Power and Passion in a Winter Encounter
In a country-house setting Julia Stallo and Miss Branch clash over love and devotion as a dangerous dog attack disrupts their walk. Mr North arrives, reveals his feelings, and Miss Branch learns her own depth of courage and desire before a tragic truth reshapes their future.
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Witchery
Julia Stallo
Tam
Miss Branch
Mr. North
Julia
Ile
North
Miss Stallo
Luke
Luke North
Morris Loring
Remarkable Cures Attributed To Dr. Thomas Oil
A note touts Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil as curing earache and other deafness related remarks. The fragment presents a promotional claim without corroborating evidence or details about usage, dates, or witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Moody on practical theology at Union Seminary
A summary of Moody's remarks at Union Theological Seminary on how ministers should reach souls, avoid church formality, and lead people personally. He stresses judging less, engaging the unconverted, and the value of work, with notes on Sunday night sermons, language in hymnody, mission perception, and ministerial selflessness.
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Moody
Union Theological Seminary
Park Avenue
New York
England
The Crippled Congressmen and Their Four Leaders
Isaac Bassett recalls four crippled legislators in twenty years of Congress Thaddeus Stevens Darwin A. Finney Oliver P. Morton and Alexander H. Stephens. Stevens and Morton died, while Finney and Stephens lingered in frail health yet remained influential figures in their eras.
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Isaac Bassett
Congress
Byron
Beethoven
Thaddeus Stevens
Stevens
Darwin A. Finney
Meadville
House of Representatives
Ile
Oliver P. Morton
Senate
Alexander H. Stephens
Mr. Stephens
Sam
Thad
Morton
Hood's Sarsaparilla Fights Scrofula at the Root
advertisement claims Hood's Sarsaparilla cures scrofula by cleansing the blood of impurities. It asserts thousands cured and urges purchase from all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Strength for to-day in toil and faith
Poem urging daily strength for earnest souls and weary hearts. It praises service to the needy, steadfastness in striving for right, and avoiding temptations. The verse calls for compassionate acts, hopeful spirit, and trust in God in home and life from sunrise to sunset.
Near Death Yet Life: Curious Accidents From History
A curiously moral meditation on near death, recounting an Englishman who survived mutiny and perilous voyage only to drown the day after arriving home after stepping between ships. It cites frequent close calls and recalls accidents from London printing houses with falls and a roof incident where a skylight saved one man but killed another instantly.
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India
Africa
London
Slater
Ancient Etruscan dentistry found in Italy
Dr. Van Marter of Rome reports evidence of prehistoric dentistry in Italy. In Cornelo Tarquinius museum two specimens show upper central incisors bound by a gold band to adjacent teeth with carved artificial teeth, likely from large animal teeth. A missing tooth is noted and a skull reveals an alveolar abscess indicating toothache among Etruscans.
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van Marter
Rome
Italy
Cornelo Tarquinius
Mediterranean
Hellbig
The Making Of Base Balls In The United States
The manufacture of base balls is described as an important industry. A hard rubber core is wrapped with blue yarn then white Venetian yarn, baked to remove moisture, cemented to hold shape, wrapped again in blue yarn, and finally enclosed with white gilling twin. Covers of horse hide cut in S shapes form two-piece caps.
Peddler Seeks Mistress and Finds Only Absence
A peddler asks to see the mistress of the house but finds no residents present. The servant reports the master away, the cook at her mother's funeral, the hired man discharged, and even the dog briefly intrigued the visitor before he departs.
Borrowed Dollar Recalled in Odd Public Exchange
Brown and Smith argue about a dollar loan with confusion over repayment as they recall the detail in a crowded setting. The exchange includes a remembered loan from a week ago and various coins noted as the repayment. A lingering cough is cited with a product plug for Dr Bull's Cough Syrup priced at 25 cents.
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Smith
Sid Man
Dr. Bull
Miss Josie Ticknor’s Cat Party Ends With Cat Rush
Webster Missouri society note describes Miss Josie Ticknor hosting a cat party for schoolgirls. Each guest brought a cat, kittens under six months barred. A Scotch terrier chased the cats from parlor through the house and onto a roof, alarming Aunt Julia who tumbled and wrecked a barbed wire fence during the chaos.
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Webster
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Josie Ticknor
Colored Church
Julia
Soft Snaps from Punch on Puzzles and Paradoxes
The brief humor questions how analogies and stereotypes mislead reasoning. It questions whether assigning roles or traits to groups or professions truly follows from behavior or context, and it notes the photographer's use of imagery as a practical art rather than a covert statement.
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Rsea
General Assembly
Commissioners of
Shell Fisheries
Powagat
Charlestown Pond
Charlestown
Josuua M. Addeman
Sulphur Bitters Claim Clear Skin After Pimples
A man tells his sweetheart that after a year of trying remedies, two bottles of Sulphur Bitters cleared his face of pimples, calling it the best blood cleanser he has seen.
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John
Eva
Remarkable Escape As Girl Recovers From Measles
Mrs. Mary A. Dailey of Tunkhannock Pa suffered six years with asthma and bronchitis. After trying many doctors she found relief with Dr King's New Discovery last October. She rapidly improved, gained 50 pounds in a few months, and endorses the remedy. Free trial bottles offered at J H Young & Co.'s DrugStore, large bottles one dollar.
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Mary A. Dailey
Tunkhannock
Dr. King
J. H. Young & Co
Little Freckle Face and the Fire at the Fence
A neighborhood girl known as Little Freckle Face is shunned and misnamed. She forms a fragile bond with a schoolmaster's son, faces harassment, and accidentally sets her dress and the boy’s dress ablaze after a playful match. She is badly burned and suffers a grim end.
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Freckle
Willie
Freckle-Face
Smithfield
Ely's Cream Balm Offer Cures Catarrh Stories
A Philadelphia man reports relief from chronic catarrh after using Ely's Cream Balm, noting improved breathing and ear discharge resolution. The ad claims two bottles cured the wife of a well known U S General and two army officers in Arizona. Price 50 cents, description says pleasant to use.
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Ely
C. Jr
Corbin
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Arizona
Catarrh
Evangelist Plans Bible Chain to Telephones
An evangelist told a Buffalo Courier reporter of a scheme to attach a free Bible to every telephone in the country. He believes the plan will calm telephoners from the hello to hello period and reduce profanity by increasing Scriptural reading during wait times.
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Tur
Buffalo Courier
Onion aroma sparks pocket value debate
An onion emits a strong fragrance yet holds little monetary appeal for pocket use. The note questions practicality of carrying such produce for a penny, highlighting scent versus value in everyday items.
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