Women Who Are Always Tired Advertises Pinkham Remedy
Swan Creek Michigan reader Annie Cameron credits Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound with rebuilding her strength after overwork and poor appetite Hebron Maine resident Charles Rowe says the product and Sanative Wash cured female weakness and renewed energy A confidential letters policy promises a woman answers inquiries from Lynn Massachusetts
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Swan Creek
Mich
Lydia E. Pinkhham
Annie Cameron
R.F.D
No. 1
Swan Creek, Michigan
Hebron
Lydia E. Pinkham
Charles Rowe
Kennebago
Maine
Smallest Timepiece Ever Sold in Berlin
A tiny watch built in Berlin measured under a quarter of an inch in diameter and under two troy grains. Its hands would stretch five twenty fourths of an inch. It sold for two thousand dollars, a price paid.
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Berlin
Fiendish Delight Dialogue Delights in Silent Interrogation
In a sharp exchange Moggs describes the pleasure of starting a phonograph and then stopping it mid sentence. The dialogue lampoons intrusive in laws and prying through technological interruptions.
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Moggs
First Oranges in America Claim by Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, the eyewitness to Cortes, claims he brought the first oranges to Mexico. He planted a few pips near a sacred idol house and watched by curious native priests as trees grew.
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America
Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Cortes
Mexico
Detachable Window Bars Invention Highlighted By Magazine
Popular Mechanics describes steel window guards designed to detach from a casing. The guards attach in grooves and can be fitted or removed quickly without marring woodwork. They provide protection against robbery and remain secure when the window is open.
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Popular
Mechanica
Remarkable Double Tree in Kentucky Bears Walnut and Mulberry Crops
A Kentucky tree reportedly bears walnuts and mulberries every year. The theory attributes this to a mulberry seed germinating near a walnut, with the two shoots growing together into a single trunk. The bark resembles both species on opposite sides, supporting the tale.
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Kentucky
Abacus Mishap Delays Teacher’s Exit at Local School
A timid new teacher in a district school asked to leave with the trustee at term end and requested a list of all school property. Two numeral frames for counting caused confusion as she noted the plural form and the phrase home of abs cus, then resolved it by saying we have one abacus and another one almost like it.
Genius and the fruit of labor by Alexander Hamilton
The speaker claims genius resides in deep study of a subject. He states that constant attention day and night shapes understanding. He defines genius as the result of labor and thought, not innate talent.
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Alexander Hamilton
Workhouse Jackdaw Guides Children to School
A pet jackdaw at the Llangyllin Wales workhouse accompanies the children to school each day and to Sunday school, perching in sight of the door during lessons and flying to greet them on the return trip.
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Llangyllin
Wales
Optimism Varies as Worker Questions Wages and Tips
A Kansas City Star quote shows a worker voicing doubt about prosperity after paying a tip that exceeds his own earnings. Sackville and McKautt discuss the irony of optimism amid rising costs and stagnant pay.
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Sackville
McKautt
Kansas City Star
Duty to One's Brother Man Quote by Beecher
A brief notable quotation urges sailors to greet and aid fellow travelers at sea. It emphasizes courtesy and mutual support among 80 men, urging no one to cross paths without a greeting and offering supplies if needed.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Flourished in hot climates
W D Howells argues in Harper's Magazine that ancient civilizations thrived in tropical and subtropical regions without artificial heating. He notes Egypt, Assyria, Greece, Italy, and prehistoric Americas flourishing, suggesting modern western Hemisphere civilizations may fare well in hot locales like Guatemala or Yucatan.
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Egypt
Assyria
Greece
Italy
Western Hemisphere
Greenland
Patagonia
Central America
Guatemala
Yucatan
Massachusetts
W. D. Howells
Harper's Magazine
False and Honest Pride
A compact moral note on pride as a driver of quality work. It contrasts true pride with false pride, urging self-respect, honesty, and continuous self-improvement to maintain independence and steadily meet challenges. It closes by urging open, frank living and steady confrontation with stronger forces.
Court rejects needle point of law analogy
The judge, weary after hours of legal wrangling, notes the defense’s quip about angels and needles. He says the question has no settled decision, but the court finds that many males may find a halting place on a point of law as the case proceeds to a conclusion.
Judge Musgrove’s Ten to One Law Office Ad
In Tellico Judge Musgrove runs a quiet town square law office with his name on the door and a rain refuge beside the Snedecor house. He posts a notice that he will not be in from ten to one, added by Jim to the painted legend.
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Musgrove
Tellico
Snedecor House
Jim
Judge Musgrove
Law Ten
Burnside Memorial Building
Winthrop Thurston A
Bristol, R. L
United States
Bristol
Winthrop
R. I
Not Much of a Bargain at the Butcher Shop
In a humorous exchange Mr. Ribbs the local butcher jokes about wedding costs. He notes expenses from trousseau and license to parson’s fees and jewelry for his wife and her sister, estimating the burden as heavy and costly.
