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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1889
Page
2
Orton convalesces at Rochon place and falls for Felicie Rochon while Bobo hides troubling truths about Lake Garcia. Rochon threatens Garcia’s girl, Lake, who confronts him with a gun. Rochon dies from a shot fired by Lake, and Lake escapes as Bobo bludgeons Rochon’s head with a pine knot.
The New York Sun recounts Engineer Simpson, a veteran of the Maine Central, who sped William E. Vanderbilt’s car toward Portland after a Mount Desert Ferry transfer. At Brunswick the financier asked him to slow, but Simpson, under orders from Payson, urged on to Portland before Vanderbilt boarded.
Orton glimpses Lalie Garcia and realizes she is a mixed-race girl. She leaves him unsettled as Mile Rochon enters. she notes his knightly build and gold hair, thinking he may soon be off to leave, while Orton contemplates a growing sense of life's value amid longing and isolation.
George W. Allen dismisses extravagant tales about private cars owned by railroad magnates and celebrities. He says typical Pullman palace cars do not reach $60,000 and most stories claim prices from $100,000 to $200,000 are inflated. He doubts any car costs $35,000 beyond internal expenses and notes luxury embellishments would be seen in London.
A Havana flavored travel essay sketches a tropic cruise from Tampa to Havana and beyond, praising sea travel's cheapness and frequent ports while contrasting dreamlike Caribbean scenery with harsher realities of Cuban life and politics, including Key West and the island’s social customs.
In the Dakota campaign of 1876 General Crook battles the Sioux and Cheyenne as Buffalo Bill Cody serves as chief of scouts. The narrative follows a rapid pursuit from the Cheyenne River to the bluffs west of the White River, Bill guiding K company in a grueling 45 mile chase that ends with no capture but high endurance from rider and horse alike.
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