Prospectors uncover ancient stone implement factory site
Prospectors in the Laremie range of Wyoming discover an old stone implement factory in foothills. Agate bed on sandstone capped by limestone yielded flakes and remains of mining and encampments. Also a court decision in Silver Bow county clarifies placer claims allow locating quartz leads within unclaimed placer ground. Satire from editors notes arranged marriages across regions.
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Laremie Range
Wyoming
McHatton
Silver Bow County
Fire safety conversation echoes in playful exchange
A lighthearted dialogue between George and a partner imagines a house fire scenario. He says his first impulse would be to protect her and then try to extinguish the flames. She questions whether rushing across the room would waste time.
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George
Whimsical Verse Snippets Echo Vague Statesman Images
The fragment shows satirical lines about a statesman shaped by trivial notes and seeds of hay. A playful exchange mocks language and social pretenses with scattered dialect and mock dialogue, referencing a German dining room remark and coffee humor.
Rejected Love and Notable Horticulture Highlights
A tale contrasts Shakespearean wit on rejection with a tale of romantic elopement and a nobleman’s rise. Eleven fruit trees from Los Angeles arrive for Chicago’s Horticultural Building, including a 128 year old San Diego palm. Also notes a mining patent publication rule and legal notice implications for Beaver Creek and nearby counties.
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California
Chicago
Interior Court
Horticultural Building
Los Angles
Cal
San Diego
Rattlesnake Mine Terror in Colusa County
Prof William Watts of the state mining bureau recounted a Colusa county trip to a quicksilver mine where a tunnel held numerous rattlesnakes. He and a companion escaped unharmed after a panicked retreat with snakes killed later by a pursuing party. Watts notes a geological hammer fails against a tunnel full of snakes and jokes a Gatling gun would be needed.
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William Watts
State Mining Bureau
San Francisco Examiner
Colusa County
Watts
Boston Surgeon Removes Inhaled Bean From Child
In an Massachusetts General Hospital amphitheater, Dr. John W. Elliott operated on a three year old who inhaled a bean into the right bronchus. A tracheotomy and careful forceps work removed the bean after several attempts. Immediate relief followed and the child is practically well.
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Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
John W. Elliott
Temperance Miner Wears Lizard Scarf Pin To Chicago
A Colorado miner and temperance advocate arrived in Chicago from Florida with a chameleon on a gold chain as a scarf decoration. A traveling companion witnessed the incident, prompting laughter and the other man to flee to the elevator, declaring no more liquor.
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Colorado
Chicago
Florida
Chicago News
Pope Loses Will Case Against French Heirs
The pope failed in an appeal over a will left by Marquis de Plessis-Belliere who named him sole legatee. French officials argued the pope, as sovereign, cannot own property in France and that post 1870 his sovereignty is merely spiritual, not property rights.
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Marquis de Plessis-Belliere
Procureur
France
Tie
It Shoulda Be In Every House by J. B. Wilson
A local notice promotes Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds claiming it cured a wife’s pneumonia after La Grippe and cites Robert Barber of Cooksport Pa praising its efficacy. Free trial bottles offered at J R Weston’s Store with large Sieeter bottles.
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J. B. Wilson
Clay Street
Sharpsburg
Dr. King
Robert Barber
Cooksport
J. R. Weston’s
Sieeter
Unhappy People Troubles of Jewish Colonists in Argentina
A Jewish Progress report describes Russian Jewish colonies in Argentina facing hostility and persecution from locals and Orthodox sectors. It notes poor climate, unmet expectations, unfriendly government stance, and rising opposition to Baron Hirsch’s beneficiaries, while suggesting other nations close doors to Jews and praising the United States as a safe haven amid broader global anti Semitism.
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Ar- Republic
Gentine
Argentine Republic
Baron Hirsch
Baron Ilirsch
Argentine
Europe
Russia
New York Sun
Turkey
Palestine
Austria
Germany
France
England
Spain
Italy
Ireland
Africa
Algeria
Sleighing in Atlanta A Winter Oddity
The Atlanta Journal notes rare sleighing last winter with improvised runners from gas pipes and planks. Citizens crafted a hogshead cutter, a cushion sled with a pony, a river skiff style sleigh, a double sleigh with children, six rocking chair bobs, and two dignified men riding a greased rockaway.