Making the Humble Penny
A detailed tour of penny production at the mint describes melting bronze alloy, purification, rolling into sheets, cutting into disks, edge raising, baking, and stamping to produce finished coins. Scraps are recycled, coins are tested, counted, and bagged by a finishing machine.
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Mint
Curran’s Wit Saves Hide in Dublin Rooms
During a trial in Tipperary Curran insulted a land agent. Two days later the agent burst into Curran’s Dublin bedroom with a horse whip claiming he would thrash him. Curran mocked the plan and the two ended up dining together as friends.
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Tipperary
Curran
Dublin
Counsetor
Clonmel
English Garden Sculptures Preserved at Hunnewell Estate
The article notes a long standing fashion for evergreen herb gardens carved into animals and shapes. One surviving example remains at the Hunnewell estate in Wellesley Massachusetts attracting visitors worldwide. Garden workers prune each summer to maintain the creative forms by the lake on a terraced hillside.
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England
Hunnewell
Wellesley
Mass
Geneva Refuge for Religious Exiles and Knox Readings
In Geneva, a hub for religious refugees, John Knox and companions in exile heard him read his scathing stance against female rule. He declared that promoting a woman to bear rule is repugnant to Nature and contrary to God’s will.
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Geneva
John Knox
Locke
Knox
Chimney Rises 85 Feet In Sixteen Days In Severe Freeze
A St Louis firm built an 85 foot high chimney three feet in diameter in seven working days and had it in service sixteen days after receiving the order. Constructed of reinforced tile concrete on a reinforced concrete foundation, it endured temperatures never above 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Materials were heated before mixing and placing, with continuous fires kept inside the chimney.
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St. Louis
Moonlight Excursion and Local Events Schedule
A string of community events listed for late August and early September. Activities include a moonlight excursion to Rocky Point on the Steamer Sagamore by Dreadnaught Hook and Hose Co, a gate sale by United Relief No. 13, L O 0, and a Jackalmake at Prospect Farm by Burnside Social Club.
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Dreadnaught
Hook, Lader and Hose Co
Rocky Point
Sagamore
United Retiefs
Pegspect ‘Farm
iSunday
Jaclambake
Prospect Farm
Burnside Social Club
Mondapsia
St Elizabeth
Parithi
Serport
Rocky ‘Point
Aree
Bristol Yach House
Defianeé“Hese‘Co
Bristol
Necker
Vast Oceans Hold Deep Secrets of the Sea
Scientists note water on Earth would cover the globe to about 9000 feet if evenly spread. The ocean bed’s deep depressions push average depth to around 12500 feet, a vast volume of water with immense underwater hollows.
The Pastor Comments on Africa Collection and Lost Buttons
A pulpit remark frames today’s collection as meant for the savages of Africa, with a digressive note about trouser buttons dropped in the plate being deemed useless. The preacher’s humor targets thrift and allocation of church funds.
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Africa
True Nobility and Selflessness in Action
A reflection on true nobility as neglect of self. The quote notes that letting the self fade reveals the beauty of great deeds, comparing ego to a bloom tarnished on a dirty flower. The excerpt emphasizes humility as the core of noble humanity.
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Froude
Turning a Leaf In Uncle Eben’s Candid Advice
Uncle Eben counsels readers to ignore those who nitpick and pry into others' pasts as they begin anew. The line urges choosing focus on self-improvement rather than dwelling on criticism.
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Uncle Eben
Belief Draws Line on Silk for Mohammedans
A paragraph notes that believers of Islam avoid silk as unclean and forbidden due to cultural and religious rules. It highlights the prohibition referencing silk from worm sources and the stance of Mohammedans toward wearing such fabric.
Kickapoo Worm Killer Promoted for Children
An old advertisement urges parents to treat children for worm infections with Kickapoo Worm Killer. It claims many kids have worms, links symptoms to nervousness and pallor, and promises relief of constipation and better growth after taking the candy lozenge.
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Wood Street
Dorchester
Mita
Fite Ins. Co
Watson & CO
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Provi RL Boston
Dience
William W. Franklin & Co
Bor. St
Thomas Christodal
Thames and
Oliver Streets
Chiropobist
Brown, Jr
Trudell Bros
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G.W. Simmons Undertakers
Colwell
Constitution Street
G. M. Wilbur
Hope Street
Liscomb & Coggeshall
Charles H. Liscomb
Walter H. Coggeshall
Burton St
Constitution Pl
Isaac B
Munro Telephone
R. J
A. W. Orrelman
State Street
Weaver & Matheson
E. K. Reynolds
High Street
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Church
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