Nelson Family Juvenilia
Box 1 Folder 28
The Little City Democrat & Trapper - 1895 Dec 26

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The Little City Democrat & Trapper
Christmas Number
Published by the Little Pub. Co., Little City, L.C. Thursday 26 Dec 1895

TERMS
$1.22 a year 65¢ for six months and 4 cents a copy. News, stories, scientific articles, notes. Furs. Prices. Vecatables [vegetables?] & prices. Advertiseing and in fact all any body would ever want to know about.

OUT OF THE CLUTCHES OF THE CATHOLICS
It was in that bloody and panic stricken year of 189[0?] that the great rising of the Catholics was begun. My story is sighted in the little town of G— and all so in the little state of N—H—. As everyone knows this state has a bloody battlefield through the whole war of 3 years, even in the country there was a scattering population of Catholics. Mr. Rock Bory lived in our little town we have just been speaking about. He having a family of 4 boys. One was 17 one 15 one 13 one 3 4.

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THE ADOPTING OF THE WHELPLEY LONG REACH SKATE
by the LC Skating Club
For a great many years the Long Continent Skating Club has been far out distanced by the famous Round Continent Fork River Skating League owing a great deal no doubt to the inerior [inferior?] quality and patern of their speed skate. As early as 1870 the Long Continent Skating Club used the same kind of skate that the Round Continent League and the Big Continent Clubs did and then again when the R.C. League chanced their iron skates in 1880 to steel ones, the L.C. Club chanced all so all this while the R.C. League was much ahead of the L.C. Club, but this was thought to be owing to the extra years the R.C. League had had to practice, that being 20 years, the oldest in 1890. For some reason the Long Continent Skating Club changed back onto their old strap skates. Proberbly because they thought them more durable or were short of money and at about this time the Big Continent Skating Clubs changed from the iron strap skates to the steel clamp skates like those used by the Round Continent Fork River League. They were of the Barney & Berry make and a very fine all clamp skate, leaving the L.C. Club the poorest equipped of the three great skating clubs of the world. At the begining of this year the three great skating clubs met at Little City, this being the very first great skating party of the season, there was 1000 skaters from each club and 10000 spectators stood along the banas [?] to watch the grand spectacle of 3000 skaters in uniform on the move. The L.C. Club captain was so disgusted with the result of the skate that he proposed trying a new skate so at the 3[r]d skating party a [cape?] colony the 1000 L.C. skaters came out in all their glory on the trial Whelpley long reach skates. The skates were a grand success and they quickly found themselves close on the heeles of the R.C. skaters and far ahead of the Ferndale Skaters who were out that evening. A few improvements were made in the skate and now the L.C. Club have fitted out all their men with these grand all clamp skates.