Peralta Reavis land grant saga of vast forged title
The article recounts James Addison Reavis forging a vast Spanish grant claimed from the Crown of Spain. He seduced an orphaned Germanic heir, built a giant title stretching from the Gila River to New Mexico, and used certified copies to lure lawyers. Mallet Prevost uncovered alterations in Spain and Mexico revealing the fraud.
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James Addison Reavis
Missouri
St. Louis
Arizona
Reavis
Mexico
Spain
Indiana
Gila River
New Mexico
Tie
California
Peralta
Crown of
Ferdinand VII
Order of the Golden Fleece
Charles VII
Lend
Federal
Interior Department
Congress
San Francisco
East
United States
Roscoe Conkling
Robert G. Ingersoll
James ©. Broadhead
Matthew G. Reynolds
Olney
Severo Mallet-Prevost
New York
Vorgerors
Mallet Prevost
Harrison
Venezuela
Paris
Mallet-Provost
Madrid
Seville
Sherlock Holmes
Lemon powers and remedies advertised in health column
A Health Journal piece extols lemons for digestion relief in water, skin benefits with milk rubs, headache relief with lemon on temples, and bee stings treatment, plus a pitch for Chamberlain's tablets for indigestion. Also notes practical ads for envelopes and stationery from The Chieftain office.
Patare Treat Mon. Secretary Root Wit
The New York Times notes Mr. Root’s sharp wit when reporters visited his War Department office He was signing documents and joked He was appointing lieutenant generals While signing West Point graduate commissions his quip proved apt as those officers would not doubt his truthfulness
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Patare
Mr. Root
New York Times
West Point
Kodol Digestive Cure Promoted in Patent Medicine Ad
An old ad promotes Kodol Digestive Cure for indigestion and sour stomach. It claims the product uses natural digestive juices plus tonic properties to cleanse purify and strengthen stomach mucosa. The testimonial mentions S B Ball of Ravenna West Virginia praising relief after twenty years of trouble. Sold by Socorro Drug and Supply Co Chicago is listed as the maker.
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Ballard
D. H. Byrnes
Doveraville
Texas
Socorro Drug and Supply Co
Joseph Pominville
Stillwater
Minn
Alex. Richard
Chamberlain
Ball
Ravenewaot
W.va
Kodbi
Mile
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Bird Migration Mystery Cited By Cambridge Professor
Prof Alfred Newton of Cambridge calls bird migration the greatest mystery of the animal kingdom beyond modern science. A Texas reader, Mrs Joste Sumner of Bremond, reports using Ballards Snow Liniment with success for growing pains frost bite and aches, noting prices 25c 50c and $1.00 from Socorro Drug and Supply Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Newton
Cambridge
Joste Sumner
Bremond
Texas
Ballard
Siamese Marriage Customs Report
The article notes Siamese girls marry around fourteen and men around twenty. When a young man is in love he has an elder woman propose to the girl's parents rather than to the girl herself. Often the bride has never met her future husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siam
Startling Ice Note At English Wedding In Norfolk
An English society wedding reported with striking ice conveyed in the description. The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk left the chapel to the wedding march as the bride, an organist and choir head, showed special interest in the musical arrangements.
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England
Algernon Struggles with Italian Study
Beuvilts reversed. French and German had proved too hard, but Algernon took up Italian with high hopes. After three months a friend asks how the lessons go. He quips that he is about where T was and that his Italian teacher now speaks English better than at the start.
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Algernon
Quick Arrest for Piles Cures Verbena Man
J A Gulledge of Verbena Alabama was twice in the hospital with a severe piles outbreak forming 24 tumors. Bucklen Arnica Salve halted the inflammation and cured him. A Vermont clergyman is quoted on minister salaries as muskrat income, urging contentment with musk rat pay.
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J. A. Gulledge
Verbena
Ala
Bucklen
Vermont
Unclear Advert for Women’s Health Cure
An advertisement offers Ladies Capsules Gardes as a guaranteed cure for Leucorrhoea and Female Weakness. It lists a Kansas City address Mo for the pharmacy supplier and mentions Socorro Drug and as sellers.
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Prop
Kansas City
Socorro Drug and Supply Co
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Swisher
University of New York City
Socorro
CG. Duncan
California Street
Ds Kornitzer, M. D
A. M
H& Kittrell
Desist
Abuyta
Marcial
Harvey House
Ellis MacDougall
Henson House
Socorra
John & Griffith
Arroxsey
Law
Freeman & Cameron
Attorneys AT Law
Carlsbad
U. M. Dougherty
Attorney AT Law
W E. Kelley
W. B. Childers
Albuquerque
Lyrgo Baca
Carthage Coal Mining CO
M. I. Hilton
Givane Luera
Proprietors
A. Time
T. Brown
A. TL. Wilton
San Antonio
National Life Insurance Co
U.S. of A
E. Burlingame & CO
Sfers
Lawrence St
Denver
Cole
H. Chambon Draler
Gough
Dr. King
Durest and
Gulakent
Court of Private Land Claims
A. Barr
Houston
Ite N.Y
People's Health Journal
Cannon
House of Representatives
Doctor J. Kornitzer
J. Kornitzer
EO. Dewitt & 00
Chicago
Dr. Ring
D. H. Turner
Dempseytown
Frisco System
BT. Louis
Faisco
Illinois
Kansas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Alabama
Oklahoma Indian Ter
SG. W. Martin
Gewenal
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