Saved by a Jack in the Cattle Country
A summer night on the South Platte finds four men camping by a ranch stockade where a marauding Cheyenne band looms. Ed Gowan and a brave ranch hand fend off the riders using a jack and rifles, escape to a adobe, and learn the threat lingers as they push on toward Fort Collins.
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Frank W. Calkins
South Platte
Sereniny
Old Cliff
Sowboy
Joose
Jie
Aod- Miner
Mer
Gowan
Ed Gowan
Texas
el An
Brudder
Cheyenne
Horae
Injan
Jack
Jim
Old Jack
Anchman
Agin
Fort Collna
Cheyanne
Boston
Allanta Constitution
Tired Out
Poetic oblique obituary of a tired mother and wife as she dies peacefully in hardship, with neighbors and family recalling her weariness and endurance amid long illness and care. The verse depicts a final vigil, the dying breath, and the quiet, sorrowful end as waves and tide mark the scene.
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Sohea
What Key West Looks Like In The 19th Century
The piece describes Key West as six square miles, flat with a highest point of about fourteen feet, and a shoreline city built densely before March 30, 1886. It notes wooden houses, few brick buildings, wide straight streets, coral roads, poor soil, reliance on cocoanuts, and limited vegetables with sparse trees and shrubs amid flowering plants.
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Key West
Na Zamel
West India
India
Mexico's Cincinnatus and the Yaqui War Leader Martinez
Prominent Mexican military figure Gen Angelo Martinez, born in Jalisco, rises from frontier hunter to head of Yaqui war efforts in Sonora. After early liberal struggle, he fights imperial forces, studies in Europe, retires, then returns to lead Pacific state campaigns and subdue Yaqui resistance with Gen Corona.
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Angelo Marttoes
JM. Power
Scnera
Angelo Marte
Mexcco
Louven
Gen. Marines
Jalisco
Liberal Party of Mexico
Maximilian
Arma
Jalseo
Sinaloa
Nal Sonora
Wwe
Martinez
Sonora
Corona
Sorona
Sevora
Cornon
Magdalena
United States
Martnez
Leonidas
Martnex
San Francisco
Collge
Berlin
Bismarck
Marinez
Europe
Lam
New York
Colima
Mexican Congress
Cuibo
Pacific States
Mr. Power
Mayo
Esquari
Alamosa
Mayo Country
Aqui
Guaymas
Louis ‘Torres
Jim
Banishment of Grubs in Bern 1749 Chronicle
In 1749 a large pit of grubs threatened crops in Bern Canton Switzerland. A deputation urged Archbishop of Lausanne to banish the creatures. After a ceremonial summons the court proceeded with a citation and threat of excommunication. A defender did not appear and the archbishop condemned the worms to disappear within six days.
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Petiton
Berne
Archishop
Lausanne
Antonio Tepee
Holy Church
Wilsburg
Waa
Peranos
Arris
Perroldet
Benedictus
Montreaned
Loineanne
Gruba
Not the Worl Market Talk From a Local Vendor
A fragmentary account from a market scene shows a speaker bargaining with a vendor about stove costs and terms. The dialogue includes dialect and questions over price and fairness, ending with a brief note about the free press.
A Foreign Idea in India on Cooling with Wet Cloths
An excerpt describes using wet towels or cloths hung over doorways and windows to cool rooms in India. The practice, with damp cloths kept wet, cools the air and reduces dust, improving comfort and business conditions. a farmer notes the method's value.
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India
Armers
Effect of Shoes on the Feet Through Fashioned Footwear
The Leather Gazelle notes that toe prehensility remains in sandal wearers due to generations of noncompression. Pointed shoes force toe crowding, causing deformity, while broad toes still compress. English influence hints at a future circular foot from fashionable footwear in America and English-speaking regions.
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America
Whalbone prices and oddities from Waling Oregon to Tokyo
A scattered 19th century informant column notes Whalbone valued around 23509 a ton at Waling Oregon with housing and a mention of an Anglo Chinese college to be opened in Tientsin. It lists diverse curiosities from teeth varnish to a Kentucky girl biting a kernel, alongside reports of crops, oil exports, and a two hundred varieties of items. It also recounts local incidents in Florida and Alabama, and a long meditation on church life and a preacher’s power amid turbulent times.
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Waling
Oregon
Tentsin
Cliustown
Haya
Kentucky
Lila Eve
Us High
Florida
Strick
Charleston
Barton
Japan
Titusville
Fla
Anniston
Ala
Ty Tanearfsaung
Tory
Neves
Abe Roold
Poe
Carson
Ney
Bfureh
Tesstig
Pigs
Aloly
Uasre
New England
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Inatliute
Agricultural Department
Milous
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Sid Driggs
Mexico
Gov Torres
Mirvac
Grovern Hind
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