Pain in the Back Warns Kidney Trouble Ad Finding
An old remedy advertisement warns back pain signals kidney disease and urges urine check for sediment cloudiness or discoloration. It touts Dr David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy as a cure for kidney liver bladder and related ailments and notes sales through Bow 50 Cent size. Sample by mail offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. C. Wilcox
New Britain Ave
Mariford
Conn
David Kennedy
Bev
David Kennedy Corporation
Rondout
N.Y
A Medieval Love Story in a Royal Wood
In a green wood the Lady Agatha, daughter of a powerful kin, faces a forced betrothal to Count Alfred while loving Herbert. A clandestine meeting promises escape with Herbert, but Agatha betrays both by revealing she loves another. A duel and disguise resolve the lovers’ fates in a tale of rival loyalties and class.
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Agatha
Herbert
Alfred
The Elopement of Herbert and Agatha Delivers Reward
In a round tower chamber Agatha is found, Herbert returns with her to the king. The king grants pardon and approves the marriage, Herbert gains command of a company and later a regiment of arquebusiers. The tale is followed by notes on sound transmission through mediums and wood beam tests.
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Agatha
Round Tower
Count Albert
Herbert
Rachel Armstrong
Labouchere Bet On Bible Gag In Early Editorial Career
Henry Labouchere, in a lighthearted test of book stocks at London Truth, bet a friend £10 he lacked a Bible. A clerk fetched a Bible while Labouchere privately warned the boy to ask for the Joan of a Bible, then revealed the trick by whispering to the clerk to ensure pages were cut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Labouchere
London Truth
Labouchere
A Polite Denial and Curious Accounts From Vermont Sugar Time
A humorous tale on how some avoid saying no, a sketch of early Vermont maple sugar methods by Native and settler practices, and a clever episode with the French captive Montrond contrasting English conduct. The piece blends anecdotes of social tact, historical notes, and a courtly mugged humor about maritime captives.
Unquiet Spirit Haunts Cape Noir Legend of the Mysterious Light
Legends tell of a spectral light at Maria Point on Cape Noir that moved like fire and fell into the sea. A wartime French vessel hid a chest of gold here, twelve men swore oaths to guard it, and one was slain to guard the treasure. The light vanished after the treasure was allegedly found.
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Cape Noir
Maria
Canada
Remedies for Corns and Fitful News Clippings
A collection of old dispatches reports corn remedies and minor crime notes. Advice columns describe home treatments using linen bread onion and vinegar to remove corns without bleeding. Other items recount a detainee’s escape from Scotland Yard and a fraud order against Garden Thoughts Publishing.
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Washington, Dee
Post Office Department
Garden Thoughts Publishing Company
Mansfield
Pubishing
Ohio
Woman's Best Friend Zoa Phora Cure for Women's Ailments
A promotional notice touts Zoa Phora as a regulator and cure for pains and backache during a woman's life. It claims relief from displacements, leucorrhea, irregularities, pelvic organ weakness, flooding, and other female health issues. Testimonials from Mrs. Alice Brown and Mrs. Joseph Brownwell praise restored health after using four bottles, with free trial offers and a doctor’s adice.
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Alice Brown
St. Joe St
Elkhart
Ind
Joseph Brownwell
Wentworth Ave
Chicago
Zoa Phora
Zoa Phora Co
Kalamazoo
Mich
Mercury the troublesome planet to astronomers
The article describes Mercury as small and hard to observe due to its proximity to the sun and a highly eccentric orbit. It notes weighing challenges, mentions Le Verrier's method and his result that Mercury's weight is about one fifteenth that of the Earth, illustrated by a balance analogy with fifteen Mercury globes.
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Mercury
Earth
Jupiter
le Verner
le Verrier
Royals and craftsmen in history profile contrasts
The piece recalls King George IV and Louis XI as hobbyists in tailoring and metalwork, mentioning King George IV cutting breeches and Louis XI locksmithing. It contrasts hands on skills with royal distraction, then pivots to a proverb about first impressions and a digression on women’s timing.
