Raise Your Own Grapes in a Brooklyn Yard Scheme
An illustrated Brooklyn feature touts growing vines in a rear yard to yield thousands of grape clusters. A two row yard with trellises and fences supports six grapevines, yielding over 2,000 clusters, much of it Concord and Isabella varieties. Cost to care for the vines is about 8 per year. October is recommended for planting. New York Sun.
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Amal
Thle
Enid
Elty
Iain
Brooklyn
Aldo
New York
Youths Stage Locust Street Train Robbery Game
A Philadelphia Times note describes how youths around Locust street near Twenty-first and Twenty-second imitate robbers and an engineer using toy pistols. They enact the engineer’s stop, passengers’ surrender, and robbers’ mock firing, with occasional police appearances ending the play.
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Hoye
Locust Street
Philadelphia Times
Singular Intermarriages and Turquoise Beliefs in 1887 Durham
A Durham Canada report details an 1887 marriage with bizarre kinship links where a man marries his son in law's father in law while his wife connects to grandchildren and step relations. It also notes circa Turquoise superstition as a health indicator, claimed to reflect the wearer’s health and influence superstition.
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Durham
Canada
Rhothver
Louis
Insane From Grip Serials Affects Harshman Family
Mrs Harshman, wife of M J Harshman and a Shawnee Oil Company worker, has fallen into a severe illness described as insanity after grippe. She wandered naked at times, attacked her husband, and was found wandering near the home before being taken to relatives for treatment to regain her health and calm.
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Martha Tershman
M. J. Harshman
Shawnee Oil Company
Iain
Bo Owas
Harshman
Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription Promises Relief
Worn and weary women are urged to use Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a tonic to restore strength. The ad touts it as an invigorating cordial and nervine, aiding fatigue nervous excitement insomnia and related debilities in women and shop workers alike.
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Pierce
Chicago and Erie Road Dismisses 200 Laborers
Three weeks after laying off 170 in Huntington shops and rehiring 50, the Chicago and Erie railroad yesterday called in every road train worker and dismissed 200 laborers. The plant ongoing project to ballast the road from end to end left only foremen and two helpers in each section, leaving crews nervous and apprehensive.
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Chicago and Erie
Huntington
Castori a misread tale on early childhood care
A fragmented OCR note appears to reference Castoria and Gastonia in a coinage of names. It mentions a child and caregiving themes, but lacks coherent events or dates. The readable phrases suggest misread references to Castoria and a passing mention of a location Gastonia.
Long Finds Abandoned Colt Beside Four Unbred Mares
Near Allentown farmer Long discovered a fine small bay colt in his barn with four mares present but none of the mares could nurse it. He has since been feeding the colt milk from a bucket as he tries to understand what happened.
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Long
Allentown
Mr. Long
Burkleen Arnica Salve advertised in local paper
An 25 cent box salve ad promotes Burkleen Arnica Salve for bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions with money back guarantee. Also notes Melville Bros as seller. A Common Pleas report mentions three new cases including Bessie Williams suing for damages after being struck by an L E W train at Waroe Street crossing resulting in leg and head injuries and a request for $1005.
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Melville Bros
Bessie Williams
Thomas Williams
Bessie
Waroe Street
National Brotherhood Ball at Music Hall Next Monday
Preparations underway for the National Brotherhood of Boilermakers ball at Music Hall with thirty six dances on the program. Attendance open to all with no strict invitations. Lima labor groups note new law protecting employees from discharge for union membership and activity. Local surveying services offered by J C Croxley Co Lima. Local ad item offers 50 cent value.
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National Brotherhood of Boilermakers
Music Hall
Lima
Senate
J.C. Croxley, Co
Nevada Trotting Dogs and a Possible International Race
Report from Carson City details two trotting dogs, Doc of Brighton Nevada and Crotting dog owned by Willie Cree, Carson City, with rare speed feats. The piece notes talk of an international race between the United States and Canada, highlighting Doc as the British flag dog and Crotting dog as Nevada’s famed performer. Also includes a humorous anecdote about Mike O’Brien lost in Mercer county and an answering owl call.
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Canada
United States
Doc
Wie Kotehun
Brighton
Nevada
Ont
Dod
Don
Willie Cree
Carson City
Hite
Circe
Civou
Mike O'Brien
Mercer County
Mike
Mike O’brien
Lima
Oscar Hammerstein Adds Maniatian Opera House in New York
New York theater growth continues with Oscar Hammerstein adding a fifth story Maniatian Opera House on West Thirty-fourth Street. The venue will seat seventy five boxes in an ornate auditorium and feature a steeply slanting floor and a revolving box office to reduce ticket lines.
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Tun Opera House
Atreot
I T
Wnrried
Uammerstein T
Harvard Cycling Notes and Rochester Contest Plans
The Harvard University Cycling association to hold an annual tournament at Holmes fell Cambridge on June 4. Kings county wheelmen and West End Bicycle club Rochester plan a Buffalo Rochester course contest toward May for trophies worth 300. College athletes train for the intercollegiate championships in New York on May 28. Captain Buck Ewing says New York left handed pitcher Van Zant will excel in the box though his career left him with multiple injuries. he is Nina Van Zant's brother.
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Harvard University Cycling Association
Holmes’ Fell
Cambridge
Mass
Kings County Wheelmen
West End Bicycle Club
Rochester
Buffalo-Rochester
New York
Buck Ewing
van Zant
Vani Zant
Nina Van.Zant
Taming Animals with Electricity
A future method of animal control uses a light wand with a battery powered by electricity to shock surly beasts like lions or tigers. The wand connects via a flexible wire to a battery, delivering a controlled jolt to compel obedience as described by the New York Telegram.
