Leap-Year and the Passages of February Through Time
The article traces the calendar’s evolution from Romulus and Numa to Julius Caesar and Augustus, explaining February’s shifting days and why Leap-Year exists. It notes intercalary months, calendar abuses by the Pontiffs, and Caesar’s reforms that settled the year’s length while months grew irregular, ending with the well known rhyme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Romulus
Numa Pompilius
Rome
Janus
Montana
India
Julius Caesar
Julius Cesar
Cesar
Caesar
Dsxsay
Quintillis
Augustus Cesar
Julius
France
China
Augustus
Brooklyn Eagle
Corns and Chilblains Talk by Buckboard Scroggs at Detroit Club
The Free Press reports Buckboard Scroggs spoke to the Detroit Limekiln Club on corns and related ailments. He quips about corn origins, chilblains, and remedies, ending with a pledge to demonstrate treatments after the meeting. The speech mixes humorous dialect with medical notions and concludes with a courteous thank you.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckboard Scroggs
Detroit Limekiln Club
The
Free Press
Pertickler
Hull
Kentry
Cicero
Gineral Jackson
Beethoven Life Milestones and Output
Beethoven became deaf in 1801 and blind in 1823 before his death in 1827. He composed one hundred thirty seven works during his career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beethoven
Rural New Yorker advises diphtheria treatment for horses
The Rural New Yorker urges chlorate of potash in horse diphtheria with two drachms in solution as a dose. It warns to handle seed potatoes carefully to avoid eyes injury and notes bruised skins can reduce potato vitality and yield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yorker
Boston Globe
N. Y. Post
Farmers’ Magazine
Boston Post
The Servant Girl and the Housekeeping Dilemma
A long Nation article examines why efficient trustworthy kitchen help is scarce. It traces shifts from rural New England maids to factory work, notes class and gender pressures, and argues mistresses often contribute to the problem through rigid rules and disrespect, urging mutual respect to improve service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Lowell
Imene
Detroit Post and Tribune
Churning and Curing: Dairy Tips From The American Dairyman
In winter dairy practice scalding the cream speeds rise and improves color and flavor, while proper cheese curing rooms with ventilation raise quality. Proper cow traits, classifying herd quality, and precise 65 degree cream temperature aid churning. A notable case reports James Crummidy’s execution after a self-inflicted neck wound prior to scaffold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Live Stock Journal
H. Reynolds
Livermore Falls
England
American Dairyman
Winter Dairying in Ohio and Market Effects
Ohio moves toward winter dairying to stabilize profits by smoothing production and avoiding overstocking. The rise of year round dairying includes more than fifty all the year factories, large cheese plants, and widespread use of ten gallon milk cans at rail stations. Railways are credited for cheaper milk Freights with extra baggage checks lower transport costs, enabling winter milk shipments from distant areas. The cor. Country Gentleman notes Utah legislature members are all Mormon per Chicago Herald.
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Ohio
Ohio Man Seeks Friendly Argument With Colonel Ingersoll
A letter from an Ohio man spanning ninety pages of foolscap was sent to Colonel Ingersoll in hopes of a friendly argument, the New York Sun reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ingersoll
Ohio
N. Y
Samuel Sree
Anakesis
New York
Quaker Man Healed By St Jacobs Oil After Rheumatism
The Sandy Springs Md resident Mr R T Bentley, a Quaker, suffered rheumatism in his right hand. After continued use of St Jacobs Oil he was completely cured in a short time. The item cites a Chicago Herald quip about a man who lost his shoes as his sole support.
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R. T. Bentley
Sandy Springs
Bentley
Chicago Herald
Kidney Health and Historic Courtroom Glimpse
The excerpt discusses kidneys as natural purifiers aiding liquid balance and impurity removal, endorsing Kidney Wort as a tonic. It also recounts a healer’s notice about Swift's Specific curing a shoulder cancer ulcer after five bottles, with patient Rev. Jesse Camprellyt praising recovery. An aside mentions a Miss Alliance debating society and Ely's Dream Balm claims for catarrh and hay fever.
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Swift
Jesse H. CampreLyt
Columbus
Ely
W. E. Buckman
W. E. Hamman
Prominent Butter Makers and Color Claim
The piece extols Wells, Richardson & Co. of Burlington Vermont for their Improved Butter Color as the best, citing endorsements from A. W. Cheever E. D. Mason and Francis A. Hoffman. It blends this praise with assorted items on decorative art dicey quotes about Rome violinists and a note on Brown's Bronchial Troches.
