Lynching at Rawlins Overpowers Three Outlaws in Barroom Siege
A Wyoming town erupts in a brutal lynching of Joseph Chambers Jack Willis and Wat Simmons after three gunmen seize a tavern and terrorize locals. Fire and pursuit follow as Chambers escapes by river, later killed while fleeing. the tale ends with the survivor settling in Abilene and denying the memory before a Texas acquaintance.
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Ogalalla
Union Pacific Railroad
Rawlins
Mad End
United States
Joseph Chambers
Jack Willis
Wat Simmons
Hawlins
Chambers
Fort Fred Stead
Platte River
Winchester Riic
Nave
Raw- Has
Llesperadoes
Murderers’ Row
Platte
Lawlins
Abilene
Texas
Joe Chambers
Sweet Potato Pudding Recipe Verse from New York Snickerbocker
A fragment from the New York Snickerbocker offers a lyrical household recipe for sweet potato pudding. It paints a poetic method with steps to wash peel grate and mix sweet potatoes with spices then bake, recalling days past and culinary aspiration.
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New York
Mrs Cleveland's Brown Bread Recipe
The Presidents wife shares a simple brown bread method using Indian meal rye flour and molasses. Mix a bowl of Indian meal a bowl of rye flour a large cup of molasses a teaspoonful of soda a tablespoonful salt steam two and a half hours then bake from twenty minutes to thirty minutes depending on oven heat.
Useful Household Hints From Everyday Cures and Cautions
A compilation of practical tips covering odor removal with celery, polishing brass with shellac varnish, silencing creaky beds with old newspapers, cleaning bags and nets, testing cake doneness by sound, brightening faded Brussels carpets with ox gall, controlling canary mites with flannel and scalding, treating sprains with hot water therapy, lampwick adjustments for steady flame, and replacing wicks to ensure even burning. Practical, period tone guidance with named remedies and methods.
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Brussels
Canaries
Brinton
London barber shaves fifty in an hour for $75 bet
Teddy Wick, a Lon don barber, aimed to shave fifty men in sixty minutes for seventy five dollars. He allegedly completed seventy seven in under an hour, winning the wager. His pace split into twenty one in fifteen minutes, fourteen in the next quarter hour, nineteen in the third period, and twenty three in the final fourteen minutes and seven seconds.
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Teddy Wick
London
Jie
Itty
Parlor Tricks and Curious Exhibitions of Natural Science
A Boston journal excerpt describes winter entertainments of stage tricks and simple science demonstrations. It details magnetism-like paper tests, bread under hats, electric paper experiments, moving camphor, a suspended ring with salt thread, an upright egg stunt, inverted water glass feats, and other curiosities like impossible balances and hidden objects found inside trees.
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Boston Zfrel
No Man's Land A Frontier In Need Of Government
A Washington correspondent describes No Man's Land south of Kansas and Colorado as a vast, lawless tract of 3,687,410 acres where no state or territory holds jurisdiction. Despite absence of legal title or formal government, about 19,000 American farmers have settled towns, built schools and churches, and maintained order by voluntary norms, seeking a territorial government from Congress.
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Washington
New York
Kansas
Colorado
Indian Territory
New Mexico
No Man's Land
United States
Q. G. Chase
Congress
Cimarron
Physic in Japan and the Amma massage practice
A Tokian letter describes the amma or professional shampooer as a body healer performing full body kneading, massage, and reflexive therapy beyond scalp care. The piece contrasts amma with ancient Chinese practitioners, notes Western medical influence at Tokyo University, and warns of rising European import alcohol and its social impact in Japan.
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W. J Holland
Tokio
Cincinnati
Myers
Dipan
Otis
Tolb
Aginas
Amina
Les
Fiton
Rae
Anime
Prac
Imperial University of
Japan
Ammi
University of
Tekioa
Elephant Gift to Shah of Persia Described as Fine Domestic Wonder
An elephant sent by Lord Dufferin to the Shah of Persia as a gift is described as a very fine animal, gorgeously caparisoned and attended by thirty Hindoo attendants.
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Lord Dufferin
Persia
Unclear 19th Century scientific notes on nature and invention
Fragmented article reports various topics including Kilimanjaro height debates, private mineral collections, textile experts, grafting rabbits, metric standards, Thames vessels powered by petroleum fumes, a waiter rail car invention, and an atmospheric cloud phenomenon seen in San Francisco with telephony disturbances.
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Kilimanigea
Africa
Pr. A. Meyer
I Diehnsie
George Fyaing
Iineralogst
New York Cty
Lyon
Mrisuncin
St. Peterstrg
Roel
von Uippel
Ophwivel Society
Hyidelbu Germany
Mi EL A. Ravenstein
Denmark
Hussia
Europe
Thames
Spe
San Francisco
Li Clon Chin Dita
Bismarck Story From Youthful Days Recalls Bold Pranks
A reminiscence recounts a house party where a young Bismarck ordered a lieutenant thrown into a pig pen. Mildebrand, present in the tale, stood firm as the act was carried out, drawing laughter and bets among officers. The speaker, Thia Jitdebrand, later settled in Wisconsin after arriving in America.
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Thia Jitdebrand
Bismarck
America
Wisconsin
Lildebrand
Mildebrand
Leldebrand
Alpine Lakelet Marsalen in Alps Vanishes After Dam Break
An Alpine basin lakelet known as Marsalen, 7,700 feet up in the Alps near Ut Aletsch glacier, was described as 300 yards wide with nineteen feet depth. The next day it vanished as Dam Ka-dam released water, flooding valleys below and raising Tthone levels. Outbursts occur irregularly, about every seven years, with the latest in September prompting proposals for an artificial outlet to halve the lake’s capacity.
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Alps
Sound Blindness and Speech Difficulties in Reading
An educational writer explains sound blindness as a barrier in learning to spell and pronounce foreign words. The concept mirrors color blindness, affecting the ability to distinguish fine sound shades, illustrated by a boy who could not hear the difference between very, terry and polly.
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Terry
Polly
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Tex
Rus
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Dole
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