Tippecanoe Era Begins with a Seeker in Corydon
In a rugged Indiana wilderness setting after the Tippecanoe battle a young England-born man named David Lawrence seeks work and purpose. He befriends the elderly Mr. O Bannon and his daughter Toinette, meets Colonel Posey and Doctor Ellett, and begins a new life by joining Spencer’s Yellow Jackets and a Corydon trade venture while confronting questions of vengeance, virtue, and frontier fate.
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England
America
Irog
Corsdon
Corydon
New Orleans
Toinette
Ireland
David Lawrence
Dawid
Mr. O'Bannon
Conrad
Worruk
David
Colonel Posey
Thomas Posey
Virginia
Mr. Lawrence
O'Bannon
Lawrence
Tonette
Toinette O'Bannon
Spencer
Yellow Jackets
William Henry Harrison
O'Bannons
Doctor Ellett
Louisville
Elliott
Speaker's Tavern
Colonel Poweyl
One Room Village Store Opens with Silken Talk
In a rustic Virginia village a one room shop opens led by widowed trader David Lawrence the village’s first store. The scene features a local tone with a humorous inquiry about silk described as very dear and a renowned, tall priest of trade overseeing the shop.
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Addeace
Colonel Posey
David Lawrence
Corydon Becomes Early Capitol on Ohio Frontier
In a remote Ohio frontier cluster north of the Ohio River, Corydon rises around a new stone house intended as the first capitol. The vast virgin forest borders a barren yet fertile land where Daniel Boone’s kin, Squire Boone, and other frontier figures converge as Louisville and Vindnoes shape the settlement scene.
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Corydon
Ohio
Great Lakes
Louisville
Vindnoes
Western Mining and Oil News scope and Arizona activity
Western Mining and Oil News reports metal prices in New York and ore values for bar silver, lead, copper, and tungsten concentrates. It notes active operations at Kemple properties, Sison and Diana mines near Wickenburg and Chloride, Arizona Commercial Mining’s bid to double protection by mid 1917, and Steffy mill construction at Chloride. Florence deal for Red Hills copper properties near $100,000, 1916 Arizona mine output near $202 million, and January ore production in Telluride. Continued exploration in Silver Plume, Rice district, Delineator and Black Prince areas, and renewed activity at Lombard mines and Fall River tunnels. Discussions of cyanide, flotation, and new reduction systems boost Boulder county mining prospects as winter brings notable ore finds and shipments from Silverton and Red Mountain districts.
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Arizona
Kemple
Sison
Wickenbure
Chloride
Arizona Commercial Mining Company
Miami
Florence
G. T. Nichols
San Francisco
Pittsburg
Red Hills
Victor C. Heikes
United States Geological Survey
Colorado
Bell
Ophir Loop
Silver Plume
Upper Clear Creek
Rice District
Day Brothers and Arms
Passiftora Mining Company
White Hill
Custer County
Delineator
Duncan Brothers
Black Prince Group
Feberite
Bouldercafton
Idaho Springs
H. L Seeman
Lombard Mines
Seeman
Fall River
Doulder
Boulder County
Silverton
Congress
Red Mountain District
Women Of Middle Age Seek Relief With Remedy
A regional notice urges middle aged women to try Finkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for long standing ailments. It cites fatigue, headaches, backaches, dizziness, and irregularities along with weakness and constipation as improveable conditions. Produced by E Pickham Medicine Co. of Lynn Massachusetts.
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Finkham
Fr E. Pickham Medicine Co
Ttal
Lynn
Mase
Palm Beach Summer Scene and Ocean Light
A vivid Palm Beach sketch describes warm gold sand and brilliant color in sunlit shore scenes. It contrasts the sea’s glittering flesh with emeralds and sapphires in a cool solution, echoing weekly magazine imagery.
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Palm Beach
Sorella
Ers Weekly
New Mexico Mines See Early February Activity
Elmer James of Trilby property Mogollon district reports a new ore face on the lower tunnel level. Mogollon Mines Co cleaned about 16 000 ounces of gold and silver in mid February. Last Chance mine at Leidendorf unwatering main shaft under El Centro Mining and Milling. Socorro Mining and Milling shipped sixteen bars of Vallion in first half February. mill throughput exceeds 200 tons daily. Prof Fayette A. Jones proposes a State Bureau of Geology and Mines in the Legislature. Copper prices soar while silver climbs, shifting Grant County toward regional mining prominence.
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New Mexico
Elmer James
Trilby
Mogollon District
Mogollon Mines Company
Last Chance
el Centrol Mining and Milling Company
Leidendorf
Socorro Mining and Milling Company
Fayette A. Jones
State School of Mines
Socorro
Bureau of Geology and Mines
Grant County
Making Matters Worse in Corydon and Miss Julia
A fragmentary dialogue pits David against an anticipated encounter with an enemy in Corydon. It questions whether time among kind locals can ease murderous resentments while a jumbled banter centers on a pretend anger, mistaken sister, and an anti-noise soapbox gag.
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Julia
Wyoming refinery plans move forward in oil expansion
In Wyoming the Columbia Carton Company begins a pipeline to Cowley to draw gas from Utah wells at Byron. Tulsa sources confirm Consumers' Oil Company will establish three new oil refiners in Wyoming this summer, including a refinery at Greybull.
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Wyoming
Utah
Byron
Columbia Carton Company
Cowley
Tulsa
Oklo
Consumers’ Oil Company
Greybull
Celery’s Many Virtues In Daily Cookery And Uses
The article extols celery as a versatile plant suitable for cooking in many styles and also eaten raw. It notes that every part of the vegetable is useful from trimmings to seeds, which aid soups broths or celery salt. Also mentions fire dooms 20 structures hourly and a messenger boy novelty in wing pictures.
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Union News Service
New York
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