Notable Slave Trade and Odd Local Tales Across the World
The article surveys lingering slavery in Cairo with a Cairo asylum for women rescued from harems, then shifts to varied items from Auckland missing person case misreported as suicide to Congo river slave raids by Khartoum Arabs. including a Philadelphia grocery scam, a New York banker’s wife with a chariot, a four month rat attack, a large rare bird in Ohio, and Col Ward’s last payment for a slave reflecting post abolition tensions.
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Egypt
Cairo
Gevlumm
Iyenta Barrett
Auckland
New Zealand
Zanzibar
Congo
Khartoum
Gordon
Henry Crewes
New York
Coyote Trapped in Dead Horse Burrow
J H Hawkins a Colorado granger on a forty mile drive to Cheyenne encounters a frozen Wyoming blizzard scene. A hungry coyote had eaten into a horse carcass and slept inside its burrow trapped by freezing temperatures. Hawkins frees the coyote after a lengthy rescue.
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J. H. Hawkins
Colorado
Cheyenne
Dakota
Wyoming
Teo
J. Hawkins
Idaho Horse Queen Miss Kittie Wilkins Visits Palace Hotel
Idaho horse magnate Miss Kittie C. Wilkins arrives at the Palace Hotel with brother J. E. Wilkins. The Californian born stockwoman owns 700 to 800 horses in Idaho, focusing on Percherons Morgans Normans and Hambletonians. She recounts how she began in the stock trade, her Idaho life, and her view that horses yield higher profits and easier care than cattle.
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Kittie C. Wilkins
Idaho
Palace Hotel
J. E. Wilkins
Bruneau River
Owyhee County
Miss Wilkins
San Jose
Wilkins Company
Oregon
San Francisco
America
Boise City
Mountain House
Bargain Thrift Wins Diary From Veteran Shopper
An elderly man in a stationery shop bargains over a diary for 1887. The shopkeeper teases his skill, noting the buyer is worth half a million dollars yet still undercuts on a year prior diary. The man leaves with the book tucked away.
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Boston Post
Woman Dies After Fishbone Strangles at Folkestone Dinner
A Folkestone woman choking on a whiting bone at a fish dinner died ten days later. A coroner ruled the bone caused throat injury leading to fatal complications. The incident highlighted risks from fishbones in meals.
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Folkestone
England
Gander pulling at a DeLand novelty fair
A DeLand Florida report describes a gander pulling event at a local novelty show. Spectators paid 25 cents for three rides as riders on horseback attempted to pull the goose's head from its neck, aided by greased necks. A rider on John Davis’s horse fell, causing laughter, while C. B. Pelton’s mule acted unexpectedly, leaving him in the dirt before the gander was removed and returned home.
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de Land
Fla
John Davis
Davis
C. B. Pelton
Gander
Log Cabin Remedies Promoted For Health Revival
An article extols natural cures from the forest era and promotes Warner's Log Cabin Remedies. It links rugged pioneer living to longevity and touts remedies such as Sarsaparilla for blood and liver, Log Cabin Cough and Consumption Remedy, Log Cabin Extract, and Log Cabin Rose Cream.
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Warner
After the Bath Ivory Soap Praised for Bathing
Clara extols Ivory Soap as the most luxurious for bathing noting rich lather and easy rinsing. Louie adds it floats so it can be found easily if dropped in water.
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Clara
Louie
Warning About Counterfeit Soaps Impersonating Ivory
The notice warns that many white soaps claim similarity to Ivory but are counterfeit and lack its qualities. It urges buyers to insist on Ivory Soap from Procter and Gamble at 13 percent.
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Procter & Game
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Tamerlane
Dewey Ensign
Daniel Ensign
suErHero
Holmesfield Moors
Mugland
Nile
Shce
Froggat’s
Honolulu
Altay
Kapiolane
Paris
Sandwich Island
Klee
Tumbiri
Tibutaries
Philadelphia
Albert Pickle
Middletown
Gus Swaraper
Waverly
Ohio
Col
Zen Wann
Little Rock
Ark
Col. Ward
Wan
Ord
Sauasts College
Baie Ac” Bemein
Rite Brewer Safety Beta Nobter Co
Holly, Mien
Seid
Pensions
Elmton & Co
Blair
Roand
Paysthes Freicht
H.h.&reen & Sons
M. de
Canal Si
Cae
Rifier
Tae Lees
Conditioon
Akipa
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