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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1891
Page
3
Two women meeting in Paradise discuss the bright abundance around them. Each woman comments on the beauty and attractiveness, noting the feast for the eye and ear and the inviting surroundings.
In 1860s Nebraska and Wyoming, Saunderson and a pursuing party hunted Cheyenne bands from Loup Fork to Laramie Mountains. He killed, scalped, and destroyed camps, earning a feared white spirit reputation. By 1865 he left Fort Laramie with 100 scalps, vowing more, and vanished without trace.
A drummer at the Seventh Avenue Hotel asks for a southern exposure and reveals a brass compass to verify room orientation. He explains he sleeps to catch sun and trusts the device to tell his direction, noting clerks often misassign rooms in unfamiliar towns.
A dramatic frontier tale unfolds in Picture Canyon. Edward Herries faces danger after overhearing a gambler plotting a trap. A night of gunfire and pursuit ends with Chiquita fleeing to St. Louis and Ramon missing, leaving Herries to confront his fate.
Ned Derrien known as Edward Herrids confronts Denver Pete and Black Way Jim in Picture Canyon. Engineer Herries courts Chiquita, daughter of Ramor, amid saloon, rain in a frontier town where railroad boom towns rise and fall.
The writer tested perfumes on a menagerie using scented cotton wool. Lavender water pleased lions and leopards, with cats sniffing, rubbing, and playing with the scent. A lion cub cuffed the lioness, then the pair shared the scent as the lion purred in approval.
A fragmentary Press dialogue records a wife describing Mrs. Gadabout’s dress at a party. The account mentions fabric, shade, possible low cut or sleeves, hair styled as in pictures, and possible ornaments, with limited recollection of details.
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