Local Physicians List A L Yocom and W A Todd M D
A L Yocom MD Hysio gian and Surgeon Chariton Iowa advertises general practice with focus on eye ear nose and throat at Whitlock Co Drug Store rear and residence on Main Street. W A Todd MD formerly of Garden Grove is listed as physician and surgeon with office and residence near Gibbon's Drug Store in the Palmer property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom M. Throckmorton
Derby
A. L. Yocom
Chariton
Iowa
Whitlock & Co
Main St
W.a.todd
Ormerly
Garden Grove
Gibbon
L. Palmer Property
T. P. Stanton Stanton & Son, Physicians & Surgeons, Chariton
New Exchange Block
Curtis Milla
Orchid Collector Fights Anaconda Near Para Brazil
An orchid hunter recounts a storm and a near deadly encounter with a giant anaconda near Para. He describes lashing through the forest for orchids, the snake’s impact on his horse, a perilous hut confrontation, and a knife fight that left the serpent mortally wounded. the skin later sold for a profit as part of his orchid haul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amazon
Para
Santa Maria
Brazil
Mr. Bentley
England
Aoise
Old Country
The Courtesies of Life and Civil Manners
A New York Ledger excerpt extols civility as a Christian grace and vital trade virtue. It argues against ostentatious politeness and prideful independence, praising kind greeting, attentive service, respect for customers, and the Golden Rule as key to personal and business success.
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England
Continental
Europe
New York Ledger
Local Patent Medicine Claims Public Confidence in Remedies
The notice asserts years of selling Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption Bucklen’s Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters with strong public trust. It emphasizes broad household use and asserts reliability of the medicines offered by the seller.
Quest for Effie and the California Mine to Be Married
A man recalls asking Mr Worth to marry his daughter Effie, then toiling in California gold mines and funding Worth's bond to secure a future. After a staged robbery attempt by an enemy, he returns home in disguise to stop a coerced wedding, rescuing Effie and exposing the fraud in a new church ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Worth
Effie
California
Worth
San Francisco
Heron
Diamond crown in New York Mrs Seward Webb
Mrs. Seward Webb of New York owns a superb diamond crown. In Ireland a belt of hair is placed on a child to ward off harm. Police judges in New York earn eight thousand dollars a year, with fifteen judges totaling about one hundred twenty thousand. Oscar Wilde quips that anyone can write a three volume novel.
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Seward Webb
New York
Ireland
Oscar
Wilde
American Economist
American Protective Tariff League
Economist
The
Patriot
Heine's Supper Misadventure at Gottingen
The anecdote recalls Heinrich Heine as a student at Gottingen being hosted by Professor Hugo and wife. Heine dominates a four-sausage plate with gravy, leaving the others hungry, prompting awkward pauses and a sudden apology, and he is never invited again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heinrich Heine
Gottingen
Hugo
Heine
Traced: Hereditary Influence on Crime Patterns
A historical note explores the idea that criminals show physical abnormalities and may reflect hereditary factors. The text outlines attempts to classify such traits to study the nature of criminality and its origins.
Zulu Domicile Built With Wattle Daub Like Beehive
A Zulu woman builds a circular wattle and daub home fourteen feet in diameter. She uses long flexible branches, creepers, and watile grass to form the structure, finishes with mud daub, and creates a clay floor treated like polished marble. The hut contains spears, millet, tobacco, beer and grain jars, with smoke giving the roof a soot coating.
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Zululand
The Doorknob Dilemma in Everyday Life
An anecdote praises doorknobs over door handles for saving effort time and health. It imagines the countless doors in a house and the dirt scrubbed from repeated touching, noting social habits when entering and leaving through doors. It cites a Carlyle quote about clean hands and smooth passage through doors.
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Thomas Carlyle
Big Time in the Bird Family Housewarming at Bank Pole
The National Bank of Chester County hosts a bird housewarming as a marten box is installed atop a bank pole. Robins from Wawa, Humming from Oakbourne, Baltimore-Oriole, Catbird and Blackbird attend. sparrows are excluded. Mr American Eagle guards the door as formal invitations go out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Bank of
Chester County
Marten
Martens
Robin
Wawa
Humming Family
Oakbourne
American Eagle
West Chester
The Best Sort of Trunk
The speaker praises the old time horsehair covered trunk as unbeatable and durable. The cloth covered trunk is preferred after it, though many customers resist this view. English travelers often buy trunks here, with the remark that English buyers value quality differently.
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Chicago Tribune
Fruit Canning Season Opens With Big Crop Prospects
The fruit canning season opens amid expectations of a large crop. Members of the new canning combine consider prospects favorable as a larger quantity of fruit will be canned this year if prices offered by canners entice growers. By season end, eastern and western jobbers may gauge payments with some accuracy.
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Europe
California Prunes and Fruit Prospects in a Growing Market
The article argues California has a monopoly in canned apricots and prunes, noting export potential and price advantages. It stresses quality over quantity, compares California prunes with European varieties, and urges skilled labor and study to develop horticulture, citing market dynamics in New York and Chicago.
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California
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
King Mademba of Segon Keeps Telegraphist Rank
The article recounts Mademba, once controller of telegraphs in Senegal, becoming king of Segon under Colonel Archin ald’s installation. He insisted his telegraphist status remain on record and noted the risk of monarchy versus civil service. If dethroned, he could claim ex king status while continuing telegraph duties.
