Insects on Celery and Other Modern Tips
Insects on celery are removed by dipping washed stalks in hot water with a dash of baking soda then cooling before serving. The article also notes fashion trends in mannish shoes for women, census figures for Georgia, a Bank of England note from 1699, and health and travel notices.
Mrs Williams of Englishtown Charged With Cure By Pinkham
A reader describes severe female illness and urges use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy. The piece claims Mrs Williams was cured and urges women to seek Pinkham's guidance, noting free advice and urging letters to Lynn, Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
A Dilly Standard on Tone and Color Tuning
A painter, Mr Hicks, uses high colored stones to keep his eye tuned to tone. He explains that exposure to pure color restores his sense when pigments dull it, much like a musician returning to pitch. The passage nimbly links daily tuning of perception to sensing the Invisible God.
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Hicks
All-night streetcar rides draw insomniacs homeward
A Baltimore Sun report quotes a conductor describing a hot spell night ride with twenty passengers. Riders stretched in seats from Highlandtown to Roland Park, seeking cool air and sleep. Physicians endorse late streetcar rides for insomnia sufferers.
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Baltimore Sun
Highland Town
Roland Park
Bible Society plans and stock market view clarified
The American Bible Society is funded mainly by Methodists, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists. Its leadership and plans are drawn from these bodies, with reports of its end dismissed as misinformed. The Bible house in New York has lingered in the real estate market for years due to city growth and shifting locations.
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Utah
California
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Drs. Shores
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Snowdrops and Crocuses Learn Humble Beauty
In a timeless garden snowdrops boast green markings and crocuses glow with color yet a vain snowdrop mocks the crocuses. The sunbeams grant gold and violet hues to the crocuses after the flower angel pleads for mercy from the sun king. The snowdrop learns meekness as both flowers come to be loved in harmony.
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Snowdrop
Arcturus
Christian Register
Always be kind to the dogs and the cats
Harriet Barth’s rimed admonition urges compassion for animals and the vulnerable. It counsels generosity to the homeless and hungry, kindness to the lame, sick, and blind, and to wanderers, echoing a moral view of humane conduct.
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Harriet Barth
Cactus Sealed In Glass Teases Dormancy Mystery
A German druggist sealed a Echinopsis multiplex cactus in a glass case seven years ago and researchers are puzzled by its thriving state. No evidence shows carbonic acid absorption, raising questions of dormancy and long term plant endurance. Mechan's Monthly notes various theories while noting lack of weight data.
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Germany
Ludwig Rust
Berlin
Mechan’s Monthly
Girls Must Chew Hides Smith Eskimo Custom
A Smith Eskimo practice links marriage choice to housewifely skills including cooking sewing and chewing hides. Women dry seal and reindeer skins then break fibers by pounding and chewing from one end to the other to make garments, a required process for survival in cold.
Making Prints of Leaves and Odd Snippets
An illustrated set of leaf print steps using olive oil and lamp soot follows a dialogue about a porous plaster for a back. Connected quips include a joke about a Scotchman and a Pa. woman fined for oaths, plus a wry telephone remark.
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Samuel John- Sor
Haston
Startled into Sobriety and Scenic Rail Ads
A society belle received a joke camel walked by a colored servant on Broadway startling crowds into sobriety. An advertisement touts Cheap Rates East via the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad with two routes between Grand Junction and Denver and through service to Chicago. Louisiana population listed as 1,381,625.
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Noted Knight Templar Endorses Peruna Cure
Colonel T. P. Moody a prominent Knight endorses Peruna in a Chicago letter. He credits Peruna with curing long-standing catarrh and stomach issues, cites his wife’s bronchial recovery, and urges others to begin the remedy. The piece promotes The Peruna Medicine Co. Columbus Ohio.
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