Word Made by Blocks Reflects Life’s Alphabet
A mother recalls her four son Willy arranging alphabet blocks on the nursery floor and forming a word by chance. She notes the parallel to adults toiling through life, learning, failing, and hoping love guides toward a final perfect word. The poem ends with a hopeful vision of a final meaning revealed.
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Willy
Mamma
Ana
W. F. Roe
Chas, E. Stephens
Louisville
New York
Warner
Living Guns and Vegetable Bombs From Insect Demonstrations
A naturalist hosts a provocative demonstration of explosive insects and plant seeds, showing a Bombardier Beetle that ejects volatile fluid, a beetle that stuns and wounds with spray, and seeds that can explode in water. The account describes reactions of a monkey, dog, cat, mouse, and human observers, plus a dragonfly larva water jet and archer fish behaviors observed aboard a voyage.
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Wienes
Lumen
China
Japan
South America
Burchard
Hiladelphia Times
Unique Sights and People in Arabia Described
A Cincinnati Inquirer correspondent reports on Arab court scenes with dancing forms and fast moving dances. The narrative recounts a historic marabout who, banished to the Sahara with disciples, survived by eating scorpions and prickly pear leaves before earning pardon and vizier title.
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Pashalik
Arabia
Pasa
Sahara
Ali Ben
Al-saouas
Cor
Cincinnati Inquirer
The Centipede's Bite and Wild Survival Tales
AArkansas specimen centipede with venomous sting stirs store visitors. Two featured tales recount a soldier who removed flesh after a bite and emigrants who killed a centipede and faced a fatal mule’s swelling from the venom. The piece, tied to a kidney disease alert, underscores medical concerns.
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Lucien Alexander
Arkansas
Alexander
Ozark Mountains
New Mexico
Ln Louisrn & Courier-Journer
Walking Gaits for Horses and Classic Violin Making
A columnist argues for training horses to walk rather than trot, citing safety and durability, while contrasting past endurance with present speed. The piece notes Mittenwald, Bavaria as a two century violin hub with dense drying ropes. A traveler’s ten cent reward story recalls a man returning a lost pocketbook with $300 in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Stranklin D. Curtis
Nick
Homestead
N.Y
Mittenwald
Bavaria
S R .R Ashville
N. C
The Man Who Sized Up the Rooms and the Landlady
A Detroit Free Press vignette features a prospective tenant who sizes up rooms and a landlady who sizes up him. He asks about top floors, trunk space, and fixtures while she quietly discerns he seeks a cheap, modest place, concluding with a sharp self remark on missing drawers.
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Detroit Free Press
Pianoforte car and in-train entertainments envisioned
A railway car under construction aims to deaden wheel noise and suggests American trains may host on-board concerts or dramatic shows between Chicago and San Francisco. Currey notes Paris elite Journal head rose from worker to wealth, while Pelit Journal reportedly circulates around 800 000 copies daily.
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Lenzth
West India Islands
Chicago
San Francisco
Paris Elit Journal
Pelit Journal
Nostrum Remedies and Notable News Bits
Aromatic ads tout Dr Sage Catarrh Remedy as pleasant and effective with thousands cured. An English circus clown aged eighty proves light diet keeps vitality. An ad offers remedies for loss of sexual power from the World's Dispensary Medical Association. The Norristown Herald notes Lord Wolseley granting the Mudir of Dongola the order of St Michael and St George.
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Boston Bulletin
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
N.Y
Lord Wolseley
Dongola
Norristown Herald
Driven from Sea to Sea by Irv book offer reaches Chicago
Agents urged to send to W T Raycroft Co Chicago to secure territory for the sale of a book hailed as fascinating since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Critics General Butler and Geo W Julian praise the work and its easy path to authorial note if the name carries weight.
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W.T. Raycroft & Co
Wabash Ave
Chicago
Ren. I. Butler
Geo. W. Julian
Irv
Adverts Praise Medicines and Remedies in Historic Notices
A period advertisement montage extols patent cures and tonics for lung disease liver disorders and general ailments. It touts Dr Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery and bron chial troches as life saving while citing testimonials. Other products claim quick toothache relief and foot care with antiseptics and renovatives.
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Kidny
Liv
Dr. Pierce
Magnolia Balm Promises Freshening Beauty
A Clear Skin is only part of beauty and Magnolia Balm is promoted as refreshing and beautifying for women, suggesting broad appeal beyond flawless complexion.
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Beckman St
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Att’ Va
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Janesyville
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Westport
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Ellaville
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