Feminineities and Advice From an Early 20th Century Column
A satirical montage on women and social norms with jokes about fathers of many children, flirtations, marriages, bicycles for girls, and health advice. It includes quips on affection, propriety, and a Boston editor's tongue in cheek guidance to readers of the fair sex, plus a note on using a pencil to send "kisses" by mail.
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Lewis Schiller
Allentown
Grace
Ned
San Francisco
Boston
Notes and Novelties Snapshot from a Distant Era
A scattered collection cites Boston water storage at 17 746 843 960 gallons a 433 day supply. Salvation Army claims 200 000 converts yearly. New Orleans Sunday closing law to be enforced. An elephant in Hindoo temples collects alms. Thurston county Washington reports 200 000 planted fruit trees mostly Italian prune. Italian torpedo boat tests pigeon flight at 4 miles a minute. A Waterloo Maine lightning incident kills Etta Be. a child rema ins unharmed. John Hudlum, Chicago Board of Trade janitor, dies as ex-slave with $30 000 fortune. A Brighton sailor returns after two years in Cisco Greenland. Dr Cook predicts Arctic trip. New York cold cited as harsher than Greenland winter. Ice is dry, air moisture frozen, winter in New York described as wet and raw.
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Boston
Booth
Salvation Army
New Orleans
South India
Thurston County
Washington
Waterloo
Etta Be
John Hudlum
Chicago Board of Trade
Brighton
Melbourne
Australia
Cisco Greenland
Dr Cook
Arctic
New York
Greenland
York
Nature and Art in Early Electricity and Oddities
A collage of curiosities: Sweden experiments with electricity on iron, a rare 16 000 feet per second earthquake shock, a Nevada tree phosphorescing enough to read by, Stanford students discover fossil bones south of San Antonio, and Norwich notes on George D Colt. Also a wisteria strangling an elm, a London anthropometric test with color shades, and D A Buck’s minute steam engine built in Waterbury Connecticut weighing only three grains with 148 parts and tiny diameter.
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Sweden
Nevada
Stanford Unit
San
George D. Colt
Norwich
Dr. of
London
D. A. Buck
Waterfry
Conn
An Hour to Think It Over Ends a Simple Prank
A Hudson New York preacher recalls a millinery shop joke where Annie and Charlie staged a mock marriage. The minister proposed an hour to think it over, Annie cried, and Charlie paid the fee. Annie learns the plan could have legally married them.
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Annie
Charlie
William H. Luckenbach
Hudson
N. Y
New York
Amelia
Philadelphia
Paddy and His Pig Cramming Routine Explained
A London Answers quip explains Paddy’s routine of feeding a pig alternately, cramming one day and starving the next. He justifies the method as optimal for bacon with fat and lean in equal measure, a practical joke on culinary thinning and seasoning.
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Paddy
London
Watchman Recalls City Tricksters Targeting Rural Travelers
An eight year veteran watchman at a major Chicago depot narrates recent incidents where rural travelers, notably a middle aged farmer from southern Illinois, fall prey to confidence schemes. The farmer loses a whetstone, a carpetbag, and later funds in a dice game, with one altercation ending in the chair being hurled as he exits the saloon.
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Union
Egypt
Canal Street
Union Depot
Tazewell County
Chicago Post
Dual centers for speech and writing shown in medical cases
A London Telegraph note explains that loss of speech often accompanies loss of writing, but rare cases prove two separate centers for language and writing may remain separate. When broader brain injury occurs, intelligent pantomime also fails, yet some patients retain chess or card skills and even sharp business sense, suggesting speech and intellect do not share identical neural paths.
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London Telegraph
One Minute Cough Cure Offered by D. D. Bales
An advertisement touts One Minute Cough Cure as a harmless remedy with immediate results for sale by Druggist D. D. Bales. The item claims wide usefulness with no listed side effects.
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D. D. Bales
Final 1895 Iowa crop report summary by counties and prices
The 1895 crop report lists county yields and prices as of December 1. Wheat yields average 19 bushels per acre at 45 cents, corn state average 38 bushels with 285 million bushels total, oats 48 bushels per acre at 13 cents, rye 19 bushels per acre at 29 cents, timothy seed about 1.6 million bushels at $1.50, barley 23 bushels per acre, clover 2 bushels, miller seed 20 bushels per acre, flax 11 bushels per acre at 78 cents, Irish potatoes 106 bushels per acre totaling about 21.2 million bushels at 18 cents, sweet potatoes 80 bushels per acre, buckwheat 17 bushels per acre at 51 cents, sorghum 85 gallons per acre. The report notes census data awaited and subject to revision.
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J. R. Sage
Reliabe
Drouth
Timonthy
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Nature
Chicago
Newmarkets
Beaver Newmarkets
Price
Tilden Bros. & CO
Officaliowa Crop Report
Read’s Market
AMES
Iowa
New Bakery
AMD
Confectionery Store
Perkins
Main Street
T. W. Sheldoh
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