Salt cellar customs through history at table
The article traces how salt served varied social meaning from ancient times to modern dishes. It notes the salt cellar demarcated rank, with beggars, guests, and servants sharing tables, and that later shifts to individual salt cellars ended the old practice. It references Byzantine, medieval Europe, and English habits, including craft materials for salt cellars and their eventual decline.
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Byzantium
Europe
England
Explosive From Liquid Air Tested in German Mine
A liquid air explosive mixture containing oxygen forms a detonator capable of exploding dynamite. Tested in a German coal mine at Penzburg, the substance must be used within minutes of preparation as it cannot be stored. Also referenced are a poetic excerpt and a note about Bam Kendrick Abbott in the Atlanta Comet.
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Penzburg
Germany
Boston
Club of Twelve
Piles to Burns Remedies Sold With Prices in New York
An 19th century advertisement offers cures for piles external and internal, fissures, fistulas, burns, inflamed breasts, salt rheum, tetters, chapped hands, fever blisters, and insect stings. It lists price points 950, 500, and 1,900 with pre paid delivery in New York.
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New York
Educated Chinaman and the Voting Question
A Sacramento news parody contrasts two reporters probing Chinaman voting views, detailing an interview with a well educated Chinese proprietor who declines opinion. The piece pivots to domestic culinary advice praising simple pastry methods over faddish gadgets, urging plain tools and traditional techniques.
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Nombertess
Congress
Billings
Té& Store
Alons
John
United States
Hisa Comerade
Peuth
Eee Emcees
Uptown and Westside Share A Sixth Avenue Car
Uptown and his friend Westside rode a nine car on the Sixth Avenue elevated. Despite the chill Uptown rolled down a window prompting a warning from Westside about catching pneumonia. He quips that the landlord is a doctor and needs something to do to value the rent.
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Uptown
Westside
Sixth Avenue
Variety Ceased Farce Snub Echoes From Chronicle
A Pittsburgh Chronicle quip records Mrs Hasher the landlady and a cross eyed hoarder exchanging a wry line about variety in fare. The hoarder remarks on lacking variety while the landlady deflects with a pun about shopping it, reflecting local humor and social natter.
Man Reads History In Streetcar Confrontation
A 60 year old man on a streetcar reads aloud from a book to prepare for a visit with Abraham Tompkins. He recounts major American wars from 1776 through the Civil War and Cuba, preparing to prove his knowledge to Abe during a game of checkers.
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Jook
Sloud
Abraham Tompkins
Abe
George Washington
Paul Jones
Wet
Gen
Jackson
New Orleans
Mexico
Scott
Taylor
Grant
Sheridan
Lee
Cuba
Abraham Tompking
Champion Sneezer and Courtroom Noise Tale From Kentucky
An old fisherman recalls a sneezing farmer in an eastern Kentucky town who disrupted a circuit court as a judge charged the grand jury. The sneeze caused a fine, jokes about obstinacy, and anecdotes of noise overpowering a bullish din. The piece ends by noting US telegraph wires reach nearly 1,500,000 miles.
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Kays
Louisville
Kentucky
Grand Jury
Boyine
United States
Paying Off Old Scorer Causes Campus Gossip and Pranks
A University of Chicago coed sparks campus talk after six male students plot a shared visit to her, each arriving 15 minutes apart and treating others as strangers. The plan, described as paying an old score, unfolds amid university gossip about romance and mischief.
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University of Chicago
Midway School
American exhibitions afloat to sell goods in Asia
Two Philadelphia Commercial Museum correspondents propose floating expos on a vessel to display American products from India to China. The plan envisions a complete collection of U.S. goods visiting Indian ports then Chinese ports, exposing buyers to second hand watches and other items.
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Philadelphia Commercial Museum
India
United States
China
Self cure and odd verses mix in old Ander notices
Fragmentary OCR mixes poem lines with a medical claim about Isenee Hamilton of West Jefferson Ohio who supposedly cured a rectal fistula after 18 months without surgery, using Bucklen's Arnica. The text cites a drugstore and a sales claim but is nonsensical and inconsistent.
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Isenee Hamilton
West Jefferson
Bucklen
Prandur & Tinkrote
Dr D Cargile notices and patent medicine claims
A fragment from Tilarios News notes cures claimed by Dr D Cargile and various patent medicines. It mentions Mrs Brewer cured of scrofula by Breathe Bitters and promotes Electric Bitters, Duke Warner’s White Wine of Tar Syrup, and Minute Cough Cure with testimonials from J Q Hood and Crosby, Miss, including a distance fact about Bombay to Washington.
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Cargile
Fle
Brewer
QO. I
Plander
Duke Warner
Plander & Hackratt
Warner
Prander & Hackrott
J. Q. Hood
Justice of the Peace
Crosby
Miss
John M, Nix
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Hekley World
Ieee
Acki Og Pestana
Benin
Tormila
Bam Kendrick Abbott
Atlanta
Abrahan Tompkins
Smith
Jonés
O'Reilly
Dewey
Beaton Young
Commercial Museum Correspondenta Im Indie
Mra. Highborn
Reading
Mr. Highborn
Imad
Rocky Mountain
Iman
Theurgeons
Ata
Andrew Rathackley
Hardin
Trey
Mirone
Stuzer
AckLey
Iowa
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Bank OF Ackley
Alven Atetention
Soatarrep
General Bankt Nicusiness
Yacm Loans
Ta and Romatt Harte of
Billa
Luscu
Nannin
Ceive
John Rath
Roosevelt Brothers
Knickerbocker Roller Mills
Ackley, Iowa
Alice
Bombay
Washington
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