Saratoga Man Cures Locomotor Ataxia With Pink Pills
The Albany Journal story of Charles A. Quant of Galway shows a remarkable recovery from locomotor ataxia after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. Investigations by the Albany Express confirmed hospital records and doctors' statements, noting prior incurability and subsequent health improvement after treatment begun last September 1891.
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Albany
N. Y
Saratoga
Albany Ae Express
Express
Albany Evening Journal
Charles A. Quant
Galway
Saratoga County
Altasy
Shoul
Express Reporter
Dr. Williams Medicine Company
Morristown N. Y
Brockville Ontario
New York
Roosevelt Hospital
St. Peter's Hospital
H. H. Hun
Miamilton
Ont
John Mark
Williams
Vale
Marshall
Royal Templars of ‘Temperance
Quant
Quanvs
Allen Starr
West Twenty-eighth St
New York City
Starr
Ninth Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
Ware
Ord
O. D
Roosevelt
Edward Ware
West Ninety-third Street
Theodore R. Tuttle
West Eighteenth Street
St. Peter’s Hospital
Ferry Streets
Mary Philomena
Henry Hun
van Derveer
Cakes Without Eggs in Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder
Observers note Price's Cream Baking Powder yields top quality cakes without eggs and with less butter. It saves the trouble of finding fresh eggs and bakes light, tender pastries quickly. The powder is praised as pure, wholesome, and free from ammonia or adulterants.
Dr Williams Medicine Pills Sold At Low Cost
An advertised remedy claims cubed pills restore blood health and nerves, curing loco motor ataxia neuralgia rheumatism and female weakness among other conditions. Manufactured by Dr Williams Medicine Company in Brockville Ontario and Morristown New York, sold boxed 50 cents each or six for $2.50, available in stores or by mail.
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St. Vitus
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Brockville
Ontario
Morristown
V. Y
A Missing Cent Mystery Solved in Maine City
The Portland Argus reports a puzzling missing cent in a tale of two itinerant apple merchants A and B who began with thirty apples each. On a normal day A sold three for a cent and B two for a cent, earning 15 and 10 cents respectively. When B sold sixty apples alone he set a price of five for two cents, yet his total came to 24 cents instead of 25, prompting public discussion over what happened to the missing cent.
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Portland Argus
Hhis
Narrow Escape At Barrows Colliery Shaft
A Barrow Collieries accident at Worsborough sent Edward Banks plunging down a 500 yard shaft after a clamp broke. He tumbled two or three times, held the conductor with one hand, and slid to the bottom where he walked home. Fellow workers Jackson and Fletcher barely avoided injury. Banks survived with a badly cut hand.
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Barnsley
Barrow
Worsborough
Edward Banks
James Fletcher
Jackson
Ned
Bank
Pim
Banks
Balancing Theory and Practice in Invention
The article notes inventors often lack full mastery of both science and art, producing mixed results. It cites cases where practical minds favor simple, workable solutions while theoreticians favor complex, impractical ones. Causes include cost, partial improvements, and lack of practical demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyres
Engineering Magazine
Dangerous Shooting Sparks Berlin Street Anxiety
Berlin residents grow uneasy over soldiers firing on streets as sentinels face promotions despite fatal shootings. A rifle bullet pierced a man, struck a bystander, then lodged in a brick wall, illustrating the weapon's extreme velocity and unpredictable path.
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Berlin
Prince of Orange Title Survives Prussian Era At Berlin Court
The article notes that Emperor William at Berlin avoids flaunting the princely title Prince of Orange while the Dutch heir bears it as part of the Prussian royal house. After William III’s 1702 death two claimants arose, one William’s nominee and Frederick III of Prussia, with France seizing the territory. The Holland princes and Prussia kept wearing the title and arms.
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William
Berlin
Netherlands
Prince of Orange
Holland
William III
Frederick J
Prussia
France
Yorkshire Custom Invites Bees To Funeral
A historical note describes beliefs that a bee entering a cottage signals death and that a bee swarm on a dead tree forebodes a death within a year. It also mentions a Yorkshire custom of inviting bees to the funeral.
