A Heathen's Courage The Chinaman Hero Saves Ranchman's Life
In Denver News an escaped Chinese immigrant named Ching Lee hides in a farmer's wagon near Golden during riots. He overhears two robbers plotting, attacks with a pump handle, and helps capture them with rancher Goldsmith. Both attackers are wounded, the pair are jailed, and Ching is offered a farmstead to escape persecution, becoming a respected fruit-grower.
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Denver Newa
Ching Lee
Golden
Colential
Goldsmith
Ching
Stu
Ganl Ching
Denver
Chine
Canyon
Rane
Gun Tales From a Texas Editor in a Wild Hunt
A Texas editor named Sterrett and a breech loading shotgun join a Henderson County camp hunt. The gun's report sounds like an alligator chewing a razorback as six shots echo through the woods. Sterrett’s spur changes and misadventures near a mule are described with his injuries noted as minor yet eventful.
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Texas
Tyler
Texas Courier
Storrett
Dallas Tutts Haa
Winchester
Sterrett
Henderson County
Riggt
Ako
Umpt
Sterritt
Hunter Sterrett in pursuit with horse-pistol on hunt
A pursuer Sterrett uses a horse-pistol as a gun to gain the advantage in a multi day hunt. The party lingered several days but failed to drive the hounds into the woods with Sterrett in the lead.
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Sterrett
Fatal warning tale of a girl who saw her mother spirit
An 1662 account from Sir Charles Les relates a daughter who claims a mother apparition foretelling her death. The girl describes a midnight visitation by a spectral mother, a final gaze at twelve, a sealed letter for her father, and a swift death at Waltham Essex. The narrative notes no further similar events in the following years.
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John Beaumont
Sir Charles Les
Gloucester
Sir Charles
Everard
Mss Lee
William Perkins
Miss Lee
Evarard
Chelmsford
Waltham
Essex
Warwickshire
Edmonton
Hough
A Strange Community in Isolated Village Viorle
A reader describes Viorle a tiny isolated town founded in 1963 by religious dissenters. It enforces commonism with no personal property, strict communal living, twelve elder rulers, common housing, and no marriage. Stores exist only as large brick buildings, with rations distributed from central warehouses.
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Viorle
Lobsi
Prrate Housas
Viarle
Thors
Ideal Measurements For A Perfect Figure
Popular Science Monthly defines a classic figure with heights of five feet four and a half inches for women and five feet five inches for a queenly figure. Bust measures around thirty two inches, waists near twenty four, arm-pit to waist nine inches, plus long arms and neck. Hands and feet should not be too small.
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Popular Science Monthly
Living Testimony On Hunts Kidney and Liver Remedy
A collage of testimonials claims Hunts Kidney and Liver Remedy cured kidney and back pains, water trouble, and cold symptoms. Sufferers from Ohio, Connecticut, and New York describe relief after multiple bottles, praising the plant-based formula and urging others to try it.
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BackSmith
Beatty
Berlin
Woodbury
Blacksarth
Wanchester
Hunt
Krigney
Columbus
Abe
Forn Kimball
New London
Conn
Walte
Providence
Amputation and a Patent Remedy Promotion
Fragmented OCR text promotes David Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy for blood purification and health restoration. It touts amputation risk, warns against infection, and endorses Kennedy and Dr David Kenney of Rondout New York as proponents, with vague medical claims and a one dollar bottle offer.
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WLY
Tate
Umpuriate
David Kennedy
Rondont
Saab
Elsworth
David Kenney
Rondout
Nly
Gilmore's Aromatic Wine Promises Vitality For Women
A long reader letter praises Gilmore's Aromatic Wine as a cure for female weakness and debility. Tests report that various individuals in Nebraska and New York states claim relief from malaria, nervousness, sleep troubles, and general weakness after using the remedy. The ad-style note urges families to obtain the product through A. W. Motck & Co.
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Olan
Gilmore
Loomis
Elba
Gumore
B. Emell
Pavillion
Gilmowh
W Fisk Requa
Aurora
Karris Peck
Derby
Vinden
N. Y
Freeland
Fowlerville
E. J. Whitney
Clarkson
L. H. McIntire
Daggetts Mills
Gilmobre
A. W. Motck & Co
Administrators Notice in the Estate of Jules McVolum
An administrators notice announces the estate of Jules McVolum of Manfield Frechoin county Minnesota deceased. It directs all with debts to pay promptly and all creditors to file their claims with the administrator in Russell Warren Co. for settlement under Cum Testamento Annexe. Dated 1825.
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Jules McVolum
Manfield
Frechoin County
State of Minnesota
Fenns
Ivana
Nan Ghase
Russell
Warren Co
HOWE
Howe Co
Howe Sewing Machine CO
No. 4
Sixth St
Pittsburgh
Pat
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