Fragmented 19th century clipping with scattered notes
A jumbled OCR page references diverse topics from a voyage to South Dakota to a Paris ex position, discusses Native Mexicans, ancient Egypt, and agriculture, mentions a St Louis case, a London society woman, and a protest against male teachers hair, plus a rattlesnake remedy, a bronze medal for a postman, and a sea creature seen near Cape Charles. The text weaves disparate items, persons, places, and events without cohesive narrative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Firmn
West Virgin
Humane Society of Ene
Connecticut
Curious Diver’s Creature Stuns Sailors with Odd Anatomy
The specimen, described as about seven inches long, features a horse like head with four upper and two lower teeth, a round mouth, and a body tapering to a point without a tail. Its vertical fin runs the full length, and its backbone resembles a shirk. Captain Barker notes its mixed appearance evoking a horse dog eel shag and pickerel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barker
Pearls and Pearl Shells From Indian Ocean to Persian Gulf
An aging illustrated piece recounts pearl fisheries and shells from regions including Ceylon Persian Gulf and Java Sumatra with notes on trade value large shells from Australia and Baja. It also touches on pearl symbolism and curious trivia about flowers and biographies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Nicholas
Smith
United States Revenue Cutter Service
Ceylon
Treamotee
Grabier
Trihuel
Maccassar
Persian Gulf
Java
Sumatra
Shanks Bay
Roebuck Bay
Baja
Gulf of California
France
San Francisco
Margaret Tudor
James
Scotland
Flodden Field
India
Oldest dated pure glass lion head in British Museum
The earliest known pure glass artifact with a date is a lion head in the British Museum collection. It bears the name of an Egyptian king from the Sixth Dynasty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Museum
Black and Blue Bruises and the Quick Cure
An advice piece notes bruises and black and blue marks demand attention for possible nerve or muscle injury. It extols St Jacobs Oil as a fast remedy, touts bruises as common after toil, and warns detectives to check suspects for gloves, claiming professionals never work with them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Jacobs
Iit
New Connecticut sect mocks old remedies and faith healing
A report notes a Connecticut sect’s brutal water healing ritual that nearly killed an elderly woman. It contrasts with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters touted as a cure for rheumatism and related ailments. The piece also mentions a Georgia minister’s admission fee for a ginger cake contest and Portsmouth high school girls selling placard ads as sandwich carriers. It closes with a brief note on early infant schools in New Lanark and England.
Syrup of Figs Promoted as Pleasant Health Remedy
The advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a pleasant tasting, gentle yet prompt remedy for kidneys, liver, and bowels. It claims effective cleansing, cold and fever relief, and relief from habitual constipation, noting its unique qualities and wide availability in 50 cent bottles at leading druggists.
All Eastern Syrup and Cure Mentioned in Odd Fragments
All Eastern Syrup is described as light colored and heavy bodied, made from m flucose and sugar cane, sold in cans by first Cuiss grocers, manufactured by Pacific Cossi Synte Co. Piso's Cure praised by Mrs J L Northcott of Windsor Ontario. A horned rabbit was shot in Chase county Kansas fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Cuiss Vrocers
Pacific Cossi Synte Co
Chase County
Kansas
Toledo
Leas County
Frank J. Chesney Markes
PLC
Cheney & Co
Hall
Frank J. Cheney
A.D. Liso
A.W. Gleason
Women urged to write Mrs Pinkham for relief
The notice warns that women workers face female diseases from standing long hours and urges them to write Lydia E Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts for guidance. Grace B Stanspury of Pratt Kansas shares that after suffering womb ovarian pains and backache she followed Mrs Pinkhams advice and credits Vegetable Compound with a full cure after six bottles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Grace B. Stanspury
Pratt
Kansas
Bays
Lydia E. Pinkham
Alaska map offered for U S Army officers use
Kraft publisher offers the best detailed Alaska map for army officers detailed to Alaska. Price in stamps or money order to repoint Kraft, P O Box 1 Portisnd. Department of the Interior endorses the item for military use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yar
Atask
Department of the Interior
U. S. Army
Alaska
KRAFT
P.O
Mechanical device patents labels on tins in ten hours
A recent patent shows a machine printing pastel paper labels for 100 000 tins in ten hours. In other notes, a South Shore train collided with a Grand Trunk local at St Lambert Canada, killing August Bourbon and James Coudry. The era lists metals known, and other varied items from childhood discipline to dental mallets and transport transit figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Shore
Grand Trunk
St. Lambert
Canada
August Bourbon
James Coudry
Open Letter to Mothers on Castoria Trademark Rights
An open letter asserts exclusive use of the word Castoria and PITCHER'S CASTORIA as a trademark. It notes Germany's $80,000,000 in gold in 1,000 iron chests at Spandau fortress as wartime emergency funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castoria
Samuel Pitcher
Tyannis
Massachusetts
Chas. H. Fletcher
Mothers of America
Chas
Germany
Spandaon
Remarkable Discovery of an American Medico Chemist
An 19th century ad extols PT A Slocum M D of New York City as offering a free three bottle trial of his system claiming cures for consumption tuberculosis and bronchial ailments. It urges readers to write from Santa Fe New Mexico, stating the city lacks rats mice and cats due to rarefied air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Slocum
Pine Street
New York City
Layin
Pasteur
Rock
Slocum
PT. A. Slocum
Thie
Als
America
Europe
Baers
T. A. Slocum
M. D
New York
Thal
Wny
Hummanity
Santa Fe
New Mexico
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Thong
Jay
Huss
South Dakota
Sue
Taven Company of Horse
Paris
Mexico
Lumbholtz
Egypt
Mancashire
England
Hope
Knox County
Bass
London
Corvallis
St. Louis
Er Society
Lonalbu
Non
Cardiff
Wales
Southiverpool
Exeof
Amos Purkis
Iss
Willian Churchill
Hipyard
Warren Ayro
Lanne
Luther Pierce
Cape Charles
Indian Ocean
Siberia
Anthoskoff
St. Vetersburg
Witlsburg
Absalon
Apollo
Slocum Laboratory
NEW Crazy Sect
Georgia
Portsmouth
N. H
New Lanark
ISIS
California Fig Syrup CO
Cal
Louisville
HOME
J. L. Northcott
Windsor
Ont
Girls IN Stores
Ness
Fowler
Box 337
Southington
Conn
W. T. Woodward
The
Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and Dredge Engineers
Chicago
Chicago River
Nicaragua Canal
F. J. Cheney &O
Ilall
Warner
Mason Chemical CO
P.O. Box
Philadelphiia
Express
Western Novelty Seed CO
Buckner, MO
Erie Medical Co
SuEvavo
Bismarck
Queen Victoria
Salzer
aBbl
Catalogalone
Alzer Seed CO
LA Crosse
Moore
Stewart & Holmes Drug Co
Seattle
Nec Fare
Sanden Electric Belt CO
West Washington St
Portland, Om
Perry
D. M. Ferry & CO
Detroit, Mich
Chicago Board of Trade
Downing, Hopkins & Co
Chicago Board of Trade Brokers
Portland
Oregon
Wash
Illustrated Catalogs Lumberson
Front ST
Portland, OR
N. P.N.U
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