Travel Deals From California to West Coast and Rockies
Round trip and one way fares listed for San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland and other cities. Discounts include homeseekers excursions guided by D Clem Dever and Landseekers Information Bureau. Special tours to Jamestown Exposition Atlantic City Saratoga and Rocky Mountain destinations offered with daily low rates after June 1.
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Billings
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D Clem Dever
Landseekers’ Information Bureau
Big Horn Basin
New York
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Philadelphia
The Earliest English Card Games Traced to Spain
A London Chronicle summary notes that early English card games came from Spain with Jel hom bre and ombre. It cites Spanish symbols on old packs, trump as a sixteenth century variant, card prices in 1345, the Cardmakers' monopoly under Charles I, and royal curiosity about cards with Queen Elizabeth and a palace Comedy scene referencing Cupid and Campaspe at court.
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Spud
England
Spain
Cardmakers’ Company of
London
Charles I
Scotland
Elizabeth
Anne of Austria
Wyndsore
Learning to Shoot From a Moving Target Drill
A practical drill for new shooters uses a gently sloping hill and rolling barrel heads as moving targets. Partners take turns at 50 to 75 yards, start targets on cue, and fire after the aim is secured, focusing on center hits and proper trigger timing.
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Onuter
Indian in the Jungle Defeats White Opponents Says Sprague
A passage from Lynn Tew Sprague in Outing Magazine praises the Indian for cunning, endurance, and patience in forest combat while noting whites suffer more fatalities in jungle fighting. It warns that in set battles the red man lacks steadfastness and may despair after the first reverse, leading to waning resolve.
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Lynn Tew Sprague
Outing Magazine
Irishman tells tale of long life and the judge
An Irish gentleman recalls a London physician asking if his family has long lived. He explains that his west of Ireland lineage depended on the judge and jury wife who tried them, a jest from Strand Magazine reflecting on inherited fortune and misfortune.
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London
West of Ireland
Strand Magazine
Embarrassing scene at Miss Pruyn’s home in London Tit-Bits
Robson complains of an awkward visit as Craik recalls calling on Miss Pruyn. Her mother questions his intentions, and Miss Pruyn shouts from the stairs that he is not the one. The exchange is described in London Tit-Bits.
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Robson
Craik
Miss Pruyn
London
Inventor Son Sparks Silence in Old Washington Star Tale
In a Washington Star anecdote a man questions the fate of his son the once startling theorist. The father replies that the boy is now inventing so the public hears less of him. A joke about a parrot echoing words rounds out the piece.
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Inveror
Washington Star
Executive Ability Questioned by Father and Son
A dialogue on executive ability. The father defines it as the faculty of earning your bread by the sweat of other people's brows. The son asks what executive ability truly is, framing the concept as a lesson in wealth and effort.
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North Platte Valley
James
Doan's Kidney Pills End Back Pain Claim
A 19th century testimonial touts Doan's Kidney Pills as a cure for back pain and urinary ills. W A Tracy of St. Joseph Missouri credits the remedy with lasting relief after years of suffering and urges readers to use Dean's Kidney Pills, sold 50 cents by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as U.S. agents.
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Bright
Dean
W. A. Tracy
Jule Street
St. Joseph
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
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