Nebraskan Seeks Baths in Mississippi River Mud
A Nebraska invalid visits a barber shop on Pine Street for a bath and, after praising the supposed benefits of the Mississippi River water, returns hourly for more baths. The barber suspects the man misreads the sign and may be receiving fake electric treatments, yet keeps silent to retain the customer. The piece ends noting the man from Nebraska likely continues his river mud baths.
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Pine Street
Nebraska
St. Louis
Ash Relocated From Garden to Fountain at London Ball
At a London ball, a weeping ash valued at $50,000 was moved into a fountain area. Bowers of real grape vines were arranged along the corridors inside the house, creating a lush indoor garden feature for the event.
Boy's brutal game ends with toe severed in Rochester
A young Rochester boy proposed a game called butcher and carried it out by severing a classmate's toe. Police and medical staff responded as the injured child received treatment at a local hospital. The incident prompted questions about supervision and child safety in the neighborhood.
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Holme Wood
Hugh Armstrong
Julia
Juno
Nererless
Clarence Armstrong
Hugh
Clarence
Truy
Viene Yineh
Julian
An Armstrong
Debby Scambler
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Hecate
Debby Ambler
Julian Armstrong
Debby
England
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Men with small brains who think fast win in business
Those with quick thinking and active minds often achieve notable business success. The remark highlights wit and rapid decision making as advantageous traits in commerce.
Domestic Recipes and Household Tips for Food and Care
A collection of kitchen instructions and home remedies describing how to prepare onion pickles corn and tomato stews with butter, and various puddings including Windsor and Flax Seed Tea. It also covers garden soil health with ash benefits, a corn pudding bake, and a smoke of hog cholera cures with a complex tonic formula.
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Chemical Gazette
Ohio
Jamaica
Weeds and Deserts as Moral Metaphor in Life
The piece extols early, precise weed eradication using dry weather and correct tools to avoid regrowth, naming weeds like sorrel and crabgrass and urging thorough root exposure. It then shifts to a desert metaphor: vast arid stretches of history and life, with hidden subterranean springs symbolizing faith’s unseen supports guided by God’s providence and the pillar of cloud.
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Cor. Examiner and Chronicle
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Africa
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Arabia
Beond
Persian Gulf
Persia
Turkestan
Mongolia
Pacific
Isaiah
Cloud
F. G. Clark
Chicago
To Powder or Not to Powder in Girlhood
An editorial urges women to avoid facial powders and cosmetics, praising natural skin. It cautions mothers against letting young daughters use powder, condemns dressing-room rituals, and advocates fresh air, exercise, and clean water. It warns against bismuth powders due to potential skin blemishes and later health effects.
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New Fort
The Old, Old Story of Heaven in Song and Faith
A devotional verse by E. Beck praising heavenly radiance and eternal rest. The text recalls childhood, faith in Christ, and keeping the oil burning as earthly toil yields to a celestial day of rest.
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E. Beck
Sabbath Indisposition and Neighbors Mercy
A historical note on Sabbath sickness as common each week with people delaying medicine and work until Sunday. Neighbors give more attention on the Sabbath, but true benevolence would extend care throughout the week. The piece urges rest for the sick and prudent kindness, urging judgment to avoid overdoing mercy.
Pranks and a Tutor Tale From a Provincial College
A St Louis Chronicle recounts two campus anecdotes. One features students cooking a turkey in a dorm, outwitting a professor with a roasted reward and a card of thanks from the dorm below. The second tells of a tutor’s misrule and a prank that ends with a comic misidentification.
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Omnes
Apollo
Jones
Schemerhorn
Smith
St. Louis Chronicle
Tonic and remedies for poultry and milk association report
The text outlines tonic options for poultry including iron tincture, cayenne pepper, asafoetida garlic and onions for the lungs, and charcoal as a digestive purifier with cautions on sulfur use. It also notes a chicken powder mix and lime-water preparation, plus a Syracuse Milk Association handling 3,808,000 quarts annually from 1,600 cows with its own agents and distribution team.
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American Poultryard
Syracuse
N. Y
Plenty of Money and a Cured Liver in One Letter
Mr H Lulay of Suffield Ohio writes that after fifteen years of liver complaint his wife found relief with the Hamburg Drops and has not needed a physician since. The note contrasts wealth with health and cites safety of street travel in London, claiming more deaths there than on Britain’s railways.
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Liebig Bitters Promised Nourishment Over Drugs, 19th Century Claim
Baron Liebig touted a patent Bitters formula promising nourishment and strength while minimizing the weakening effects of drugs. The preparation, developed by Matt Bitters, reflects 19th century tonics marketed for health and vitality amid medical skepticism of pharmaceuticals.
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Baron Liebig
Matt Bitrs
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