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Yorkshire
Case of Librarian A K Linderfelt Continued
The case of A K Linderfelt, a public librarian and self confessed embezzler, was continued until next Tuesday. His bond was set at 5000 dollars, which could not be secured.
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Cnable
Mittwavker
A. K. Linderfelt
Liderfelt
Insane Lynchers Discharged as Cured in Wisconsin
John E. Maighan and Alonzo Taylor, two of the men involved in the Siepoite lynching near Maprsox, Wisconsin, were discharged as cured from Mendota yesterday.
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Maprsox
Wis. Special
John E. Maighan
Alonzo Taylor
Anton Siepoite
Sre
Mendota
Blessings on the Coming Man in London Figaro
Poetic reverie on a child’s eyes hands and feet as future promise. It imagines their potential to read stars and steer a nation, praising the child’s growing strength and unformed plans. The verse ends with a blessing upon the unborn future man.
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London
The Opera Box Romance Ends in Fortunate Match
In a Berlin theater a flirtatious pair watch an intriguing stranger and a sweet poodle. Elsie believes her admirer loves her, but a misaddressed letter triggers a farcical gallery rendezvous. Otto Reimar clarifies a mistaken letter and meets Regina, leading to engaged bliss for Regina and her poet.
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Regina
Elsie
Makart
von Planeck
Berlin
Elsie von Lasswitz
Dr. Reimar
Otto Reimar
Madam
Assessor von Lucknow
Life spans of birds defy simple biology say experts
The German biologist Weismann notes limited exact knowledge on bird longevity despite many ornithologists and societies. Birds live eight to eighteen years in small species, ravens near a century in captivity, and parrots longer. Fowls ten to twenty years, geese over a hundred, swans about three hundred. The long life is tied to low fertility and high chick mortality, with St Kilda gannets producing one egg yearly yet thriving.
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National Gallery
Makart
Katherine Coronaro
Elsie
National
Weismann
St. Kilda
Scotland
London Spectator
Seasoning Farm Needs and Turnips to Cauliflower Tips
A broad farmers guide discusses paying agents for farm implements and buying practices. It advises buyers to pay for sales time, buy direct with cash when ready, and choose locally supported machines to ensure repair parts. It covers turnips, parsnips, cauliflower, and colt training for safe handling and steady driving.
Corn Growing Secrets From Eastern Farm Journal
An Eastern farm journal dedicates an issue to corn cultivation. Nearly twenty successful farmers share methods for soil, seed, and field care, emphasizing four high soil, grass feeding on manure, drainage, fall plowing in clay soils, early seed selection, ensuring sunshine, weed control, shallow cultivation after knee height, crust breakdown after rains, and a rich sandy loam to yield up to 00 bushels per acre in favorable seasons.
Colts Training Principles For Early Handling
The article argues that Colts should be trained rather than broken, noting young horses receive little handling until ready for work. It outlines that preliminary training must occur quickly and under a few simple, essential rules.
Spring Work For Farm Horses Demands Gentle Start
The article urges gradual spring work for farm horses after winter idleness. Begin with moderate exercise for two weeks to harden muscles, noting grain feeding aids conditioning. Emphasizes proper collar fit and saltwater shoulder washes to prevent strain and improve performance.
Cautions for farmers using poisonous substances and onion seed sowing tips
West Virginia cautions farmers to store poisons safely and label them clearly, apply with windward exposure, avoid edible leaves or fruit soon after application, test diluted mixes first, and avoid blooming fruit trees to protect bees. The piece also explains onion sets timing, soil quality, and planting steps for varieties like Strasburg, Yellow Danvers, and Wethersfield red.
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West Virginia
Feeding Hens Dry or Wet Food by Season
A Farm and Fireside discussion weighs dry versus moist feeding for hens. Both methods work. moist feed helps when potatoes or turnips are scarce and if ground food is scalded hens prefer it. Season affects choice. in summer and fall little grain is needed and dry feeding reduces care, while ample grit allows more dry feed in colder seasons.
