Extraordinary Montana Elk Ride By Jim Johnson In 1868
The Warren Mail recounts Jim Johnson of Montana riding a wild elk without saddle or bridle. While hunters startled the herd, the elk bucked wildly, tossing Johnson onto a buck and carrying him into thick brush. He survived but vowed never to attempt such a feat again, earning the nickname Elk Jim among companions.
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Missouri River
Montana
Jefferson River
James Johnson
Jim
Johnson
Cor
Chicago
Inter-Ocean
It Costs to Run a Locomotive Under Ordinary Conditions
Averages show oil, coal, and maintenance per mile for locomotives. The piece notes high rail weights, durable ties, and a heavy road-bed as essential, with 8 to 10 percent rail renewal yearly depending on road conditions.
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Benjamin Norton
Scribner’s Magazine
Viscal Compound Promises Longer Lasting Leather
A report on Viscol, a viscid leather treatment by California State University chemists, blending chloride of sulfur with fatty substances. The coating preserves leather from air water and chemicals, resists evaporation and dries hard wear, and may reduce rubber demand with durable pliable hides. San Francisco tanners note improved durability and water resistance, though adoption awaits broader tests.
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Sommer
California State University
California
San Francisco
Cor
Shoe and Leather Review
Gulf Stream Animal Life Shows Vast Oceanic Microfauna
Ralph St Tarr notes surface Gulf Stream waters teem with tiny organisms. Nets capture countless microscopic forms including young jellyfish barnacle larvae and crustaceans. Toothless whales feed by straining these minute life forms which sustain most whale species.
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Gulf Stream
Ralph St. Tarr
Popular Science Monthly
Antique Wares and Oddities From Modern Crafters
A column notes sham antiquities produced to fool buyers with 200 or 300 year old wares. It cites worm eaten furniture, old keys, gilt items, and even Paris shop forgeries casting coins and clocks. Also mentions a blue man in Laurens County Georgia known as Blue Billy.
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Paris
Jeweler’s Weekly
Dublin
Laurens County
Billy
Salve Advertises Cure All for Bruises and Sores
A Morck Drug Store ad touts a universal salve for bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It promises a guaranteed refund if not satisfied and states a price of 25 cents per box.
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Henry, Johnson & Lord
Propristera
Burlington
Humorous Epigrams From a Bygone Era
A collection of short wits and ironies from a past newspaper page. Jests touch on dentists, sleep, Samson, and a Greece letter, with quips about a government clerk and etiquette. Interlaced dialogue highlights social foibles and a lawyer’s looming bill.
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Austin
Samson
Greece
Life Insurance Company
Cynthia Musx
Satirical Squirbs and Snippets of Urban Wit
A collection of quick quips and vignettes on marriage, love, work, and society. Jokes range from the model husband stereotype to the perils of parting with an acquaintance, with lines about bank cashiers, circuses, and a Greensburg man seeking a marriage license.
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Larrie Dick
Jack
Pop
Ropper
Outlaws
Greensburg
Women Inventors: New Devices by Mrs Kendal Miss Proctor and Others
A survey of female innovation cites Mrs Kendal as lamp and shade inventor earning profits from sales, Miss Proctor of Lima Ohio with a process to extract illuminating gas from Lima oil, a New York banker’s wife selling wire rope patent to a San Francisco firm for 25000 plus royalties, and others. A Dorchester Miss Phelps patents a hand refrigerator lunch box with three and a half pounds of ice lasting seventeen hours. Mrs Exon D Mitts promotes women in industry and patents a typewriter attachment resembling an engine governor that halts machine action.
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BuaNcHe
San Francisco
Miss Phelps
Dorchester
Mass
Exon D. Mitts
New York
Stockton serial to appear in our columns soon
The paper announces its exclusive rights to publish Nicholl illustrated work by Stockton a leading American writer. Readers are promised a charming serial with original plots humor and delightful characters by the noted author and will see it in their home paper before other metropolitan papers.
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Nicholl
Stockton
The Stories of the Three Burglars Opening Chapters
Mr. Stockton sustains a long earned reputation with the American public as he presents the opening chapters of this great story. The narrative promises continued popularity and engaging developments for readers.
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Stockton
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