Colima travel notes detail life and scenery in 1891
Special correspondence from Colima describes a trip by narrow gauge rail from Manzanillo to Colima city, noting green countrysides, tropical plantations, and an old cathedral. The writer contrasts riches and poverty, comments on urban streets, and recounts local sights, a governor’s gift book, and a Sunday public procession.
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Manzanillo
Colima City
Colima
Io Grand
Tropics
Dairy dangers from diseased cattle cited in study
Dr. Kie's investigations on diphtheria and cow diseases confirm that illnesses of the teeth and udder pose risk to drinkers. Experts generally agree that milk from animals affected with tuberculosis should not be sold, and that milk from cows with scarred teats may harm human health.
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Wodl
Kie
Territorial Tax Sale of Tombstone Properties by Board of Supervisors
The Board of Supervisors will offer for sale at their office in the court house Tombstone commencing Wednesday September 10 at 10 o’clock a.m. Described property sold to satisfy unpaid Territory taxes for 1885 includes multiple lots in Tombstone, mines near Buena Vista, Richmond and MeLelia 20 acre tracts, and a Dragoon ranch with improvements. Names listed include Halex, Cowan, Fort Wayne Mining Co, Gepurt, Hampton, Hill, Roth, Rosette, Ritchanteon, Walker and others.
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Board of Supervisors
Court House
Tombstone
Halex
Bo. Coffm Remay
Cowan
Fort Wayne Mintay Co
Toutestone
Buena Vista
Richmond
MeLelia
Gepuart
Hampton, Q
Hill
Ae Roth
Jou
Walker
Men of Grains and Position
A collection of satirical portraits of notable figures. Pattison of Pennsylvania is tall and dark complexioned with a daughter and a son. Goscinex is a slender, nearsighted English statesman. Rocherencen orders Sabbath idle pumps in Ohio oil fields. Hearst plans a Pacific yacht cruise. Cayor travels free on French railways during his presidential tour.
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Bisnarek
Gov. Pattison
Pennsylvania
MB Goschex
Joux D. Rocherencen
Ohio
Bvrrom Hearst
San Francisco Examiner
Pacific
Lost
Kristol
Roi
M. Cayxor
France
New Household Devices and Inventions Spotlighted
A report highlights a range of new devices and machines. Innovations include a ham carving clamp resembling a vice, a straight planting tool for potatoes, a boot cleaning machine, a SEW motor powered by gas or petroleum, and a compact machine requiring minimal space. France previews a magic mirror with a platinum film. Iceland announces a milk based resin called Inetite with ivory-like appearance and color options.
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France
Neverrar Oy
Iceland
The Latest Fashions In Paper, Jewelry And Wearables
A vivid antique fashion note extols new handwriting papers in heliotrope with silver monograms and jet bolt motifs. It describes delicate underwear with velvet colors, metal open work wrist bands, ribbon bows for shoulder fans, and long rannon handles echoing champagne corks, with playful nods to Widow Cliquot.
World telegraph and railway notes and a giant Fresno tree
The article notes the Northern Pacific Railroad operates about eighteen hundred miles of telegraph lines and mentions an underground telephone cable planned between Berlin and Munich. It also cites Japan's growing telephone popularity and a London Paris wire silence issue. It reports Calcutta to Bombay copper wire completion on a Bengal Nagpore line, totaling about 1,300 miles. A Fresno County find describes the largest tree, circumscribed by a mile radius, measured with a rope 129 feet long, near Kentucky Meadows after a rugged mountain chase.
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Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Berlin
Munich
Germany
Japan
London
Paris
Annals of Indian Telegraphy
Calcutta
Bombay
Bengal-Nagpore
Fresno County
Sierras
Centerville
Kentucky Meadows
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Colms
Estado de Colima
Prescott
H Gerwein
Benson
John Wasson
Pomona
Cal
Vharky Platte Aid Wife
Bisbee
Marshaw
James Howell
San Mateo
A Wentworth
F M McKay
Alice White
Phoenix
Dr. Helm
Grand Army
Tennessee
Southern California
WD Moomonier
Tom Allison
Alvord
FM McKay
H E Lea
Adispatch
Jay Gould
Arizona
Bie Health
John Miano
Frank Broad
Bondemen
Lewis Vidal
RW Wood
Revidente
Mintre
Memean War Association
William H. Pope
Kentucky
City of
Mexico
W. H. Pope
City National Bank
Lowieville
Pope
Wicinity
Ehrenberg
Mohave
Colorado River
Rnorent
Ymale
Mh AS
Telephone and Telegraph
Solomon Looce
Rampeis
Masonic Hall
Brothers i
Ll. Ghow
SIS GG
Nowneo
Avotrn Coun
HP. F. Lo
Aritona Lodge
Heguar
Ic Masonic Hall
Cor Lly
Farninas
Rand
Onl
Washington Campo. PO
Mannitt
E. Romiex
William Heewing
Howard “Herring
Herring & Herring
EA Law
Toughout Street
Anne
Henry G. Howe
American Insitute
Culanns
Boury
F. N. Wolcott
A. T
BEND
Logue Awe Pecatlas Engine Works
Indianaeo Led
Cochise Hardiate Ali Trading Co
Allen St
Bet
Ibner
Scribner's Magazine
Eg Eran
Charles Scribner's Sons
AT. S.C. Bagg
Joseph Hoefler
General Merchandise
Fifth and
Fremont Streets
Thoraande
Geary Frasciace
Ingen
Sas
Bes
A. R. Meyer
Treas
N. Witherell
Towne
el Paso Smelting Works
Paso
Texas
Consolidated Kansas City Smelting & Refining Co
Capital
D. D. Potter
General Purchasing Gateh
EL A. Truk
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