The Girl Ranger Play Sparks Texas Gunfight Debate
Captain Gope denounces a Chicago musical about Texas frontier life as dishonoring women while urging respect for real frontier courage. He notes Texas women defended homes against raids, then criticizes the production’s sensational depictions as unduly revealing and unwomanly. The show, by Lederer Carter Nesbit, promises elaborate staging with horses and firearms.
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de Ngers
Gope
San Antonio
Chicago
Lin Auditorium
George W. Lederer
Lincoln J. Carter
Wilbur D. Nesbit
Texas
Fating Fay
Cowboys and Cowgirls In Stockyards Stage Play
A stockyards setting features girl rangers daughters of a Wyoming rancher and a neighbor with an inheritance plot. Johny Bunny plays the rancher, Van Rensselaer Wheeler the neighbor, and Reine Davies Lederer is Cherry Clyde. A Paris gown scene costs $17,000 as gun songs run through the script.
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Peta Rossmore
Wyoming
Johny Bunny
Brad” Ringley
van Rensselaer Wheeler
Corporation of
Plain City
Reine Davies Lederer
Paris
Gone Back to Nature to Avoid National Decadence
Max Pemberton critiques modern girth of decadence in England, contrasting 18th century cultural shifts with current affluent society. He argues excess wealth and urban life erode character, urging a return to traditional rural values and national spirit. The piece elevates calls for reform and diligence over flashy modernism. Plus a separate ad for cheap summer excursion tickets through the Gooh-Wabash Route to the North and Canada.
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D. Traill
Christie's
England
Trafalcar
Waterloo
Butler
India
Canada
Europe
Trafalgar
Rugion
St. Paul
Minnesota
Wisconsih
Chicago
Detroit
Niagara Falls
Buffalo
Michigan
St. Lawrence River
New England
Boston
New York
Jamestown Exposition
W. F. Conner
Malin St. Dullvs
Texas
Baronets snub to gain fame prompts snobbish protest
London reports Sir Spencer Maryon-Wilson Bart, eleventh baronet, objects to being addressed as Dear Sir in letters. He demands to be called Sir Baronet, calling the form Dear Sir discourteous. The note highlights aristocratic snobbery in the ancient hereditary rank.
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London
Spencer Pocklington
Maryon-Wilson, Bart
Baronet
Fogtead
Spencer Maryon-Wilson
Peek
Parisian Duels and Their Fickle Etiquette
A Household Brigade Magazine piece outlines three duel types in modern France: journalist feuds, disputes born of alcohol or bravado, and deadly clashes aimed to kill. It describes privacy preferences, seconds, and typical duel settings with pistols at twenty five paces, noting oddities such as bullets escaping between skin and helmet.
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France
Household Brigade
Wight
Bhaktaat
Roy
Pawsley
Luzony
Chicago News
Smith
Philippines
Luzon
Mantia
Isabella
Gagayas
Japan
Iself
Drowning scare ketches Lord Edward Beauchamp Boymour
London dispatch reports Lord Edward Beauchamp Boymour nearly drowned off the Isle of Wight. Cramp and seaweed snagged him as he swam. He was rescued by Humphrey Plowden, son of a police magistrate, and brought aboard a small relief boat. Lord Edward, 29, has long been regarded as delicate since the South African War.
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London
YarmMawn
Lord Edward Beauchamp Boymour
Isle of Wight
Humphrey Plowden
Plowden
Edward
Lord Edward
Imperial Yeomanry
Proof to the Contrary Chicago Tribune
Fragmentary OCR text references a Chicago Tribune page with phrases about paint and heating but no clear news event. Mentions ready mixed paints, an elevator, and names like Steves & Sons, leaving no coherent report to summarize into a distinct item.
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Chicago Tribune
America
Steves & Sons
Railroad Time Table Sunset Station Connections
A fragmented railroad timetable lists departures and arrivals from Sunset Station and East Commerce Street with connections to Houston Galveston New Orleans and Dallas Fort Worth and other destinations. It includes times for trains such as the Express Alamo Special and various local services with stations like Austin San Antonio Houston and Galveston and notes on routes to St Louis Chicago and Mexico.
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Sunset Station
E.gemmerse St
California
Hagle
del Rio
Termiadiate
Hagle Pass
Houston
Galveston
Union Station
East Commerce Street
Austin
Fort Worth
Dultus
St Louie
Bay “Express
New
Wort Commerce Street
Arriva
Longview
Bam
Texarkana
St. Louie
Chicago
Santa Fe
Frisco
Dallas
Kansas City
Loula
Sand Dunes in Islay Migrate 125 Feet Yearly
Astronomer 8 I Bailey studied crescent-shaped dunes near La Joya Perth in Islay desert. Eye points stood 160 feet apart, convex side 477 feet, width over 1090 feet. Estimated weight 8000 tons. Prevailing south winds move dunes 125 feet annually.
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Islay
la Joya
Perth
8. I. Bailey
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Thru Sleepers
Denver
St Louis
H. ¥. Williams
Commerce St
Mallory
Riijroad
EO. Sachs
Next. Monger Hotel
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Landa’s Park
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Hermann
Sth Infantry Band
S. P
E. O. Griffin
CP. & TA
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G.H
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Stockhald
Victoria
Port Lavaer
S.A. & Alp
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Veave
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Chile
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Tyme Limited
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