Niagara Raising Mirrors Perry Victory At Lake Erie Centenary
The Niagara warship from the 1813 Lake Erie battle is to be raised and sail this summer for a Great Lakes tour. Perry's flagship Lawrence and the Niagara, both twenty gun brigs, sealed Britain's defeat as crews built nine vessels for the victory. The Perry centennial memorial plan calls for a 320 foot Doric column on Bass Island with a museum, plaza and crypt honoring fallen sailors.
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Niagara
Oliver Hazard Perry
Lake Erie
Perry
United States
Ehie Harbor
Great Lakes
W. N. Morrison
Wolverine
Interstate Board of the Centennial Celebraton
Commodore Perry
Watch Hill
R. 1
Chauncey
Pennsylvania
Lawrence
Alexander
Erie
Noah Brown
Dobbins
Philadelphia
Barclay
Nelson
Detroit
Sa.ors
Kentucky
Britain
Secretary of the Navy
William H. Harrison
Congress
Boston
Baltimore
Mediterranean
Java
John Adams
West Indies
Orinoco
Put-in-Bay
Bass Island
New York
Ohio
Wisconsin
Michigan
Illinois
Rhode Island
Minnesota
National Commissioners of Fine Arts
J. H. Freedlander
A. D. Seymour, Jr
Doris
Canada
National Commission of Fine Artsm
Perry Memorial
Daniel H. Burnham
Daniel C. French
Thomas Hastings
Frederick Law Olmsted
Charles Moore
Cass Gilbert
Francis D. Miller
George H. Worthington
Nelson A. Miles
Col
Henry Watterson
Interstate Board
Little Surprises in Everyday Exchanges
Dialogue snippets reveal simple desires and small negotiations. A boy asks about church on Sundays, a suitor hesitates over marriage, a patient doubts a bill, a teacher compliments a pupil, and a clerk declines a druggist’s offer. These vignettes capture ordinary moments with gentle humor.
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Harry
Bobby
Rainbow party for children sparks local home plan
Invitations on blue paper invite children to a rainbow themed gathering with cheesecloth decorations and a pot of gold prize marked with the number seven. Mothers rotate hosting, turning Wednesdays into shared entertainment with simple refreshments and a kinderga rten like afternoon for kids while giving mothers time for social duties. A 104 year old towel from 1809 stays preserved in Brickerville with embroidered motifs.
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Ada Walker
Brickerville
Zartman
Burial ground of long ago near Petticoat Lane in Bunhill Fields
London notes Bunhill Fields burial ground once unused for over a century now hosting Whitechapel mothers with sick babies in a park like setting. It recalls Defoe Bunyan Watts and Blake, quirky epitaphs, and a move to Chelsea with Cheyne Walk and historic houses of Rossetti Eliot DOrsay Turner More Crane Hunt Parr.
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London
Petticoat Lane
Bunhill Fields
Whitechapel
Daniel Defoe
John Bunyan
Isaac
Watts
William Blake
Dame Mare Page
Chelsea
Cheyne
Thames
Battersea
Whistler
Rosetti
Cheyne Row
George Eliot
Count D'Orsay
Sir Thomas More
William Turner
Walter Crane
Leigh Hunt
Katharine Parr
Bad Teeth as Crime Prevention in Boston Jail
In Charles street jail Sheriff Quinn experiments with dental treatment for prisoners. A dentist's chair is installed and a skilled practitioner treats defective teeth, aiming to reduce crime by addressing malnutrition and its link to morbid mental thought. The sheriff claims good dental care could prevent hundreds of inmates from reoffending after release.
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Boston
Charles Street
Quinn
Devil’s Graveyard Blasted for Public Improvements
In Geneva Switzerland the Devil's Graveyard cemetery on a rocky hill above Sion Valais is being blasted away for public improvements. From the tenth century to the early seventeenth those accused of witchcraft were tortured executed and buried there. Excavations uncover bones estimated in the hundreds.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Sion
Canton
Valais
Doughnuts by Parcel Post Reach New Britain Family
William C. Merkle fond of old fashioned doughnuts from his wife who cannot duplicate them. The Merkle household receives a dozen homemade doughnuts every other day from Mrs. Merkle, Sr., thirty five miles away, forwarded by parcel post.
