Fifty Famous Frontiersmen and the Legend of Horace Greeley
Narrative recounts Hank Monk guiding the first Central Overland mail coach to Placerville in 1858 and silencing Horace Greeley’s advice with the line Keep your seat, Horace. It also tells of Muggins Taylor delivering the first news of Custer’s defeat from the Far West, then later dying as a peace officer in Montana.
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Concord
Plains
Hank Monk
Placerville
Calif
Horace Greeley
New York
Abraham Lincoln
Hank
Horace
West
Greeley
Pacific Coast
Carson City
Nev
Sacramento
Sierras
Jehu
Monk
Little Big Horn River
Montana
Custer
Muggins” Taylor
General Gibbons
Fort Ellis
Seventh Cavalry
Taylor
Far West
Big Horn
Yellowstone
Horace Countryman
Countryman
Bozeman
Helena
Andrew J. Fisk
Associated Press
Fisk
Little Big Horn
Muggins
Coulson
Lump
Lemp
Western Newspaper Union
Montreal Trial Promises Unprecedented Child Cruelty Case
In Terrebonne Quebec a six year confinement case unfolds with Madame Eugene Paquette facing trial for imprisoning and beating her daughter Rolande. The mother and father were investigated after villagers alerted police and Rolande was found chained to a wall with marks of beatings. The other children were placed in Catholic care and the mother remains jailed in Montreal awaiting trial.
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Montreal
Terrebonen
United States
Baltimore
Madame Eugenie Paquette
Madame Paquette
Rolande
Leon
Terrebonne
Rolando
Mme. Paquette
Mother Jailed 90 Days for Helping Girl Elope
In Genoa Nebraska Mrs. E T Travers received a 90 day jail sentence for aiding her daughter Marjorie to elope with John Wallace Young of Denver. Young was jailed indefinitely while Marjorie remains in sheriff custody at Fullerton. Foster parents Lytles pursue return of the girl after the marriage following a reunion with Mrs. Travers.
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Genoa
Neb
Marjorie
E. T. Travers
John Wallace Young
Denver
Colo
Fullerton
L. G. Lytle
Locomotive bells seized in Perry county theft case
Sheriff James Adrian and deputies arrested two youths after stopping a car on the Somerset road. The vehicle contained locomotive bells and injectors declared stolen at Newark. The seizure followed a tip from Newark and involved Perry county authorities.
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New Lexington
Ohio
James Adrian
Perry County
Newark
Somerset Road
Here
Giant Cottonwood Stands As Kansas State Landmark
A giant cottonwood on the J Lovett farm near Ford Kansas is described as the state's largest. The tree stands 80 feet tall with a 25 foot circumference and a base diameter of about 6% feet, drawing local attention for its size.
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Ford
Kan
J. ©. Lovett
Vagrants to Tend Fires at Bridgewater Lockup This Winter
Bridgewater officials announce vagrants who sleep in the town lockup this winter must tend their own fires. Wood and cog will be supplied, but there will be no janitor.
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Bridgewater
Mass
Einstein's Formula for Success
Professor Albert Einstein proposed a simple life formula A equals X plus Y plus Z. He said X is work, Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut. The remark was given in a recent interview.
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Albert Einstein
Love's Young Dream Dialogue in Newspaper Snippet
A father questions a daughter's suitor about his seriousness. The young man asks about income meals and living arrangements, signaling concerns over financial expectations and household plans. The exchange reflects social norms of courtship in a newspaper paragraph.
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Sam Hill
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Ad Man Chases Photo for Pipe Dream Brand Smoke
A Brooklyn Eagle item notes an ad man directing a helper to photograph a smoking volcano for a promotional image. The caption suggests presenting the scene as a feature of the Pipe Dream brand and marketing value.
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Bill
Brooklyn Eagle
Fortune Teller Reads Past Promise for Husband
A Boston Transcript line frames a client and fortune teller exchange about what his wife asked him to bring home. The quip hints at marital expectations and the allure of prognostication.
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Clent
Boston Transcript
Not Guilty Exchange Over Mother Daughter Quip
In a terse courtroom exchange JT defends himself against a circulating report about age and family relation. The dialogue centers on perceptions of youth and maturity and a denial of the claim. No further context is provided.
Widow at Twenty Four Pities Friend in Mourning
Two friends meet in a brief Cleveland Record sketch. One wears widow’s weeds and laments a widow at age twenty four, while the other corrects the age to twenty five. The exchange highlights social expectations around early widowhood.
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Cleveland Record
Won't Eat Much Would-be Writer Qualities Questioned
A brief exchange notes that a beginner in literature should possess a key quality, while an older writer jokes about appetite, as published in a Montreal Gazette item.
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Gazette
Montreal
Mona Lisa Smile Myth Debunked in Courier Journal
The Louisville Courier-Journal notes the portrait subject was simply posing to look pleasant, not conveying hidden meaning or unusual intent.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Entertaining conversationalist Edith-Is Mrs von Good
Louise criticizes social talker Edith-Is Mrs von Good as unable to speak well of anyone and implying she says nothing when unable to praise a person.
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Edith
Mrs. von Good
Louise
Smart Boy Teacher Jimmie Exchange
Jimmie uses a play on words as he mentions after school plans and a gopher in a lighthearted schoolroom moment.
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Jimmie
Wordplay Exchange Ends with Adam and Madam Joke
The dialogue plays on a pun as one speaker asks for the first man and woman, the other answers Adam and Madam, highlighting a humorous twist on biblical names. The exchange centers on a fatherly teasing rhythm and childlike mishearing.
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