The Island of Omega and the Legend of Its Money
A Budhistic legend recounted by a Scottish traveler tells how Omega lacked money and used wheat as value. To ease trade the government issued deposit certificates redeemable in wheat, creating inflation and panics that spurred bonds, wealth gaps, and social upheaval ending in anarchy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Pacific
Australia
Omega
Hindoostan
Omegans
Providence
Commonwealth
The Years Are Passing By Poem and Ad Parody
A reflective poem contemplates aging and memory with somber imagery of shadowed halls and buried hopes. It threads through time’s passing, loss, and quiet grief while abruptly interrupted by an unrelated advertisement claim that Warner's Safe Kidney tonic eliminates bloating in inebriates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jme
Out-Door Flowering Plants and Garden Tips by Mrs Nelson
Mrs Thomas L Nelson speaks to the Worcester County Horticultural Society on hybrid perpetual roses, how to plant buds and own-root stock, and compares hardy and tender roses. She shares experiences with bloom timing, care for ever blooming varieties, lilies, gladiolus, amaryllis, zephyranthes, and other perennials, plus practical notes on beds, fall care, and lawn-friendly husbandry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas L. Nelson
Worcester County Horticultural Society
Mme
Victor Verdier
Mile
Eugenie Verdier
Louis van Houtte
Alfred Colomb
Sam
Parryii
California
I’arkmani
Daisy Tidy Knitted Cover Instructions For Dish Use
Step by step directions for a knitted dish cover titled A Daisy Tidy. It covers stitch counts, needle sizes, shaping, eyelets and cords, finishing with starch and precise tape measurements for a uniform finish. Includes specific stitch alternations and weaving details for even points.
Selected Croquettes and Side Dishes Recalled From Old Receipts
A compiled home cooking guide outlines croquettes formed as cylinders and fried to a rich brown, with careful handling to keep shape. It also covers poached eggs with spinach puree, asparagus boiled and served on toast with white sauce, brook trout fried in hot butter, and a cinnamon wafer dessert prepared in a wafer iron.
Ingersoll Laments Laughter Outshines Sacred Hymns
Robert G. Ingersoll, closing a recent lecture, extols childhood laughter as sacred, contrasting its joy with grand musical imagery. He calls to rippling rivers of laughter and droll river imagery to illustrate laughter’s power to soften sorrow and lift the human spirit.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Apollo
Incorrigible spendthrift Charles Cartwright dies in workhouse
Charles Cartwright, a notorious spendthrift, died at age four in Choriton workhouse near Manchester England where he had lived as an inmate. He exhausted fortunes totaling about 600000 dollars yet remained content in the workhouse writing sermons for clergymen. Friends once gave him five dollars weekly which financed cab rides and restaurant meals.
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Charles Cartwright
Choriton
Manchester
Eng
Write-Veres
Sexmore
Health hints on sea sickness remedies and risks
A long reader note reviews sea sickness remedies from belts to corsets and braced bands, plus dietary cautions and the controversial nitrate of amyl discussions. It covers pregnancy risks, sailor experience, and anecdotes including a woman who retrieved swallowed teeth years after the event.
Remedy and home cures for eyes fever throat and warts
A period piece lists remedies for weak eyes using elder flowers laudanum and saline washes. It also suggests rhubarb and apple waters for fevers and a raspberry cordial fallback. A bark decoction with slippery elm treats throat and croup and a vinegar-soda wart treatment. Gargles use cayenne salt and vinegar for sore throats.
Debtors and Deacon in Mexican Standoff Over Collection
A Red Gulch miner offers a $20 gold piece at a Black Run Baptist Church collection. He donates a dollar, takes $19 in change, a clash erupts, and the minister indicates he holds the wrongdoers at gunpoint. The $20 is said to go for the heathen.
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Black Run
Col
Red Gulch
Miss Coles Travelling Teeth in Orange County Tale
A Middle town New York woman on January 5 1869 swallowed a set of false teeth that separated from their rubber mould while chewing. They passed into her stomach before she could spit out the food. The family physician was summoned but efforts failed.
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Miss Cole
Middletown
Orange County
N. Y
Liberty
Oscar Crook
The Border Land Poem of Quiet Faith and Return
A reflective poem speaks of border land between earth and heaven and the call to a simple Christian life. It urges forgiveness, duty, and daily trophies at Christ's feet. The speaker resolves to live in chastened faith until the final home beyond the river is reached.
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Christ
Abbe Sierocinski's Siberian Torture and Other News
The report details the brutal 1867 punishment of Abbe Sierocinski for revolutionary plotting under Czar Nicholas, including multiple executions and a final corpse. It also mentions a shooting in Liberty, a man mortgaging himself for debt relief, and Duke Charles Theodore of Bavaria’s recent medical operations in Vienna and Munich.
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Charles Theodore of
Bavaria
Austria
Vienna
Munich
Amann
Paris to raise miniature militia from communal schools
In three months Paris will form a juvenile militia from all communal schools. At a cost of 250,000 francs, children aged 11 to 15 will be equipped in rough blue cloth with gaiters and kepi and armed with breechloaders that cannot fire ball Sareraie. An initial levy of 12,000 is planned.
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Paris
Hair Work Offer by Paris Store Manager Medina
Mr. John Medina, manager of a Paris hair store at the corner of Washington and Summer, announces a remarkable offer. He will send by mail or express any hair work or hair line article for inspection before purchase with no obligation to keep Unsatisfactory goods may be returned. The price list is notably attractive and ladies are urged to take the opportunity.
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Mal de Mer
Old World
Haci
Jobart
Brussels
Clapham
John Medina
Paris
Washington and
Summer Streets
Medina
Grist Mill Puzzles and Prize Winners
A long page of puzzle items from Dorchester to Danbury lists No 238 to No 244 crosswords and numerical, with notes on solutions and prize winners. Names include Maud Lynn, Mary Et, Sphinx, Cousin Sue, and others from Boston, Dorchester, Nashua, and New York, plus a call for submissions and ad copy.
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Dorchester
Mass
France
Germany
Boston
Danbury
Conn
Sphinx
Maud Lynn
Baltimore
Mary Et
Old Orchard
Slaterville
N. Y
I. Guess
P. S
Globe
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THE
Weekly Globe
Warner
Kidnever
Misa Cole
Border Land
Uleanis
Perrace Gord
Hantan
Kowen
Sierocinski
Overeus
Nicholas
Siberia
Ormsk
Galafegen
Ilona
Sierovinski
United States
Selves
Charles Didenover
Charlotte
N. C
Didenover
Comes
W. H. Todd
Florence Street
Mast
Russia
Oxford
W.e
Turkistan
Baste
CLIO
Ark
Plymouth
Turkey
Monica
East Somerville
Covustmy Sem
Oeyana
Baltimore, Md
Mayp Lixx
Square
Agumboil
Gibson, Penn
Odoacer
Nuamerical
Newburg
Nashua
N. H
Tat Wreeklyy Globe
Tat Weekly Globe
Griste
Cousin Sue
Qdoacer
X. T
Evil Communications
Novo Mambrino
Milton
Annese
Accedes Zarish Unite Cavesse Crangor
Lakat
Tropical and Plants
Cutter Bros. & Co., Weeks & Pot'man » & Co, Carter, Harris
GEO
Goodwin & CO
Doolittle & Smith
Am Wley
Rush Bros. & Bird
Bostom
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