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Newspaper
Wadsworth Dispatch
Location
Wadsworth, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1893
Page
4
A tramp begs a quarter from a busy editor who credits a subscriber with a wood account. The man asks for his name and the editor replies in wordplay, saying he can free a poor man a quarter but the name is Muggins as he returns to work at the Detroit newspaper office.
An obscured fragment recalls a hunter shouting for a servant to hurry with a gun. The speaker boasts fifteen years of experience and claims never to have seen an elephant with a trunk like that.
A jumbled collage of prosaic vignettes and odd anecdotes references a dim eastern dusk, a lone feathered songster, a shadowy figure in a train car, and a dramatic dressing room incident. Detached remarks mention a Detective Colonel Wither and a London Hebrew painter Solowom with royal academy ties, plus humorous quips about Nelson's column and Willowsnap in New Jersey.
An advertisement promotes travel with the Rio Grande Western Railway offering three routes and famed scenery. It urges readers to send 25 cents to J. H. Bennett in Salt Lake City for a copy of an illustrated book about Utah’s mountainous scenery.
A tribute notes Daniel F Beatty Jr of Washington New Jersey risen from penniless plow boy in 1870 to leading maker and seller of Beatty Pianos and Organs. The article cites plans to sell about 200000 more instruments in ten years and claims the business as the largest of its kind.
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