Leadville Lively and Rich with Mines and Miners
Leadville Texas? No Leadville in Colorado, the narrative sketches a bustling mining town. It paints miners with earth stained clothes, dance halls, saloons, and gambling rooms, while detailing mines like Robert Eyes and Shamrock and the wealth from strayhorse gulch. The piece contrasts frontier poverty and aspiration with a moving tale of a English foundry worker and his family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gresard
Leadville
Wramal
Wake
Mit Fc Alierwanert
Masaive Mountain
Luainle Anil Fryer Hills
Sccl
Robert Eyes
Little Pitthurgh
Little Giant
Shamrock
Crescent
Morning Star
Winnamuck
Strayhorse Gulch
Vailfornie Gulch
Yen-Mile
Newamry
Uist
Congress
Saore
Fashion Gleanings on Summer Fashions and Hats
Fashion notes describe summer wear with low back lace and colored silks, white linen collars, silk paneled dresses, Pompadour flowers and Saxon embroidery on black fabrics, and hats trimmed with ribbons, fruit, and flowers. Country costumes feature trimmed skirts, puffs, and laced sleeves. bibbed aprons appear in France. A brief note on wealth and postwar life mentions a Boston-area free person of color family and rural fashion contrasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
The Vigo Treasure Mission by Col Gowen
A long fragment recounts Col. Gowen's 1860s project to clear Vigo harbor of sunken ships and booms using caissons and steam engines. It notes the sinking of ships in the harbor line, the eventual extraction of seventy eight vessels including the frigate Twelve Apostles, and Gowen’s knighthood after years of work. It mentions treasure rumors tied to Spanish galleons and a hoped future search.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fernooka
Sibeeesai Gowen
Mimouri
Gibraltar
Enon
Umlan
Wallaet
Counizatine
Alerandria
Washington
Col
Gowan
St. Petersburg
Gowen
Constantine
Sebastopol
Inwazly
Poland
Mer
Twelve Apostles
Maria
Johan
She Haan
Anong Wich
United States
Col. Gowan
Holland
Spain
Ste Tok
France
Antilles
Coda
Shilpa
Chai
Vigo
Blecayey
Cals
Ag Biteck
Serpe
Te Gowen
Oldest residents and long-lived figures in era reports
The piece recounts astonishing ages and lifespans across locales. It lists Perry County figures, claims of extreme longevity, markers of notable elders in McKinney, Bridgeport, and nearby towns, and mentions mournful obituaries and long-service veteran references. It preserves a collage of how seniors and veterans are remembered in local notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phemeer
Perry Coun
Tabaleden
Pepe
Neptune
Bridgeport
Ulmety- Patterson
N. J
Jane Coen Ape Macy
McKinney
Adam
Ws Iarantyille
Warwich and Western Railroad
Col
Perekins
Jae
Daniel Seabrook
William Buchanan
Milton
Edmund Repret
Kidder
Joosphan Pias Sappioooe
Win Brotrears
Livi
Samuel
Phas Boley
Thomas Ley
Fatt- Iee
Horatio Reymour
Syracuse
Ant
Dinah
Lacy Kline
North Elgremont
Mass
Methodist Church
Mary Sheldon
Passaic
N.J
Denfield
Mary Poster
Greensburg
Jerry Fish
Utica
Mr. Ish
Jacob Kiphart
Bln
Todians
Hee
Setae
Mrs. Hendley
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Gare
Bence
Walia
May
Avery Suar
Rartica
Pusines
Vwa
Anastasie MeGn
Verlasigne Mba
Dave Beeo
Becauve
Surat
Ina
Iyea Iil Creek
England
The
Ambos
Atlantic
Todi
Dacion
Amr
Hales
Pcunder
Mexico
AMO Peru
Winnsboro
D. C
Ebuiren
Egranichildren
Gowef
Hidtren
Hodumaath Rapaditor
Iraih
Bree Press
Maram
Ieee
Sam
Berwick Hetherington
Rulatte McGirty
Abe
Ake
Sal Wien
Arandeome
Puck
Fried
Lyle
Hawai
Lama
Mara
Brother Daly
Armergan
Gedar Hill
Miss Sellers
Baskat
Blasi Houw
Eman
Araned
Rwanda
Pauls
Wil
J. W. Dickiness
Date Board
Otto
Eo Irby
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