Stampede on Colorado bluff ends with rescue by Hamilton
Near Marble Falls a herd of about 800 steers bolted toward a 200 foot Colorado bluff. Pauline Slaughter rode into danger with a Comanche pony as Jack Hamilton and Colonel Slaughter rode to redirect and save Pauline as the herd plunged off the edge. Hamilton Casts Lariat, Saves Girl, Father Declares Gratitude.
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Marble Falls
Colorado River
Chicago Tribune
Sam Slaughter
Pauline Slaughter
Texas
Colonel Slaughter
Jack Hamilton
Florida
Rio Grande
Pauline
Hamilton
Valles
Colorado Bluff
Jones Keeps Wife's Chair Wreathed with Smilax
In a Chicago Record item the humorist notes Jones's sentimentality as he preserves his wife’s chair with smilax. The column jokes that when asked about her death he reveals she eloped, not died.
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Jones
Smilax
Chicago
Will Have Her Way. Mrs. One- how do you manage to keep your cook so long
A humorous exchange from a Detroit Free Press column features Mrs. One asking how to keep a cook for long and Mrs. Tether replying she discharges her every morning, and the cook refuses to leave.
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Detroit
Cottage Mystery at Newport Prompts Quiet Choice
Philadelphia Record notes a couple facing a question about love in a cottage at Newport. The woman answers yes with confidence, trusting rumors about the seaside retreat.
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Newport
Philadelphia
The Cruel Editor and Humorist Exchange
The humorist notes a single point to call attention to while the editor asks about jokes. The Bremerville Journal records a brief dialogue on editorial content and comedy.
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Bremerville
Pitt Claims Use of Horseless Carriages Long Ago
Mr Pitt tells Mr Penn he believes the Chinese used horseless carriages in ancient times. He recalls sedan chairs as the type and cites a Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph account.
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Mr. Pitt
Mr. Penn
Pittsburg
Chronicle-Telegraph
Canada Electric Cars Show Rapid Growth in 1899
Dominion statistician Mr George Johnson reports 1899 electric railways covered 682 miles and carried 104,033,659 passengers, averaging 84 riders per mile. Transfers in Toronto exceeded 10 million. Electric lines held 21.7 million dollars capital, steam lines carried 16,168,191 passengers with 25,292,850 train miles, total transit over 120 million passengers with roughly 18 to 87 steam to electric.
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George Johnson
Dominion Statistician
Electric Railways of
Canada
Dominion
Toronto
Teach Children to Save and Budget Early
The article argues for giving children a regular weekly allowance from age four as pocket money. It suggests paying for small chores or providing the allowance as a basic stipend to instill money value. It warns that early lessons against waste foster personal responsibility in spending across the week.
Obstacles In His Path In Cleveland Bath Tale
A tramy recounts adventures in Cleveland where locals refused a bath. They insisted on waiting for an offshore gale and hiring a tug to go six miles out before the jump. He finally bathed in a county duck pond after deferring the swim.
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Cleveland
A French journalist’s plan to end duels by hiding names
A keen French journalist proposes masking duelists in news to spare honor from notoriety. He questions when benefits like penny postage and cheaper services will arrive and whether such reforms may come in time.
An Unconventional Courtship at a Garden Dinner
Arthur Mason, a reticent 25 year old, confesses love to Vera Fray during a dinner at Mrs. Fairburn’s Sussex home. In a moonlit garden he reveals a plan to marry without love, but Vera challenges him until she signals mutual affection, ending with a dawning, unspoken understanding.
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Arthur Mason
Vera Fray
Mason
Vera
Chance
Arthur
Vern
Record Breaking Voyage of the Gargate from Shanghai to Columbia
The British bark Gargate under Captain Griffiths set a record Shanghai to the Columbia River buoy to buoy in 27 days, surpassing Renton Holmes & Co. four masted schooners. Vessels from Yokohama and Japan ports are more common, with Shanghai runs typically longer by a week or ten days. The Gargate’s best day covered 205 miles, and over a ten day span she logged more than 2 600 miles, averaging over 1 mile per hour.
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Pacific
Gargate
Griffiths
Shanghai
Columbia
Renton, Holmes & Co
Sound
Yokohama
Japan
Columbia River
Selkirk
Ortland Oregonian
Language Class Breaks Into Slang In Murky Exchange
A cryptic dialogue from a grammar class features Teacher Willie and Willie Chinaman arguing over terms like mason and laundress amid unclear phrasing, highlighting tensions in classroom discourse and language use.
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Willie
Chinaman
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the Cruel Editor
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