Lone Star Ranger meets outlaws on Rim Rock trail
Buck Duane, son of a famed gunfighter, helps Luke Stevens despite a deadly pursuit by Bland’s gang. Stevens dies after passing his boots and advice to Duane who then reaches a lawless Rim Rock camp ruled by Bland. Duane contemplates joining or resisting the rough camp and finds wary, humane Euchre.
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King Fisher
King
Cheseldine
Rim Rock
Bland
Stevens
Dunne
Weller
Brown
Hoss
Huntsville
Buck
Duane
Pard
Outlaw
Rio Grande
Mexico
Buchre
Luke
Buck Duane
Bosemer
Bosomer
Euchre
Buchie
Buckie
Cuba
Sacire
Buck Duane Faces Peril Within Bland Gang
Buck Duane learns the outlaw’s view while not an outlaw as he struggles to make a living. His partnership with an outlaw ends abruptly and he encounters new dangers among Bland's gang of desperadoes in this thrilling installment.
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Buck
Stevens
Mercer
Duane
Luke
Buchre
Buck Duane
Bland
Wagers of the Past Show Bold Bets and Odd Feats
The article recalls 17th and 18th century wagers in London and Liverpool from simple barefoot races to reading a newspaper by candlelight. It notes a dockmaster witnessing a lighthouse idea and a charity bet in Liverpool where wooden shoes were worn at the cotton exchange. A Canadian tale ends with a man driving a green pen eighty yards with a toothpick.
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London Answers
Lord Digby
Newmarket
Heath
Liverpool
Mersey
Canada
Stroll With the Girls Rhetorical Exchange
A playful dialogue compares walks with different sized girls and hypothetical finances. The speakers weigh preferences between a long walk with a long girl and a short girl, then consider being flush with cash and inviting both.
Calf Shoots a Cat in Missouri Barn Incident
A one month old Jersey calf shot a tomcat with a revolver causing a fatal cat incident. The former Fredericktown resident, now in Oregon, carried a pistol that discharged when a calf kicked him, the stray bullet striking a cat asleep in the barn.
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Fredericktown
Oregon
Kansas City Times
Daily Thought on love and happiness and sorrow
A reflection noting that deeper knowledge of joy and sorrow makes us more tender to others and more eager to help, as expressed by the writer.
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Daily Thought
Eliot
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promoted by Personal Testimony
An elderly reader from Durand Wisconsin and a Massachusetts woman from Blackstone share relief from climacteric symptoms after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad cites hot flashes headaches back aches dizziness and other signs as warning, urging midlife women to consider the remedy.
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Durand
Wis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mary Ripeway
Massachusetts
Blackstone
Mass
Hermit of Japan Lives on Laurel Leaves and Potatoes
A private shrine by the botanical gardens houses a man who calls himself the incarnation of Fudosama. He rents a coop for 2.25 monthly and survives on laurel leaves five raw potatoes and water daily. He fasted 21 days and water meditated to save his sick child and has since avoided cereal for 30 years. He is rumored to perform miraculous cures.
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Fudosama
Botanical Gardens
lEivery
Cannel Coal Mined Mostly in Kentucky and Pennsylvania
The article notes that nearly all cannel coal mined in the United States comes from Kentucky and Pennsylvania. It highlights these states as dominant sources for this coal type within the national production landscape.
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Kentucky
Pennsylvania
United States
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Shore
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Carter
K. Bowers
Dearborn ST
Chicago
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