The Value of Ambition and Character Across America
A reflective piece discusses women’s suffrage in four western states and shifts to social and economic topics. It cites gender ratios, dividends by mining firms, money sent home from the U S to Norway, a legal case in Topeka, Alaska purchases, and Emerson, urging self improvement and prudent national spending while criticizing government excess.
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Leat Treasure in the Drawer of a Worn Family Bureau
A narrator recalls a hidden trove in a bottom bureau drawer held by his wife. They guard keepsakes including old shoes stockings a broken hat china scraps and toys tied to a lost child and past hardships. The memoir hints at sorrow and longing without detailing names places or dates.
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Alaskan Dirt and Aging Thoughts in 19th Century Tone
A fragment describes Alaska’s cheap dirt and a one year span of product value. It reflects on aging, youth, climate, and social remarks about American women. It also details a kerosene emulsion recipe to spray cherry trees plagued by lice, including soap, kerosene, and water ratios.
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New County Assessor Law Expands Powers and Duties
The revenue law creates a new county assessor role with executive powers under the state board of equalization. It fixes full property value assessments, mandates deputy oversight, and requires annual visits to deputies. It also allows penalties for concealed property, ties the assessor to the board of equalization, and sets salaries from 5,000 to 30,000.
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Dreamed Oil Find Reveals Buried Desert Wood Forest
A Colorado desert drill site near Imperial struck wood at shallow depth and exposed a buried forest of gigantic trees four to eight feet in diameter. The wood, harder than most modern woods, is used to fuel engines at the site. The discovery suggests a profitable wood mining venture with potential markets for mallets and hard-wood goods. The area was once part of the gulf of California and is now rich in shells and fossil evidence.
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Desert
Yaha Ol! Company
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Pittsburg
Nine National Capitals in which Congress sat over history
The article notes nine capitals used by the Continental and early U S Congresses including Philadelphia Baltimore Annapolis Trenton Princeton Lancaster York New York and Washington D C. It traces sessions from Carpenter's Hall in 1774 through relocations to several cities during the Revolutionary era. Washington resigned his commission at Annapolis.
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York
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National Magazine
History and travel of bees across ancient and modern world
The piece surveys honey bee history and varieties from Aristotle to Variegated honey, notes ancient Egypt hive transport along the Nile, and reports modern boating bee houses on the Mississippi. It recounts beekeeping in Persia, Scotland, Poland, India, and the arrival of the domestic bee in America in 1797 and 1850, with a remark on bee stings and a Mahometic reference.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Why Bachelor Didn’t Marry
An old bachelor notes marriage paradox as both unmarried and married people can be unhappy. A benedict recalls a friend’s home trouble and a blunt suggestion to “shut the door and fight it out at home,” illustrating enduring quarrels and stubbornness.
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Casey and the Three Cheers for the Black and Blue
Local remark features Mr Rafferty and Mr Dolan discussing patriotism and loyalty amid a chorus of “three cheers for the black and blue” as Casey is invoked. The quotation captures a rough, colorful exchange about national pride.
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Mr. Rafferty
Mr. Dolan
Rejected Immigrants and a Life on Hold
A scene from a crowded room where families face separation as immigration officials refuse entry. An old woman with eye disease, her daughter and grandchildren, and a man returning to Russia endure loss and uncertainty about a hopeful voyage to America.
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América
America
Russia
Scribner's
Age of Cate: German Cat Study on Lifespan
Hedd Pohl of the German Society for thejon of Cats reports findings from his investigation into cat aging. He notes cats mirror humans in that a peaceful, well regulated life yields longer life. A Royal Castle of Nymphenburg cat reached 42 years, hailed as Germanys premier example.
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German Society For the
Jon of
Nymphenburg
Germany
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