Cruel Old Remedies and Surgeries from 16th Century Text
A Cincinnati Enquirer summary notes Ambrose Parey's 1579 surgical manual describing brutal cures and humoral theory. It details ironical remedies, mummie medicine, fear and music as therapies, and a ladder-assisted shoulder dislocation before concluding with praise for Hippocrates and Galen.
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Ambrose Parey
London
Egypt
Nicholas Picart
Duke of Guise
Hippocrates
Galen
Cincinnati Enquirer
A Better Name Speech Sparks Luncheon Generosity Debate
A dialogue in which Miss Summit and Miss Palisade clash over generosity and recklessness after a luncheon outing with a man named Summit. Brooklyn Lite serves as a backdrop to the social clash.
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Miss Summit
Miss Palisade
Brooklyn Lite
Bossy the cow dreams under the apple boughs
A nostalgic verse describes Bossy the cow roaming the dell and pasture. The gentle animal rings her bell and kids rest on her back as night falls and morning returns, evoking peaceful rural scenes.
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Bossy
Those Boer Ladies Portrait in the Charleston Piece
The Charleston News and Courier describes Boer women as lacking Dutch beauty, guarding skin with veils and bonnets, losing teeth from sweet cakes, and becoming stout with age. It contrasts them with trim Holland women and notes their loose gowns and generally untrimmed day attire.
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Holland
Charleston News and Courier
Samoa’s Talking Man and the Village Leadership
The tolafali, Samoa's talking man, handles village state affairs as chief adviser and restrainer of chiefs. His eloquence grants immunity and special honor, with unique terms for his body parts. His persuasive oratory and staff of office place him as the de facto ruling power in the tribe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samoa
Tolafali
Slow death by own action in work culture
Health Culture warns that workers exhaust themselves by hurried meals, often eaten inadequately cooked and nutritionally poor. The piece argues against eating while fatigued, noting humans ignore instinctive rest unlike dogs, and urges adopting brutes’ healthful restraint to improve overall well being.
Queer Lawyer Card Slogans Highlight Odd Ads
An Ohio collection lawyer uses a red blood drop graphic with the words Claims collected in cold blood printed on cards. In Maryville Missouri another attorney shows his portrait with the motto He that is not with you is against you See me early.
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Ohio
Maryville
A Scotch Scheme In Scots Paper Hints At Piano Trade
A Glasgow paper quotes the London Truth noting a scheme where a lady with a large drawing room offers to store a grand piano in return for use. The item speculates on whether such a plan has led to busts and suggests Scotland may have an excess supply of grand pianos if demand is weak.
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Glasgow
Scotland
London
Fir Tree Mostly Ubiquitous Across World
The fir tree is described as the most common tree worldwide, found in diverse regions and climates across all continents. Its widespread presence highlights its ecological versatility and significance in global forests.
Win Hearts and You Win All Hands and Purses
A philosophical remark urges popularity as a path to influence commerce and authority, suggesting affection equals power over men and money. The line implies social capital drives control in public life and business dealings.
Arctic Mosquito Described as World’s Worst Insect Pest
A Times-Democrat report relays a guest’s dramatic account of arctic mosquitoes encountered during a Yukon transfer in 1896. He recalls enormous bites, swollen faces, and even deaths of children, with nets and protective gear barely slowing the clouding swarms.
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St. Charles
Yukon River
Alaska and Dominion Trading Company
Fort Hamilton
Arctic
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Humble Senator Ends Johnson County’s University Boost
The Des Moines Capital recalls Ezekiel Clarke once a Johnson county senator who rode high on university appropriations. After a dramatic shift in the session he helped repeal the state university grant, then returned to his familiar voting pattern amid the chamber’s shrewd humor.
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Ezekiel Clarke
State Senate
Johnson County
State University
Senator Clarke
Ezekiel
Senate
George F. Wright
Johnson
Clarke
Jefferson
Moses A. McCord
Des Moines
Architecture as the grandest art and its evolving role
A quoted reflection from The International Magazine highlights architecture as a transformative science and art. It traces calls for a versatile architect who must be an artist engineer lawyer doctor and gentleman, to avoid flawed design and unsound patronage.
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International
Richelieu
Time to Give Up in Court Case
An Iowa judge recalls a court incident where a Black man faced a petty charge. When the case name The state of Iowa against John Jones was announced, the man reacted with fear and exclaimed that if the whole state was against him he would give up.
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Iowa
State of
John Jones
Showing Him How
A father scolds and then slaps his disobedient son twice or thrice and shakes him until hair starts to fall out as a harsh lesson on respect toward his mother. The account is told in a stark, punitive gesture.
Dew Phenomenon Explained by Earth’s Rotation
In a brief exchange, a boy explains dew by noting the earth’s 24 hour rotation causes the ground to perspire. The back-and-forth captures a light, didactic tone typical of London Tit-Bits humor.
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London
Cambridge Student Tea Bills Of The Eighteenth Century
A St Louis Republic summary notes a Cambridge undergraduate in 1788 whose furnished bill items include a hearth brush pail mop and a teapot. It shows frequent Hyson and Congo tea purchases and a total two month tea cost of about 11 shillings. The piece comments on breakfast tea and a sanded floor impression.
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Cambridge
Hyson
Congo
St. Louis Republic
Priceless Autographs and Their astonishing Prices
Collier's Weekly notes the world’s most coveted autographs. Shakespeare ranks highest with seven claimed, including signatures and letters. Marie Stuart and Columbus autographs fetch high sums, while forgers deterred by Chatterton’s fate.
