Ruskin Portraits and a Remarkable Rodent Story
A description from Frederic Harrison portrays Ruskin as courteous and intensely personal, admired by contemporaries like Carlyle and Tennyson. A curious anecdote recounts Ruskin guiding a dig that revealed a rat’s nest containing 2500 tulip bulbs undamaged, stored in two chests with untouched ground.
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Ruskin
Apostle of
Beauty
Frederic Harrison
Men of Letters
Belize
Carlyle
Tennyson
Victor Piage
Mazzini
Cariballi
Byron
Nissan
Dulles
Parvilly
Journal Des Debats
Wis
Arnica Salve Advertised By Local Druggists
An out of town dwelling family faces hardship after an accident and is urged to stock Bucklen's Arnica Salve, touted as the best on earth, available from Vicpas WJ. Smith & Bro and H. Balmer & Son drug stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucklen
Vicpas
Smith & Bro
H. Blalmer & Sou
Queen Anne Portrait and Moral Reflections in Nineteenth Century
A fragment discusses Queen Anne and Shakespearean sentiment with a note on royal appearances and a Scottish commissioner’s view of union talks. It shifts to Mrs S H Newson of Decatur Alabama describing relief from long chronic illness by Electric Bitters, praised as miraculous for liver kidney and stomach troubles. 50c.
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Shakespeare
Scotland
Euntland
John Clerk
Britain
S. H. Newson
Decatur
Ala
W. J. Smith & Bro
HU R Palmer & Sons
What would you do if a fairy offered three wishes
A playful, imaginative fragment asks what a person would wish for if a fairy granted three wishes. The line blends playful fantasy with a note about an iceberg being partially visible above water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Star
The Six Follies of Science and a Lecture Misunderstanding
A fragment discusses the six follies of science including life, motion, and the philosopher's stone with references to Bacon Newton and astrology. It recounts Max O'Reilly's failed Grand Rapids lecture and a remark about paying for undelivered lectures. A testimonial promotes Chamberlain's Pain Balm for cuts bruises and burns with local shop listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bacon
Soyle
Jane Newton
Lilly
London Standard
Robert Matse
Orell
Max O'Reil
Artis Hall
Grand Rapids
Carroll Cluridah
O'Rell
Partin
Morten Touse
Polo
Wartman
Preneltis
Tartillian
Vate
Detroit Free Press
Clifton flour and guaranteed cure for piles ad
Summer weather prompts Clifton flour from Bransford for light moist loaves. Wingfield Cash Grocery Store guarantees a cure for piles with PA ZU OINTMENT, refund if it fails, priced at 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bransford
Clifton
Wingfield Cash Grocery Store
Braneford
Dramatic misprint anecdote from Dora stage tale
A humorous Old World anecdote about Charles Reade and Tennyson's Dora circulates. It recounts Mary Morrison exiting to fetch her child Willie a boy aged fourteen plays Willie, and the elder actor tries to salvage the scene with a dubious age reply, prompting a comical remark from a grandfather figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Reade
Tennyson
Dora
Mary Morrison
Willie
Allen
Jenny
Cheerfulness as a personal duty and remedy for blues
The Brooklyn Eagle urges cheerfulness as a duty to self and neighbors and lists artificial aids to happiness. It recommends repeatedly telling silly stories or humorous verse to cure persistent blue devils and notes cheerfulness can ward off old age and duty neglect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Eagle
Gates Adorned By Heads Recall Ancient Torture Custom
The article recalls a macabre practice of placing enemy heads on gateposts as trophies, citing Lomwlon bridges and Terra as examples and noting the faded relics survive on modern suburban gateposts. It also includes a long advertisement for Botanic Blood Balm claiming cures for skin and blood diseases and a scrambled dialogue snippet about a married man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lomwlon
Balin
Blood Balin Co
Atlanta
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement and Testimonials
An advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for an incurable catarrh case and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials from Toledo druggists West and Travx Walding Kinnan Mar gin. It claims the cure works systemically and notes the product price at 75 cents per bottle with sales through all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Travx
Walding, Kinnan & Margin
O. Hall
Naming Contest for Lakeside Park Signage
A company invites public participation in a naming contest titled What is in a Name for Lakeside Camp park areas and bath houses. Submissions must include one name per entrant and are due by July 6 with results announced July 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Messrs. Bordurant & Co
Loe Pom
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Ayer
Sc. A.uis
Harris
Cross Will
Waterloo
Vans Lithia Pfi
Laurens, Co
Harris Lithia
F. W. Scofield
Mgr
Harris Springs
S.C
Michael
THE
Athens Savings Bank
MO Stern, L. F. Edwards
M.G. Michael
Lripscombe& Co
Carpenters Liability
Ford
D.M. Benney Contractor
Balsam
N.C
Morton & Parker
E'ire Insurance
the National Bank of Athens
Boston
Georgia N. EF. A
National Educational Association
VIA
AIR Line Railway
Norfolk
Old Point Comfort
Ocean View
I River Line
Seaboard Vir Line
J. A. von Dohlen
Trav
Peachtree St
Atlanta, Ga
J. Z Hoke
Athens, Ga
W. E. Christian
Pass
Tallulah Falls
Telans
Elisa Firat
Sat
Sunes
Sug
Buyoo A.M
P.M. Aa
Rapp
Cornelia
Demorest
Clarksville Hills
Wood Tallulah Falls
A.M
Call Drug Stores
Minays
Tasswate
Chamberlain
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Panner
Banner
Griffeth
J. P. Morton
Er. Smith
Atock
O. A. Scudder
D. W. McGregor
M. H. Skalowski
J. 8
Bernstein
Head & McMahan
Bailey
Meroe
Perth
ORR Drug Co
No. 206
H.R. Palmer & Sons
Clayton St
Atrad Yeadige
Andy
Lakeside Company
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