Timeline of historical milestones and figures through 1905
A compact chronology traces events from 1606 to 1905 highlighting explorers, governors, battles, treaties, inventions, and notable speeches. It notes Plymouth Foundation, the Treaty of Ghent, Fort Fisher bombardment, the Lincoln era, and a Union debt concern voiced by Supreme Court Justice Brewer while urging a higher national life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sara Constant
Godspeod
Discovery
England
Virginia
Plymouth
Mass
Sir Edmund Andros
Milan
Congress
Fort Niagara
Ghent
Great Beltwin
America
London
Greenwich
Allway
Col. Doniplin
Bracell
Abd-el-Rader
Westmoreland
Lake Michigan
Hugh Miller
South Carolina
Drainaville
Charleston
4 Springs
Miss
Fort Fisher
Sherman
Savannah
Grant
Fourth National Bank of Philadelphia
Sidward
Stokes
James Mekr, Jr
Harnum
Ouseum
New York City
New York
Isaac Sawtelle
Dover
N. HS
Hiram
Hastings
N. Y
Abyssinia
Atlantic
East River
St. Petersburg
Justice Brewer
United States Supreme Court
New Rochelle
N.Y
Hercules Club
Washington
Pertina and the old remedy in fish speaking world
A fragmentary newspaper item cites Pertina as a household word in many homes and notes it as an old remedy for catarrhal diseases. A Druggist promotes Pertina Alma nac for 1907. A humorous dialogue follows about life and sunrise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ern
Pertina Almanac
Woman Overcomes Kidney Trouble After Dean's Pills
Mary Wagner of Bridgeport Connecticut reports severe kidney pain backache and dizziness for weeks. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with steady improvement after five boxes and notes relief from irregular and painful passages and sediment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Wagner
Bridgeport
Conn
Dean
blur-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Solid Floating Foundation For Offshore Structures
Inventor William E. Murray of Los Angeles describes a method to anchor floating structures in deep calm water so surface motion cannot affect them. A hollow upright iron cylinder with a projecting base acts as a lever to counter horizontal pressure, enabling stable breakwaters lighthouses forts and bridges even on turbulent seas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Technical World
Telly
William E. Murray
Los Angeles
Cal
Ite
Sage University Gift Expands New York Campus
Chancellor MacCracken announces Sage transfer of fifteen acres adjoining the university. The $0 value land increases campus to thirty seven acres and enables a large expansion plan including a quadrangle and enlarged summer school. The university now has 298 structures and 2524 students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mes. Sage
MacCracken
New York University
Dira
Russell Sage
Dandruff Remedies and Curious Health Items
A collage of short items on hair care with Ayer s Hair Vigor promising cure for dandruff and healthy scalp, Palmo Curative products, jokes about gossip and teething, Barbers ancient and modern, Brandreth s Pills praised as old reliable laxative, and salt road dust suppression experiments in Rouen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ayer
M. ‘Trintzing
Rouen
Chas, Fletcher
Plagiarism and Delicate French Manners in New York
The New York Tribune notes John Kendrick Bangs discussing plagiarism with a man who nearly admitted guilt. A New York woman recalls a Frenchman bowing over a near wardrobe mishap on Broadway, highlighting cultural delicacy and embarrassment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kendrick Bangs
New York
New York ‘Tribune
Mr. Bangs
Yonkera
Broadway
Mademoiselle
New York Press
Letters from 4 Surgeon and Miscellany of Health Cures
A mix of anecdotes from Letters from 4 Surgeon includes a Massachusetts surgeon avoiding a moccasin under his neck, a snake in the coat, and a note on patience. Also an ad for laxatives, a health statement by Imperial Germany, Colorado pea beds, a joke on true love, and Prize history for Alexander I.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doctor Perry
Massachusetts
Hayward
John
Perry
Germany
One Thing at Thine
A quarrelsome border and a philosophical boarder discuss street car improvement. The border argues it is for the future, while the boarder insists the present duty is to ameliorate it.
Goodman Gov Rong Pleads Time Served Then Sentenced
The defendant addresses the court with a claim of descent from revolutionary forefathers. The judge retorts and defers to a path upward, sentencing Goodman Gov Rong to sixty days before calling the next case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodman Govrong
Ancient Coffins From Marble to Cedar Across Civilizations
Fragmentary octagonal text discusses ancient coffin materials from marble and stone to cedar and hollow oaks. Mentions Roman and Alexander the Great burial legends, Athenian cedar coffins, and early English wooden coffins dating to King Arthur. Includes stray ad-like lines about patent coins and a Birmingham advertisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CoMua
Ty Parte
England
Hogland
Arthur
Birmingham
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pert Asa For
Pasenger
Tim
Fenanay
Macleod
Arades
G. F. Beere
Alberta
Colon Bank of Canada
Catterlin & CO
Abirgton Beliding
Portland, Oregon
Portland Stock Exchange
Icks-Chatten Engraving Co
Enetra
Aid
Oro Ina Ani
Ailalla
Anna
Moore Real Estate Company
Anthony
Askstom
Fiorax
Adin Rex
Oakland
Cale Coast
J. G
Longil, Maen
Houston
Bufoula
Iary
Katherine
Jack Frost
Lucky Jack
Winmow
Moiste
LeRoy
Greece
Rome
Henry VIII
Nanre
Brandroth
Brandreth
Loftleigh
Grove
Colorado
St. Paterebirg
Alesander I
Russia
Arakichelef
Novgorod
Um Czar
Alexander
Castoria
Reddik & Co
Hewnaeras Aeons
Astiee
Poedeianyee
Toledo
Mapa
Cain
Asker
Mars
Tes
Owen ‘Weat Union
Ohio
S.S.S
Putnam Ec Beichter
Fais
Monroe Drug ‘Cos Usl
White Rocks Pacific Nursery CO
Tangent
Oregon
Ferry & GO
Cor
Morrison Tention Paper
Portland
PMU
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