Fight for Life on Old Smoky Hill Trail
On June 15, 1867, a U S Express coach party with four passengers and seven guards fought 175 attacking Indians near Big Timber. Charles F Blake and Louis F Bartels survived while Brownell was killed. the coach was riddled with bullets and arrows, mules wounded but kept moving, and rescue arrived from Spring Till and Bis Timber stations.
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Plains
Kansas Pacific Railroad
Kansas Division
Union Pacific
United States
Colo
United States Express Company
Fort Wallace
Kan
Denver
Charles F. Blake
Louis F. Bartels
Harrison
Boston
Brownell
Illinois
Blake
Spring Till Station
Bis Timber
Coyote
West
Mr. Par
Tels
Aeather
Mr. Stake
Big Timber Station
Bartels
Blake Street
Bacon and Shakespeare Authorship Debate Text Fragment
The passage discusses the claim that Bacon wrote Shakespeare works citing a 19th century manuscript with honorificabilitudinitatibus and arguments about Love's Labour's Lost dating. It notes Nash and Marston as earlier users of the word and presents Shakspearian counterpoints with various dates from 1588 to 1598.
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Bacon
Northumberland House
Francis Bacon
Duke of Northumberland
James Spedaing
London
Nathaniel Holmes
Shakespeare
Thomas Nash
Joann Marston
Nash
Drake, Delia and Fleay
Stokes
Chalmers
Furnivall
White
Boston Transcript
Penacova Earth Eating Habit Reported
The New York Commercial Advertiser notes Penacova villagers habitually eat local soil to avoid a gastric illness when away from home. Dr Vogel’s cursory test found no arsenic but soil richer in nitrogen, suggesting an active alkaloid instead. Further chemical investigation is urged to settle the question.
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Penacova
Portugal
Vogel
New York Commercial Advertiser
Sage’s Catarrh Remedy Promise and $500 Faith Test
The ad promises better health for believers in Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy and offers $500 to skeptics if the product fails. It cites the World’s Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo New York as makers and asserts their credibility to laypeople and druggists alike.
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Dr. Sage
Dispensary Medical Association of
Buffalo
N.Y
Bret Harte In London
Eli Perkins recalls Bret Harte living quietly near St. Johns Wood while his England sales exceed those of any American writer. Hatton says Harte is widower by rumor and not in consular service. The tale of a California jury trial mocks lynching with a Massachusetts crowd demanding the verdict.
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Bret Harte
London
Grove End Road
St. John’s Wood
Eli Perkins
England
Mr. Harte
Joseph Hatton
California
Mariposa Gulch
Massachusetts
Bill Stevens
Massachusetts Fellows
Board
Bill
Remarkable Hygienic Treatment Promises Health Restore
A compact ad touts a hygienic health method claiming to radically cure ailments and restore vigor. It markets a family plan and promises satisfaction through a rational process offered by Health Process Co. in Nawma New York, referencing George W. Childs and a $30,060 table at Wootten, Penn.
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N.Y
George W. Childs
Wootten
Penn
Financial notice on loan terms and address
Payments of 1 per month for months will return 38 cash. A youth down will carry percent interest per month and will ensure the investor 10 to 6 percent. Mention paper. Address National Home stead Company Naumu street New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naftemal Homestead Company
Naumu Street
New York
London Cathedral to be lit by electricity
London reports plan to illuminate a major cathedral with electric lighting. British Empire manpower exceeds 1.6 million in uniformed service, underscoring wartime mobilization.
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London
England
Plating Business Offers Promising Earning Prospects
An ad features Mrs Wells and Reaper promoting lucrative plating work in New York with claims of earnings from five dollars to a day. It urges readers to contact Lake Electric Co enclosed in Elmwood to receive full instructions and hints at widespread opportunity, claiming many artists in the city.
Dr Hoxsies Crow Care Patent Medicine Ad
An 19th century patent medicine advertisement promotes Dr Hoxsie’s Certain Crow Care as a tested remedy from a physician in good standing. It touts eye water from Dr Isaac Thompson, Kline’s nerve restorer for fits, and lists prices and mailing details from A J Hoxsie Buffalo NY with claims of successful, labor free cures.
Best of His Life in Needlework for Verona Church
An artist in Verona offered twenty six years of life to create a needlework depiction of St. John for a beloved church, following Pollaniola designs. The project, titled Bazar, reflects devotion and craft in the period.
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Verona
St. John
Pollaniola
Bazar
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Chicago
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New Vers City
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Boeten
Dyer
Fracer Chase
Fr. A Tt. Euman
Washington, D.C
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Loisette
Fifth Ave
San Francisco
Cal
Qouisville
Furden
Cwichester
RED Cross
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