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Segon
Archinald
Ahmadou
Mademba
Senegal
Postes Et Telegraphes
M. Guy de Maupassant
Mademba I of
Galignani
British Postoffice Savings Bank Inauguration and Growth
The Postoffice Savings Bank opened in England and Wales on Sept 16 1861 with 801 offices and later expanded to Ireland and Scotland. By end of 1890 deposits reached £63 million across 4.5 million accounts, rising £4.44 million in 1890. Pennies could be saved via postage stamp slips, and annual interest stood at 2 pounds 10s per £212.
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Great Britain
Postoffice Savings Bank
England
Wales
Ireland
Scotland
New York Recorder
Measure of a river rank sparks geographers debate
The piece weighs whether river rank should follow length or average water volume. It notes Mississippi would top Missouri by length but near equal to rival tropical giants by flow. It cites Rio Negro and Toncantins near junction with Amazon as broader and deeper than Mississippi at New Orleans.
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Mississippi
Missouri
Amazon
Rio Negro
Toncantins
New Orleans
Philadelphia Times
Bucklen's Arnica Salve World’s Best for Skin Wounds
Bucklen's Arnica Salve promoted as the best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin ailments in a faded ad script. The product is touting universal healing for skin issues with its arnica-based formula.
Boston tennis champions Dr Wright and Sears described in brief
America's two champion lawn tennis players, Dr Wright and Dicky Sears, of Boston, are noted as men of small physique with Sears described as short, stocky and blonde while Wright is short, slender and dark. Kate Field announces the Gainesville Tex claim of the longest hair, over four feet, red gold in color.
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America
Dr. Wright
Dicky” Sears
Boston
Sears
Kate Field
Gainesville
Tex
Restorative Nervine touted to ease nervous disorders
Advertisers claim Dr Miles Restorative Nervine prevents headaches dizziness neuralgia and sleeplessness in families and individuals with no opiates. Druggists report vast sales and trials offer free bottle and a booklet on nervous diseases. James Whitcomb Riley abroad plans a poetry edition. General de Peyster pursues Mary Queen of Scots lore.
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Miles
Woodworth & Co
Fort Wayne
Ind
Snow and Co
Syracuse
N. Y
J.C. Wolf
Hillsdale
Mich
James Whitcomb Riley
London
General de Peyster
New York
Mary, Queen of Scots
Safe Treatment Guaranteed Relief for Lung Ailments
An advertisement promises Dr King s New Discovery for consumption and other chest and throat diseases with a money back guarantee. It claims relief in all cases and notes trial bottles free at D Q Storie Drugstore.
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Dr. King
D. Q. Storie
Lincoln biography coauthor Col Hay noted for leisure air
Col John Iay, joint author of a famed Lincoln biography, is described with a trim figure gray whiskers and a mustache and a refined glasses handling. He is said to have married a large fortune. A Boston letter recalls Phillips Brooks who replied that a life history would be the church rather than himself.
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John Iay
Col
Hay
Phillips Brooks
Boston
Spavin Liniment Promises Quick Horse Cure
English Spavin Liniment removes all hard soft or calloused lumps and blemishes from horses. It claims to treat blood spavins curbs splints sweeney ring bone stifles sprains and swollen throats. Sold by D Q Storie Chariton Iowa druggist. 1-14-ly.
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D. Q. Storie
Chariton
Iowa
Noted Victories and Travels of 19th Century Figures
Mrs Bettie Eaton sister of President Harrison recovers enough from a Cleves runaway crash to travel and join her brother at Cape May. Gov Russell of Massachusetts once famed for a 100 yard dash and Cambridge ball play is described amid ill health before Pierce's Pellets touted as a remedy.
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Bettie Eaton
Benjamin Harrison
Cleves
Cape May
Gov. Russell
Massachusetts
Cambridge
Noted Figures Prominence and Oddities Highlighted
A column quotes Bishop Brooks mocking an opposing reverend as a "dear moth eaten angel" while Senator Spooner of Wisconsin is praised for debate prowess and current wealth as a railroad attorney. It notes Mrs Richard Manning of South Carolina tied to multiple governors, warns on indigestion with Ayer’s Pills, recalls Justice Field’s missed San Francisco sand lot purchase, and mentions tobacco and alcohol discussions abroad plus a long-smoked man who maintains health despite heavy use.
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Brooks
Senator Spooner
Wisconsin
Congress
Richard Manning
South Carolina
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Kooks & Hollinger
Queens
Onera
West Side Square
Fardware
W. Blake & CO
Seeus
Court House
North Side
W. Larimer
Harrison Street
Union Block
de Syee
D Q
Devler
RK. Gibbon
F. H. Boynton
M. Dd
Cleeks
L.P. Warrington
M.D. Pea Wan
Odiee
Youom
Northwest
Corsq
James Caraiahan
J. W. Culley
M. D. Hysician
First National Bank
J. A. McKelveer
M. D. Clectic
Baptist Church
J. B. Stanton
Cc. T. Brant
Manning & Penick
West Side
Rauar
J. GC. Copeland
Postoffice
South Side Square
Dungan
C. W. Alexander
Ttorney
Chaims
Towa
Insurance
Erank R. Crocker
OF Chariton
Mallory
Franker
Drucker
Odd
Carters
Carter
A. H. Manton
John Worth
Leetle
Odds and
Scranton
Rhode Island
Justin Huntley McCarthy
King and Telegrapher
Hearst
Sarah Bernhart
Koch
Rainsford
Trinity
Bucklen
Hawk
Dr. Sage
Ayer
Justice Field
United States Supreme Court
Palace Hotel
Tyre
EM & C.C. Thorpe Chariton
Lucas
Counties
Lucas County
FO Thorpe & Son
Kansas
C. Martin
M.D
G. E. Whitlock & Co
Rebecca Wilkinson
Brownsvalley
D.Q. Storie
P. J. Beck & Son
Henry Matach
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