Comparison of Worcester and Syracuse City Systems Delivers Costs
A Harper's excerpt contrasts Worcester Massachusetts and Syracuse New York, noting population parity in 1880 and differences in street mileage water works ownership parks drainage and policing. Worcester shows larger parks and lower street-cleaning costs, while Syracuse relies on private water works and fewer parks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester
Mase
Byracuse
N. Y
New England
Middle States
Byrneus
Syracuse
New York City
Massachusetts
United States
Boston
Union
Henry L. Nelson
Harper's
Fragmented rants and remedies spill across a 19th century page
A collage of polemical witticisms, unsafe medical pitches, and ad copy spans poetry, reflections on emotion, and patent medicine pitches. It includes lines about expressing emotion through action, references to Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy, Swift's Specific, and Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption and colds, plus an arnica salve ad and a sheriff character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jona
The Coming Material and Quick-Witted Jokes Collection
A jumble of satirical quips and humorous exchanges across varied sources. Topics range from wartime production delays to street punchlines and classroom banter. Notable lines feature gun makers complaining of missing materials and a cemetery statue joke.
Change in fortune amid a crowd of admirers
A humorous note from the Detroit Free Press recounts a banker once adored by young Indies now surrounded by male admirers. The jokey line suggests a shift in fortune and a playful remark about where fifty dollars went, with a cryptic hint about Green holding a stake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorfbarbier
Nana
Tae
Santen
Green
Detroit Pree Press
Sensational Cure All and Vintage Panacea Ads
Old newspaper notices tout a medical tonic and a social reform book promising vigor, curing colds, digestion, and mind power. An array of multilingual ads edges with dramatic claims, urging readers to buy potions and read a famous book for 6 cents in stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker
North Spruce
Naahville
Enn
Farmers' Oliver Chilled Plow Discount Offer
Seaver & Summers promotes the Oliver Chilled Plow at nine dollars, down from ten fifty, urging farmers to write for mail orders. The dealer touts acreage machinery from beat mowers to engines and threaders, claims top fire supplies in the South, and lists Pio B Sueraro of Knoxville Tennessee at 159 Gay Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver
Seaver & Summers
South
Pio B Sueraro
Knoxville
Tenn
Also Mentioned on This Page
Alexandria
Rascal
Sahib
Philadelphia ‘Times
Grandma
Charlie
New York Weekly
Mabel
Anes
Harry Romaine
Smith & Gray's Monthly
Harper's Bazar
Swift
Atlanta
King
Willhe
McFarland & Co
Beaver & Summers
Bucklen
Arnica
M. A. McFarland
Chicago Tribune
Tom Freddie
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Professor Digamma
Mr. Porter
Homer
Porter
Bunker
Miss Blanche
Detroit
Bree
Tommy
Leuteplitter
Olwrya
Philadelphia Times
Pat Rettigan
Lenox
J.D. Faucette & CO
Melaraud
Equator
Happy Hoosiers
Wri
Timmons
Tod
Clue Bitters
Jodi
Lewis
Mate Nyo
Tani
Gauiiane
Teepe Waite Merchant
Sani Fw
Saves “Lee
McKarland & Co
Gay St
New York
Seaver & Suan
Campbell, Cass & CO
Campbell & Ponder
Johnson City
A. P. Henderson &Co
Dralers
Newell's
Watauga Lumber CO
Johnson City, Tenn
Soal and Timber Lands
East Carnegie
C’s
Carnegie
Carnegie Addition
6Th
6Th Avenue
Wilder Addition
2D Avenue
T Jesse Beam
Amm Ville
Canandaigua
Wil
Tomors
Honite
Delica
Phelps
J. von Liebig
Snell &Co
Alert F
Anell & CO
City National Hank
Corner Reservoir
Gay Steer
Ofice Hotre
Bane Days
Permenty
Rourz
Conia
Nore
Lexa
Foytarn Vanier
Fate's
David B. Foute
Walaimone, BD
J. D. Faucetie & CO
Epps
Srayer & Brvarema
Mooenate Fee
Washington
C.a.snow& CO
Orr
Wash Moto
Pentnin
Terry M'F
Nashville
Tena
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