Northwest notes and fatal fires across the West
A crow near Terry Montana damaged the Northern Pacific track. A Wadeworth Nevada hotel kitchen fire caused £60,000 in damage. In Lamonn Washington Mike Lahey was killed in a crash between two cars. Brooks family near death in Noblesville fire. two girls suffocated. A coroner’s inquest identifies a murdered body near a mine. Wyoming irrigation suit begins in Laramie. Spotted fever linked to ticks in Bitter Root Montana. Police to crack down on gamblers in Butte.
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Crowbhurst
Terry
Mont
Northern
Pacifc Company
Wadeworth
Nevada
Lamonn
Waah
Mike Lahey
Twain
Wyoming
Laramie
Bitter Root
Joseph Turner
Utte
N. M. Parsons
Rawlins
Wyo
Stigu Ladies
Parsons
T. F. Tracuy
Lis, Miss
Marth Washington
Iris-Haggerty
Denver
Cheyenne
Worl No
Union Pacific
Koho
Interna
Jean
Poppe
Dinine
Gembral Coal & Coke
Sweetwater
The Youngest Soldier and Other Civil War Echoes
The clipping recounts youths and veterans tied to the Civil War era. It notes Gilbert Van Zandt as possibly the youngest regular enlistee at age 10, details Mrs Lincoln’s pension petition, Henry Garr’s spy role, and local veterans like Hiram Cronk, last War of 1812 pensioner, plus a frontier tale of Lee County soldiers near Fort William.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. van Zandt
Gilbert van Zandt
Kansas City
van Zandt
Seventy-ninth
Ohio Volunteers
Port William
Clinton County
Ohio
Myre
Lincolns
Walter H. French
Washington Times
Lincaly
United States
Lincoln
Henry
Gurr
Sde
Mr. Garr
Laviteville
Neem
Ecge
Lauleville Courier-Journal
Tudge
A. Garr
Jatter
Garr
Western Park
Leutenant
Judge Garr
Mr. Gurr
Ani al
Hiram Crosk
Ara
Cronk
Mr. Cronk
Frankfort
Herkimer County
Wright Settlement
Ava
Congress
Utlea Daily Press
Fragmented OCR News Item Mentions Historical Figures
An incoherent OCR fragment references General Jacob Hy Bmith Bow, a "One Grek waperiehow ot war," and locations in Wort Virginia. It lacks coherent dates or events but preserves several named entities and unclear historical context. The piece appears to be a garbled reminiscence or obituary style notice with scattered proper nouns and places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cenelly
Crielty
Cleimie
Wort
Virginia
Grttyrbarg Iron Brigade Losses At July Battle
An OCR damaged narrative recounts Grttyrbarg action with the Iron Brigade in a July engagement. It lists regiments including Twenty-fourth Michigan Nineteenth Indiana and Seventh Wisconsin with high casualties and many missing. It notes officers killed and wounded and laments the dead among Reynolds era forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grttyrbarg
New York
Reynolds
Michigan
Indiana
Paris Life and Royal Ties Amid Spring Headlines
The Paris season draws Americans and European elites into a whirl of luxury as coronation crowds and lavish fleets of guests converge on the French capital. Notable figures discuss spies, bands, and aristocratic separations while Isabella II and other royals maneuver through courtly life, art, and scandal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
London
Paris
Atlantic
Europe
Isabella II
Isabella
MEN OF MANY AND AMERICA IN TWO COUNTRIES CONTRAST
A critical comparison of German and American labor forces argues German policy protects workers from temptation and external control, while American discipline arises internally. It suggests Germans lack religious engagement and ambition, hindering innovation, whereas Americans benefit from internal drive and mechanization lowers costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
America
England
Carnegie
Huntington
Ita
Geremany
Uate
When They Gave Land Away Nebraska Sell Not Always as Valuable
Judge Stark tells a Washington crowd about land scarcity and debt during droughts. He recalls meeting a neighbor who traded away eighty acres for a horse and wagon because the Dutchman could not read, leaving the man with only a cart cow and tools. The tale illustrates misfortune from land deals and literacy gaps amid hard times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Stark
Washington
Ilinois
Enr
Spinach King Idea Promised by Frugal Market
The New York market carries a small, sand filled spinach portion priced at 15 cents, and the piece proposes an enterprising seller washing spinach to remove grit and vermin. It forecasts fame as the spinach king and notes the potential for a Rockefellerian fortune through a specialty delivery service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Belle France
New York
New York Press
Remarkable Vedovician Feat of Jack the Greyhound
John Cooke known as Jack the Greyhound for swift road running died in July 1849 after a storied career. He earned fame by running beside coaches across long distances and once kept pace with a London to Birmingham mail coach by alternating steps. His extraordinary speed did not spare him from workhouse neglect before his death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Cooke
England
Jack
London
Birmingham
Samen Saulte
Neiltution
Could Betting Be Abolished If It Stopped
A fragmented text ponders whether betting could be halted, arguing that banning betting resembles banning champagne and meat. It suggests no large moral wave will erase gambling and hints at social uproar if legality changes occur.
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Moot
Brooks
Mer Jo Butte
Clark
Ute
The
Building Trades Council of Denver
Bessia Tristler
Puyallup
Wash
William A. Morgan
Frannie
Bigorn County
Helena
Ont
Bon County
Sage Creek
Herlminns
Histriek Cork
Bawllan
Oyeel Ohak
Ubelinet Toy Balatiine
AL Cid Tiem
Chena
Coabanidlin
Awe van Liege
Lanait
Jumen Ueckham
Christan Advocate
Urigade
Chicago
Gilbert van Zant
Mle Bischarge
Farragut- Thomas
Department of Missouri
G. A
Paria
Revel Des Tovathtes
Jean Richepin
Odeon
Bis
Mise Irene Perkins
Auroslien Scholl
Monaco
Sumatra
Spitzbergen
Madame la Princesse
Garden of Eden
Board of
Aurelien Seholl
Hordewas
Lawton
Taabella
Speta
Thia
Elizabeth
Avetria
Mae
Nathalie
Servia
Bereksur Mer
Rome
Jane Tee Wonton
Eleanor
Church OF Notre Dame DE Fans
MANY
Tfwilance
Emenky
Earale
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