Quaker Catarrh Cure Promises Quick Relief and Refund
Ask your druggist for a bottle of the Quaker Catarrh Cure. It is applied directly to affected areas and claims immediate relief for catarrh colds in the head influenza and similar illnesses. A money back guarantee with each bottle. Send name and address on a postal card for a free sample bottle. Also notes gold in U S treasury exceeds five million dollars.
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Oscar Ostrum
Warren Ave
Chicago
ELY Brothers
Warren St
New York
Quaker Mep
St. Pauli
Minn
Janesville Wrestler Suffers Leg Injury in Fall
Joseph Graham of Janesville broke his leg while wrestling with a companion, the incident resulting in a painful injury and medical attention.
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Joseph Graham
Janesville
I married a wife who forged a fortune
A man recounts a ruined marriage begun by a forged letter and a wife who kept his money. After leaving her, he spirals into drink, moves to Australia under an assumed name, remarries, and builds a new life with Cora Williamson while hiding the dark truth and a vast secret. The tale traces deception, crime, and remorse across continents.
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London
I Found My Own Grave on a London Visit
William Hengist Smith learns his death has been registered and a coroner's inquest held for a man buried as him. In London with his wife Cora, he discovers his name on a tomb at Highgate beside his parents, alive but haunted by a corpse bearing his identity.
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Highgate
Jane
William Hengist Smith
Cora
William
Jane Smih
England
Somerset House
Mystery of the Strand Seeker Probes a Dead Man’s Secret
A narrator, newly married and staying in London, reveals finding a death certificate and deciding to uncover the truth behind a mysterious burial. He fears trust and fears revealing himself, choosing quietly to investigate while keeping distance from the deceased.
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Londonn
Ball lectures on astronomy reveal vast cosmic scales
Sir Robert Ball spoke to attentive listeners about weighing stars against the sun and the Great Bear’s stars. He showed that Alpha Centauri is three years away by light, while other stars would have missed historic events like Waterloo and 1066. He described photographic plates revealing thousands of stars beyond naked sight.
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Sir Robert Ball
Robert
Alpha Centauri
Earth
Bethlehem
Robert Ball
Albert Tracy
Japan
Dangers of Patent Fuels Highlight Public Ignorance
A note cites patent fuels sold for stage use without chimneys as deadly due to undisclosed gas buildup. It warns gullible merchants ministers and doctors who rely on false ventilation claims and stresses the need to test and understand combustion through actual experience rather than outdated book learning.
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Popular Science Monthly
The Virtues of Salt and Its Uses
A historical primer proclaims salt as a multipurpose remedy and cleaner. It claims to restore tea stains, stiffen gums, whiten teeth, act as an emetic and antidote, treat sore throats, prevent diphtheria, aid eye inflammation, clean furniture, preserve prints, heal mouth bleeding after tooth extraction, relieve neuralgia, aid sore lungs, and improve food flavor, with various home applications.
Peculiarities of the New Skirts
The article notes new gored skirts are tight at the hips and hard to remove, yet they are pretty and flattering if not stiff. It celebrates corded gores or passementerie trims, while warning of amateur overuse and frequent poor cuts punished by ruffles and furbelows.
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Ruffies
Furbelows
New rifle equalizes armies says war journal
A German war journal writer notes the latest rifles level armament, reducing individual fighting traits. Training advantage now hinges on discipline and accuracy, to be tested at ranges from 500 to 600 yards as musketry instruction aims at precise long distance shooting.
Vegetable silk discussed as alternative to silkworm fibers
The Brooklyn Eagle notes silk can come from non silkworm sources. Amboa fibers yield excellent colored silk suitable for tropical clothing due to lightness and porosity. Silk cotton tree pods also provide a vegetable silk variety, though with different quality.
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Amboa
Geland
Brooklyn Eagle
Why the Third Finger Was Chosen
The article explains the third finger on the left hand is worn for wedding rings due to a belief in ancient Egypt that a slender nerve links it to the heart. It notes Isis worshipers held this finger sacred to Apollo and the sun, guiding the choice of gold for the ring. It also mentions Britain practicing distillation of alcoholic liquors in the sixteenth century.
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Isis
Apollo
Great Britain
Queer Figures and a Wrestling Lion At Play
A compendium of oddities on numbers from ancient lore to modern superstition follows with notes on three and seven, then a London wrestling lion named Prince clashing with his keeper Alex Amousa. An eagle in Achill fosters two goose chicks after stealing eggs, while an Indian elephant improvises a pump trough riddle and solves it by locating the supporting log.
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William Ingpen
George I
William II
New Forest
Henry II
Edward II
Richard III
Charles II
James II
England
Garden of Eden
Leipsic
Harper
London
Prince
Alex” Amousa
Alex
His Majesty the Lion
Lion
Othes
Achill Island
Ireland
Actua
India
Lincolnshire
Richard Hoodless
Hoodless
Hermione
Hoadless
Kangaroo Fight Ends with Fatal Result in Desert Chase
A hunter recounts chasing a large male kangaroo that cornered at a eucalyptus tree. His hounds pursued the creature. one dog died after a fatal bite and the hunter killed the kangaroo to stop further danger. The beast weighed about 150 pounds with hooked sharp claws and powerful toes.
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New York Journal
Coal novelties and legendary feats across seas
The piece surveys coal based novelties in Pennsylvania including ornate candlesticks and inkstands by artisans, then recounts Hoodless and his horse rescuing shipwreck survivors near Hermione in 1833, followed by observations on Japanese children's politeness and gratitude gestures to visitors.
Button Matcher of New York Keeps Secret Stock
A New York shopkeeper specializes in matching lost buttons. His dim room overflows with boxes of buttons. A customer bought a matching button for 10 cents, with rare pieces fetching higher. He gathers scraps from tailors and dressmakers, maintaining regular customers who find exactly what they need.
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New York
Lippincotta
Whisker Change Sparks Noticing Friends Comment
A man alters his whiskers and friends remark he looks like a different person. They struggle to explain the change as they discuss a prior routine and an abrupt shift in appearance.
World's Fair Train Proximity Leads To Chicago Route
The 1893 World's Fair is highlighted with the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line in the lead. A 2 cent stamp offers The Milwaukee World’s Fair Folder from J T Conley, Assistant General Passenger Agent in St Paul Minnesota. A public note condemns excess eating and lack of outdoor exercise while Garfield Tea is promoted as a remedy. EE Kirby Smith, longtime Confederate figure, is praised as the last surviving full general, aged 75.
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Chicago
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
J. T. Conley
St. Paul
Minn
EE. Kirby Smith
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