Notable Notables and Oddities Across Times
A collage of snippets notes London chief justice in London for holiday after thirty years in India, lists 827 love terms, a pale smoker in a joke, names and ages of New York leaders Flower Hill Murphy Cleveland, a rich London tradesman who cannot read, a funeral band quip, a failed 1899 assassination attempt on President Carnot, and a blank cartridge misfire at the Elysee fete.
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Chipsley
Charles Sargent
Bombay
London
India
Roswell P. Flower
David B. Hill
Edaward Murphy
Grover Cleveland
Rand
Carnot
French Republic
Palace of the Elysee
Asssassin
Profane History Mention Raises Husband Proof Reading
A caller remarks that the husband is engaged in profane history work. The author’s wife confirms the implication, noting it sounded that way when he was correcting proofs.
Labor Pessimist Agitator Voices Strike Frustration
A labor agitator argues the town is declining toward ruin as an American mechanic questions what is wrong with it and admits difficulty organizing a strike. The exchange captures a tense mood of worker discontent and stalled action in the era.
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Gs.t
Railroad Superintendent Warns Against Early Black Tie Plans
The exchange shows a railroad superintendent debating early adoption of black tem against a presidential caution to wait for a major accident before making such changes. The dialogue highlights management risk aversion and crisis-driven decisions.
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Promotes Kidney Activity
An advertisement touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a preventive remedy for incipient disease. It claims the medicine activates inactive kidneys to avert serious illnesses like Bright's disease diabetes edema and other harms. It also purports to ease constipation liver complaints malarial fever nervousness and dyspepsia.
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Hright
Tan seller with yard stick reflects belief in Bible doubt
A fragment remarks on a tan seller carrying a short yard stick who is convinced the Bible is not true. It contrasts with others who set rat traps for elephants and dig pitfalls for mice, implying varied cleverness and folly.
Purified Syrup of Figs Promotes Health and Comfort
Purified Syrup of Figs offers a pleasant taste and laxative effect that cleanses the system and relieves colds headaches and fevers. The remedy works through the kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them and is sold in 50c and 1 bottles by druggists, manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Narrow Escapes As We Strive For Salvation Through Faith
A preacher expounds on Job 19:26 “I am escaped with the skin of my teeth,” using vivid biblical imagery to warn against gradual conversion and urge a return to traditional faith. He compares life temptations to shipboard perils, urging repentance, steadfast faith, and courage to abandon sin for heaven.
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St. Jerome
Schultens
Drs Good
Poole
Barnes
Job
Ovid
Horace
Solomon
Moses
Paul
Arkwright
Cape May
Long Branch
Simon
Andrew
Coney Island
Heaven
Feminities and social quirks in a witty column
A column by Lewis Schiller of Allentown humorously notes large families, punishing children for remarks about commandments, and reflections on love, marriage, bicycles, and social behavior. It mentions a San Francisco heir hunter and a man who cured his wife of talking by silencing her with a compliment.
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Lewis Schiller
Allentown
Grace
Ned
San Francisco
Want an Ocean Trip Europe Jobs Advertised for Passengers
A 1920s style feature describes offers to sail to Europe on cattle ships in exchange for work. An employment office on G Street screens hopefuls, with examples of applicants lacking the right look. The piece notes cattle shipments rising from five to eight thousand weekly from Heston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore as ships depart for England.
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Europe
England
Passare
Liverpool
Glasgow
New York
Paris
Brooklyn
Heston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Atlantic
Incomplete Miscellany From a Distant Chronicle
A collage of curiosities notes salmon and pike never sleeping, a rubber forest in the Orinoco valley, a Faris auction yielding 14,000 in gold, Japan's road and telegraph revenue, Dead Sea microbial use, Thibet demography and polygamy, lobster migrations, a long Homestead bolt, and digits on feet of animals. A Nature correspondent mentions carp eating mosquito larvae as a potential insect control.
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India
Orinoco
Faris
Am Mattrass
Japan
Dead Sea
Thibet
Reruscatll
Homestead
Woolwich
England
Nature
Liszt Teases Pianist Over Sterndale Bennett Sonata
Streletzki recounts Liszt gently asking Miss M- to name the piece she played. She identifies Sterndale Bennett’s The Maid of Orleans, to which Liszt quips that the original manuscript might have met the same fate as the Maid.
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Maid of Orleans
William Sterndale Bennett
Liszt
Wow murder mockery echoes in New York to Boston muse
A curio from the Chicago Record notes a quip between a New York young woman and a Boston friend. The exchange plays on dramatic self restraint as a mouse scurries nearby and Clara seeks an Ibsen heroine’s reaction.
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New York
Boston
Clara
Ibsen
Chicago
Whale anatomy and size contrast described
The passage notes whales reach eighty to ninety feet but with throats too small to swallow even a tea biscuit. It contrasts this with the sperm whale whose mouth is large enough to swallow a man, illustrating size disparity between body and throat.
Fiance Clarifies Madge Dummy Moment Amid Pith Punching
A playful exchange centers on Madge and Mr. Dummy with Clara correcting the fiancé reference. The dialogue hints at a humorous interruption as a punchline emerges about possession and pursuit.
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Madge
Mr. Dummy
Clara
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