceburg Indiana December 21 George Tilford aged nineteen who planned to wed Miss Tillie Donner at Christmas killed himself with poison in the presence of his sweetheart after failed efforts to raise funds to marry.
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Reference to Foley's Hones and Tar in counterfeit scheme
A note claims passing counterfeit money is as bad as substituting a lesser remedy for Foley's Hones and Tar, allegedly a great cough and cold cure. The writer signs as O.D. Kooefel.
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