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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Buffalo Bill and a few scouts. The whole scene is thrillingly realistic in the smoke and broil of battle which it represents. Next to the unique feats of sharp shooting of Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) the event of the performance is the rescue of the identical old Deadwood mail coach from the attack of Indians. The sharpshooting of Col. Cody is unique, wonderful! Nobody has ever succeeded in equalling his skill which was not cultivated to excite the wonder of audiences but in the service of the U. S. army on the great western plains...
...last, after months of waiting, the title of the old City Hall has been cleared in the Court of Equity. This means that the Prospect Union can make the purchase which it has so long contemplated. Eight thousand five hundred dollars of the ten thousand which it was necessary to have have, already been subscribed. Thirteen thousand more were to have been obtained on a mortgage...
...second piece of good fortune which has come to the Prospect Union has caused these plans-to been changed. A gentleman has come forward with a gift of one thousand dollars. But in granting this he makes this condition: The Prospect Union must take the old City Hall clear of debt. He specifies that this be done by the first of next October. But it is very probable that some extension of time may be obtained...
...OLD GLORY...
Vermont's best work was in the battery. Pond pitched till the middle of the seventh, when he exchanged places with Dinsmore, the old Dartmouth pitcher, who played third base. Pond's home run in the second inning was the principal feature of the game. Naylor's support of his pitching was excellent...