Beets and plagues and weathered cures of the era
A collection notes global facts and health claims: Germans housed, Berliners bike usage, textile factories employing many young workers, snakebite mortality in India, beets rising as a sugar source from 4.35 to 67.71 percent by 1900, bats linked to plague transmission by an Italian expert. A cough remedy boasts rapid relief and a testimonial from Muncie Indiana praising One Minute Cough Cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
A. Berliner
Gertrude E. Fenner
Muncie
Ind
Central Pharmacy
Rain Crow and Nesting Habits of North American Cuckoo
James Speed recounts rain crow behavior and nesting in catalpa groves. Observations cover caterpillar hunting, feeding of nestlings, egg counts from Coues and Davie, and the bird’s stealth and parental care. Describes plumage, size about twelve inches, olive gray upperparts, white underparts, and yellow breast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rain Crow
Catalpa
Coues
Davie
Birds as Candles on Danish North Sea Islands
On Danish North Sea islands residents light their homes with stormy petrels. They burn the birds’ oil and even wick their bodies. Petrels can spray oily fluid from their nostrils when attacked, forcing fowlers to stay alert to avoid blindness and a fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Sea
Denmark
Mother Carey
Watching Bird Flight by Studying Wing Styles
The text explains that each bird uses a distinct flight style, allowing observers to identify species from a distance. It notes that sparrow varieties in the United States are numerous and often fly similarly, making individual identification harder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Though my scarred and veteran legions bear their eagles high
Poem fragment depicts a decimated Roman veteran facing death at Rome. Octavia grieves in her widowed home as the speaker invokes gods and augurs. Aimed at royal ascent, the speaker vows enduring legacy beyond bloodshed and disgrace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adium
Mrs Jones recounts bargain at ninety nine cent bazaar
Mrs Jones says she spent nearly nothing while downtown as a ninety nine cent bazaar ate the dollar she paid and left change. Mr Jones asks how that happened and she explains the bargain ate the dollar in change from the clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Jones
Mr. Jones
Record of San Francisco Bright's Disease Deal
A San Francisco transaction dated August 30, 1901 records a $112,500 exchange of coin and stock for a proprietary treatment claimed to cure Bright's Disease and Diabetes. An investigative committee began November 15, 1900, testing over three dozen cases with eighty seven percent showing recovery or progress, thirteen percent failures. Clinical reports and proceedings will be mailed free on application to the Joan J. Founton Company, 420 Montgomery Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Bright
Joan J. Founton Company
Montgomery St
Cal
Cure cold overnight with Grove’s brisk remedy
An ad touts a one day cure for a cold using Laxative Brotho Quinine tablets. It promises refunds if no cure and notes E W Grove’s signature on each box with a price of 250.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grogpista
E. W. Grove
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Dillon
Tribune Pub. CO
MOXT
By James Speed
Antony and Cleopatra
William H. Lytle
William Haines J. Tie
Cincinnati
Chickamauga
Egypt
Cesar
Glory
The
Nile
Senate
Falchion
Isis
Osiris
Cleopatra
Rome
Tommy
Ngosae
Union Meat Market
Staudaher
Proprietore
Dillom
Montana
Jacob Doll
H. D. Weenink
Dillon, Mont
Bright’s
Jox Harps
Pat Wann
Jox Shineberger
Scorr & Droxin
Berkshire Mills Typewriter Paper
Tribune Store
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