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Parcel Post
New Britain
Conn
William C. Merkle
Church Nursery Aims to Welcome Mothers and Babies
The First United Presbyterian church in Pittsburgh opened a basement nursery staffed by nurses on Sundays. Mothers can attend sermons while babies receive care, inviting more women to attend church each week.
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Pittsburgh
First United Presbyterian Church
Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription Promotes Women’s Health
A vintage ad promotes Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a tonic for the womanly system. It claims the liquid remedy strengthens the liver and bowels and relieves menstrual anguish, asserting decades of use and testimonials from women who found relief.
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Dr. Pierce
R.V. Pierce
M. D
Acquiring Self Control Through Difficult Tasks
The best step to gain self control and confidence is to face disagreeable tasks with courage. Do not waver after deciding a course of action. In daily work the hardest test is resisting tactful yielding to people who are not appealing and giving a pleasant answer when inclined to be curt.
Breakout remedies and wanderjahr notes in brief
A Virginia reader extols Cuticura Soap and Ointment for frost bite itching scalp dandruff and skin eruptions noting relief after prior failures. The German princes continue the wanderjahr tradition traveling on foot with minimal staff as they tour Germany during summer holidays.
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Beliton, Ga
J. S. Echols
Cuticura
Dept. L. Boston
Wanderjahr
Prince of Wales
Hohenzollerns
Germany
von Falkenheyn
Electricity and Plant Life Theory on Pointed Leaves
The article discusses a theory that pointed leaves attract atmospheric electricity which aids plant growth. R E Dimick of Almena Wisconsin reports experiments where well cultivated vegetables with pointed wires among them grew less than normal, the wires acting like lightning rods to draw off electricity Dimick attributes to plant life.
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R. E. Dimick
Almena
Wis
Oyster compared to watch by Bacon Huxley remark
The quip notes an oyster being as intricate as a watch, then adds an exchange about both failing or running down quickly, attributed to witty exchanges between Bacon and Huxley and a mock response from Egbert Well.
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Bacon
Huxley
Egbert
Best friend or foe Postum saves woman from coffee
A Wisconsin woman credits Postum with ending four years of heart palpitations and nervousness caused by coffee. She reports weight gain, restored strength, and no more heart trouble after switching to Postum, praising Instant Postum and inviting others to try it.
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Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Folk Remedy for Felon Cure Mentioned in Historic Text
The passage advises a home remedy to cure a felon using common salt dried in an oven and mixed with equal parts of turpentine. The mixture is applied in a cloth and wrapped around the affected finger or toe, with reapplication as it dries. It claims twenty four hours of treatment will kill the felon.
No. Six-Sixty-Six Prescription for Malaria Fever
An advertised home remedy states this preparation is tailored for malaria and chills and fever. It claims five or six doses will break a case and, taken as a tonic, will prevent fever recurrence. Priced at 25 cents.
Astronomer Publishes Data Linking Sun Spots and Earth Wobble
German scientist releases tables suggesting sun spot cycles relate to Earth's axial wobble possibly via changes in solar magnetism. The item frames the finding as a clarification of a long-debated relation within celestial mechanics.
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Petticott Lane and
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Devil’s Graveyard
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Hotel Cumberland
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54Th Street
50Th St
53Rd St
Grand 7Th Ave
Penn
H. P. Stimson
Hotel Imperial
Bee Dee
J. L. Cole
Allen
Daisy Fly Killer
Harold Somers
DeKald Ave
Brookis
Atlanta
Atlanta Directory
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Glenn Photo Stock Co
BESFE
Eaiorey
Farquher
Reeves Gaso
Woodruff Machinery Mfg. Co
Winder, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
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