The Audiometer Instrument for Measuring Hearing
The Royal Society showcased Dr. Richardson and Prof. Hughes presenting the audiometer a new device using induction coils a microphone key and a telephone to measure hearing by detecting sound produced as the coil moves along a graduated bar The device marks 200 degrees from loud to quiet and is proposed to aid artificial tympanum research with gold capsules found effective in perforated hearing cases
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London Lancet
Royal Society
Richardson
Hughes
Prof
Inventions of Calculating Machines
The article surveys multiple inventors and devices for arithmetical computation. Staffel and Colmar present cylinder and plate based machines carrying out basic operations with error checks. Wertheimer Baranowski and others offer money calculation devices. Schuetz and Babbage receive praise for precision and speed, with printing and stamping of results at high rates.
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Staffel
Colmar
Wertheimer
Baranowski
Schott
Lalanne
Roget
Maurel
Roth
Slovinski
Scheutz
Schuetz
Babbage
America
England
Chambers’ Journal
Put into letter boxes amuse and losses from absent mindedness
Boston Herald reports carriers find odd deposits in street mail boxes including loose coins stamps and a bank book with 85 dollars. A dramatic case describes a young man who emptied his money and bank books into a post office box by mistake and later recovered them at the bank.
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Boston Post Office
Boston Herald
C. E. Shoemaker
Reading
United States
Associated Press
Mason & Hamlin
R. Valentine
Janesville
Wis
Cunz
Couch Orn Corp
Brown
Dr. Sanford
Broadway
New York
Lyon
Piso
Jackson
C. Gilbert
Where Is the Complainant In The Other World
The magistrate cites the Koran to confront a deceased complainant in a case of arson against a Christian home. With the plaintiff absent and presumed dead, the court orders execution of the law and remands the prisoner.
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Cadis Mohammedan
Aditto
Mortality and disasters mix in northeastern news
Bishop Gilbert Haven of Malden Mass dies after a long illness as fires, explosions, and accidents loom in New England and across the country. Reports detail a deadly Newark celluloid factory blast and a New York bank defalcation hinting at wider turmoil.
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Gilbert Haven
Methodist Church
Malden
Mass
Herald
New Engand
United States
Henry Gebweiler
Thereen Ehrhardt
Rossa
Willie Geib
Louis Schmitt
Newark
N. J
William Finders
Frederick Stites
Horace ©. Pierce
Charles Yates
Spencer M. Atwood
W. White
Grocers’ Bank
New York
J. Lloyd Haigh
General Sharpe
House
Cornell
Senate
General Prado
Peru
Halle
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Maine
Hale
H Hale
Garcelon
House of Representatives
Supreme Court
Committee On Elections
Dickey
Samuel Upjohn
Locke
John D. Lamson
Benjamin C. Bogert
Produce Exchange
Bogert
Boyert
Hackensack
Capital Savings Bank
Sacramento
Cal
Amherst County
Columbus Miles
Fisher
Pensacola
Fla
Freeport
Watson
Kansas City Co
Jesse James
Ohio
Garfield
Thurman
Republicans Have A Majority In Both Branches of the Legislature. General Prado
Alamosa
Col
Meeker
Commission of Investigation
Pueblo
San Francisco
Daniel Hoskins
Hoskins
Congressional Petitions Move Through Senate and House
Congress opens after recess with many petitions from ex soldiers and citizens. Logan and Conkling present bounties and pension related pleas while Morgan notes the death of George S. Houston. House investigates Ute incident and interior correspondence as lawmakers consider greenback and banking measures and new departments.
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Senate
Logan
Mr. Conkling
New York State
Isaac J. Covert
New York
Gramt
Texas
New York City
New York Harbor
Morgan
George S. Houston
Athens
Ala
Bayard
Delaware
Pendleton
Windom
Ferry
House
Committee On Indian Affairs
White River Agency
Scales
Secretary of the Interior
N. C. Meeker
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Pitkin
Hatch
Adams
Ollock
Interior Department
Forney
Houston
Alabama
Coffroth
Beltzhoever
Indiana
Hill
Court of Claims
Circuit Court of the United States
Townshend
Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
Armfield
Committee On Mines and Mining
Colorado
Prescotts
Nolatio Seymour
Herkimer
Ryan
Hayes
Pastic and Domestic Wisdom in Prose
A collection of maxims on character and conduct urging kindness to animals and people, self restraint, restraint of curiosity, and the value of work. It contrasts virtue with cruelty, extols reserve power, and links inner temper to outer beauty and social harmony.
Symmes Theory Reconsidered as Hollow Earth Idea
A Journal correspondent outlines a hollow earth model with a central sun and inner surface light, proposing a wheel within a wheel mechanism for planetary motion. He imagines an iron-like center and electrical polarization causing the shell to glow from poles and explains polar sea notions. Also included is an advertisement for Du Marchist’s uterine catholicon claiming cures for female weakness and related conditions.
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Journal of the Telegraph
Earth
Kane
du Marchist
O Howarth & Ballard
Utica
N. Y
Southern tea culture yields first native brewed tea
A 1860s project to grow tea in the South progressed with shipments to Georgia North Carolina and South Carolina. A Baltimore firm evaluated leaves from Georgia and South Carolina produced by steam washing tannic acid and drying to create a tea resembling Indian brews with a notably fine flavor.
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South
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Agricultural Bureau
Gillett & Co
Baltimore
LeDuc
India
Doctor's quip about patience on a monument
A physician jokes about Shakespeare and patience on a monument. A reader replies that patience is not on monuments but beneath them, noting patients lie under monuments rather than on them.
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Shakspeare
Patience
Renovating tonics claim to aid workers and sedentary lives
An advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to restore energy for laborers and desk workers, boosting digestion, waking the liver, and easing fatigue. It also praises Sco Vill's Blood and Liver Syrup for cleansing circulation, clearing skin eruptions, and aiding rheumatism and gout, with notices directing inquiries to W. Sherman & Co.
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Hostetter
No man can do good work when he feels miserable
The Albany Times suggests that misery dulls the mind and nerves and that Hop Bitters can remove this condition easily and cheaply, allowing better performance in work sermons lawsuits medicine and writing.
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Albany Times
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Saponifier
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Dirations
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Propr’s
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Audi
Mason & Hamlin Organ CO
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Chicago
Ridge
Oolrich & CO
Life & Property
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Siuxsmoom
Waser Baeapwar
Kansas
Charles Mr. Stebbins
Atchison, Kansas
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Frank Leslie
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Frazer Luorigator CO
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Providence
R. IL
Petroleum
Iton
Jelly Sitter
W. Schingelin
Ie Co
Mark Twain
Rook
Appy
F.ee
BLISS
Hartford
the New American Dictionary
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Addrees Wildes & CO
Arch St
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SCV
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N.Y City
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Mich
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Sixth Street
Marah
Quincy Mick
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Leberon
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