Through Space and Sand to an Enchanted Valley
The narrator recounts surviving a cyclone and a desert march in the western wilds. He awakens in a lush mountain valley with a clear stream, unfamiliar birds, and a curving road and bridge. He resolves to descend the valley for food, noting an unusual parklike woodland and a paved road leading to an unknown destination. The tale ends with him following the road as the day grows hot, promising to continue.
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Virginia
Understanding edible mushrooms and distinguishing poisonous varieties
W C Sturgis of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station offers rules to tell true mushrooms from poisonous lookalikes. He notes spore color, gill arrangement, and the spore color test, advising avoidance of white-spored forms. He describes ring and volva features and details Agaricus campestris and Agaricus arvensis, including habitat and edibility.
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W. C. Sturgis
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Sturgis
Woman plans murder by hanging but finds stove instead
A French news summary recounts a woman who aimed to hang her intoxicated husband by rope through a ceiling hole. She fled the scene crying suicide, only to discover the bed had a portable stove replacing the intended corpse, as the husband had unwittingly thwarted the plot by waking and rolling away. The woman was arrested on attempted assassination charges.
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New York Weekly Telegraph
Acordingly
Alkavis touted as cure for uric acid and kidney disorders
An advertisement extols Alkavis from the Kava Kava shrub Piper Methysticum as a universal cure for diseases due to uric acid in the blood and kidney dysfunction. It claims hundreds of hospital cures, cites testimonials from ministers and doctors, offers free treatment by mail, and notes importers in New York.
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Gan River
South America
Alkavis
New York Weekly World
W. B. Moore
D. D
D. Cc
Thomas Smith
Cobden
Illinois
Aera
Wood
James Young
Kent
Ohio
Church
Fourth Avenue
Newark
Majestic
Hell
F. J. Cheney &Co
Props
Toledo
Hall
Miscellaneous notes from old clipping mix
A collection of curious facts and quotes including the lack of a cure for color blindness. Icebergs can last 204 years. Epizooty among Idaho horses. Tea harvested four times yearly. Narrow Chinese streets. A girl not needing brasenness to be a belle. Idaho Washington line surveyed. Emperor's rhinoceros skin walking stick. Crocodile turns in eighty seconds. Sumatra oil field discovery. Brownsville Pennsylvania tomato weighs 2 pounds 4.5 ounces. London saloon line distance. Library cost cap 6 million. Bishop Brook condemns secret religious sessions. Michigan lumbermen carry cedar knots. Fleetwood Pennsylvania quince weighs 28 ounces 16 inches circumference. Grain-O coffee substitute ad claims. First steel pen made in 1830.
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Maude
Idaho
Washington
Sumatra
Brownsville
Pennsylvania
London
Bishop Brook’s
Massachusetts
Michigan
Allen's Foot-Ease and Fairmount Park Note
Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease powder relieves painful feet and fits tight or new shoes. It cures sweating calluses and tired aching feet. Sold by druggists and shoe stores or by mail for 25 cents. Trial package free. Address Allen S Ohmsted Le Roy NY. The largest park in the United States is Fairmount Park Philadelphia at 2.4 acres.
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Allen
Allen S. Ohmsted
le Roy
N. Y
United States
Fairmount
Philadelphia
Nero Bac offer promises cure for tobacco desires
An advertisement touts Nero Bac as a cure for tobacco use claiming over 400000 users cured and urging purchase for 50 cents or one dollar. It asserts benefits of saving money and improving manhood and notes availability at all druggists with historical references to early photographic milestones.
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England
Free Kidney Cure Sample Promoted Amid Odd Notices
Promoters mail free samples of a kidney and rheumatic remedy tied to Kava Kava shrub grown in the East Indies. The note also mentions wool production, hair care with Hall's Hair Renewer, a claim about spiders for silk, and a humorous Japanese Parliament anecdote on attire etiquette.
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East Indies
Church Kidney Cure Co
Fourth Avenue
New York
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Lost Tribes
Land OF Nod
A. P. Kerr
Cain
Land of
Nod
Eden
Mt. Vernon
Ill
Indianapolis News
Indiana
Joseph Bronson
Bronson
Coast Range
Piso
John A. Miller
Au Sable
Big Four
Baptist Young People’s Union of America
Cincinnati
Central Union Depot
Louisville
Fleetwood
Java
Columbia
Hartford
THE
Pope Mfg. CO
Hartford, Conn
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