London Astonished by Bishop's Thought Reading Experiments
London scientists closely follow Washington Irving Bishop’s public demonstrations of alleged thought reading. Invitations for May 9 at 9 Keaford square sparked scrutiny from Dr. Carpenter and a host of scholars who observed blindfolded tests, card searches, and an extraordinary book-page and picture test, yielding varied theories on mind and body interactions.
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Washington Irving Bishop
London
M. T. Conway
Cincinnati
Bishop
Keaford Square
C. A. Drake
Dr. Carpenter
Boxsipxn Linbracow
Dean Stn
Huxley
Edinburgh
Glasgow
William B. Carpenter
Cattell
Mr. Bishop
Miclagan
Edinaburg
Glassow University
Wallace
Carpenter
The Mountain Hermit of White Mountains Dies at Home
A GloBe despatch reports the death of Dr Samuel Bemis of Bemis station in the White Mountains. Once Boston dentist and wealthy recluse, he built a unique mountain life with oddities around property and a will that shifted to his hired man Morey. His burial place is a Boot near his peculiar residence.
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Bemis Station
White Mountains
White Hills
Tr Glone
Bemis
Portland & Ogdensburg
Hartehorn
Frank George
James Mead
Upper Dartiett
Vermont
Boston
Willey W
Crawford
Notch
N. T. P. Davis
Saco
Davis
Sam
Guy
School Street
Crawford House
George VI. Morey
Morey
Br. Hemwis
Anderson
Hamilton
Oncasian
Wan
It Was a Man The Mistake by Two Kentucky Girls
A humorous Kentucky tale recounts three young women lodging a minister as a prank after a late party. The bed scene ends with a startled scream from an old matron and the minister quietly leaving, leaving readers to wonder if he is mad at the girls or the old woman.
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Kentucky
Louisville
Fannie
Land of Dreams
Parson
Los Angeles Express
Captain Jones
Palos Verdes
Lady Head
Javes
An Intelligent Snake in Mountain Rescue Tale
A Carson Appeal item recounts a farmer saving his child during a mountain episode. A rattlesnake allegedly held the horse by the leg, the snake grew to twelve feet then shrank after strain was released. The child, four years old, remained unfazed and the farmer requests copies for relatives in the East.
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Carson
Woman's Severerits and Despair in Gambling and Fear
A brief essay notes that a man who bets big on a flush and loses may despond or commit suicide, while a woman fearing a mouse from her gown is troubled by pain yet does not consider self harm. The piece contrasts perceived male and female responses, suggesting women are not solely interior to men.
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Europe
Humanity
Et Society
A Business Trick A Dresden tale of a wine merchant’s rise to wealth
A Rhine district wine merchant, unknown and ridiculed by rivals, reads a German daily and spots a widow Baron death notice. He writes a fictitious letter to the dead baron, ships wine and bill for 300 thalers. Heirs pay, patrons seek his wines, and his fortune grows. The tale, claimed factual, circulates in the German press.
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Dresden
Rhine
Reading
Hury
Acad
Celestial Fire Plan Promoted On Roosevelt Street Ferry
John V. Ryerson, a street preacher who calls himself the spiritual incendiary, declares a Sunday afternoon celestial conflagration at the Roosevelt Street ferry. He urges crowds to join the salvation army, recruit souls for Christ, and unfurl the cross as he leads a fervent gospel show with no compromise.
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John V. Ryerson
New York
Jesus
Christ
Sadam
Warning to Mothers in Anamosa Spanking Ad Ends in Injury
A Sioux City Journal item recounts Mrs. R. W. Johnson of Anamosa attempting a stern corrective on her child with a glass shard in hand. The child blocked the strike, slashing the mother’s wrist and spraying blood across the room. Medical help saved her, narrowly averting tragedy.
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Sioux City
R. W. Johnson
Anamosa
Remarkable gastrectomy by Professor Billroth in Vienna
The New York Tribune reports a pioneering operation by Professor Theodore Billroth removing part of the stomach with a tumor. The case involved a 43 year old woman with pyloric cancer, successfully joined to the duodenum after extensive dissection. American and European surgeons discuss parallels, vivisection ethics, and the future of such procedures.
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Vienna
Theodore Billroth
John A. Kasson
United States
Austria
the Tribune
Billroth
Karl Theoadore Merrem
France
England
Germany
Lembert
Czerny
Pean
Paris
Cere
Lewis A. Sayre
Europe
North Carolina
Alexis St. Martin
America
James R. Wood
Train Speed Saves Boy From Crossing Disaster
Dr E B Shapleigh and the Philadelphia Reading railroad surgery team care for Willie Stitt a 15 year old who escaped death at a grade crossing after two trains converged near Oakdale grounds. He suffered fractures but survived thanks to the fast speed of the locomotive and quick response.
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E. B. Shapleigh
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Willie Stitt
Syde m Street
Columbia Avenue
Oakdale Grounds
Cutderland Street
Reading Railroad
Fligman
Shanieigh
Petrified Indian Woman Found In Indiana Grave
A Logansport Despatch reports in Idaville near the Pan Handle railroad a gravely disturbed tomb where the body of a woman turned to stone weighs about 300 pounds while arms turned to dust. The case, linked to Harrison township roots, baffles locals. Nearby a Statesville boy swings his sick infant brother to a joist, then the siblings bury him behind a garden. the child dies from shock days later.
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Enquirer
Logansport
Ind
State Line
Pan Handle
Idaville
Samuel Wilson
Tose
Ihen
Harrison Township
Mr. Wilson
John Small
Indiana
Statesville
N. C
Absalom Brown
Brown
Howse
Vaccination and comic vignettes from a distant era
A crowded column blends anecdotes on vaccination hesitancy and discomfort with shots, racial and regional humor, and miscellaneous humorous sketches. Readers meet a Detroit doctor observing reactions, a desertion tale from Palos Verdes, and light quips about domestic life and travel misadventures, all in a dated press voice.
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