Wildcat Bill the Rattle Snake of Hyenders Viet
The tale recalls a notorious figure known as Wildcat Bill or Donest Wilberforce who loomed in a Badger Kel lodging house. He was described as a formidable desperado with a two barreled sawn off shotgun and a belt knife, projecting danger as he escorted travelers to stages and traded in fear for profit.
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Major Llotetkiss
Badger Kel
Lil
Wiliam
Bender
Wilberforce
Wineville
Owildeatess
Treasur
Towil
Don
Waithu
Ee Smith
Patechen
Ork
Tie Hotel
Weston Capitalist
Connecticut
Cierx
Rattlesnake of Bender's Flat Triggers Escape
A man entered the office with a black ebony cane and valise in each hand. He carried the cane under his arm and the end protruded near the door. The rattlesnake rumor caused a man to mistake it for a weapon, cry out, drop his gun, and flee through a window. He never returned to work and disappeared.
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Nate
Bender
Ais
Pigs as Fasters and the Missing Sow Mystery
In Michigan a farmer searches for a black sow after driving a herd to market. Weeks pass with no trace until the sow is found in the cellar of an abandoned house, believed to have fallen through rotten flooring. The tale highlights how long swine can survive without food.
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Kimball Piano
Fairourcund
Perryiir
Michigan
Fragmentary description of a starving patient in sale records
The excerpt notes a pitiable condition with skin hanging on bones and scarce blood given, while references to stock sale records imply a period of three months and five days without nourishment. The tone mirrors a New York Herald report on extreme hunger and survival in a medical or stock context.
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Anins
Ion
New York Herald
A Curiosity of Lunacy Folie Circulaire
A description of folie circulaire a periodic mental disorder with three life phases elevation low mood and sanity. An episode of mania marked by joyous restlessness excessive eating little sleep and heightened sexuality follows by a return toward normal before cycling again.
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France
Recurrent mood cycling ends in patient’s death
The text describes a patient drifting through cycles of low mood, recovery, and morbid elevation, repeating these phases over weeks or months until death. It emphasizes alternating states of feeling, intellect, will, and nutrition, with the patient living three lives.
Humorous Parables on Patience and Self Reliance
A collection of aphorisms on human nature from the Atchison Globe. It riffs on freeloader ideas, sentimentality, and self reliance, noting the imprudence of debt, the folly of perpetual discontent, and the value of counting troubles before they grow.
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Pacific Coast
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Washington
Idaho
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Hem-sekers
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Landseekers’ Information Bureau
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