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Shakespeare
Montaigne
British Museum
Alfred Morrison
Carlton House Terrace
Marie Stuart
Guise
France
Vatican
Bernard Quaritch
Columbus
Chicago
Chatterton
Avon
Collier’s Weekly
Jimmy and the Baby Coffins in a One-Eyed Child Tale
A 13 year old boy, Jimmy, runs a tiny coffin business supplying pine baby coffins to an undertaker. He earns fifty cents per coffin and is well liked by customers. One day he visits a milk customer and admires a newborn, joking that he will make a coffin for it when he goes home.
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Jimmy
New York Commercial Advertiser
Boers and the Pioneer Spirit Across the Great Trek
The piece lauds Boer pioneers from 1837 and earlier, praising their endurance and travel into unexplored lands. It contrasts them with later travelers whose fame and profits benefited publishers more than explorers, noting voortrekkers and frontier hunters achieved feats of endurance.
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Africa
London Mail
Waving into marriage and divorce in a racy tale
A Nashville Banner note recounts a neighboring town tale of a young woman who waved at a stranger and wed within three days. Two days after marriage she waved a flatiron at her husband, and the next evening he returned home waving a divorce.
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Nashville
Spanish Charitable Traditions Highlight Community Aid
The piece notes that Spaniards are highly charitable and rely on self supporting communities of about 50 000 to feed a pauper population exceeding 5 000, emphasizing a lack of a poor tax.
Portrait Painter Seeks Father in Memory
A Lancaster county man asked a Philadelphia portrait artist to paint his father without a photograph or a live model. After describing him vaguely the painter completes the portrait. The man views it and exclaims with reverence that it is his father, though noting how much he has changed.
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Lancaster County
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Times
Don’t Know What Balances Household Book, Says Bride
A Memphis Scimitar tale recalls a bride who logs “D. K. W.” on her household ledgers. When the page balance misses, she adds D. K. W. to cover unaccounted money, explaining it means don’t know what. The husband learns of the device but not the humor.
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Memphis Scimitar
Orioff Horses Dominate Russian Street Racing
In major Russian cities there is no speed limit for driving horses through public streets. The Orioff breed, created by Count Orloff-Chemenski, blends Smetanka Arabian stallions with English mares. Typical roadsters stand 16 hands high, weigh 1100 pounds, and feature a gray coat, heavy mane, and powerful limbs. In St Petersburg fast driving is common, with sleighing in winter and three inch ice tracks at night. American pneumatic sulkies and harness gear are widely used.
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Russia
Orioff
Orloff-Chemenski
Smetanka
St. Petersburg
Lord Lansdowne Visits Turner at Queen Anne Street Home
The entry describes Lord Lansdowne visiting Turner's house, barred by a tiny iron grille in the front door. After failed letters, he knocked and was greeted with a sharp remark about “Cat's meat” before entering, an anecdote illustrating Turner's guarded hospitality and Millais' Life of Turner.
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Turner
Queen Anne Street
Lord Lansdowne
The Aged Minister and City Parish Demands
Ian Maclaren argues in Ladies' Home Journal that city church work demands a minister in the prime of life. He cites the vast parish duties, urban excitement, mental strain, and heavy responsibility as factors favoring younger clergy over men over fifty.
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Ian Maclaren
Ladies’ Home Journal
Took Their Places
A Cork assizes tale from Baron Dowse recalls a jury misstep as officers ask jurors to take their accustomed places and they all walk into the dock, provoking laughter at the baron’s storytelling.
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Baron Dowse
Cork
Unknown Hero Card Aims Photograph for Album of Heroes
La Gaceta Guadlajara prints a humorous notice in English and Spanish requesting the gentleman who embraced the writer's wife at the post office entrance around 9 PM Thursday to send a photograph for the author’s Album of Heroes. The odd plea appears amid varied local items.
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Guadalajara
Mexico
Correct Time Delivered by Holt County Hack Driver
Jake Foster long served Holt county as the Oregon to Forest City hackman. On a Forest City trip his passenger asked for the correct time, and Foster returned with a soiled note showing Forest's time. He then presented the note at the bank where Robert Montgomery presided, claiming it showed the correct time there.
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Jake Foster
Oregon
Forest City
Holt County
Robert Montgomery
Foster
Jake
Forest
Bob
Montgomery
Eithie
Omaha World-Herald
Lungs and Long Life Longevity Tales From History
An Englishman born in 1483 reportedly lived to 169, seen ten kings, despite a narrow chest and breathing difficulty. Venice consul Secundi Hango at Smyrna measured 57 cm around the chest and had a diseased lung yet died at 115. He married five times and fathered 49 children.
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Secundi Hango
Venice
Smyrna
Proved His Theory By Fog Horn Remark
The late Hall McAllister entertained a visiting scientist at the Union club. He claimed fog is an excellent conductor of sound, arguing that on foggy evenings the fog horn is heard clearly while without fog no sound is heard.
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Hall McAllister
Union Club
The
Pacific
Mr. McAllister
San Francisco
Argonaut
Slip of the Tongue in a High Street Shop
A young lady in a dry goods store challenges a clerk with a playful question about ribbon. The clerk responds with a humorous mispronunciation and a price of twenty five cents a yard, reflecting the light local column tone of the State Journal.
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High Street
Columbus (O
State Journal
No Singing If You Love Me
Mrs Darley asks to sing at the piano. Mr Darley calls himself a brute and tells her not to sing. Detroit Free Press notes domestic friction in a domestic scene.
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Mrs. Darley
Mr. Darley
Detroit Free Press
Reviving Appreciation Octogenarian quip from Indianapolis Journal
A witty exchange on aging references the term octogenarian. The quote notes changing feelings from hardship at seventy to pride at eighty, reflecting humorous regional humor in the Indianapolis Journal.
Translation spread for The Pilgrim's Progress across 203 languages
The classic work The Pilgrim's Progress has been translated into 203 languages and dialects, reflecting its global reach and enduring appeal.
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