Indian allotments push for Grant county New Mexico
Reports show residents in western Grant county push to file homesteads as townships 16 to 20 range 17 west to 21 west are added to the Gila forest reserve. Arizona topics include forest reserve surveys, mining locations at Tombstone, a 500 ton concentrator at Clifton, and Phoenix area road work.
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Grant County
New Mexico
Gila Forest Reserve
Gila
Lordsburg
Gila Plains
Recorder’s Office
Tombstone
Shannon Copper Company
Clifton
Arizona
Dr King's New Life Pills Save Ailing Man
A Durham North Carolina man suffering years of stomach and liver trouble credits Dr King’s New Life Pills with saving his life and restoring health after using the product, which costs 25 cents at druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Muse
Du.ham
N. C
Dr. King
SEA FLOWERS AS PETS IN AQUARIUM TANKS
A London Answers item describes sea anemones kept in glass tanks as queer pets. The vividly colored "flowers" mimic blossoms, but are living creatures that respond to feeding by a scientist, unfurling petals and reaching for food with coordinated motions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Caine
London Cab Service
The piece explains why London cabs are safe and cheap due to strict licensing by Scotland Yard. Applicants face rigorous honesty proofs, knowledge tests, and a practical driving exam with an inspector. Successful drivers must return lost articles and avoid overcharging, ensuring passenger safety and fair fares.
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London
Scotland Yard
Jehu
New York TV
Bune
Cervantes and the Algerian Dey
The account recalls Cervantes as a captive in Algiers who plotted to free himself and thirteen others. When betrayed, he urged the captive to spare his companions, promising his own death. The dey spared him, freed him, and sent him home.
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Cervantes
Algiers
Dey
Viewpoint and Stray Stories Snippets and Quips
A collage of newspaper chatter and snappy lines. The Baltimore Herald notes a suspicious man with smoked spectacles while Miss De Pink frets over a clock needing cleaning. Atchison Globe offers a wry quip on forgetting tomorrow for today. Plus a global pennies statistic echoes in a stray item.
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Baltimore Herald
Mr. Staylate
Miss de Pink
Young Grants Colt Teasing Over a Boyhood Purchase
The tale follows eight year old Ulysses S Grant in Georgetown Ohio who aims to buy a colt from Mr. Ralston. He pursues a staged price escalation ending at 25 dollars, buys the horse, and later regales peers with the story while it is teased for cleverness. The pony later dies and is used on a ferry wheel.
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Ulysses SS. Grant
Georgetown
Ralston
Ulysses
Grant
Ohio
Kentucky
Ohio River
The Perpetual Light Lamp Of Louisiana
A traveler recounts a lamp near Bay St. Louis and Chinchuba that supposedly burns continuously. Located in marshy, desolate terrain between Lake Borgne and Mississippi Sound, it is visited quarterly for oil and upkeep and is praised as a steady beacon for mariners.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Lake Borgne
Mississippi
Bay St. Louis
Chinchuba
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Washing customs and a Parisian wedding witness scene
The piece describes Japanese laundry practices with outdoor washing and sun ironing, notes Koreans as hard workers washing many dresses, and mentions a Parisian duelist who forgets his witness role at the mayor’s marriage registry, prompting a humorous plea to avoid a marriage.
Say Jinks Sports Golf Watch Then Wears Plain Nickel Case
Quotable from the Baltimore American notes a joke about a golfer named Jinks changing from a fine golf watch to a plain nickel plated case, with a teasing remark about circumstances altering appearances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jinks
Baltimore American
Petitions to Parliament Exempt From Postage Under Two Pounds
Notices state that petitions and addresses to the sovereign or to members of Parliament are exempt from postage if they do not weigh more than two pounds. This brief rule clarifies postal privilege for official communications.
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Fort McDowell
San Carlos
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Grand Rapids
Michigan
Great West
Los Angeles
Barker Furniture
Barker Bros
Pring & Angele
W.A. Julian CO
Yee
Lemp’s
St. Louis
E. L. Shaw
Arizona News
Cananea
Ronquillo
la Mesa
United States Geological Survey
Henry Gannett
Cisco Mountain
Black Mesa
Grant Bros
Phoenix-Benson Road
Phoenix
Naco
Sonora
Fort Grant
Funston
Valley Pride Creamery
Buckeye
Pacific Coast
Grocker Building
San Francisco
Cal
London Cab Service
Chcago Post
Atchison Globe
Young Grant
Louisiana
Chicago News
Geo. Whomes
Robert Whomes
Arthur Whomes
Tucson
Col
S. Spring St
F. E&. Russell
North Ghturc St
Ramblers
Tribunes
Clevelands
Ideals
Daytone
Comfort
Monarch
Gardiner, Worthen & Goss Co
Ziegler’s
Jaeger
Southern Pacific
Yuma
San Xavier
Bowie Railroad
Bowie Station
Ariz
Nogales
Kansas City
J. J. F. Jaeger Proprietor
Crescent Cigar CO
West Congress St
Fleishman’s
E. Congress
DRUCS
George Martin
E. A. James
Tracher OF
William Mason
Lebert & Stark
Cornell St. Tucson
Steve Ochoa
Prop
Sts
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