Telephone in Cactus Center Sparks Cowboy Riff
A Denver Republican excerpt depicts a longtime town telephone girl in Cactus Center as a "fairy queen" presiding over cowboys drawn from the range. Cowboys visit the office to phone cities for money, gambling and drinking. the system strains the company and threatens trouble as roundup season nears and help dwindles.
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Denver Republican
The Pony Rider Sam Dudley Hero of the Nevadian Trail
A vivid portrait of eighteen year old Pony Rider Sam Dudley, a mail carrier on a dangerous Nevada route near the Toquima mountains. After sustaining rifle wounds, he rides into San Juan with an Indian scalp trophy, outwits two attackers at 200 yards, and shoots the remaining foe, proving rare nerve and resolve on the wild Reese river route.
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Sam fights for life in Indian encounter at San Juan
In a San Juan chase, Sam’s horse is shot but he survives a dangerous duel. He defeats two attackers, shoots one foe and scalps the other after fending off a final ambush. Dudley is wounded but rises to renew the fight before the last foe falls. Chicago News reports the perilous encounter.
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Brittany Inspires Artists Across Coast and Countryside
Brittany has long inspired painters shaping art colonies like Pont-Aven and Concarneau. The landscape ranges from wooded valleys to moorland and coastal scenes from St. Malo to St. Nazaire. Fisher folk, peasants, and inland towns provide varied subjects, with places like Huelgoat and Dinant cited as artist haunts. In southern Africa, game laws may restore wildlife such as lions and rhinoceros, while King Khama’s Serowe reforms curb alcohol, suppress witchcraft, and educate his people, signaling rapid continental modernization.
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le Faouet
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Orange River
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Serowe
Mashonaland
The Brute and a Humble Plum Ber's Assistant
A fragmentary poetic exchange centers on a singer lamenting sadness in performance. A fatherly response echoes the sentiment. The passage references Houston and a real humble man connected to a plum ber's assistant in a stylized, oblique manner.
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Houston
A Little Lesson In Patriotism
L. Tremain Frederick Lyman Tremain was a college student when Fort Sumter aroused the nation to war. His father initialy forbade enlistment but relented after the second call for troops. Tremain served around Washington, fought in the Wilderness and Chickahominy campaigns, was wounded at Hatcher's Row on February 6, 1865, and died two days later at City Point Hospital while continuing to serve the Union.
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The Future Czar of Russia as Prisoner at Peterhof
A historic photograph shows Alexis Nikolaevich, heir to Nicholas II, at Peterhof palace under tight guard. Cossacks patrol nearby as revolution looms, with the royal children watched by guards, spies, and police agents amid growing unrest and mutinies.
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Prompter at Theater Faces Boarding House Fuss
A Kansas City Journal item reports a witty exchange where a prompter quips about pay at the theater, while a boarder clarifies he is the prompter there and faces a demand to work elsewhere.
A Bungler and a Self Made Man Gossip
A dialogue notes a self made man named Alice-Herbert who must suffer remorse. It argues men often borrow money and refuse to repay, and claims a man honest with peers may be dishonest with family. It counsels satisfaction with the next best thing when unable to have one’s way.
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