Night Train Sabotage Echoes of a Fatal Narrow Escape
A first person recollection recalls a near disaster as a silver spike is driven into a timber and a switch pushed to derail a locomotive. The narrator, Jim Lane, is praised for his role in signaling the danger and the narrow escape from a deadly crash near Panamar Creek and Cumberland.
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Panamar
Jim
Jimmy Lane
Jim Lane
Panamar Creek
Ager
Jimmy
The Bell family body snatching tale from Kilmore Ireland
In Kilmore Ireland a rich Mr Bell hides a chilling tale of a wife buried with a diamond ring who rises from the vault. A body snatcher’s midnight raid and a vicar’s departure frame a long forgotten mystery later tied to confessions in Lancaster Jail.
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Ireland
Bell
Liverpol
Mr. Bell
Julie
England
Belfast
Unknown evangelist’s urgent tale moves parishioners
A church prayer meeting scene unfolds as Walter Brown, a former flatboat hand, confronts the Revamping of faith. A masked evangelist recounts his journey from skepticism to belief sparked by a compassionate neighbor, urging that selfish human lives reveal the nature of God.
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Dugwine
Walter Brown
Christ
New Orleans
Brown
Mrs. Lugwine
Lugwine
John Habberton
Bijah Cultivates The Ants Bower In Mock Farm Tale
A playful vignette follows Bijah laboring at his garden labeled The Ants Bower. Signs warn cows and children away while Bijah catalogs odd crops like sage tea beans chrome and lemon coffee, jokingly noting a long road to harvest.
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Joy
Bijah
Hackman
Congress
An Arkansas Widow and the Husband She Never Forgot
A Missouri woman sues for divorce after a long tale of wartime love and loss. Her first husband, a Union lieutenant, was slain by guerrillas while returning home on leave. The widow later remarried, then learned the killer was a former comrade, prompting a tale of betrayal, memory, and sorrow.
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Joplin
Ted
Stone County
Missour
Union
Department
St. Louis
Arkansas
John
Divorced Yankee Lieutenant's Wife Fleeing With Son
In a Bazoo report Sedalia Missouri tells of a wife who after hearing her husband’s wartime deed a decade earlier, left him and filed for divorce. She departed with her son, choosing a new life over the man once loved for his kindness and truth. The tale is presented as a first person account from a credible source.
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Senaba
Bell
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Third House
State House
Boston Herald
Bazoo
Sedalia
Hippo
Africa
Brily
Dicky
Missy
Purity urged for cinchona tincture to aid alcoholism
R D Unger M D warns against adulterated Peruvian bark and old tinctures, urging use of pure tincture of cinchona as per official formula to treat drunkenness. He laments lack of stamps or fees in inquiries and notes his public, gratis disclosure to aid distressed families.
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Chicago Tribune
R. D’ Unger, M. D
Little Johnny's Menagerie Hippo Tales
A humorous roomful of animal tales about hippos and other creatures. The narrator muses on hippo origins and pronunciation, recalls encounters with hippos in shows, and reflects on a baby hippocampus like a small calf. The piece blends playful language, local color, and affectionate satire of animal curiosities.
Sunflowers and malarial myths debunked by Scientific American note
A reader’s note discusses sunflowers offered as malaria cures, declaring the belief exploded and useless beyond oil seed value. It warns of soil depletion from sunflowers and mentions eucalyptus lore and cinchona derivatives as real remedies, plus a Preault anecdote and a German priests marrying trend.
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Scientific American
Household Recipes and Garden Tips From The Fruit Recorder
A column offers dessert and savory recipes including Lemon Pie and Cream Pies with notes on frosting and jelly layers. It also provides farm advice on feeding hogs with mangel wurzels and soot as fertilizer, plus techniques for onions and geraniums care and propagation.
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Acre
J. W. Sargent
Fruit Recorder
Scratches in Horses Treatment Guidance
The Turf Field and Farm advises a two stage remedy for horse scratches. First purge the animal and wash the affected skin with warm water and soap, then apply a lead acetate olive oil mix twice daily for a week and use veterinary cosmaline thereafter. After purging, administer arsenous acid solution daily, gradually increasing doses for several weeks to months. keep the animal at a jog for the initial 30 days.
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Castile
Proper milking practices for calm cows and consistent milk yield
The article advises milking at regular hours with the same milker for each cow, training helpers to handle cows gently, and avoiding haste. It emphasizes identifying difficult cows, ensuring complete milking with careful hand pressure, preventing milk loss, and maintaining calm handling to prevent obstinacy or distress. It also notes short nails and addressing painful teats from inflammation.
Free Catarrh Cure Prescription Offered
A purported infallible cure for catarrh is offered free to all sufferers. Send address with a stamp to Rev. T. J. Mead in Syracuse New York for the remedy.
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Syracuse, N. Y
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