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Wrecked hearts and tremulous fates in a storm of rage
A fragment from a period paper blends a lament of fraught romance with a legal notice about the Cole County Supreme Court case from 1871. It includes poems of severed lovers, a rapid seizure case, and historical notes on the old City Hotel site and notable duels.
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Supreme Court
Pacific Railroad ‘Company
I. E
G. H. Dulle Et al
D.E
Cole County
Dulle
Cole
Missouri
Congress of
United States
Pacific Railroad
Southwestern Branch
Inchide
Hannibal and St. Joseph
H. and St. JR. R. Co
Shacklett
Gordon
Tax Ap
Providence Bank
City of
St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance Company
Charles
Ve Charles
Supra
Board of Appeals
County Court
Moore
Glasgow
Rowse
Melburn
Gillman
Turner
Mat. Ins. Co
Davin Waoxze
Eli Talbot
Parton
City Hotel
Burt
Iaista
Talbot
Jada
Andrew Jackam
Bentons
General Carroll
Joe Benton
General Jackson
Thomws H. Reusew
Uve
Isha
Nashville [Inn
Market Street
Public Square
Evans, Gardner & Co
Jackson
T. H. Benton
Talbot's
Benton
Jesse Benton
General Coffee
Col. Benton
Stokely Haya
Avane
Tim
Talbot Hotel
EB. Z
Bolivar H. Cook & Co