Pigeon Evades Eagle On Alameda Ferry Voyage
On the Piedmont ferry from Oakland toward Goat Island a five year old homer named Duke of Richmond escaped an eagle during a chase. The pigeon darted to the deck and then into a cabin where it perched beside a passenger before its owner reclaimed it.
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Piedmont
Oakland
Goat Island
P. H. Schlotzhauer
Alameda
Homer
Duke of Richmond
San Francisco Chronicle
Pullman Cars Called Out for Bad Taste by Edward Bok
Edward Bok criticizes Pullman car interior decorations as a riot of bad taste. He argues the rich company should replace them with harmonious, artistic drapery and use new cars to educate the traveling public through progressive design.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Edward Bok
Pullman
Pullman Company
Mathematician in Spite of Himself
Augusta reports a colored laborer Robert Gardenheir on Jones Street possesses remarkable mental arithmetic prowess. He can instantly compute complex products like 75 times 91 or 321 times 525 with high accuracy. He cannot explain his method and believes any rules are beyond his understanding.
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Augusta
Atlanta Constitution
J. B. White
Robert Gardenheir
Jones Street
Cumming
Robert
For reston Man Turns to Stone Eludes Doctors
Baffling case of E. W. Green of Forreston Illinois shows his flesh slowly hardening into bone. He can still walk though joints are stiff and area except face and fingertips are stone solid. Physicians cannot explain the condition nor offer treatment.
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E. W. Green
Forreston
Ill
Mr. Green
Wise youths and weather lore in old almanacs
The Chinese Almanac lists lucky and unlucky days for ventures and remedies. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is claimed to cure constipation indigestion dyspepsia biliousness and liver or kidney troubles regardless of lucky days. A news telephone in Budapest serves 6000 subscribers with a 168 mile mainline delivering 28 daily editions spoken by ten men from 7 20 am to 9 30 pm.
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Buda Pesth
Wolfe
Texas
Back Aches and Health Notes From the Era
A cascade of short items notes a patent cure for backache by Smiths Sure Kidney Cure with a Memphis testimonial, a remark on Ex Senator Henry L Dawes age and health, a critique of New York clubs, a quip about heat prostration versus Allen s Foot-Base, and a Covenanter voting remark with a rough 10 000 figure for adherents.
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Smith
WM Forrest
Memphis
Tenn
Allen Foot Ease and assorted patent medicines ad list
An OCR style newspaper fragment advertises Allen's Foot-Ease for foot problems and a range of other products. It includes Grover's Tasteless Tonic, Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup for teething, Georgetown style quips, and various notices about hats, biscuits, and mining company letters. It presents a collage of old advertisements and humorous lines.
Local ads and curiosities mix in scattered 19th century notices
A blend of medicinal ads and curiosities includes a Toledo druggists reward offer for incurable ca, firm endorsements, testimonials, and Hall’s pills. Also noted is a 1581 Albrecht Durer painting found in Lisbon and a 91 year old Kerschdorf blacksmith who climbed a church steeple to re rope the bell amid village risk refusals.
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Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
F. J Cheney
Ares
West & Truax
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Ouio
Hiail
Hall
Albrecht Durer
Lisbon National Museum of
Kerschdorf
Heidelberg
Health ads and curious trivia from a turn of the century page
A collage of patent medicine pitches touting Cascar ets to cure ailments by cleansing the bowels and promising painless relief. The text includes warn ings about imitations and a cash price of 10 cents. Also notes about royal titles, a Charleston navy yard fire, drug guarantees, and a quip about tenement living.
Allen's Foot Ease Ad and Odd Product Tips
An old style classified fragment touts Allen's Foot Ease for cold damp feet with 25 cent price and free sample offer. It also includes stray lines about breath, a blue bag, and a prize fighter remark, all in a jumbled ad-like snippet.
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy, N. Y
Grove's Tonic Sold On No Cure No Pay Basis
An ad promotes Grove's Tonic available at fifty cents per bottle with a no cure no pay offer.
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Grove
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Sjaterior
Wise
Henry L. Dawes
Senate
New York
God
Buffalo Commercial
Groor
Pocahontas Tech
Westerford City
George Washington Soda
Crabtree
Des Moines
Iowa
Gladiator Gold- Mining Company
Pakken
Fiddler
Frederick
Germany
Charleston Navy Yard
Alabama
Kearsage
Piso
Scourth
W. Olitiee
Third Ave
Minneapolis
Minn
E. W. Grove
Southwest
Florida
Japan
Driffing Bros. Co
P.O
Jacksonville
Roy Aya Aati
NTL
Diamond Soda Works
Milwaukee
Wis
Patien
Chas
Shlouda
Emeaboutyo Resse
Ay Fryb
Chase
Ste
Philadelphia
West 13Th St
James Boclety
Broadway
New Yous
C. B. Anderson & Co
Elm St
Dallas
Tex
Hom
Acet
Thompson
Castoria
B. Thompson
McCaye
W.B. Thompson &Co
Perdido Street
New Orleans
Bears
Mlermod & Jaccard Jewelry Co
Broadway and Locust T Ste
St. Louis
Kessee
Mr. Grove
Paris Medicine Company
Loade
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