Hypnotism studies and world facts in late 19th century notes
A survey of scientific interest and world events notes hypnotism in French medical colleges, large student totals in Germany and France, Berlin’s tree planting and budget, Welsh ordination in Cardiff, and various social, scientific, and cultural items across Europe and America. The compilation includes arithmetic on sugar, transport, crime, telegraph telegrams, and animal experiments.
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Buffalo
St. David's
Cardiff
City of
Mexico
Tehuantepec
New Orleans
Baltimore
Italy
United Kingdom
London Lancet
Milwaukee
Detroit
Bologna
New York
Wallabout
Brooklyn
Europe
Vladivostok
Siberia
Paris
Vermont
Milwaukee line to run tourist sleeping cars to Chicago
The Milwaukee line will operate tourist sleeping cars between the Twin Cities and Chicago twice weekly in March and April. The Pioneer Limited will carry double berths at $1.00 each, with west bound cars leaving Chicago Tuesdays and Fridays and east bound cars leaving Twin Cities on Wednesdays and Saturdays arriving Chicago at 9 30 next morning.
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Milwaukee” Line
Twin Cities
Chicago
Pioneer Limited
Stock Tips and the Skeptical Investor
A sardonic take questions stock market tips from journalists and brokers. The author mocks tipsters for journalism pay and suggests a successful tipster would devote time to trading rather than writing. The piece implies tips are unreliable and profits would come from direct broker actions.
Deer Longevity Lore Through Highland Adage and Anecdotes
An 18th and 19th century view links deer age to a vast lifespan via a Highland saying. The piece cites Captain MacDonald of Tulloch, who died in 1776 aged 86, and MacDonald of Glengarry in 1826, claiming stags with enduring lineage and ear-marked calves, alongside similar European tales, as evidence.
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Mac Donald
Tulloch
Loch Trieg
MacDonald
Glengarry
Ewen Maclan Og
Europe
Chambers’ Journal
Forbidden Eve's Apple Tree of Ceylon Described
A Youth's Companion note describes a Ceylon tree known as the forbidden fruit or Eve's apple. The orange outside and crimson interior fruit appears bitten, its venomous nature cited by Mohammedans, and the mark attributed to Eve with Adam’s bite missing.
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Ceylon
Garden of Eden
Eve
Adam
Banks Ready For Emergencies
Four lines of defense safeguard a typical large bank with assets around 20 million. About 500 thousand in vault cash, 1.5 million in call-ready reserves, 8 million in marketable securities, and 6 to 8 million in bonds and mortgages. In extremis, mortgage values could be hurried to cover payments, making disaster seem unlikely.
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United States
Monument to a Pig at Luneburg Hotel de Ville
A grand mausoleum in Luneburg Hanover honors a pig with a glass hermetically sealed ham inside. A marble slab bears Latin inscription praising the pig for discovering the salt springs of Luneburg.
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Hotel de Ville
Luneburg
Hanover
Changed His Tune at Fancul Hall Market
An account recalls President Polk's Boston visit at Fancul Hall Market where a clerk loudly announced the president's approach. In the crowd the chief paused to view a game and the clerk, finding himself alone, exclaimed in surprise about an absent "darned Idiot."
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Polk
Boston
Fancul Hall
Lim
United States
The follies of youth are drafts on old age
The phrase appears as a terse aphorism from a Chicago News item noting how youthful missteps accrue later consequences, reflecting a moralizing tone in a brief city-facing column.
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Chicago News
Reading Habits Measure Lifelong Eye Training
An educated person's eye is described as averaging about 2 500 miles of reading over a lifetime. The remark emphasizes extensive reading and its link to education.
Ant Pet Becomes Tame As Food From Finger
A renowned scientist trains an ant to feed from honey on a needle and then from his finger. The ant examines the needle, learns to take honey directly, and waits by a bristle to be returned to its nest after meals.
