Wheat Prospects in the Great Basin of Eastern Oregon
Cleveland Rockwell surveys the eastern Oregon and Washington plains, noting wheat can thrive cheaply, with rail lines from Dallas to Walla Walla and cascades expansion easing grain transport. He discusses transport costs, Indians, climate, and the optimistic yet cautious view of farming amid growing railroad infrastructure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
Washington
Columbia
Ocean
Cascades
Dallas
Oregon and Navigation Company
Walla Walla
Dalles
Wortland
Northern Pacific
Snake River
Lake Pend Oreille
Bitter Root
Sumer
Cleveland Rockwell
Harper's Magazine
Estate sale ties to Nashobah simulacrum and Wright lineage
The Nashobah estate near Memphis sold by Supreme Court order fetched 411,717.40. It traces to Fanny Wright in 1825 who tried a Community pattern educating Black people. Sylvia Wright, her sister, fell for a farmhand, fled to Europe, and later died heartbreakingly. The narrative follows Frances Wright and Sylvia d Arnsmont, their adopted child Sylvia, and the Picault affair culminating in a 1881 bigamy ruling returning the estate to Mme Picault, including Nashobah property.
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America
Far West
Sylvia Wright
Titania
Europe
Francis
Jeremy Bentham
Frances Wright
d’Arnsmont
Sylvia d’Arnsmont
Sylvia d’Arusmont
Eugene Picault
Picault
Sylvia
la Guthrie
Mme. Picault
Nashobah
Snake grease tale ends in strange affliction
A two years past incident near Columbia involved a man killing a rattlesnake and drying it for grease in an oven. His young son, misled by a mistaken belief it was eel, ate some and has suffered fits since, with the event noted in local circulation.
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Columbia
Ant
Amr Pan Nn Fc
The Grandson’s Multisided Life Versus the Deacon’s Faith
The essay contrasts old New England religion with modern breadth, noting a New York grandson who blends commerce or law with art and science. It argues progress expands the mind beyond spiritual focus, with five life sides now shaping a contemporary person.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
New York
Deacon
Thie Wrindson
John &R. Puxtare
The Age of the Cat in Courtroom Anecdote
A Hartford County lawyer recalls a case where a witness dodged a cat age question. The attorney pressed hard on whether the cat was old, and the witness delivered a sharp response about being bald headed. The moment broke the tension and drew smiles from all.
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Hartford
Wil
Arliord
Tinits
The True Standard of Value and Child’s Doll Fear
A meditation on value by society and individuals, contrasting material worth with personal attachments. A family tale centers on a child hearing robbers may take possessions, whose question reveals differing ideas of what matters most. The piece ponders whether the child’s valuation of her dolls is wiser or naive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jinman
Selial Times
General Leib Endorses St Jacobs Oil for Rheumatism
A Chicago Times item quotes Gen. Leib of the Chicago Democrat asserting St Jacobs Oil is the remedy for rheumatism and neuralgia without doubt. He claims it benefits sufferers and notes his own favorable experience with the oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Times
Gen. Leib
The
Chicago Democrat
St. Jacobs
Ite
Eraat
A. Vogeler & Coo
Baltimore
Evolution and mule remark spark dinner party laughter
A dinner party debate on human origins prompts a wife to joke that her husband descended from a mule after a man admits not believing in special creations. The exchange, cited by the Brooklyn Eagle, echoes a joke about apes and monkeys in evolutionary discussion. A separate quip about politicians as cold-blooded cats follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Eagle
Brown-Sequard
William A. Hammond
Content Patter On Health Cure in Old Time Ad
A writer signing as Content testimonies that Dr. Guysett’s Yellow Dock and Sar-saparilla cured him of weakness and disturbing dreams and left him in perfect health with peaceful sleep. The note presents early medicine advertisement language and personal relief claims.
