Poverty sharpens the taste despite dulling other senses
The remark notes how poverty can heighten sensory awareness in taste while other senses may be hindered. It reflects on how deprivation shapes perception and choices, suggesting resilience in the face of hardship and the unexpected ways daily life adapts to scarcity.
Maine Sheep Heads Fall with Dogs and Rape Feed Promises
The 1840 Maine sheep population stood at 649264, dropping to 251971 in 1896 and 226000 last year. Dog predation, weak stock feeding, and rugged stone fences worsened losses. farmers consider rape as a promising forage, with 500 lambs fattened on 50 acres at a Guelon station. The article notes wool price uncertainty, speculation effects, and urges rape cultivation to improve forage and stock resilience.
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Maine
Guelon
Lareda
Farmers’ Review
Abe Father Turns Stingy In Odd Change
The Boston Courier notes Abe Father was once generous but now only hands out his odd change. Gabe opines the change will likely do you good.
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Abe
Gabe
Boston Courier
The Spell of Merry Christmas Love and Renewal
A nostalgic Christmas poem opens with wassail and hopeful tidings across the land, urging open hands and reconciled hearts. A prose vignette follows Olive Thompson, her mother, and Joseph the hired man as they wash windows, share quiet glimpses, and rediscover faith and springtime promise through a moment of mutual trust and a glint of sunlight between them.
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Olive Thompson
Joseph
Olive
Glass Darkly Romance From New Year's Sermon
Live Thompson sits in a small country church on New Year’s Day paying intense attention to a pastor she has studied for thirty years. The sermon invokes spiritual clarity like looking through a glass darkly, recalling dust and sleet of weary years and a longing to see face to face.
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Olive
Joseph
Perlor
Live Thompson
Olive Thompson
Oliver Thompson
Autumn Dies and Boreas Becomes King of Winter
William Francis Barnard writes of Autumn’s fall and Boreas seizing dominion as winter rules. Arctic winds descend, frost seals the land, and icy air and swirling snows mark the new king’s claim.
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Winter
Arctic
Christmas Eve and Coral Reef Wonders
Christmas Eve poem by Mary N Prescott speaks of moonlit snows and starlit promises while the article on the 1200 mile Great Barrier Reef notes its protective coral barrier along Australia’s coast enabling safe inner passage for large steamers and trade fleets amid coral inlets. After college, some men should consider returning to study.
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Great Barrier Reef
Australia
Brisbane
Torres Straits
London Standard
The Enormous Gold Product of 1808
From South Africa the Klondike and Australia gold is being shipped in large quantities. This year's output will nearly double that of any previous twelve months. The sale of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is also increasing very fast. This famous remedy will cure dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation, nervousness and weakness.
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South Africa
Klondike
Australia
Bookkeeper hints at starting own business venture
A bookkeeper declares intent to go into business on his own account. An assistant quips that a hook is something dependable, suggesting a cautious, humorous moment in a Indianapolis Journal snippet.
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Indianapolis Journal
Health with wealth in western Canada for home-seekers
Charles N Scott writes from Calgary in 1898 praising southern Alberta for farming and ranching prospects. He claims short seasons, strong sun, good prices for pork and beef, cheap railroad land on long-time terms, and ample settlement north of Edmonton and west of Edmonton. He asserts health benefits for consumptives and urges Minnesota home-seekers to move.
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Calgary
Alberta
Duluth Evening Herald
Duluth
Minn
Minnesota
Edmonton
Charles N. Scott
Hall's Catarrh Cure touted as universal remedy
A 19th century advertisement-style piece proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only proven treatment for catarrh, claims it cures constitutional disease, and offers 100 dollars for any case it cannot cure. It invites readers to request testimonials and lists the Toledo address for F J Cheney & Co. It also briefly mentions prop tabs and a soap tag line, then a quip about marriage and population.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors
List of patents granted to Northwestern inventors including Geo P Albright Minneapolis for mechanical motor James D Hatcher Minneapolis for plaited fabric Swan Molgren St Paul for heating stove Alfred Johnson Minneapolis for wheat separator and washer William McIntosh Winona for combined boiler check and blow off cock Henry A Muckle St Paul for running gear Armin L Neubert Minneapolis for bung branding machine John B Robbins Minneapolis for reusing old asphalt pavement Merwin Lothrop Johnson Watenda Attorneys VIV Pioneer Prean Building St Paul plus a stray ad note about an apple and a 300 prize catalogue for soap wrappers"}
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Geo. P. Albright
Minneapolis
Minn
James D. Hatcher
Swan Molgren
St. Paul
Alfred Johnson
William McIntosh
Winona
Henry A. Muckle
Armin L. Neubert
John B. Robbins
Merwin
Lothrop If Johnson
Watend Attorneys
VIV Pioneer Prean
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