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Nesta
New York Tribune
Rattlesnake Tale Recounted From Pacific Coast Camp
Horace A. Vachell narrates a near miss in Life and Sport on the Pacific Coast. A sleeping blanket's stripe mistaken for a rattler caused a cousin to reach for a six shooter in panic before realizing the danger was only a resting blanket.
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Pacific Coast
Horace A. Vachell
Paradise Valley
Negro Superstitions in Kentucky
A collector recalls Kentucky Negro superstitions and sayings. Beliefs include peppers thriving when angered, redheaded or hot tempered planters, jaybirds on Friday, and three trusted signs: groundhog above ground February 2, a hoe cannot be carried through a house, and potatoes and root crops planted in the dark of the moon with corn planted in moonlight.
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Kentucky
Oman
Lord Southey’s Guillotine Suits a Museum After Failure
The eccentric Lord Southey built a gilded ebony guillotine in his Paris drawing room in the Rue du Luxembourg. He prepared for death by self-inflicted action, but the spring failed and he donated the device to a museum, visiting it annually for life.
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Lord Southey
Rue du Lurembourg
Paris
Laughter Saved the Shin Inspires Ship to Port
In a storm years ago, a crew at prayers faced danger until a boy cracked a joke about the boatswain’s red nose meeting water. The laughter lifted spirits, spurred effort, and the ship reached port safely, the Liverpool Post notes.
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Liverpool Post
Oxford professor muses on rowing eight at river
A renowned Oxford don observes an eight practicing on the river and notes with dry humor that learning to row backward must be exceedingly awkward, linking the voyage of Ulysses to rowing technique.
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Revivas
Oxford
Ulysses
Crying as Nature’s Remedy in Pain Says French Doctor
A French physician argues crying and groaning ease pain as nature’s method. He urges free relief of suffering and says suppressing child crying risks serious consequences. The piece notes Lycurgus’ reply about ingratitude and punishment.
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C. A. Perrin
M. D. Helena
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Denaire
Asample
Jr. W. Pepper
Philadelphia
T. V. Overhuls
General Merchandise
Grey Cliff
Mont
Northwest
Oscar H. Will &Co
Bismark, N. Dak
Harvey Brothers
Stactara Oil Ce
W. W. Beasley & Son
Stock Commission Brokers
Vontaan
T. A. Gillespie
Big Timber
A. Perrine
Tacoma Atlan
California
Japan
ST. Paul
Spokane
Wervewel
LASKA
Klondike Ode
Iernegert
Helena
Butte
Ings
Pacific Express
Freight Eeesee Sence
Pullman
No. 11
Bill
Henry Nicholson
Lum
Millan Fur & Wool
Minneapolis. Minn
Jahunnearous Sheepenin Tannery
CarPacity
CE Ts
Meniaee
B. M. Mielde
District Court
H. E
Briner
Vanderhott
Charlie Curtis
Mont. A. L
United States Land Office
Bozeman
C.N. Skillman
John Winsborough
Vis
James Widdicombe
Sid Thamling
Melville
Grant Keller
Henry ‘Lab
A. L. Love
Register
Department of the Interior
John Marshall
M.P
Solomon J. Craft
Horace B. Yorke
Charles King
Irvin Woolsey
McLeod
H.C. Jowett
U.S
Kern’s Ranch
Orrin A. Fairburn
Peter Larson
R. M. Hatch
W. A. Bell
Arthur C. Anderson
Absarokee
Emma B. Baker
McLeor
Sweet Grass County
Co. N. Skillman
U. S
Ewing O. Clark
Ralph &. Baker
Primus Bruffey
Henry Andrews
A. OL. Love
Hae
B. M. Midde
Emma R. Green
Emma BR. Forsythe
Oscar A. Fallang
Adelbert Whitney
Oren M. Lanphear
John Hoff
Prosper Tessier
Swest Grass County
John F. Pratting
W. Ney
Sale l
Thomas W. Scott
William Ver Beek
Chris Christensen
Samuel G. Webster
Mary C. Gregg
C. N. Skillman
Hses
Rites
Wate Swift & CO
Washington, D.C
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