Vasquezs Frontiersmen Talk At Ventura Hotel Assembly
A Ventura cattleman gathering recalls Wild West days with Col. Dan Fillmore and outlaw Vasquez. The group, including ranchers and miners, discusses Vasquez and other brigands faced in California, Arizona, and New Mexico, with vivid anecdotes of frontier justice and jailhouse scenes.
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Southwest
California
New Mexico
Arizona
Plains
Dan Fillmore
Ventura
Santo
Vasaren
Gene Intin
Jona
Spain
Tait
Wistoon
Barc
Vasan
Stockton
Cal
Vasquez
San Francisco
Mesie
Fanny
Chihuala
Remark on a San Antonio suitor’s practical divorce cost inquiry
A San Antonio man is praised for his foresight and practicality after he immediately visited a lawyer to learn the cost of a divorce suit when he proposed. The anecdote highlights his careful, businesslike approach to marriage and its legal implications.
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San Antonio
The Grape Courier Shouts Enemy Opens With Grape
A fragment from a Detroit period piece describes a courier shouting that the enemy opens with grape, noting the motive as a great cause. The garbled OCR hints at wartime or dramatic speech and a conflicting phraseology.
Veterans Corner Imaginative War Tales and Memoir Fragments
A collage of wartime reminiscences, poems, and conversations. It recounts a veteran’s tale of a jokester’s fatal ruse behind a log during a Richmond skirmish, a professor’s caution about imagination and courage, plus regional reminiscences of First War of 1812 prisoners, Halifax memories, and a essay on arbitration by Great Generations.
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Washington Star
Richmond
Tom
Julius Caesar
Tim
Sickles Medal Tells Of Venezuela Ties
General D E Sickles wears a government presented medal from Venezuela for service to General Paes Bolivar lieutenant general. Paes twice elected president. first election saw him brought to Venezuela aboard a U S warship at Buchanan's behest. Paes later died while residing in New York, with Sickles acting as marshal for his funeral procession.
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Sickles
D. E. Sickles
Venezuela
Paes
Bolivar Leutenant
General Pac
New York
Buchanan
General Sickles
General Paes
United States Navy
The Candle in the Camp of Frederick the Great
A Prussian king patrols his camp at night and finds a soldier secretly writing by a candle. He orders the man to finish the letter with the words I die tomorrow. The king departs, and the soldier faces death for disobedience. The tale ends with a moral about charity and spirituality.
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Vasquez
Fillmore
Gila River
Arizona
Harte
Erin
Pittsburg
Eareier
Burg Chronicle-Tele
Frederick the Great
Prussia
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William Gossip
Anna Catharine Coade
Halifax
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Gos
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Coade
Ireland
Admiral Nelson
George Moren
Moren
New York City
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St. John’s
Salem
Mass
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William
Charles Gossip
Windsor
W.H. Wiswell
Wellington
Sherman
Grant
Europe
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Miss Cayenne
Cou
Leavitt
Theotore
Hood
Hlood
Hood's Pitt
Perrin Itd
Columbia
Semterty Pope Mig. Co
Con
Lyon & 60
Tobecco Works
Darian
Aha Cle
Seoisisu
Grand Rapids
Mich
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Nsion TS EraEe
Maree
Con’ Hania
Brokars
Lindsey
Omaha
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