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Department of Applied Science
New York Telegram
Coughing Leads to Consumption Some Balsam Route
A fragment notes coughing leading to consumption and hints at balsam remedies atop the cough. The text is sparse, but suggests medicinal use and care steps.
A Wise Young Woman and a Cure for Catarrh
A satirical tale shows a young woman seeking a remedy for catarrh to win her lover Adolphan. She buys Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy, and the story claims her fiancé’s kiss proves the cure. The piece shifts to a formal vote abstract by R. B. Tolan listing Democrats and Republicans by township with vote counts.
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Adolphus Fitzwilljame
Owtarrh
Thia
Darling’ Adolping
Dr. Sage
Adolphan
Local Remedies and Auditor Meeting Pair Read Like a Patchwork
Reverend C F Brooke praises Sulphies Bitters as a cure for his daughter’s walasia and plans to take them on his summer report. Auditor Crites convened with newly elected assessors, delivering instruction for duties. list includes numerous township and ward officials across Auglaize, Bath, German, Shawnee, Monroe, Perry, Richland, and Lima areas.
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Crites
Amanda
C.C. Post
Auglaize Township
East
W. GC. Johnson
West
F. M. Clum
Bath Township
Addison Custer
German Township
W. N. Sherry
Jackson Township
John Hawk
Marion
J. Holmes
Monroe
Joseph Conner
Perry
James A. Franklin
Richland Cone
Bluffton
Aaron Augtburger
Beaver Dam
C. ‘Hanenstein
Shawnee
Solomon Fantz
Spencer
Frank M. Harvey
Sugar Creek
J. W. Sherrick
Delphos
Jacob Saum
M. Sunigoers
M. Sunigoers; Limast Ward,m,. O'Connell; Lima 2Nd Ward, Wm. Wice
Lima
Jack Beery
JR. Seldere
J. A. Kepner
Daniel Paullin
Ben Ashby
Electric Bitters Praised by Indiana Locals in Local Ad
Idaville residents Happy Hoosiers Win Timmons Pestimpster and John Leslie praise Electric Bitters for kidney and liver relief and renewed strength. J W Gardner, hardware merchant, says the medicine revived his energy and appetite. Available at Melville Bros. drug store for 80 cents a bottle.
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Win
Timmons
Pestimpster
Idaville
Ind
Electric Bitters
John Leslie
Farmer and Stockman
Same Place
J.W. Gardner
Melville Bros
Lima Man’s Beer Basket Slips On Sidewalk
A well known Lima resident suffered an odd accident Saturday evening. Descending from a doorway with a basket of empty beer bottles concealed by paper, he bowed to two ladies as he neared the galoon. The basket tipped, bottles crashed on the pavement, and the man, rattled but unseeing, walked to the next corner and pressed his face to a telegraph pole to recover.
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Lima
Maud & Galt
Appeal for help locating missing Ohio boy
Auditor Crites reports Dean Sims and his 14 year old son Clifford Romig ran away from home on February 2 1892. Despite notices and public service efforts the boy remains missing. A circular campaign is sent to every taxpayer in Ohio asking neighbors to aid in locating him. Frank Roma and Wire Uhrichsville Ohio request assistance and offer to reimburse information costs.
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Crites
Dean Sims
Clifford Romig
Hone
Ohio
Frank Roma and
Wire
Uhrichaville
American Trotting Register Adopts Separate Pacing Standards
The American Trotting Register Association splits trotting and pacing rules. New standards grade stallions, mares, and progeny by pacing times such as 2:25 and 2:30, with multiple qualifications. The change aims to preempt a separate New York based register while one trotting standard stays unchanged.
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American Trotting Register Association
Korea
N. A. T. H. E. Register
New York
Cleveland
Quarantued Cure Promises Refund for Dr King’s New Discovery
Advertises Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds with a money back guarantee if no benefit after a fair trial. Trial bottles free at Melville’s drug store. Large size 50c and $1.00.
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Melville's Drug Store
Evergreen Nurseries Catalogue Highlights 800 Varieties
A Wisconsin nursery catalogs 800 conifer varieties from worldwide sources including Germany and Western states. They offer screens, wind breaks, hedges, or decorative evergreens and tout low prices and vast seed and plant imports for broad appeal.
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Evergreen
Wis
America
Germany
Colorado
California
Washington
Old Time Methods For Coloring Easter Eggs
Egg coloring methods described use boiled eggs with patterns from chintz or calico prints. Techniques include onion skin dye for reddish purple, tallow tracing for designs, and engraving with a knife or needle after boiling. Natural dyes include Brazil wood, Persian berries, turmeric, logwood, indigo and chromates. Eggs are boiled at least ten minutes.
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Brazil
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Samuel Light
R. N. Rockhill
Isaac Campbell
Terry Townsilip
Lewis M.baker
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Ren
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Jacob Hogle
Sugar Orelek Township
Thomas W. Williams
Lewis Griffith
Frank Fraunfeller
Sam’l A. Post
Wm. Higley
Lima—Oltawa ‘Township
John D. Douglass
Patterson
R. Kerr
Ged. W. Carder
Pep
Timothy Shroyer
Rev. C. F. Brooke
Walasia
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A Monster Evergreen Nursery
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Castori
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Samuel Pitcher
Lowell, Mass
J. F. Kinonenor
Qgonway
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TH. A. Ancnen
Oxford
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Murray Street
New York City
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T. C. M. Hughes, Jr
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Brice
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Peant
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Macy Marek
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Leemcrazy
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Rane
H. A. Day
Lee
Baarborn- Streat
Chicaco
Ill
Crayton
Chicago
Portra
Ty Jolph &T. J
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Ead
Pe Jhio
State Univers!t
Aus
Erie Medical CQ
Buffalo
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