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Atlanta
King Gambrinus
Esquimaux
Leeland
Haskell Cabinet Relics Gifted to Milwaukee Public Museum
The Haskell cabinet, claimed by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat as the best western collection of American prehistoric relics, was donated by its owner to the Milwaukee Public Museum. It features about six thousand items including arrow and spear heads, tomahawks, slate idols, Aztalan brick, copper tools, wood pipes, shell artifacts, and a noteworthy group of 126 celts and fleshers. Copper implements total two to three hundred, many from Wisconsin, and a scooplike gouge aided canoe and mortar making.
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America
Haskell
Milwaukee Public Museum
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Wisconsin
Fifty One Metals Known Today Versus Four Hundred Years Ago
The article surveys scientific trivia from kerosene as animal oil to the vast number of metals now known, notes ice at the pole and possible planetary systems, and mentions life span theories and color related fish behavior. It concludes with an experimental light brick using clay sand and sawdust pressed and baked.
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North Pole
Slufeland
Sayings and Doings Chronicle Oddities and Pranks
A miscellany of notes reports Mrs Lexnre Wittiams elected state librarian by the Tennessee legislature Samve. a Journal of Education piece questions English pronunciation and spelling. A Maverick bank clerk Potter is convicted on numerous counts. William Greenwood bets 25000 he can paddle Niagara rapids in a flat boat. A London paper offers two guinea prize for best baby definition with a cheeky reply. The New York Mail and Express mocks Sunday spelling change from Sunday to Sun noting weather and faith shifts.
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Lexnre Wittiams
Tennessee
Samve
Ramsey
Journal of Education
Potter
Maverick Bank
William Greenwood
Germantown
Niagara Falls
London
New York Mail and Express
Puck Cartoon Dialogues and Wordplay Snippets
A sequence of witty sketches from Puck style satire includes exchanges about dreaming life waking up awkward walks hoopskirts and duels slang and props about an apology error in grammar. Jests mix playful banter and mock seriousness with humorous boiler dialogue and puns.
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Ger Kip
Hix
France
Jack Willing
Texas Convict Substitutes Allowed in Camps
A Texas report notes convicts in camps may hire substitutes to work for them. It mentions Cuanes, duke of Orleans, as an early valentines writer and recalls Saint Valentine’s Day customs in England. Mary Parker of Montreal was jailed and fined for desertion from George E. Small’s service. Nearby, Sante Prick of Bowling Green, Kentucky, spent four years cataloging Warren County flora, listing eighty eight orders and six hundred fifty species.
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Texas
Cuanes
Duke of Orleans
Montreal
Mary Parker
George E. Small
Vavennisn
England
Mies Sante Prick
Bowling Green
Warren County
First Sunday Schools and Early American Innovations
The piece recalls Robert Raikes opening the first Sunday school in Gloucester in 1781 and the first American Sunday school in Hanover County Virginia in 1786. It notes the 1789 Beverly cotton factory and a 1789 Hartford woolen mill with Byfield Massachusetts being established by 1794.
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Robert Raikes
Gloucester
England
America
Hanover County
New York
Rhode Island
India
China
Arabia
Egypt
Asia
Europe
United States
Beverly
Hartford
Conn
Byfield
Masa
Dr King’s New Discovery for Coughs and Colds
A vintage drug advertisement promotes Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds with a money back guarantee. It offers free trial bottles at J R Weston’s Drug Store and sells larger sizes for 50 cents and 1 dollar.
Electric Bitters Leads in Pure Medicinal Tonic Use
A Leader. Electric Bitters has rapidly gained favor since its introduction and now leads among tonics and alteratives. It is described as pure medicine for stomach, liver, and kidney ailments and claimed to cure sick headache indigestion and constipation while driving malaria from the system. Satisfaction guaranteed.
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Miss Surtees
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Park
Louis
Radersburg
Maskell
Milwaukee
W.E. Tierney & CO
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Stinson & CO
Portland
District Court
Frank Henry
Park and Meagher
Park County
Meagher County
Ical
Bucklen
R. Weston
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Dearborn St
Helena
VIA
Carvor
Diamond City
Missouri River
Court Bssheriff
Spreprieten
Thomas Dixon
Broapwar
Thomas Eoe
Sitestica
Idaho Stage Company
Castle
Neilhart
W. E. Tierney & Co
White Sulphur Springs
Postoffice
William Wood
R. C. Watsor
A. M. D'Arcy & CO
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