Fresh Ranch Butter and political notes from 1891
Fresh ranch butter from J H White’s Wolcott store is noted amid a sweep of political items including Stewart chairing the senate mining committee, a $700 boiler cost for city water works, and a Tar River Congress push for $6–7 million annual river improvements. Reports cover Colima eruptions in Mexico, Chinese laborers on the Tehuantepec Railroad, Spaulding’s border vigil, the International Press Club convention in San Francisco, and McKinley tariff reciprocity actions with a January 1 1892 proclamation slated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Jackson, Jr
International League of Press Club
San Francisco
California
Salt River Valley
Prestont Haratson
Washington Special
Washington Dispatch
Centre and Tranquitity Mining Company
Tombstone Mini
Cochise County
Arizona
Board of
Ireatore
Cression
United States
Pine St
J. W. Pew
Pine Street
San Fransisco
August Flower Patient Cure Reported by Mrs. Black
Mrs. Sarah M. Black of Seneca Missouri reports a two year struggle with neuralgia of the head stomach and womb. She credits August Flower with restoring her health and delivering a complete cure after prior failures. G G Green sole agent Woodbury New Jersey confirms distribution rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah M. Black
Seneca
G. G. Green
Woodbury, N,j
Travelers in Europe and the American rail fare contrast
The writer recalls a Europe trip from Basel to Mannheim on Baden lines where dinners for two cost about fifty cents and were served on trays by waiters using window numbers. He contrasts this with costly American rail travel and praises Canadian Pacific for affordable coffee and sandwiches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Depew
Detroit Free Press
Detroit
Europe
Basel
Basle
Switzerland
Mayence
Germany
Baden States
America
Cape Cod Practical Joke Sparks Lively Wordplay
A Cape CodItem recounts a humorous episode where a visiting young woman, urged by her brother, uses the local pronunciation mashs. She teases a local man about the marsh and his prospects, prompting his awkward, blushful reply about propriety and opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Cod
Cape
Old insomnia cures and metal value notes from 1643 text
The fragment cites old remedies for sleep suggesting closed windows and specific sleeping positions to ward off foul air. It then compares precious metals and gemstones, noting beryllium, vanadium, iridium, and platinum as valuable, and questions the saying about platinum being uniquely costlier than gold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedward
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tombstone Prospector
Saxpay
C. Bagg
J H White
Wolcott's Cash Store
Stewart
Senate Committee On Mines and Mining
Tygis
City Water Works
Kansas City
Missouri
Mississippi
Colima
Mexico
Tolisco
Acapulco
Tehulatepec Railroad Company
Spaulding
Ayer
Annie
Butler
Pond St
Proidence
R. 1
Geo
B. Hunter
Goose River
H. A. Bean
Lawrence
Mass
J.C. Ayer
P Giata
Pioneer Store
Fremont Sts
Joe Hoefler
General Merchandise
J. W. Vickers Fremont
C.b.tarbell
Columbia Iron
Hare & Page
Cigar Company
Cigar CO
Salem N.C
Stamp
Consolizated Shoe CO
Salem Mase
Box
New York
Arizona Mail & Stage CO
Us, Mail and
Wells, Fargo & Co’s Express
Fairbank
Tombstone
Nogales
Bisbee
All Points South
Berson
ST. Louis Beer Hall
Besar
Draughy
ST Louis
Billiard Parlors
J M McDonough
ST. Louis
Montezuma
Leon Larrieu
Fairbank, Arizona
Bank of Tombstone
Geo. Barner Gro. Harren
K. W. Woop
Preston
A. Cohn & Bros
Allen Street
Fifth
Virginia Hotel
Benson
Culinary Department
Kettle
Sorl
TRI
Pony
Carmen Key West
L. A. Engle
Atore
Geo. H. Fitts
Langdor’s
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