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May 11, 1861 – Short of Lager
John Lange of Richmond, Va., a “chronicler of small beer" is in trouble: his beer has given out; he can’t recuperate—Uncle Sam won’t let him; and the F. F.’s are…
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Mice that Subsist on Scorpions
Among the queer forms of animal life that inhabit Death Valley is a mouse that has acquired such a taste for scorpions that they form its entire bill of fare.…
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May 10, 1861 – Official Courtesies
Hon. Wm, H. Seward, Mr. Lincoln's Secretary of State, has forwarded to the Hon. Robert Toombs, Secretary of State of the Confederate States, a copy enclosed in a government envelope,…
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Interesting Lecture in West Falmouth
The second in the series of lectures was given last Monday evening in the Library building by Everett Frazar, Consul General to Korea. The subject was, "Reminiscences of Japan, China,…
Schooners Collide
Reports of a collision between the schooner Frank E. Swain, Boston for Charleston, S. C., and the schooner Sarah and Lucy, Boston for New York, near the Cross Rip lightship,…
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Appeals to Kruger
THE WAR—APPEALS TO KRUGER—RESISTANCE HOPELESS—MRS BOTHA VISITS HIM LONDON, Wednesday Night. Mrs Botha, the wife of General Louis Botha, is about to pay a visit to Europe. Her object in…
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Drinking at Funerals
This was a general practice in the olden time. The practice is mentioned so far back as 1635, in an account of the funeral of the Rev. Thomas Cobbet of…
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Alaska Reindeer Meat Served in Florida Cafe
George Kelly, a well known conductor on the Alaska railroad, spent the winter in Florida, and while there went in to the Comus restaurant which claims to serve any meat…
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May 9, 1861 – Beauregard, Davis, and Ruffin
We have from Mr. Whitaker, photographs, very recently taken, of General Beauregard, President Davis and Edward Ruffin, Esq, of Virginia, the eminent agriculturalist and secessionist.
General Beauregard has not a single Anglo-Saxon feature in his face. The whole tone of his countenance and attitude would lead any one to expect him to speak in some of the languages of continental Europe. It is a French face, but of the style of Cavaignac or Lamoriciere. It is of the solid type of Frenchmen.
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Railroad to Serve Reindeer Meat in Every Department
In all probability from 60,000 to 75,000 pounds of reindeer meat will be contracted for by the Alaska Railroad this summer and will be served on the river steamers, the Curry Hotel and dining cars of the Alaska Railroad, according to information obtained by the Anchorage Daily Alaskan.
For the purpose of locating suitable sites for corrals in the Broad Pass district, Louis Jensen, a former partner of Oscar Anderson, in the meat business in the early days, left Anchorage fully a week ago.
It is stated there are sufficient cold storage facilities along the railroad belt, to take care of the present needs of the new industry. Nenana has a fairly good sized plant besides a cold storage plant in Anchorage and there are two other private plants in the city.