Denver's First Girl Baby Returns As Denver's Heir
A long historic tale recalls Lisli Harvey, Denver's first girl baby born in 1860, who later lost her land to taxes and saw the site become immense wealth for others. the narrative blends early Auraria days with a freightyard accident memory and a talk of land values.
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Denver
Harvey
Holladay Street
Lisli’ Harvey
Auraria
Lish Harvey
Jim Baker
German National Bank
Lish
Friends Who Had Never Met Reach Kingston Visit
A Grand Rapids woman, after arriving at the Clinton House in Kingston, visits Mrs. Elmendorf on Hurley road. She reveals a long friendship formed in childhood, a dress gift from Bertha Bishop of Olive, and an enduring bond that led her to Ulster county to meet her unseen friend.
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Clinton House
Kingston
Grand Rapids
Mich
Augustus Elmendorf
Tiesto
Hurley Road
Michigan
Chicago
Ulster County
Olive
Bertha
Ephraim Bishop
Bertha Bishop
Planned Couple Photo Session On A Dream Morning
Two women discuss an up upcoming portrait session choosing a place and outfits. They joke about sending a photo to George and debate what to wear, considering black velvet and a black lawn waist as suitable evening dress alternatives for the formal portraits.
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Jim
Nori
George
Asbury Park Romance Ends In Faint Promises
A Newark socialite travels to Asbury Park with a friend and plans a secret meeting with two men posing as Philadelphians. The ruse collapses when one suitor revealed as Harry confesses prior engagement to marry in January. The couple quarrels in letters but continues writing, and the Newark informant notes the wedding still may occur.
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Asbury Park
Newark
Philadelphia
Mary Claire
Miss Claire
Jennie
Mr. Matthews
Harry
We All Share One Waist in This Comic Train Scene
Passengers laugh at a wardrobe blunder as two travelers realize they cannot both wear the same waist in a staged photo. The moment ends with two ladies exiting at the next crossing, leaving the car quieter.
How Wood Pulp Is Produced
A Washington Star letter details pulp manufacture from logs to sheets. Poplar and fir logs six feet long and up to eighteen inches wide are staged to cutters, barked, split, ground into fine wood flour, suspended in water, filtered, rolled into sheets, dried into pulp, and packed into bales for shipment.
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Washington Star
The Bliss of Ignorance in a Fashionable Shoe Store
A shopper tests walking boots at a shoe store and debates sizes with a polite clerk. The clerk secretly erases size 5 and switches to 4, praising the change as better. The woman, unaware, buys the altered shoes and remarks they feel as easy as her old pair.
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Ananias
Venus Dee Medeechy
Gravelotte Field Tour Reveals 1870 Battle Remnants
A Metz correspondent tours Gravelotte and St Privat tracing the 1870 clash. He notes white crosses and mass graves marking French and German dead, mentions Napoleon III and the prince imperial at a nearby inn, and recalls Bazaine's army halted by German flanking. The landscape, quarries, and monuments underscore the war’s lingering scar.
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Metz
Gravelotte
Moselle
St. James’s Gazette
Mises
Bazaine
Verdun
Napoleon III
Prince Imperial
Tuileries
Prince Bismarck
Bezaine
St. Privat
Gott
Empress Augusta
Grenadier
Marshal Canrobert
St James Hotel Transcript of a Typist and a Guest Display
A Louisville party stays at the St James Hotel and proposes a letter to a Louisville young woman arranging a theater box party. A male guest misstates plans while a female typewriter insists she only types and cannot compose. The exchange ends with a playful spelling attempt for Narragansett Pier.
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St. James
Conner
Jeanne
Loosville
Watterson
Louisville
Warragansett Pier
Narragansett Pier
Finze
Narragansett
Berly
Passenger and Drummer Trade Chats in a Crowded Car
In a crowded Chicago car a passenger and a drummer banter about fare and seating. The drummer notes selling more lines than two men while the passenger asks why they think it’s due to three two seats.
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Chicago
Trust and wit tug at Chicago Tribune exchange
Fragmentary dialogue shows characters debating coal trust influence and clever satire. References to George and a tightened situation hint at social critique within a Chicago Tribune context.
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George
Chicago Tribune
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Denver News
Byers
The
Omaha Herald
Johnnie Byers
North Platte
Omaha
Tom
Johnny
Tles
de Neuville
Miulf
Didtess
aPyr
Newport
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