Smallest Electric Motor Worn as Scarfpin by Jeweler in Texas
A tiny electric motor claimed as the smallest in existence was made as a scarfpin by D. Gordin of McKinney Texas. Weighing 1 pennyweight 8 grains, it features gold front and commutator, gold screws, silk insulated windings, and a small chloride of silver battery for operation. The device runs at high speed with a audible hum. A separate quotation from the Manchester Guardian recalls a Galway widow who notes professional life offers pay even in losses, prompting a wry farmer remark about choosing a profession.
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D. Gordin
McKinney
Tex
New York Times
Manchester Guardian
County
Galway
St. Patrick
Heaven
Hell
A Rector and Racy Jests in Late 19th Century Gossip
A collage of jest and social观察 including Fogg and Fenderson shoe store punchlines, a Boston Transcript quip about a rector’s weather sermons, and a Cornhill note on parish warmth. It also cites a Indy Journal quip on women minstrels, remarks on women suffrage in fiction, and a western judge wedding tale about beeswax knot tying.
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Fogg
Fenderson
Brown
Boston Transcript
Kidney Tonic Promises Quick Cure for Kidney Ailments
An advertisement urges readers to take Utah Kidney Beans for kidney and bladder troubles. It cites testimonials from E B Samuels of Hickman County Kentucky who allegedly cured back and kidney pains. The piece also mentions Turners products including Little Liver Turners and Pills by Hauser & Parker in Columbus.
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Utah
Philadelphia
E. B. Samuels
Hickman County
Clinton
Kentucky
Sweeney to Preach First Sermon at Richmond Church
Elder ZT Sweeney of Columbus will deliver his first sermon as pastor of the Seventh Street Christian church in Richmond Virginia next Sunday with a salary of 3500 dollars a year. The notice notes Sweeney has not accepted the post per his father’s law. Mrs. W. B. Everroad hosted a Columbus card party with fifteen tables last evening at her Third Street home. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Lou Wallick and others. Mrs. Everroad plans another gathering tonight. McCarthy's Mishaps at Crump's theatre tonight promise a lineup of notable performers including Gertrude Fort Murphy Mack Lew Spencer and the Curlise Sisters.
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Sweeney
Columbus
Seventh Street Christian Church
McCarthy
Crump’s
Gertrude Fort
Murphy and Mack
Lew Spencer
Chas. Eastwood
Curlise Sisters
Stew Ferguson
Harry Moore
Camilla Main
Marie Rosstetter
Mt Liberty Pioneer John Bright Seriously Ill At Home
Mt Liberty residents report John Bright, an aged pioneer, is very ill at his home with stomach trouble. A large frame barn owned by Mr Yoder in Hamblen township was destroyed by fire yesterday with no insurance.
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John Bright
Mt. Liberty
Yoder
Hamblen Township
Do Clocks Get Tired and a Copper Horse Tale
A string of clipped anecdotes mentions a tired clock revived by a child, a Windsor copper horse statue misidentified as a ride, and Lord R. preaching at the French exhibition about eaux de vie while a queen hosts a visiting dignitary.
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Windsor
Oman
Cumlgrland Lodge
Lord R
Manchester Guardian
Meteors Misread as Rockets Off Goodwin Lightship
Residents at Rams gate cliffa near Kingland reported seeing two objects off the Goodwin lightship. The lifeboat went to assist but observers on shore later concluded the lights were falling meteors, not rockets from a distressed ship.
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Rams Gate Cliffa
Kingland
Goodwin
Great Dane and portable hospital telephone in old article
A Great Dane description praises the boarhound’s strength and temper while noting its warlike appearance and bold manner. The piece also highlights the portal hospital telephone as a useful device for sickrooms, enabling communication with the rest of the house and easing nurse and patient routines.
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St. Bernard
Portalle Hospital
Pearson’s Weekly
London gourmet earns over two thousand pounds a year
A celebrated London cook tours elite houses in his brougham tasting soups sauces and dishes for a fee of five guineas per dinner. He moves from patron to patron during the season earning a sizable income though attached to no single house.
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London
Philadelphia Ledger
Glass replaces gold in dentistry and bells
The Philadelphia Record notes glass as a dental material replacing gold for decayed teeth, praised for invisibility and modern strength. It mentions patented processes making it soft and malleable, and asserts glass bells with toughened, crack resistant bodies yield a perfect tone and deep green color.
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Philadelphia Record
Insurance and Real Estate Loans Ad Offering Rentals
An old classified ad promotes accident insurance and sickness benefits at low monthly cost. It offers real estate loans on good property and seeks rental houses for careful management. Office located at Corner Washington and Fifth Streets.
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Washington and
Fifth Streets
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Silverman
Amale
Pat
Midlands
Cornhill Magazine
Indianapolis Journal
Paul Leicester Ford
Peter Stirling
Sal
Hauser & Parker
Richmond
Greensburg Standard
Joshin
W. B. Everroad
Lou Wallick
Seymour
Kate Carroll
Hattiesweeney
James Layior
Jeffersonville
Mrs. Ever
Jeff
Journal
Billtops
New York Sun
Wis
Great Dane Doge
Mary
EE Mipag
Jackson
Michigan
Piers
Neal Ai Tye
Latah
Sion
W. W. Lambert
Attorney AT Law
Fohn
J.P. Cox
Geptor
Puties
GW. Cooper
A, Fd Cooper
Aames
Tetten Seuss
South Africa
London Spectator
Francis J. Ziegler
Harper’s Magazine
Coalis Kink
Pittsburg
Seine
Noblitt's Drug Store
Washington Street
Funkerguser
Ievidge
Plates & Speendiy
Wasblachen Street
Winans Tosoeery Mra
Vitali da
Kinney & Kinney
Estate and Loans
Men & Woma
Boaranza Agency
Svcamore St
Cincinnati
Chicago
Superisii. v
Fru
Wabash Ave
Chicau
Mechanic Sts
Munn & Co
Scientific American
Nuwadoa
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