Banking in the West and a Parade of Patent Medicines
Scattered items describe a Gunnison bank president’s Denver trip and a depot encounter about rumors of an embezzlement rumor. The page advertises postal remedies and patent extracts, with notices of bottles, pills, and tonics from Chicago and New York suppliers, plus a church choir quip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gunnison
Denver
James
Europe
New England paragraher and quirky ad blurbs mix
A fragmented 19th or early 20th century collage mentions a New England paragrapher finding a dog’s lungs as the seat of its pants, a soap advertisement by Caswell Hazen & Co. for Junken Fur Soap, a quip about men and women, H. B. Buyant’s Chicago Business College, and Lyon’s Patent Heel Stiffeners offered at 25 cents for eight pairs, reflecting period commercial humor.
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Itselia
U. S
Osweg Hermometer Works
Iharpest
Greg Co
Paol
Cass. B. Rogers
Twilight
San Francisco
Gro
B. Parsons
Detroit
Mich
Pool
J. Robertson
J. A. Poe
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the Columbia
Sir Marvel
Cata
Tom Prince
Banking
Joan Quincy Adams
Winona
Mir
Warner
CW. Warnes
Chicare and
Northwestern
Pernaw
Putanon
Wholeside
Lord, Contenhough & Co
Chicago
Bacha-paiba
Ship of State
Stopparen & Co
G Street
Washington, D.C
the Carpenter
Tay
Caswen, Hazan & Co
Tram Howe Seale
Philadelphia
Paris
Sydney
Borden, Selleck & Co
Vourate Best Co
Marshall
Dye
N. B
Alowe
CaswEl, Hazanv & Co
H. B. Buyant
Chicago Business College
Lyon
Tuy
Spring Tobacco
Austin
Texas
J. W. Graham
WM. Hall
Cc. G. Lathrop
Cerwan Remedy
K. Hackett
Wayne,Ind
John B. Page & Son
C.O.D
E. Burnham
Stata Street
H.S
A. P. Lacey
Washington,d. A
Patsy Nelling
A. Bronson
I Bros
Janesville, Wis
Nationa Pusuiserie Co
Sperry
T. W. Kennedy
P.O
Watchmackers
Birch & CO
Pey St
N.Y
Cote
Alan Y
Paraphilertree
Fuz2cenaLp & Co
Dr. J. Gon Vez
Boston
Leware
Dieter Pex
Iain
Ward A
Wabash Avenue
Mhinois
Mason & Hamlin
BSI
Aupward
TRS
Mason & Hamein Organ and Piano CO
Tremont St
EB. 14Th St
N. York
Wabash Ave
the & 40 Morte Chicagoe
Aultman & Taylor CO
Mansfield
Dru
A.reed & Sons
State St
Sacce
A. W. Morgan Eco
Indianapolis
Indiana
Senday Duce
Glya Express
Post
Eggleston Truss Co
Frazer's
Evant Acte
Demorest
Illustrated Monthly
W. Sennings Demorest
C.N.A
Ated Grocers
Great Britain
J.T. Trowbridge
William Black
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Mario B. Williams
Henry
A. Gordon
J.D. Chaplin
Wim
A. King
Eugene M. Prince
Yankes
Old- Viene Gale
James Parton
House of Commons
Erg
W. Luo
Dean Binnley
Pietrone
Westomnetee Abbey
Dan W. Farrar
Denmark
Carl Bille
Great Southern Torors
Robert Ke Lee
Stonewall
Jackson
John
Calhoun
Alexander H. Stephens
Illustrated Travel and Adventure
Missouri
Mindanao
P. F. Grinnell
North Pacific
Macomber Brett
O. A. Stephens
Julian Hawthorne
Capt
F. Luce
London Telegraph
Phil. Robinson
Japan
Morse
Skip Dustin
Water Boy
Axpreas Messenger Riley
Welter A. Moore
Charles Vance Eliott
Woman's Art Behoo
Cooper Union
Susan N. Carter
Institute of Technology
Hoboken
Robert H. Thurston
W. C. Richards
Companiont
Temple Place
Youth’s Companion
Mits
Mass
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