New Moog or Cusiva Art Diseases
The Scientific American endorses friction blistering on the hands as a universal cure and prophylactic for diseases, citing its zero cost and potential to eliminate sickness poverty. A dying neighbor recounts never seeing a physician yet lived to 94, attributing health to daily friction. The Wire Snow describes Russian matchmaking where tradesmen’s children seek partners by dower, letting suitors inquire with parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
Russia
Ood Brothers
Ritcher
Dantzio
Dan
Herr Ritcher
Gottleib
Camp Meeting and Military Talk at the Gate
A peculiar exchange at a gate references a Pennsylvanian camp meeting and the artillery department on a hill. A guard explains the artillery moves by horses and wheels while a visitor jokes about military apparel and prices at a clothing store near the Consequential Hotel in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulke
Consequential
Philadelphia
Ritcher’s Compassion Raises Gottlieb From Poverty to Prosperity
A ten year old beggar named Gottlieb in Danze wins the generosity of merchant Samuel Ritcher. The boy’s honesty, catechism, and hard work lead to training in business, support for his mother and brothers, and a lasting partnership and fortune.
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A. Greene
Pete
Tio Plate
Thames & Bradford Sts
Burston
Samuel Ritcher
Danuze
Herr Ritcher
Gottleib
Deak
Ritcher
Gottloric
Gottloib
Betruthal
Herr Riteber
House of
Gottlob Bern
Samuel Riteber
Dantzie
Snow explains cholera like systemic disease in cattle and humans
Dr Snow reports to the Rhode Island Medical Society that cholera like illness is a systemic blood disease rather than a single named ailment. He links epidemics to an atmospheric poison and poor local conditions, including impure air from crowded pens, unhealthy food, and lack of clean water, and doubts contagiousness while noting treatment failures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhode Island Medical Society
Snow
Billy Gibbons Funds Rival Barber's Shop In Town
A New Jersey millionaire Billy Gibbons secretly finances a rival barber in a village. He rents a free shop for one year and pays the barber twenty dollars a month in advance while the barber shaves customers for free, drawing crowds as the rival business prospers and the original shop declines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Astor
Girard
Billy Gray
Billy Gibbons
New Jersey
Billy
Knight of the Razor
Billy Gibbone
Anid
Bill Harrington
Weoll
Bill
Jolke
Baill Harrington
M—M
Tonsur
Barbar
William Harrington
Billy Gibbons and the Shaving Prize Ruse
A barber named Billy Harrington keeps steady work as an employer, Money Bags, reveals a ledger showing six months of charges amounting to 340 for shaving and 120 paid for services. The old man forgives debt, grants six months rent free, and warns against overcharging, noting the cautionary tale of Billy Gibbons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill
Billy
Billy Harrington
Billy Gibbons
Com. Bulletin
Look on the Bright Side and Find Courage in Trouble
A moral meditation urges optimism amid hardship and warns that sunshine and resilience build character. It recalls surgeons tending wounded at Sudley Church during a panic and cites simple home remedies as cures, urging virtue in perseverance.
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The
Times
Eighth New York Regiment of Militia
Sudley Church
United States
Iast
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Bayley
Apvaxce
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Dewolf
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Orne
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Franklin Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Bank of Commerce
Providence
NSUBE
W On Foster
Ames D. Smith
Joseph
Gilmore
Earl I. Mason
Varel E. Carpenter
John F. Chapin
George C Nightingale
David Simeon
A.C. Barstow
A.B Dike
Thomas J Stead
William ML. Bailey
Albert
Gallap
Thomas J Fill
Alexander Duncan
Lucies Weever
Benjamin B. Adams
Enoch Steene
Edward Pearce
Simon Genry Greene
Richard J. Arnold
William Foster
Joan F. Denecott
Wil P. Monro
Farrington & C
Sign of the Golden Eagle
Cor. Exchange and Westminster Lts
Providence, & L
New England Mutual Life Insurance CO
Boston
Mass
Willard Phillips
Rewell Tappan
Charles P Curtis
Charles Abbari
Thamar A Dexter
Wm DB Reynolds
Marahal P. Wilder
George @ Folger
A W Thaxter
Brancis Lowell
James Sturgess
Benz F Stevens
See'ry Nearty
Ivestep
Mearty
Casa
Els
Ife Insurance
John Hopper
Bandway
Pine
Novtz Street
New York City
Josephus Gooding
Corner OF
Hope and State Sts
Nristol
Fred. C. Garbanati
Giru Dpdeeer
Westminster Street
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Exchange Bank
R. I
WM. B. Rimball
the Angel OF Patience
Florence Percy
Van
Asa Kewper
Rosa Co
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Mrs. T. Simon
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