Lost Cold Vein Found Rush to Tonopah Field
Special correspondence from Tonopah Nevada details a gold rush surge as Tonopah becomes a booming mining hub. The piece highlights the Comstock lode legacy, rapid railroad and ore movements, Senator Clark’s railroad push, and visits by Senator Nixon and other mining figures.
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Washington Post
Tonopah
Nev
Nevada
Odaville
Great Chambers
Cowitch
Comstock Lode
Nevada Awakens as Boom Sparks Tonopah Gold Rush
Dozens of powerful mines in the territory attract Eastern capitalists led by Schwab and Warner Miller. Tonopah and Goldfield see a flood of prospectors, with reports of high grade ore up to 18 000 per ton. The belt from Virginia City to Tonopah expands into Cowitch, spurring rapid investment, labor shifts, and booming prices as Nevada wakes from a twenty year lull.
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Comstock Lode
Israel
John Mackay
Nevada
Ireland
Fair
Rooney
Flood
O'Brien
Gulch
George Hearst
Ng John Mackay
United States
James Fair
Jennie Flood
Virginia City
Comstock
Ocean
Plains
Mountains
Tonopah
Eldorado
Cowitch Range
Kowitch
Cowitch
Death Valley
Pittsburg
Smioky City
Andrew ‘Carnegie
Schwab
Warner Miller
New York
Slater Bros
Washington
Mizpah Group
Goldfield
Diamond Field
Gold Mountain
Gold Reef
Gold Stater
Bull Frog
Cowitch Hills
Colorado
Montana
Oregon
Lida
Diamond Wield
Cowlich
Automatic cab fares raise laughs and grumbles in New York
In New York on March 18 a supervisor of automatic fare machines recounts cab fare quirks from drivers and patrons. Tales include a 90 cent fare for a short ride, a passenger mistaking $1 for utopia, a Sunday park driver tipped generously after a humorous dial reading, and a Frenchman paying after a police station check. The supervisor notes the dial shows every foot and can cost more on long trips, though rates are higher domestically than abroad.
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Washington Post
New York
Adj
Grand Central Station
Utopia
Stubborn Campaigning in Bradford County Tale
A Bradford County voter tale recounted by Congressman Miall Lilley shows campaign hustling in rural Pennsylvania. Lilley describes farmers milking cows, a calf held behind a barn, and a girl guiding him to a man named Brown Nyes as he seeks supporters. The dialogue paints a vivid, humorous scene of political edge in rural campaigning.
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Pennsylvania
Congress
Bradford County
Miall Lilley
Old
Bradford
Brown Nyes
No More Hasty Marriages In Jeffersonville
Jeffersonville Indiana long a Gretna Green for elopers shifts away from hurried unions. Runners and reduced rates sparked competition among justices and clergy to wed outsiders before new laws curbed the practice. Ministers now refuse unless licenses are valid and ages proven, ending a lucrative but chaotic era.
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Whellington Post
Jeffersonville
Ind
Ohio River
Gretna Green
Indiana
Michigan City
Hoosterdam
Cincinnati
Louisville
New Albany
Madison
Corder
Seope
New York
Charles Dickens
Population landmarks in 1890 town beat a century old
The record notes a town with one courthouse, two banks, two newspapers, eight churches, a graded school, a steam tannery, and a tack and nail factory. Population in 1890 was 868, roughly one church for every 168 citizens.
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Han
Michigan City Looms Over Jeffersonville as a Marriage Hub
Michigan City faces scrutiny amid stories of quick marriages to Chicago visitors and guides to parsonages for hasty unions. The town’s finances have flailed after a $11,000 damages verdict from a sidewalk case, yet Detroit Harbor area and dunes keep it growing as a summer resort and harbor town rivaling Jeffersonville and nearby St. Joseph.
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Michigan City
Indias
Virginia College for Sale as Investment Opportunity
The New York Sun notes a Virginia college in the Great Valley near the Blue Ridge Mountains seeks buyers. The owner claims annual profit around 5000 dollars and potential growth. the sale includes four brick buildings, furnished dorms, labs, library, and a sizable equipment list.
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College
Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
Fortune from a Courtroom Turn in Uncle Tom Play
A country lawyer recalls appearing as Marks in a Wandering Uncle Tom's Cabin company at a county courthouse. With a strike disrupting the troupe, the lawyer filled in, drew crowds, earned his first town wages, and soon turned to law, finding greater demand than acting.
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New York
Middle West
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Marks
Topsy
Excursions to Mount Vernon and Old Point Comfort
A Washington reader guide describes top outings to Mount Vernon and the Potomac cruise past Arsenal Alexandria and Forts, with steamers from Seventh Street Wharf and Norfolk connections to New York Boston and Southern resorts. Tickets available at local wharf offices.
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Washington
Mount Vernon
Charles Macalester
Seventh Street Wharf
Potomac
Arsenal
Alexandria
Fort Foote
Fort Washington
Fort Hunt
Maryland
Virginia
Old Point Comfort
Norfolk
Washington Breamboat Coneeo
Ulat
New York
Boston
Lothes
Ea Street
Gotch on jiu jitsu strength and American wrestling
In an interview with the Buffalo Express, Gotch critiques jiu jitsu, arguing Americans better defend themselves using traditional wrestling. He recalls a coast city test, asserts American wrestlers can defeat equal-strength jiu jitsu practitioners, and proposes a naval-backed test between two evenly matched athletes to settle the question.
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Trogy
The
Buffalo Express
America
FED MULE AND WIFE: Tennesseean reports odd divorce answer
Memphis News-Scimitar notes a humorous four page, punctuation free typewritten answer to a Marion County Chancery Court divorce suit. James H. Higgins senior drew the document for Dorindia Elizabeth Higgins, showing nonsupport claims and a plea for absolute divorce with strange phrasing and a claim of keeping the family and mule.
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Tennesseean
Memphis News-Scimitar
T B. Caldwell
Chancery
Chattanooga
Chancery Court
Marion County
Janes H. Higgins
Dorindia E. Higgins
Jesus Christ
Hur
James H. Higgins
Dorindia Elizabeth
Puzzled Wife and Child Cousins Who Resembled Each Other
A Kansas City Star reader recounts a Chicago cousins double, X and Y, whose near identical appearance nearly tricked wives. A wife mistook Y for her husband on a streetcar, later verified by a missing finger. The case required a physician and weeks of acclimation for the child.
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The
Kansas City Star
Kansas City Railroad
Chicago
Mr. X
Papas
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