The Stamp Window Morning Waiters and a Twelve Cent Box
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a morning rush at a post office stamp window. A woman with a blue match-box delays thirteen men by arguing postage and weighing, then pays twelve cents and seals her box after a long ritual. The anecdote ends with the crowd dispersing as she leaves.
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Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup and Hair Remedies Ad Tonic
A miscellany of old advertisements tout Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup for cures and reliefs for colds, Parker’s Hair Balsam for restoring color, Washed-out complexions, burdock blood bitters for dyspepsia, and Thomas’ Eclectric Oil praised by users. Also promotes Rick & Co’s Ec-LEec-Trc PIL and Sulphur Bitters with testimonials and local pharmacy details.
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Old village church wedding on a craggy hill
The ceremony at a gray stone church features a lengthy rite with a mid day wedding. Dainty flower girls, a nun like decorum, and a pastor in a high pulpit preside. Rosemary sprig a lemon and silk handkerchief mark gifts for the minister and organist.
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Melancthon
Marriage Advice for Women from The Rural New Yorker
A lengthy editorial urges women to seek marriage as a path to development and duty. It argues happiness depends on mutual respect and faith, warns that trouble will come, and counsels wives to support husbands, make concessions, avoid public fault finding, and understand their duties as wives and partners.
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Electric Light in Warfare and Battlefield Illumination
The piece notes electric light will play a major role in future warfare including camps and naval battles. Movable electric-light wagons tested at Aldershot would illuminate battlefields at night to reveal wounded for search and ambulance teams. Experiments were successful and encouraged further testing.
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