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Wells, Richardson & Co
Burlington
A. W. Cheever
Massachusetts
E. D. Mason
Vermont
Francis A. Hoffman
Wisconsin
Burlington, Vt
Walnut Leaf Hair Restorer Promises Safe Hair Growth
A fruitless search ends with Walnut Leaf Hair Restorer marketed as a vegetable remedy that restores natural hair color and growth without harming health unlike other preparations. Sold through Benton Myers & Co. and Cleveland agents. guaranteed efficacy claimed. The clipping ends with a Buston Transcript brief about a girl marrying a tall man for admiration.
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Benton, Myers & Co
Cleveland
Ohio
N. Crmatrenton
New York
Advertisements tout cough syrups and remedies from era
Merrillan Wisconsin salesman touts Warner's White Wine Tar Syrup as the best cough medicine with claims of asthma relief. Additional ads promote Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar for lung and throat diseases and Pike's toothache drops with a one minute cure. Also a humorous note about twins.
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J. W. Hamilton
Merrillan, Wis
Warner
Hale
Pike
Universal Praise for Tar Syrup and Samaritan Nervine Claims
J A Rogers of Kenton says Warner's White Wine Tar Syrup is universally approved by his customers with years of steady sales. The note adds a testimonial from T J Osborn of Richmound Virginia claiming Samaritan Nervine cured him of St Vitus Dance.
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J. A. Rogers
M. D
Kenton, C
Mnust
Warner
St. Vitus Bance
T. J. Osborn
Richmound
St. Vitus
J. O. McLemoin
Alexander City
Ala
D. F. Laughlin
Clyde
Kansas
J. A. Edie
Beaver
Spicy Teething Cordial and Remedies Featured
A catalog of era remedies notes Brown's Teething Cordial as spicy pleasant and powerful for children. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is portable for travel. Dr Isaac Thompson's Eye Water offers sore eye relief. aimed at general druggist sales at 25 cents.
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Brown
Isaac Thompson
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Defiance County Express
Prank C. Culley
Josephine Pollard
N. Y. Ledger
James Crummidy
Fastman
Utah
Nature
Kidney- Wort
Lowell Courier
Miss Alliance
Young Ladies
Chicago Tribune
Fitz Joux
John’s
Detroit Post
N. Y. Mail
Burlington Free Press
Buston Transcript
Chicago Times
Ohio Dairy
Cincinnati
Charles A. Vogeler Co
A. Vogeler
South-West
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Old Mexico
C. B. Schmidt
A. T
Topeka
W. T. Fitzgerald
F Street
Washington,d.c
Ad. Greenwell & Son
J. G. Faytland
Jay Bronson
Detroit
Micu
Oleman Business College
Newark
N. J
Kingston
H. S. Benedict
Express
Troy
John Elting
Hudson
Davidee
N. X
Acents
Mam
Freris M’r'g Co
State St
Chicago
P. O
T. A. Slocum
Pearl St
C.h.crimm & CO
Akeon
Oig
Johnson
Johnson & CO
Boston
Mass
F. A. Toomer
Perry
Swift Specific CO
Drawer
Atlanta, Ga
West 23d St
Bet
Catarre
Creay Cain Einen
USA
Price É Druggists
Ely Brothers
Owego
N.Y
Richmond Med. CO
ST. Joseph
Lord, Stoutenburg &Co
Chicago, IL
SSS
CuicaGco Scale Co
Pisa
E. T. Hazeltine
Warren, Pa
Kansas Farms
M. M. Brown
Kansas City
Eureka Silk
Cominy
Elm Street
United States
Yarmouthport
Agenta
J. T. Powell &Co
Washington St
Rock Island & Pacific
Council Bluffs
Leavenworth
Atchison
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Union
Prince
Atlantic
Pacifc
Horton
Pullman
Missour
River Points
Seneca
Kanka
Canada
Folco
Great Rock Island
R. R. Cable
E. ST. John
M’g'r
Agr
Ghichaes
Li Ratim
Neertyr Actom WE
HOF Plaster Sion
Hop Plaster Company, Propriectors
Hawley
Middlesex
Middlesex Company
Imetka
Wendell, Fay & CO
Worth St
Chestnut St
Philadelphia
Aultman & Taylor Co
Mansciekh
Ciesiar
Essex Street
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