Texas style justice or a tall tale in Broad Street
A Philadelphia Press tale quotes a Broad Street observer claiming Texas justice ends fast by hanging. A deputy sheriff is shot. legal defense dominates thirteen hours but the jury convicts the lawyer and hangs him that night, while Saunders is convicted posthumously in the yarn. The Detroit Free Press adds a note on harvest yields from a plantation trees.
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Lone Star
Broad Street
Texas
Jack Saunders
Gib Welsh
Jake
Securin
Saunders
Argu
Jedge
Osay
Co’ut
Reader
Philadelphia Press
Culture of cloves growth and harvesting described
The article explains planting methods for clove trees first introduced to Zanzibar in 1830, detailing seed trenches, watering for two years, transplant spacing, and years until bearing. It notes harvesting from six months of maturity, ladders used to reach upper branches, and buds laid to dry in the sun.
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Sultan Seyed Said bin Sultan
Zanziber
Pemba
San
Tobacco and Rebellion in 1848 Italian Revolt
The so called devil’s weed pressurized by Austrian tobacco monopoly spurred Italian resistance. Liberals quit smoking to combat Austrian revenue from cigars while Austrian troops smoked in streets. Milan and Venice rose, expelling their rulers and igniting a broader revolt that ended Austrian losses in Italy.
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James
Italy
Venice
Austria
Globe Democrat
Sunday school tale on paying up and faith in action
A clergyman explains Christian profession using a water analogy at a Sunday service. After pipes and fixtures are flawless, he asks why no water flows. A child finally answers that the main in the street has not been paid.
Royal Baking Powder Company Faces Fraud Claims
A critical editorial derides Royal Baking Powder for using tactics to sway public opinion and cites a published statement claiming Dr. Benjamin F. Drew, Minnesota state chemist, supported the company. The piece notes Drew testified before a legislative committee on baking powder quality.
Truth About Dr Drew and Royal Baking Powder Dispute
The letter clarifies that Dr Charles W Drew is the state chemist and analyst to Minnesota’s Food and Dairy Commission and denies the Royal Baking Powder Company claims. It notes Drew did oppose ammonia in powders and urged labels announcing ammonia content. The Price Baking Powder Company promotes a pure cream of tartar powder and accuses Royal of deception.
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The
Food and Dairy Commission of Minnesota
Benjamin F. Drew
Food and Dairy Commission
Royal Baking Powder Company
Drew
Royal Company
Legislative Committee
Price Baking Powder Company
Prince on War-Horse in Desert Quest and Joyful Homecoming
Poem recalls a prince in shining armor riding across desert to battle. After combat the victor returns, greeted at the gate by a loving heart, longing and joy mingle as conquest yields reunion and solace from mourning.
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Pate
Blockade Runner's Chase Off Galveston Ends in Capture
In January 1863 acting lieutenant commands the W. G. Anderson during a chase of a fast schooner off Galveston. After a long, wind-slack pursuit with a boat assault, a squall, and nighttime maneuvering, the Royal Yacht is captured with 150 bales of cotton. Bayley and Allen play key roles in pressuring and securing the prize.
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Baton Rouge
Farragut
W. G. Anderson
Pensacola Navy Yard
Anderson
Boston
Cape of Good Hope
Texas
Arkansas
Matagorda Bay
Havana
Galveston
Mr. Bayley
Leeward
Bayley
Mr. Allen
Mr. Bailey
First Capture of a Blockade Runner
F Stanhope Hill relates a blockade event in which a pursuer fired on and boarded a Galveston–bound schooner. The prize was taken, condemned at Key West, and proceeds shared among the crew. Hill notes his tenth share as a gratifying first capture souvenir.
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Galveston
Royal Yacht
Key West
High Seas
F. Stanhope Hill
Digby’s strange dream leads to Spanish prize off Cape Finistere
On October 14 1799 Admiral Sir Henry Digby commanding the British frigate Alcmene reportingly heard a voice in his sleep urging him northward. After repeated midnight orders to tack and haul wind the ship’s crew captured a Spanish vessel laden with dollars cochineal and spices securing Digby a large share of his fortune from naval service.
