Meteors and ancient Troy referenced in scattered notes
Readable fragments discuss meteors and the July meteoric displays, astronomy notes on Novembers and August rings, plus excavations at Troy sites Besica Tepe and Laiek Tepe with pottery finds. The long account includes historic theories of Troy and planetary motion, and a Montreal balloon ascent with paddled propulsion and landing report.
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Institution of London
Kirkwood
Our State University
Jupiter
Earath
Mars
Solar
Uranus
Europe
Trovember
Vita
Rometary
Anguet
Mr. Jones
Commodore Perry
Japan
Langer Interfale
Indienepols Journal
Troy
Hellespont
Tomnba
Schuemann
Caracalla
Besica Tepe
Firs Trojan
Thia Timulus
Vivers
Setmander
Simats
Tian
Lusti
Alexandria
Treas
Nurielving
Strabo
Tvhia
Waderneath
Athens
Greece
Troi
Aggressive enterprise targets mourners trade in city
An urban business empire relies on solicitations sent to grieving families, exploiting death notices to push mourning dress, flowers, cemetery lots, and postfuneral portraits. The practice spawns a cascade of salesmen at funerals, with varying offers and rapid delivery.
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Inquirer
John’ Smith
John Smith
Biss Smith
Stony
Pricea
Falladelphia
Byam family scandal and a Western train seat row
A long clipping recounts Jennie Byam’s troubled life, her rise and fall, a courtroom morality tone, and a Webster City burial. It critiques social privilege, public seating ethics, and the fate of Byam’s family amid scandal, with a late flourish on faith and mortality.
Dr King’s New Discovery praised for throat and lung cures
An advertisement extols Dr King’s New Discovery as a safe cure for coughs colds bronchitis asthma hoarseness croup and lung ailments. It notes prices ten cents to one dollar and availability from W T Weller Cedar Rapids. Also mentions The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union securing a room over Green’s hardware for headquarters with weekly meetings.
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W. T. Weller
Dar Rapids
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Green's Hardware
Park Avenue
Washington Street
A Temperance Message and Gold Plate Warning
A fragmentary editorial urges temperance on New Year’s day, warning that a single glass can ruin lives and comparing the issue to a national moral crisis. It critiques liquor influence and promotes restraint, linking moral danger to social consequences. The text then shifts to a discussion of a new gold plated liquor case technology, claiming it would reduce costs and curb excess by using nickel and plated gold components.
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Paradise
Tames Ross
Great Britain
Dr. Holland
Sertaney’s
Temperance debate inspires teetotal pledge tale
In a temperance meeting a speaker voices 30 years of teetotalism and warns against tobacco and alcohol, recounting a father urging a smoker to quit to spare his child harm. The piece weaves in anecdotes of mothers, old bachelors, and calls for restraint, with ads and notices interlaced.
One More Glass and the Delusion of Moderation
Fragmented text reflects moralizing stance on drinking and temperance from a 19th century reading. It alludes to Alcohol, Manford's Magazine, and religious calls to restraint, intertwined with references to Byam family and local Fort Dodge figures, ending with exhortations to moral action and Bible study.
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Manford
Dr Schliemann Describes Troy Excavation Findings
Dr Schliemann reports from Troy with collaborators Professor Rudolf Virchow and Emile Burnouf. He recounts completing the excavation of Wit whole Dion and revealing its circuit wall. Debris from the suburb was removed.
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Tme
Rudolf Virchow
Berlin
Emile Burnouf
Paris
Athena
Trench School
Shave
Dion
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