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Newspaper

Branford Gleaner

Location

Branford, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Aug 13, 1879

Page

5

Notable oddities span from slippers to flying device

A long column recounts quirky tales from Atlanta to Sioux City, including a love marriage that travels 4000 miles, a student wearing slippers made from human skin, the first death linked to a decayed tooth, a surgeon showing rib and heart tricks, and Henry Earl’s flying life saving apparatus patent scheme.

Pennsylvania Railroad Chicago Ingalls St. Paul Fort Assiniboine Sioux City Max Weldon Lafayette Ind Cincinnati Medical College Weldon Cincinnati Lafayette Courier Henry Wilson Toledo Chase County Kansas Emporia Jedger Wilson George Ezekial Thomas Ohho Alabama Baird and Crawford Americus United States France England Germany Cuba Syracuse N. Y Henry W. Earl Northern Central Railway Baltimore T. Earl Maryland Antumn

FOR THE FAIR SEX News and Notes for Women

A mood of fashion and achievement fills this item list. Notable entries include Dr Eliza Ladd Campbell elected to the American Institute of Homeopathy, Mary Hall named as a Superior Court commissioner by Judge Beardsley, and Paris Gazette des Femmes noting French women with medical and scientific degrees since 1886. It also highlights girls teaching housekeeping at the New York Five Points House of Industry, Empress Eugenie’s grief over a lost son, Miss Fazakerley cruising in the Baltic, and royal daughters Louise Victoria and Maud in simple dress reflecting current style.

Ogden Utah Eliza Ladd Campbell Attleboro Mass American Institute of Homeopathy Mary Hall Superior Cour of How Beardsley Paris Gazette Des Femmes Eugenie E. A. Fazakerley London Baltic St. Petersburg Christiana Bergen Norway Maelstrom Louise Victoria Maud Prince of Wales

Traveler Endures Boston Graveyards at City Hotel

A sensitive guest rooms at a Boston hotel faces repeated cemetery views each morning. He shifts to different rooms to escape tombstones across the street from King’s Chapel graveyard and Old Granary cemetery, seeking peace but finding gloom in the town’s burial grounds.

Boston Ife Ile Aurora King’s Chapel

Word of thanks to mother from John Crossley remembered

The article recalls John Crossley hosting the Prince of Wales at Manor Heath. He recounts his mother as a remarkable farm servant who saved from nine pounds yearly wages, spinning wool in leisure hours. He credits his success to his mother under God’s blessing.

John Crossley Prince of Wales Manor Heath

Plan to Keep Husbands Home Uses Flattering Boots

A Chicago wife reports a method to deter husbands from going out at night. She flatters his feet and makes him wear slightly tight boots, then offers soft slippers at home. After a long day, he removes his boots and learns there is no place like home, avoiding late outings.

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Joyous Editor Announces Birth Windfall Reward

The Charleston vy Va Leader prints an editor’s jubilant notice about a baby birth in the family with a claimed value of at least 10 000 dollars. The mother and child are doing well and the father is in good condition as expected. The piece reads as a humorous, buoyant item reveling in the stroke of luck.

Charleston Vy Va the Jeader

Counterfeiting Ring Thwarted in New York

A Brazil note counterfeiting scheme was halted in New York with five men captured. The genuine notes were imitated on stone then printed. Arrests followed as the gang planned to sail to Rio Janeiro. Also reported: a Vermont wresting match winner and a deadly railroad boiler explosion in Green Bush.

Charles Fechter Rio Janeiro Central John McMahon James Owens Vermont New York Sacramento Boston and Albany Greenbush N. Y Thomas Smith Frank Murphy John McIntyre Wm. Horton Foreman Wynant Crantell Robert B. Miller American Bankers’ Association Saratoga Association United States Sherman Alexander Mitchell Milwaukee Jacob D. Vermilye Thomas Henry Mobile George S. Coe Pennsylvania John O'Neil Peter McManus Northumberland County Mollie Maguires Hesser Shamoki Barclay Street Greenfield & Son

Not Entirely Convinced Fight on Gratiot Avenue

A Saturday clash on Gratiot avenue ended with insults and a scuffle between two men one labeled a liar by the other. After a brief exchange the injured man admitted uncertainty about the accusation and warned of further danger if provoked.

Gratiot Avenue Free Press

Pond lilies stir longing during a walk by the water

A Fond Du Lac Reporter excerpt notes how pond lilies spark a man’s longing for life’s value as he strolls with his partner and imagines gathering blooms while distant, unreliable rods and no boat stand between them and the coveted flowers.

Fond du Lac

Notable Patent Medicines and Remedies Advertised

A compilation of health ads touts Honstetter's Stomach Bitters to stimulate urinary organs and cleanse waste, Henry's Carbolic Salve for wound healing, Allan's Anti Fat promising 3–6 pounds weekly loss, Mason & Hamlin Organs for value, Brown's Bronchial Troches for throat relief, plus household products from C Gilbert's Starches and Jacksons tobacco.

Honstetter Henry J. C. Allan Allan Mason & Hamlin Brown C. Gilbert Chew Jacksons

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