The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904Various
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The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904
Various
English literature -- Periodicals; Short stories, English -- Periodicals
MARRIED. MARKHAM--SEELY.--At the residence of the groom's
parents one of the most up-to-date weddings took place. (There
had been an agreement between the bride and groom not to be
married in the old-fashioned way, but to change the mode a
little.) Therefore they were married at the residence of the
father of the groom, Peter J. Seely, Esq. The groom wore a long
pair of overalls and a cutaway coat. The bride wore a calico
dress and apron. They both looked the picture of health, and
were ably assisted--the groom by the bride's sister and the
bride by Mr. Sam Meadows, a particular friend of the groom's.
After spending a couple of weeks in the West they will return
and settle down in their pleasant home, "Swandown"; Burlap, the
furniture man at Five Forks, having already the contract to see
that their home is properly furnished during their absence.
[Illustration: FAIRPLAY FLUME, THE BLISS BREEZE, THE ARIZONA
ARROW, THE CREEDE CANDLE, THE RIFLE REVEILLE, THE MUSTANG MAIL,
THE MOTHER LODE MAGNET]
As to the titles of many of these Western productions, it might be
supposed these spring from the fertile brain of some incorrigible
humorist. But this is not so. Nothing could be more real--"alive and
kicking"--in Anno Domini 1904, than the _Creede_ (Colorado) _Candle_,
the _Arizona Arrow_ of Chloride, Arizona, the _Rifle Reveille_, the
_Rising Star X-ray_, the _Bald-Knob Herald_, the Dallas _World Hustler_,
the _Kosse Cyclone_, the Blooming _Grove Rustler_, the Carrizo
_Javelin_, the Noyales _Oasis_, and the Devil's Lake _Free Press_. The
names of some Western towns are fantastic to a degree, and the editorial
love for alliteration is strong. Thus we have the _Bliss Breeze_, the
_Mustang Mail_, and the Searchlight _Searchlight_ in addition to those I
have mentioned. What more natural in the "city" of Tombstone, Arizona,
than that the newspaper should be entitled the _Epitaph_? Or that an
_Epitaph_ should take as naturally to obituaries as a duck to water or
an Arizonian takes to his "gun"?
[Illustration: JAKE MOFFATT GONE SKYWARD!]
As we feared on hearing that two doctors had been called in, the
life of our esteemed fellow-citizen Jake Moffatt ered out on
Wednesday last, just after we had gone to press. Jake was every
inch a scholar and a gentleman, upright in all his dealings,
unimpeachable in character, and ran the Front Street Saloon in
the very toniest style consistent with order. Jake never fully
recovered from the year he spent in the county jail at the time
of the Ryan-Sternberg fracas. His health was shattered, and he
leaves a sorrowing widow and nary an enemy.
[Illustration: Newspapers: "THE JAVELIN. The Flagstaff Gem.
The Oasis. The Oklahoma Hornet."]
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