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Show 1 Years Ago Today Glimpses across the nation $24 a share on the New York exchange. The arts were thriving too. The citizens had just been treated to a performance by the Tennessee Jubilee Singers Sing-ers at Society Hall, and the Royal Marionettes were slated to appear next to "tickle the ribs of Park City people in fine style." For avid readers, there was the promise of a circulating library to be established in the city by two interested groups in Salt Lake. The Record also reported on the outcome of a much-anticipated event: "The Sheet and Pillow Slip masquerade was indeed a ghostly affair, and enough to make one's hair stand on end." For those whose hair might actually have become unruly as a result of the party, there was help offered in an ad that ran in the Record: "The world-wide reputation of Ayer's Hair Vigor is due to its healthy action on the hair and scalp, through which it restores gray hair to its original color and imparts a gloss and freshness which makes it so much desired by all classes and conditions of people." by Hettina Moench Dooley America in 1884: Western Union messages cost 15 cents to forward as far west as Kansas City. John L Sullivan was offering $1,000 to any man powerful enough to stand up to him through four rounds in the boxing ring. Professional bicyclists Woodside and Morgan were attempting to ride from New York City to San Francisco in 70 days. Mark Twain, then 49, was writing an essay, prompting the editor of the Park Record to observe that the author's pen "will be dipped in a mixture of vitriol and vine- gar." The son of Abraham Lincoln was sitting for what was later considered to be the best portrait ever painted of his famous father, who had been assasinated in office less than 20 years earlier. A telegram from Winne-peg Winne-peg earned in newspapers throughout the states noted that up to 4,000 Chinese laborers were seeking work on the railroads. "They are a first class lot of laborers, and are certain to give general satisfaction. Answer immediately," im-mediately," urged H.J. Simmons, Sim-mons, agent for Wah Lung and others. Simmons seemed to be oblivious to the prevailing sentiment in America. According Ac-cording to the Park Record, "The white population east of the Rockies has long complained of the employment employ-ment of Chinese laborers on railway construction, and it is not improbable that the engagement of such a large number of celestials will lead to serious disturbances." In Park City, business seemed to be booming, as indicated by the report that the Ontario stock had risen to m Mi miinmit - -- - |