Amazing Adventures of Two Truth-Hating Stage Drivers
Two veteran stage drivers recount wild clashes and feats from their careers across the West and East. They swap tales of wheel thefts, runaway coaches, and daring breakneck rescues while recalling bushwhacks, long coaches, and brushes with danger on dust roads from Fort Steele to Atchison.
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Fort Steele
Rawlins
Eizuves Mile
Fickety-Brintie
Serabileville
Bune Corners
Batterworth Creek
North Platte
Skeeters
Theo
Calime Ly
Sedgwicks
Green
Green River
Rock Spring
Jes
Pennsylvany
Atchison
Ian
Destructive Insects and Control for Scale Lice on Trees
Describes bark scale problems on maple, hickory, ash and tulip trees, detailing life cycle from eggs to crawlers, and noting parasites and kerosene soap treatment. Observes birds and bees influence, with practical home remedies and spring cleanup methods, attributed to Prof A J Cook.
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D'rof
New York
Ohio
Michigan
Mher
Baltimore
A. J Cook
Eating Vegetables Versus Meat and a Coal Theory
A Congregationalist urges daily fresh vegetables for health and life enrichment, urging children to eat freely and consistently. The piece also notes Grand Eury's theory that coal originated as a liquid from decayed vegetation in carbonic atmosphere, tracing its transformation to asphalt, petroleum, and bitumen.
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Rand
M_ Grand ‘Eury
Lamar land open for settlement in Bentland district
Over six million acres of free government lands are opened for settlement in the Bentland district of Southeast Colorado. Lamar, a booming rail hub in Bent County, hosts a land office opened January 5, 1887, with bustling activity, banks, four newspapers, and growing population. The correspondent notes rapid town growth as settlers rush to enter preemption, homestead, and tree culture lands near Lamar.
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Lamar
Cal
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Bent County
Prairie Plain
Green Bay
National
United States Land Office
Congress
Bentland
Colorado
Kansas
Centennial
Alte
Laanar
Lanar
Bureau Informativua
Col
Rollins Praice Plains
Lanian Land
Sheba
Theo Ialf
Moite Axoy
What She Wanted Dakota Woman in Storm Destruction
A destructive Dakotas storm near Watertown left settlers homeless and ruined nearly all belongings. A relief committee found a woman who lost house and all she owned save a dress. She refused clothes, wishing for help to rebuild, while others offered aid. The piece mixes local notes on poets and a vivid Block Island lobster description.
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Watertown
Sean
Dakota Reli
Kiev as seen from Dnieper fair city life and church domes
A traveler recalls Kiev’s landscape with gilded spires and St Andrew’s church, contrasting verdant hills and fortress walls with bustling harbor streets. The article notes the post fire city’s modern Imperial Palace and University, and vivid street scenes of priests monks porters shopkeepers artisans and peasants, beneath a skylike canopy of domes.
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Tosret
Ukraine
Kiev
Dnieper
Laura of
Petsohersk
Church of St. Andrew
Imperial Palace
University of Saint Vladimir
Krostchatik
Local quotes and odd notes from the Gem City business scene
A garbled clipping mentions Gem City Business College in Quincy and odd lines about a girl asking what you say and a bold man facing a boulder. It also references J Prso’s Remedy for Catarrh and notes odd phrases implying public notices or ad copy. The readable content is fragmentary with unclear dates or events.
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Prso
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