Ancient Works in New Mexico Reveals Rich Mineral Hope
The article surveys Abo and Gran Quivira counties as rich in ancient ruins and potential mineral wealth. It describes collapsed old shafts in the Manzana mountains, evidence of ancient smelters, and deep mineral deposits, with preserved walls at Abo and relics of pottery and stone hammers. An old aqueduct suggests historic water supply for inhabitants.
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New Mexico
Abo
Gran Quivira
Manzana
White Oaks
Best of Yourself Rule Creates Home Focus for Family
A mother explains her rule to give the best of herself to her family. She describes evenings spent at home with her children, balancing games, reading, and occasional outings, to foster home-loving, modest young adults. She notes the value of shared culture and affordable amusements.
Carter's Iron Pills Promote Strength and Vitality
An advertisement touts Carter's Iron Pills as restoring mental and bodily vigor. It claims benefits for blood, nerves, and complexion with pale customers urged to use the remedy to feel stronger and more energetic.
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Wome
Carter
Mars Life Compared to Earth by Professor Lockyer
The article notes Professor Lockyer suggesting life on Mars could resemble Earth life with similar vision, heat, and seas. He discusses polar snows, solar warmth, and Martian geography including seas and straits, highlighting speculative planetary conditions and the potential for life.
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Lockyer
Mars
Earth
Dana
Fs Sa
Beng
Brain weights and gender differences in Bischoff study
Miss Nina Morais reviews Prof. T L W Bischoff Bonn and his dissertation on brain weight. He weighed 559 male and 347 female brains and analyzes age size and intelligence connections, noting average male brain 1362 g and female 1219 g with men favored by about 10 percent.
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Nina Morais
North American Review
T. L. W. Bischoff
Bonn
Bischoff
Pro. Bischoff
Vaccine marks do not guarantee smallpox immunity
The Burlington Hawk Eye cautions readers that a vaccine mark even decades old offers no absolute protection. Medical opinion favors revaccination at intervals to ensure immunity, as vaccine effectiveness varies by individual and time since inoculation.
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Stour City Journal
Chicago
Burlington Hawk- Eye
Youths conflict over visits to Sau sisters
A boy reasons that visiting Sau’s sister seven nights a week would “spread the week like blazes.” The remark triggers a momentary stillness as a St. Louis sized silence fills the room.
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Sau
St. Louis
Ungallant Translator in a Faust Translation Review
A Saturday Review critique denounces Professor Blackie for a failed Faust translation, accusing him of a caricature that betrays the spirit of Goethe. It praises Bayard Taylor’s rendering as closer to the original movement and urges preservation of the finer charmed spirit. Also notes a woman’s reluctance to marry a poor man.
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Professor Blackie
Faust
Saturday Review
Bayard Taylor
Blackie
Household Hints and Roast Preparations From The Household
A collage of old kitchen tips covering Pie's Foot Caerse Mock Duck and various roasts. Instructions describe boiling hocks and feet, forming pressed slices, anchoring with fat, and serving with vinegar. Mock Duck uses beef stuffed and roasted with pork. several roasts including venison, goose, turkey, and a liver pill ad conclude the page.
Electric Bitters Cure Many Complaints Advised
Doctors give up in chronic cases yet Electric Bitters reportedly cures stomach liver and urinary disorders. They claim relief from constipation headache and bilious attacks and are sold by J. Dorr for fifty cents a bottle.
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J. Dorr
Athens
Dexter Loveridge
Carter
Carter Medicine CO
New York
Ayeer
Parker
Iparker
Avoi
Hiscox & Co
N. Y
Selecting seed corn and bedding for cattle on farms
Professor Blount explains that the top ear of healthy seed corn is usually the largest and best formed due to pollen flow and position on the stalk. A separate note urges farmers to provide bedding for cattle using straw oats cut corn butts sand or forest leaves to keep stock clean, promote growth, and improve manure value.
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A. E. Blount
Colorado Agricultural College
Fort Collins
Beppina
Carruzz
Don’t Take Quinine Warns Against Malaria Remedy
An old warning promotes Lion Malaria and Liver Pad and Foot Pilasters as a harmless cure for malaria and chills, priced at one dollar per full set, offered by druggists. The message urges consumers to avoid quinine and buy this cheaper remedy.
Speech Blocked by Lawyer in Odd Interlude
A fragmented exchange shows a lawyer insisting on freeing someone from a restriction while a bemused speaker references a dog and a gemewel in unclear terms. The dialogue hints at a legal or ceremonial moment with unresolved meaning.
Identity Case Shows How Rumor Fails to Pin a Suspect
A Detroit case recounts a woman who declares she can identify a man from ten thousand yet misidentifies hair color eye color and clothing. After a tense exchange at City Hall the witness recants and questions the prior theft timing and the cloak.
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Fort Street
Texas
Detroit Free Press
The Best Salve in the World Advertisement
A salve promises perfect satisfaction or money back for cuts bruises sores salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chil blains corns and all skin eruptions. Priced at 25 cents a box and sold by J Dorr opposite Court House.
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J. Dorr
Court House
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