Struggles on the Train: Grizzly Dan and Logwood Duel
Passengers on a stalled train near Mono witness a tense standoff with a Jersey painter and an uneasy Indian killer named Logwood. The heated scene includes weapons, boasts, and comic bravado as bystanders react to the looming duel before the voyage resumes. A second item notes Missouri crop data for 1876 and a baby elephant born at Forepaugh's menagerie in Germantown, Pa.
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New York Sun
Mono
Ilo
Gelaely
Mle
Travellera
Jeraey City
Attonlehment
Coyote
Grizzly Dan
Crook
Black Hills
Matty
Painter
Jersey
Costa
Jorseylie
Duvad
Rene
Ulinuia
Aceon
Geen
Ile
Logwood
Lin Doom
Germantown
Value of Wood Types for Home Fuel and Furnishings
An 19th century home magazine advises on fuel value of woods, noting shell bark hickory as a high standard and soil effects on durability. It extols books as essential home furnishings, laments luxury carpets, and praises sun and education over vice. It also comments on temperance and moral improvement, recommending sunshine as a tonic and arguing for gentle upbringing and manners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FireWeek
Card labeled gin jug sparks club suit warnin
A man buys gin and tags the jug with his name on a card showing the seven of clubs. A passerby jokes that leaving the liquor with a club card is careless. The man replies that someone might steal it if the eight of clubs comes along.
Easter Customs Through England in Old Times
Easter Monday rites include children parading around churches in charity schools, while men lift women in streets and women reciprocate on Tuesday. Puddings at public houses and egg traditions, adornments, games, and egg striking with tallying trophies reflect ancient practices linked to Easter renewal.
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Eegland
Micholas
Achouls
Durhate
Kent
Adlink
Keaser Evga
Recipes for Baked Rice and Roast Deer
The passage describes a baked rice dish using rice, butter, salt, egg, and milk baked until browned, then a recipe for a sliced roast deer with carrots cucumbers three Irish potatoes and a butter thickened sauce. It provides rough measurements and method for texture and tenderness. The text reflects old kitchen techniques with informal terms and typographic errors.
Tea party miscue with General Butler misunderstood
A London paper reports a humorous scene at an Alta Washington tea party where General Butler missed a needed utensil. The hostess questions his cup still unfurnished, prompting a lively exchange and a rapid defense by the general amid comic confusion.
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Alta
Washington
Butler
Duther
London
Texan hotel ad stretches odd children welcome notice
A local hotel proprietor posts a curious ad praising child welcome with bizarre rules and misprinted phrases. The fragment hints at furniture renewal, velvet carpets, and odd allowances for desert portions, suggesting a satirical or garbled historic notice.
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Nevada
Comumisasioner of Agriculture
Missouri
Valive
Tore
Banley
Florence
Nightingule
Dublin
Nova
Hoya
Tome
Wil
Owen Weeneereeas
Ceeeseeseeneseenenenens ’ Murel Hops
CMM
Ovanese
Cem
Sinan
Leon Rene
G. Wunder
Simmons
Macon
DR. C. Milane
C. MU Lane
C. NM Lane
MY Lane
C. MP
Dr. C. MY Laxu
Fleming
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