Peas and oats yield high hog crop when sown together
Farmers are advised to sow peas and oats together this month to grow a strong green crop for swine. A mix of one bushel peas and one and a half bushels oats per acre, sown early, can produce 40 to 50 bushels per acre with good ground. Ground peas and oats make a valuable hog ration, replacing bought feeds and boosting profits. Peas are sown and plowed four to five inches deep, then oats are sown and harrowed in.
Feeding hens and chicks apart saves feed and money
The article warns against feeding hens and growing chicks together as it leads to overfeeding adults and undernourished chicks. It advises one meal for adult fowls, two meals for chicks until four months, and cautions that joint feeding wastes feed and raises costs. It notes Texas Live Stock Journal predicting fewer large herds, urging farmers to stock and feed efficiently.
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Texas Live Stock Journal
Texas
Monastic and Pilgrim Godparents in Roman Baptisms
In eighteenth century Rome a custom placed beggars monks and pilgrims as godparents at noble baptisms. Princess Colonna’s daughter, Princess Barberini’s child, and Prince Ros poli’s son all bore humble sponsors. Fra Elia the Carmelites often acted as godfather, drawing gifts to the monastery and crowds to the ceremony.
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Colonna
Tenuta
San Marcello
Barberini
Rospoli
Fra Elia
Pastor Notices Prompt Latecomer Etiquette At Somerville Church
A printed church notice from Somerville Massachusetts chides late arrivals for staring at others and explains service times. It notes morning worship at 10:30 and evening at 7:30 with latecomers invited only to the benediction, as quoted from the New York Tribune.
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Somerville
Mass
New York Tribune
The Bite of the Cobra Di Capella
Dr Calmettes in Saigon reports a subcutaneous injection of gold chloride as a reliable antidote to cobra venom before apoplexy symptoms appear. Rochard transmits the finding to the French Academy of Medicine, noting numerous deaths in British India from cobra bites.
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British India
French Academy of Medicine
M. Rochard
Calmettes
Saigon
Cochin China
Emerson Night Idea Sparks Quiet Domestic Mystery
Ralph Waldo Emerson awoke his wife and joked about failed matches. The next morning she found all the teeth in her comb broken, a curious domestic detail attributed to the philosopher’s late night musings.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Waldo
New York Judge Sentences McGuire to Death
At Newburg New York McGuire convicted for the murder of Mrs Gregory is sentenced to die by electricity at Sing Sing during the week beginning June 6. The report notes the varied culinary and cultural mentions scattered in the passage.
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Newburg
N. Y
McGuire
Gregory
Sing Sing
Unusual List of Names in The Cosmopolitan Thirteenth Volume
The Cosmopolitan reaches its thirteenth volume Hay issue under joint editors W. D. Howells and Walker. Contributors include James Russell Lowell Frank R Stockton Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Clarence Stedman Henry James and others. Noted illustrators include Remington Church Crane Chase Reinhart Edwards and more.
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The
Cosmopolitan
Hay
W. D. Howells
Mr. Walker
James Russell Lowell
Frank R. Stockton
Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Henry James
H. H. Boyesen
Hamlin Garland
John Hay
Sarah Orne Jewett
Prof. Langley
Smithsonian
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
W. D. Howell
E. Ww. Eatbie
Frederick Remington
F. 8. Church
Walter Crane
William M. Chase
C.$. Reinhart
Dan Beard
George Wharton Edwards
Wilson de Meza
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Rose & Eddy
Esale
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Mfg. Co
Chicago
Ill
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Babcock
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Mfc. Co
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Il. G. Root
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Peart St
H. Parker
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Seud
St. Jacobs Oil
T. B. Sherer
Constantine, Mich
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Dolphin St
Balto
St. Jacobs
WM. C. Harden
Diamond Wall Flash Co
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Tutt
P. O
A. Blocum
Pearl St
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Igeminigas
N.W.N.W
N. H. Pierce
Ann Arbor
Mich
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America
Jr. Aller
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Mina
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York
Bex
Loghmis & Hyman
Tiffin
CHIC
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