Insects on Celery and Other Items in Brief Note
Insects on celery are cleaned by dipping washed stalks in hot water with a pinch of baking soda, then cooling before serving. Mannish shoes for women favor patent leather with a higher heel and heavy hose. Census reports Georgia population at 3 216 341, up 378 978 from 1890. Oldest Banknote in Bank of England dated 1699 for 555 pounds. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters touted as long trusted cure. Government fish distribution totals 1 264 446 754. Cascarrets Candy Cathartic promoted for bowel relief at 10 cents. Indian government to spend 2 500 000 on guns for army. Weekly excursion sleepers from St. Louis via Katy Flyer to San Antonio, Los Angeles, San Francisco starting November 6.
No other medicine has such a record for absolute cures
An advertisement portrays a woman’s severe gynecological symptoms and touts Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a universal cure. It cites Mrs Williams of Englishtown, New Jersey, claims of cure, and urges readers to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts for free advice.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
A Dilly Standard on Tuning the Eye for Color and God
A painter Mr Hicks used high colored stones to keep his eye attuned to tone. He explained pigments dull color sense, and a pure color near him restores it, like a musician tuning to the right pitch. He then urges daily attention to the Invisible God as nature’s grand scale.
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Hicks
All night streetcars provide sleep for insomnia sufferers
A Baltimore Sun interview with a conductor notes twenty passengers rode all night on four trips from Highland Town to Roland Park. He recalls riders perched in corners to sleep after hot weather and says late car rides help insomniacs. Physicians also endorse the practice.
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Baltimore Sun
Highland Town
Roland Park
Bible Society runs amid rumors of end and real estate moves
Amid misinformed reports the American Bible Society is defended as thriving, noting the New York Bible House has lingered on the market for years due to urban growth while its work in Bible manufacture remains unaffected.
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American Bible Society
The
Bible House
New York
Society
The Snowdrops and Crocuses of One Garden
A timeless tale from the Christian Register tells how snowdrops and crocuses, once rival and proud, learn humility through an sunlit transformation. The angel of flowers seeks mercy for the white blooms, while the sunbeams crown the crocuses with gold and violet, teaching harmony between the two flower tribes.
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Snowdrop
Arcturus
Christian Register
Always Kind to Dogs Cats and the Homeless
A humane poem urging kindness to animals and the vulnerable. The speaker appeals for mercy toward dogs cats and the hungry and homeless, stressing compassion over cruelty and aligning kindness with divine regard. Harriet Barth expressed these sentiments.
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Harriet Barth
Cactus Sealed in Glass Survives Seven Years
In Germany a druggist sealed a small Echinopsis multiplex cactus in a glass case seven years ago and claims it remains thriving. Berlin scientists are puzzled by its continued carbonic acid intake, noting no evidence of weight change and suggesting dormancy as a possible explanation for its long survival.
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Germany
Ludwig Rust
Berlin
Mechan’s Monthly
Girls Must Chew Hides for Eskimo Wives
An old depiction notes that a Smith sound Eskimo seeks a wife for housewifely skills and must chew hides. Women dry seal and reindeer skins, then break fibers by bending and chewing from end to end to make garments, as furs provide protection from the cold.
Making Prints of Leaves And The Heels Of Scotch Sages
An old craft describes making leaf prints by oiling paper and burning until soot forms a dark surface then pressing the leaf to create a print for botanical study. A dialogue from Willie's Explanation shows a child asking about holes in a plaster. A Pennsylvania woman is fined for uttering oaths, and a witticism notes a woman’s words shaping telephone talk.
Startled Into Sobriety and Scenic Rail Ads
A joke brings a camel through Broadway as a social scene causes revelers to pause. An ad promotes cheap excursion rates on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad with through trains to Chicago and scenic routes. Louisiana’s population figure is stated as 1 381 625.
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Denver & Rio Grande
Grand Junction
Denver
Chicago
Denver and
Rio Grande
Noted Knight Templar Credits Peruna Cure
Colonel T P Moody a prominent Knight praises Peruna for curing long standing catarrh and stomach trouble. He shares his wife’s improved health and urges others to begin Peruna. The ad extols Peruna as a universal remedy for catarrh and related ailments in Columbus Ohio.
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Perma
T. P. Moody
Templar
United States
Buffalo
N. Y
Chicago
Masons
Colonel Moody
Oriental Consistory Masons
Michigan Avenue
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