Two Texan Liars Spin Cattle-Trail Tall Tales
The story recalls rival yarns by Dempsey and Smoot, veteran stage drivers in Western Texas. Damscamp the dog features in a boastful tale about getting rid of a troublesome mother-in-law, while Smoot counters with a London presidency yarn involving jealousy between two tortoiseshell cats and a powder incident.
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Texas
Dempsey
Smoot
Locket
Atable
San Antonio
Campas A
Damscamp
Tennessee
Dorg
Dory
United States
Court of St. James
London
Mexico
Cate
Buckingham Palace
Hades
Fragmented parish discourse on love and separation
A garbled OCR style excerpt shows a North pietalite verge and congregation context. It references love shortcomings between individuals and God, with broken phrases about separation, salary, and rights, hinting at a religious or moral dispute but lacking clear facts or names.
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Lethren
Flora Hastings Wins Name Suit After Unlikely Marriage Tale
Flora A Hastings, later Flora A Keyes, sought to be known as Mrs. Flora Keyes, claiming marriage to Winfield Scott Keyes. The San Francisco case found the brief Virginia ceremony invalid and confirmed Flora as Keyes, restoring her status and defense of her name.
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Erie i
Flora A. Hastings
Flora Keyes
Winfield Scott Keyes
San Francisco
J. C. B. Kelly
Kelly
Keyes
Supreme Court
J. O. B. Kelly
Batores Abrath
Fiora A. Hastings
Wee
Act Wh & OR
Ghalybeate Springs
Young Kelly
William Walsh
Allegheny Station
Father Walsh
Allemany
Superior Court of
Virginia
Flora
Walsh
Andrews
Flora A. ‘Keyes
Tale of a Black Cat and a Washington Lawyer
A colored janitor recalls a chilling black cat incident in a Twenty third Street flat. The tale leads to a separate obituary noting Washington lawyer Richard T. Merrick’s generosity to a widow from the Civil War era.
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Twenty-third Street
Dean
Missus
Jim Crane
Jim
J’rus
Ashe
Furia
Chimbley
Willow
iNe
Washington
Richard
Wille
Belar
Merrick
Mareiet
Msh
Withdran
Richard T. Merrick
Maryland
Peruna cures chronic ailments in testimonial letters
Ottawa Kansas reader H Sampsel claims four bottles each of PeRuNA and Mayaxin relieved seven years of illness after poor luck with doctors and a Pittsburgh scare. Milwaukee and Portsmouth correspondents praise Peruna and Perwma for bronchitis cough and general recovery citing Dr Hartman Co. Columbus Ohio as makers.
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H.‘ Sampsel
Ottawa
Kansas
S. B. Hartman
Pittsburgh
C. C. Peck
Jackson Street
Milwaukee
Wis
S. B. Hargiman & Co
Messrs
Baker Bros
Vernon
Daniel R. Spry
Portsmouth
Peruna
English girl and bull terrier on Fifth Avenue amuse crowd
A San Francisco Argonaut correspondent describes a fashionable English girl on Fifth Avenue with a black and white riding outfit and a bull terrier chain. The dog reels through the crowd. she recovers, praising the rescue by a passerby, while maintaining a flawless English accent and rigid, refined carriage.
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San Francisco Argonaut
Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avene
Aremue
Exhibition of Fire Anniliators Ends in Blaze Joke
An agent advertised a grenades exhibit in Glen Falls. He ignited a pile, spoke for wares, and tossed grenades as flames escalated. The crowd learned jokers emptied a bottle with aerosone causing a hazardous misfire.
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Glen Falls
Constipation and its Remedies Advertised in 19th Century Text
An old medical ad warns that irregular bowel action poisons the system and causes piles headaches and other ailments. It touts Burdock Blood-Bitters as a remedy claiming immediate relief and complete cure after one bottle, mentioning torpid liver and renewed vitality.
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Eer
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Adelaide Chronicle
Debbie
Jim” Crane
N. Y. Tribune
Richard 1
New York
Thie World
Cal
Silas Moore
East Speer’s Furniture Stone
W. Libery St
Wooster
Ipcledlan Bros
the Boss
H. Villard
Liberty St
Faing Ian
Power
Hall
Cetes
Plach Market St
Pollock & Deer
Jackson Bhaiding
Pollock
Public Square
King
Sinders
A.W. Bleckburn
BATH
SLATE
Spow‘gys
Empeorum D ‘Agate
Postoffice
Ohio
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