Echo From Shiloh Revolutionizes Health, Utterback Proclaims
Mills County treasurer A Utterback of Glenwood Iowa recounts his Civil War service at Shiloh Corinth and Vicksburg. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with curing thirty year battle with army diarrhea and improving his health. The piece notes strong local sales and endorsements from Wm Skillicorn the pharmacist and farmer Greer.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
A. Utterback
Glenwood
Mills County
Rawls Township
Lon Sawyer
Williams
Utterback
15Th Town Infantry
Shiloh
Corinth
Vicksburg
Wm. Skillicorn
Atterbask
W H Green of Alexandria Ohio Seeks Help For An Unenviable Experience
An Alexandria Ohio man named W H Green living in St Albans township near Alexandria faces a troubling situation. The American Newark Ohio article notes broad endorsement of Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People by merchants housewives farmers and others in praise of the remedy.
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Licking County
America
Dr. Williams
R. W. Smith
Alexandria
Onto
Lickwe Co
Sail County
W. Green
St. Albans Township
Green
St. Albans
Williams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Williams’ Medicine Company
W. H. Green
Ohio
Newark
Self Reliant Farmer Promotes Independent Prosperity
The piece urges farmers to rely on personal discipline and prudent management rather than awaiting state or national aid. It compares old mail delivery to modern methods and touts One Minute Cough Cure as a quick remedy, urging careful farm oversight and improved productivity year by year.
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Adam
Waokly Constitution
United States
Constitution
America
Farm and Farmers’ Department
Woman’s Department
Children’s Department
Mexican Dinner for Diaz Court Shown as Richly Varied
The entry describes a distinctly Mexican casino dinner for President Diaz. Courses include roasted pea flour soup with larded toast, eggs with fried barfanas, male de guajelote roast turkey with chile dressing, tortillas with garlic and chile, frijole beans, stuffed artichokes, mutton chops, white fish, scalloped oysters, and a dessert of ices almonds fruits and cakes. Home brewed coffee finishes the meal.
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Mexico
Diaz
Fiddler Fills Waiting Trains With Magical Violin
Five stalled Oregon Short Line trains at Glenns Ferry Idaho on St Patrick day 1894 host a mixed crowd of emigrants millionaires soldiers and Shoshone Indians. A seraphic long haired fiddler plays to dance music as M Ysaye astonishes with Berlioz Pizzicato. the crowd reminisces of San Francisco Bohemian club.
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St. Patrick’s
Loth
Oregon Ship Line
Union Pacific
Glenns Ferry
Ida
Pocatello
Indian Creek
Snake River
Creede
Cripple Creek
Railroad Dance Committee
Lancers
Hoe
Strauss
M. Yeaye
Charley Fair
United States
Fair
San Francisco
M. Ysaye
Berlioz
Washington Star
Portrait of a Pretty Woman in Du Maurier’s Words
The article cites a passage by the late Mr. Du Maurier from The Magazine of Art describing his beloved model as a piece de resistance. He admits she is tall and stiff yet praises her as dignified and essential, a daughter-like muse whose smile he struggles to capture with a simple black ink stroke.
Conductor Praises Counterfeit Coppers in Paris Figaro Sketch
In a Paris Figaro exchange a conductor bows to a lady who offers counterfeit coins, praising the good ones she keeps. The scene highlights a comic mishap over fake currency and polite theater manners.
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Paris
Trapping Crows for Sportsmen in 19th Century Practice
The article describes crow trapping methods used to supply sport birds. Pairs of trappers set nets near bait carcasses, using a bough house to spring nets as crows feed. Trappers guard adjacent sites to lure birds, then swiftly bag captured crows in buckskin gloves. Typical catches range from 40 to 400 per day, with two springs common.
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Philadelphia
A Story of Longfellow Recalls Humorous Encounters
In Jane J Fields memoirs, Longfellow is praised for kindness and humor as he dealt with varied visitors. An outstanding anecdote describes a man arriving with an omnibus of ladies and a little girl while a thirsty woman spilled water on the piazza. The tale highlights his patient hospitality and lighthearted response to interruptions.
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Longfellow
Jane J. Fields
Nabant
Windsor Castle
Harrow
The End of Books and the Alexan drian Library
Debates on why books disappear citing the Alexandrian library and Serapeum. Historians argue over whether a 700000 volume collection existed and if it was destroyed by Caesar era fire Arabs or later Theophilus Theodosius. Modern findings note decay from damp seaport foundations and mildew in transported works.
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Alexandria
Gibbon
Canon Taylor
Julius Caesar
Serapeum
Theophilus
Theodosius
Egypt
India
West Indies
New York Times
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Wit Army
Bistrhea
du Maurier
Mrs. Fields
U.cJournal
Medtevnv
Yrar
W.H. Peebee
Peek. F
New York
Tutt
Takien
Aney
Joan Wedderkburn & CO
Washington, D. C
Atlanta, GA
the Gazette
Barnesville, Ga
Brewers Lung
Maxvvachenen
Zenry J. Lamar & Sons
Macon, Gat
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