1873: Wyoming Legislators

"Beside the two women in the Wyoming Legislature, there are Black Jack Bill, Prairie Joe, Slim Shaw and Grizzly Graham."

~From Houston Daily Mercury (Houston, Tex.), November 4, 1873

I really hope this is true. 

1847

"A spoonful of horse-radish put into a pan of milk, will keep it sweet many days above the ordinary period."

~From Democratic Telegraph and Texas Register (Houston, Tex.), Nov 4, 1847

1843: Asbestos

"This singular substance, which has as yet defied all the efforts of chemists to analyze it, inasmuch as it will neither melt with fire nor dissolve in water, and is entirely free from taste or smell, is found in considerable abundance in Pennsylvania, at no great distance from the borough of York. We have been shown specimens of this article, constantly used by Mr. John Scott, of this city, in the manufacture of his patent fire-proof chests, which will, to those who have never examined it, doubtless appear to be quite a curiosity. -- We learn that experiments are now making of the application of Asbestos to other articles which are required to resist a powerful heat. -- Balt. Am."

~From The Northern Standard. (Clarksville, Tex.), November 4, 1843