Pearls in Scotland and a Scottish farmer’s £100 pearl
Odd Scottish curiosities mix with a farmer’s tale of a giant Ythan mussel pearl sold for £100 in old Scots money, a figure then equating to about £8 6s. 8d. English money, and a BerlinAR Russian countess runs a private brewery using pneumatic malting.
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Scotland
Wales
Richard Morgan
Ythan
Aberdeenshire
Aberdeen
London
West End
Berlin
Europe
The Corn A Song Of The Corn Poem
Ninette M. Lowater praises corn as a sturdy staple brightening the land from Atlantic arbutus to California streams. The poem extols green shoots amber silk and golden ears promising bread for families and respite from hunger with toil.
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Atlantic
Ninette M. Lowater
Pauper who owned Johannesburg once bought £350 land
A London workhouse infirmary patient recalls a remarkable life from the East India Company to Crimea and Indian Mutiny service. He later went to South Africa and bought 15000 acres near the Crocodile River, fought for Pretoria, and lost his land after Kruger’s republic was declared in 1880.
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Johannesburg
Guildford
Old East India Company
Crimea
Sevastopol
South Africa
Transvaal
Pretoria
Kruger
Westminster Gazette
Holes in the Canvas An Italian sails innovation
Italian sea captain Gio Batta Vasallo of Genoa unveils a sail design with multiple reinforced holes to vent trapped air. Tests show light wind speeds rising from 4 to 4.4 knots, moderate winds from 7 to 8.4 knots, and strong winds from 8 to 10 knots, suggesting improved efficiency.
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Gio Batta Vasallo
Genoa
Vasallolas
Philadelphia
Record
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Strength From Purified Blood
Out of weakness comes strength when the blood has been purified enriched and vitalized by Hood's Sarsaparilla. The ad-style claim emphasizes vitality restoration and bodily renewal through this tonic.
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Hood
Artists and Tradesmen in 19th Century Scotland
The piece recalls Graham Gilbert Horatio Macculloch and Daniel Macnee as leading artists resident in Glin gow before 1840. It notes low prices, bohemian lives, and small earnings with painters often supplementing income by decorating snuffboxes and painting portraits for local shopkeepers and their wives.
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Glingow
Graham Gilbert
Horatio Macculloch
Daniel Macnee
Macculloch
Macnee
Magazine of Art
Orange Blossom flax seed poultice for home use
Advertises Orange Blossom as a safe flax seed poultice for women to use herself. Sold by J. H. Blackburn with claim of harmlessness and ease of application.
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J. H. Blackburn
Football Spreads to Kotakota on Lake Nyassa Shores
In Africa Englishmen introduce football near Lake Nyassa Kotakota locals and white players meet each Saturday with equal regularity though the chronicler omits which code wins. Black players play barefoot with apparent ease.
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Pyramids
Himalayas
Africa
Lake Nyassa
Kotakota
Sheore
Nyassa
London
Manchester
Cannibalism Views Across African Regions in London Review
A London Saturday Review article contrasts east and west African cannibalism. It notes east coast practices with ancestral flesh offered as hospitality and warns of west coast fetichism involving child fattening and ritual meals. It questions ties between humans and apes in light of these claims.
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Tve Sweet
Peo E
Ideyond
Mississippi River
Pacific Coast
Sierra Leone
East Africa
West
West Africa
London Saturday Review
Shaker Digestive Cordial Promises Cure For Indigestion
An advertisement proclaims Shaker Digestive Cordial as a cure for indigestion for those starved of proper digestion. It claims the tonic awakens digestion, builds strength and energy, and suits those whose stomachs fail to digest food. Trail bottle priced at 10 cents. available through druggists.
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ONID
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Broadway
Best Bureau
America
Scientific American
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New York City
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Mair
Baal A Eenaee & Arm
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Que
Jim
Chucklin
Jon
Feller
Washington Star
Is & Countess
M Hions
Renee
Darboa
Chew Lange
the Great Tobacco Andote
A.C. Meyer&Co
Balto
York
Wen
Bateman
Godfrey
Patent Office Department of
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Pitcher
Castoria
Pitcher’s Castoria
Brewer's Lung Restorer
Henry J. Lamar & Sons
Macon
GAA
Tetterine
J. T. Shuptrine
Savannah, Ga
Gordon Institute
Barnesville, Georgia
Candler
Jeremund
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