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Mr. Allen
Sol
Mr. Bayley
Johnnie
Mr Allen
London Globe
Henry Digby
Alcmene
Cape St. Vincent
Cape Finistere
Henry
Digby
Texas House member retells Ireland tale of poetry envy
A Texas legislator recounts ex governor Ireland praising Gray's Elegy as a gem buried in a child’s reader. The anecdote has Ireland remarking on the poem’s beauty and prophecy, saying it should be quoted in speeches.
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Texas
Ireland
Lone Star
Texan
Govenor Ireland
Ocean Bear
Flavor to Taste
Mrs Brimmer recalls a cookery mishap when a peppermint bottle was misread beside lemon essence causing a peppermint flavored loaf. Sulphur was once used in biscuits by another cook, producing a horrible odor and flat, odd colored results. The tale ends with the joke that sulphur became the family’s “flavor to taste.”
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Mrs. Brimmer
Mrs. Peters
Buckwheat as Nation’s Flower in May Breakfast Verse
The speaker rhymes on flowers and foods in a playful May breakfast scene. He muses on golden red Aspray flowers, Mayflower seashell pink, red and white clovers, mountain laurel, violets, and daisies, noting none surpass buckwheat as a humorous national emblem and hinting at a meal of buckwheat cakes rising appetite.
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West
Cholera ordeal in Indian campaign at Arcot to Vellore
Narrative of a British soldier detailing a cholera outbreak during a march from Arcot to Vellore in the Carnatic. He survives after drinking water in a crowded pandal, recounts hospital conditions, and later reflects on war life, survival, and postwar life on land. It ends with advertisements for patent medicines and nasal balm.
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India
Arcot
Malta
Gibraltar
Vellore
Carnatic
Thomas Atkins
Atkins
Tippoo Sultan
Pandal
Wetherall
Deep Breathing as Health Practice and Warning
A health note from Hall's Journal of Health extols deep inhalation for vigor and beauty. It prescribes five to ten deep breaths with abdomen expansion, warns against chest-first inhalation, and notes corsets or tight skirts hinder proper breathing and circulation.
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Hall
Journal of Health
Food prejudices and animal eating habits across regions
A survey of regional tastes shows Southern residents avoid mutton while Texans favor goats over beef, and the North shuns goat meat. It notes varied attitudes to pork, lobster, oysters, fish liver, eels, snails, and frogs legs, with snails and frogs legs priced highly in fashionable eateries.
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England
Texas
Maine
New Jersey
A Very Valuable Flogging
John James Mayo a Guatemalan millionaire once flogged in San Juan by a local authority received 100 lashes after a minor slight. The incident prompted a British government inquiry and Mayo was paid $50,000, a sum later grown through investments to about $5,000,000 earnings.
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Harper's Weekly
John James Mayo
San Juan
Appearance Observed in Bodies Burnt to Death
Sir William Jenner reports to the Lancet on a piece arguing that dying from fire is often due to suffocation rather than pain. The editor notes some cases show the fiery element acting before life ends, but suffering is not required even when signs of burning occur during life.
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Pandal
Wetherall
England
William Jenner
The
Lancet
An Extended Popularity of Brown’s Bronchial Tradies
An old ready reference extols Brown’s Bronchial Tradies as the best remedy for coughs and throat troubles. It condemns overuse of mineral laxatives and strong purges after Christmas and touts Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for regulating organs and preventing malaria rheumatism kidney complaints and lagrippe. Even the illiterate are drawn by a plump pocket book.
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Brown
Castoria Endures Through Every Stage
An old parental rhyme highlights Castoria as a timeless remedy linked to infants and children. The jingle traces the product from babyhood to motherhood, suggesting continual trust across generations.
The Crescent label ad promises free book previews
An old printed advertisement touts Crescents on every product from The Pr Harter Medicine Co inviting readers to submit a word for a free book or lithographs and samples. A Christmas story line underlines the festive sales pitch.
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Pr. Harter. Medicine Co
Wil
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Harter Medicine CO
St. Louis
Say
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Grippe Relief
An 19th century remedy touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as preventing la grippe by boosting blood and digestion. The ad claims it aids recovery after la grippe and after scarlet fever diphtheria pneumonia and other prostrating illnesses.
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Hood
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Golden Medical Discovery
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