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Kinga
George Lil
George
George IV
Stultzes
Meyers
Schweitzern
Dandrons
Geau Brum Mel
Louis XI
Bia Forge
France
Louis XIII
Mean Retort and Bertha Wedding Refusal Dialogue
A exchange shows Bertha apologizing for a marriage proposal and Will Cheerfully responding with light remarks. The dialogue shifts to a humorous aside equating food value with weight, noting that a pound of year is worth about half a pound of beef and that eggs plus lean beef share the same value per equal weight.
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Bertha
Will
Learning a Language With Patience and a Simple Plan
A speaker who has mastered several languages argues that learning 600 to 1,000 words suffices for intelligible conversation. He describes a Mexico trip plan to learn Spanish by committing to three new words daily, yielding about 90 words monthly and over a thousand in a year. The piece also notes slang usage of "pate" for head and traces its respectable origins.
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Mexico
New Orleans ‘Times Democrat
Quotation on illness and social duty in Emerson's thought
A quoted passage argues that even to be ill is burdensome, but being an invalid’s friend may be even more painful. It appeals to restraint and calm morning peace, contrasting private suffering with social expectations. The text notes the difficulty of maintaining serenity amid illness and duty.
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Emerson
Love and Business Promise in a Divorce Tale
An exchange quoted from the Philadelphia North American shows a wife asking a future pact that their brothers, fledgling lawyers, will handle their divorce. The segment contrasts romantic reckoning with the pursuit of fame and fortune as an elder offers blunt guidance to a hopeful youth.
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Philadelphia
Recalled Quotes and Ruby Lore From Historic Columns
A collage of quotations from Chicago Post Washington Star and Baltimore era pages. Witty remarks on work and politics contrast with a note on the ruby gemstone’s primitive form, hardness, color described as pigeon’s blood, and legendary light emission.
Cambridge lecture sparks wry mirrored debate by French guest
A Cambridge Ohio event featured Max O Reil delivering a lecture introduced with a tongue in cheek French mirror gag. The exchange aimed to reflect on national self image with wit as O Reil noted his role as a mirror to offer a picture of the nation. A separate Life Insurance origin anecdote traced the 1706 London outset of a mutual company to explain how modern life insurance evolved. A Dan Webster childhood vignette from New York described two brothers mismatched in fortunes after a shared coin.
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Leeterer
Max O'Reil Wee
O Rel
Reviel
London
Amicable Bouiery
Philadelphia Beeard
The German Wife Vacation and Gender Roles
A summary of two newspaper quips about Berlin wives taking separate holidays while husbands relax elsewhere. It contrasts male leisure with female domestic fatigue, noting husbands fish for sport while wives feel trapped at home, deemed unfair by the Chicago Record-Herald and London Express.
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Berlin
London Express
Beings and appetites in old prose and verse satire
A fragmentary column discusses a pedagogy professor quoting a student composition on nourishment and classification of beings by what they feed on. It references carnivorous lions, herbivorous cows, and claims man is omnipotent. It also weaves in notes on Cornish dishes and Leicester beans with Baconet for kings. It ends praising educated gentlemen and moral refinement.
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Cance
Eiffest
Maine
Boston
Park Row
Leicester
Cornwall
Devon
Notable Close Call on Cofferdam Road Carriage
An elderly woman and her pretty niece rode in a carriage that lurched wildly on a muddy stretch. The coachman steadied as the horses paused and the vehicle swayed perilously. The elder’s fear was masked by propriety while the younger fainted after a near tip.
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Persana
Pickpocket Detection Rules Shaped by Crowd Focus
Police guidance notes that in crowds a watcher should study faces rather than hands to spot pickpockets. Observant thieves turn their heads to avoid attention, and experts say pickpockets rarely wear gloves or work in cold weather.
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Jin Willeh
Cald
Wanda
New York Press
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Attica, N. Y
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J.C. Ayer CO
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