Camel Experiment Described as Failure in Southwest
The article recounts how army camel use in the Southwest failed after drivers refused to train with the beasts. Camels were abandoned on forts from Verde to Yuma and later sold to bring salt and ore. Some escaped and roamed deserts near Maricopa Wells, with mules sometimes shooting them in self defense. By 1882 a few wild camels remained near the Arizona Sonora border, described as aging and white.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson Davis
Mohammed
Davis
United States
Verde
el Paso
Yuma
Texas
Fort Tegon
Benicia
Arizona
Sonora
International Boundary Commission
Mexico
New Mexico
Gee Whizi PA Sued For Breach Of Promises
Chicago May 17 Mrs Louise Elfert won a $10,000 judgment for breach of promise against Frederick Schneider. A reporter reported the news to the Schneiders at home. Miss Schneider, about 18, reacted with disbelief and gossip about her father and the widow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Louise Elfert
Frederick Schneider
Schneider
Miss Schneider
Short
Fashion of the House Sparks Servant Boot Incident
A farmhouse servant is asked to clean boots for Sunday. The mistress throws the boots into a water tub after the girl cleans her own, prompting the girl to do the rest, saying she followed the fashion of the house. The tale appears in London Tit-Bits.
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Ctr
London
London Origins and Silk Trade Highlight Historic Myths and Costs
The piece traces London's ancient naming myths from Lynden to Caer-Lud and Londinium, notes Roman foundations in AD 61, and recalls silk’s rarity and high value in antiquity. It cites Tiberius era laws restricting silk to nobles and Heliogabalus observations of a silk gown, with Charlemagne gifting silk coats in 780.
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Wardn
London
Lynden
Llyndin
Brute
Aeneas
New Troy
Lud
Europe
Tiberius
Heliogabalus
Charlemagne
Offa
Mercia
Death Gulch: deadly ravine in Yellowstone’s northeast corner
A harsh tale of Death Gulch a V shaped ravine in Yellowstone National Park Wyoming where poisonous vapors rising from sulphur deposits in a bed of travertine kill animals entering the gulch despite its sheltering forest. Geological notes describe eroded basins volcanic ejecta and saline pools feeding the toxic vapors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming
Death Gulch
Cache Creek
Rocky Mountains
Gul¢Y
Silent Barber Seeks Quiet Partner Visit
A Yonkers Statesman quip notes a garrulous barber proposing a partner with a witty twist. The man agrees to a silent arrangement and plans a return visit.
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Yonkers Statesman
Insult to Injury in a Comic Exchange
In a Detroit Free Press style remark Trivyet notes Bickers has a hard hearted wife. Dicer asks what happened. The wife broke the broomstick over Bickers head and forced him to buy another at the store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bickers
Trivyet
Dicer
Detroit
Free Presa
Handwriting personality questioned by Pall Mall Gazette
The Pall Mall Gazette questions whether a writer's mind shapes handwriting. Examples include Thackeray neat writing, Keats and Gray legible scripts, Carlyle untidy scribble, and Napoleon whose directness belies unreadable penmanship. The piece suggests letter size alone reveals little about character.
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Anthorsa
Pall Mall Gazette
Thackeray
Keats
Gray
Tom Moore
Leigh Hunt
Sir Walter Scott
Anthony Trollope
Professor Tyndall
Carlyle
Victor Hugo
Browning
Tennyson
Napoleon
Macready
Recipe Secrets of Elizabethan Cordials and Perfumes
The text recounts a 300 year old cookbook method for Sir Walter Raleigh’s cordial water using strawberries and brandy with sugar or perfume. It also describes Queen Elizabeth's favored perfume, blending compound water, sugar, marjoram, benjamin, and benzoin, boiled softly and dried in the sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter
Elizabeth
Mason Teaches Touch and Technic at Studio 89
Dr. William Mason offers instruction in touch and technique for artistic singing at Musice Studio 89 on Council Street in Tucson Arizona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Mason Touch
Technic Lebert & Stark
Siren Musice
Council St
Tucson
Ariz
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Matilija Springs
California
Ss. P. Creasinger
Matilijsa
Ventura County, Cal
Jaeger
Southern Pacific Hotel
San Xavier Hotel
Bowie Railroad
Bowile Station
Nogales, Arizona
Kansas City
Lj.f. Saeger
Fea
Raleigh
E. A. James
Johnson
and Johnson
Geo. Martin
Cer
John I. Reilly
F. D
Robert Hennessy Reilly
Hennessy
Chicago College of Embalming
Church
St. Michael and Arctic Points
Garonne
San Francisco
Lyra
Frank Waterhouse & Co
Chronicle Building
Cal
Goldbaum
Sje
Gardiner, Worthen @ Goss
Fleishman’s
Zeigler’s
Barkley’s
East
Congress Street
Brady-Schneider Commission CO
South Stone Avenue
Aes
Yume County
Addeass
Yumen
Roberts’ Restaurant
Windsor Hote
M. Roberts
Geo. C. Williams
Zellner Piano Co
E. Congress
Central Park Floral Company
Spring Street
Los Angeles
Yama
Yama Bakery
W.H. Shorey
Rel
John D. Burgess
P. O. Box
Tucson, Ariz
Congress St
H. Briggs
F. J. Villaescusa
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