The Strange Meeting Between Living Pictures
A sensational tale recounts a woman haunted by a dead friend who reappears as a living picture. The narrative follows her fear astonishment and eventual relief after cures in letters from Belle Dement Minnie Smith and others. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and a free medical book urging home treatment for women's disorders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rich
Belle Dement
Iroquois
Minnie Smith
Lowell
Oregon
Pierce
People’s
Common Sense Medical
Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
N. Y
Origins of songs and their composers and melodies
This survey lists songs like Cheer, Boys, Cheer by Charles Mackay with music by Henry Russell from 1843, What Are the Wild Waves Saying, Rule Britannia from 1740 with air by Arne, and The Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore. It notes origins English or Irish, forms, and earlier tunes such as The Groves of Blarney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Mackay
Henry Russell
Joseph Edwards Carpenter
Dion Boucicault
Shaun the Post
Epes Sargent
Battery
New York
Scotland
Annie McVicar
Grant
Patti
Thomas Moore
Blarney
Worth Knowing: Miscellaneous Historical Snippets
A mixed bag of facts covers topics from London land values to Cheshire apple trees. Notes include a Lombard street plot sale at 6500 per square yard, a two acre Birmingham bicycle jointless rim plant, 1615 Frankfurt newspaper origins, Indiana 1895 census figures, and Japan’s plan for 800 miles of undersea cable to Formosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lombard Street
Cheshire
Conn
Birmingham
Eng
Germany
Frankfurter Journal
Indiana
Japan
England
Formosa
France
Pierre Loti As Osiris and the Fisher of Iceland
Paris correspondence recounts Pierre Loti staging a costume party with famous pairings like Osiris with Cleopatra and Marat with Charlotte Corday. It notes Loti as a meticulous naval officer by day and a devoted writer by afternoon, his home on the Bidassoa, his love of flowers and cats, and his family including his wife and a young son Samuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Loti
Osiris
Cleopatra
Charlotte Corday
Marat
Charles
Cromwell
Grisette
Nero
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Scapin
Mahomet
Pourceaugnac
Pierre Loti
Iceland
Abbaye de Gil
Viand
Academie Francaise
Julien Viand
Hendaye
Bidassoa
Mme. Viand
Pierre Lotiis
Mme
Bou
Lot
Samuel
Times Daily
Admiral
Lois
Breezy Bits Snippets of Wit and Whimsy
A collage of light quotes and jokes from various papers. Tid-Bits jokes about funeral notices and mistaken reports mingle with household humor about eating fish and cold rooms. The set closes with a Christmas Eve stocking anecdote about the cheerful giver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
John
Pat
Billus
Chicago Tribune
Leeskring
Santa Claus
Fred
Spilled Molten Glass Halts Marion Jar Works
A tank at the Marion fruit jar works exploded its bottom spilling 120 tons of molten glass. Four water streams kept the mass from igniting as the plant faces a two week shutdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Indianapolis Sentinel
Marion Fruit Jar Works
Grounded at Breakfast in New York Recorder Style
Mrs Gunning questions grounds at breakfast while Mr Gunning answers with a halfhearted remark about inches in the bottom, reflecting a domestic moment reported by the New York Recorder.
Plowman’s bark and notions on catarrh cures in old column
A collage of unrelated notices and snippets including agricultural banter about a mule, medical claims for Hall's Catarrh Cure with promotional lines, a dining car fare notice, Belgian name trivia, real estate pitches, teething syrup, a Newport villa project, corn salve ads, and moral maxims from a late 19th century newspaper.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pierre Lotus
Jean Viand
LY Pure
Farmer
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Chen Y & CO
Hail's Family Pills
Queen Victoria
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
George H. Neafford
Old Colony Building
Chicago
Ill
Belgium
Riverside Co
Cal
Hemet Land Co
Hemet, Cal
Kitne
Kiine
Philo
Gotham
Eliza Archard Connor
W. Pickett
Luther
Robert Goelet
Newport
Wanson
Burlington
Boston
Windsor Castle
Pierre Lorillard
Edmund Yates
Hobb
Noro
Hobb's Medicine CO
San Francisco
PENNA
Phila
W.N.U
D.M
Walter Baker & Co
Walter Baker & Co., Limited
Dorchester
Mass
Scott
Scott & Bowne
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