Free Medical Books and Foot Care Cure Advertisements
A mix of 19th century ads promoting free medical books for men from The Peabody Medical Institute and a foot care product Alien's Foot-Fuse. Also notes Sir George White receiving five knighthoods, a rare honor for a commoner, with context on other honorees.
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Peabody Medical Institute
Bulfineh Bt
Boston
Mass
Alien
Allen 5
Olmsted
LeRoy
George White
G. C
G.C. V
Marquis of Dufferin
Lord Roberts
K. P.s
Sir George White
Conjurer Outwitted At Country Fete
At a country fete a conjurer tried the eggs from a hat trick. He asked a boy if the boy’s mother could get eggs without hens. The boy answered that she could because she keeps ducks, provoking laughter.
Strange Coincidences and a Magician’s Lucky Guess
A group recalls coincidences shaping events in magic, finance, and crime. An Ohio mind reader’s cue seemed real to a theater owner. In New Orleans a planter’s debt was unexpectedly frozen after a casual note about a “plantation transfer.” A Atlanta banker defaulter’s trial featured a deputy marshal telephoned alerting a planned jail escape, exposing uncanny timing.
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Herrmann
Ohio
Herrmaon
New Orleans
Col
Botany
Lewis Redwine
Atlanta
Redwine
Columbus
Various Innovations Across Science and Industry
A compressed air drill works underwater on a sunken battleship and drills granite as well as above water. Sugar refining shows glucose formation during pulverization. sucrose remains superior as a sweetener. A Kew Observatory watch endures multiple orientations yet struggles to stay perfectly accurate. Kansas City debuts thermostats linked to phonographs for location-specific fire alerts. English balloons use skin envelopes and lightweight rigging. hydrogen is stored in steel bottles for inflation. An Austrian method converts sawdust into briquettes, with high output and low cost. Colonial experiments in America trace communal ideas from Fourier to Utah and German Swiss settlements. Monroe Cannon story recounts a historic weapon found in West Virginia and later fragments gifted to the Historical Society. Italian mounted police earn only eight dollars monthly, encouraging toleration of illegal tree felling.
Horrific Indian Famine Described in Leslie's Weekly
Leslie's Weekly reports a vast famine in India covering about 50 000 square miles across central, south and northwestern provinces. Photographs show brutal hunger as 60 000 mouths require feeding and relief struggles continue amid crop failures and alleged misused famine funds.
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India
Leslie
Leading Political Economist Schmoller and German Influence
Professor de Gustav Schmoller, rector of the University of Berlin since 1897, is a leading European political economist. Born in Heilbronn in 1838, he studied at Württemberg, taught at Halle, was dean at Strasbourg, and moved to Berlin in 1882. His views on national matters carry significant weight.
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de Gustav Schmolter
Brazil
University of Berlin
Europe
Schmoller
Heilbronn
University of Wurtemburg
Halle
University of Strasburg
Berlin
Longest Canal the Erie and dessert ideas in old notices
The Erie Canal is described as the world’s longest at 381 miles from Albany to Buffalo. Also features a dessert suggestion with Jell-O quick set, various flavors, and grocer price. Additional items warn about laxative medicines, a N W Baumen attribution, and Tarantula web use for war balloons in Australia.
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Erie
New York
Albany
Buffalo
Called the Wrong Man
An Irishman in Cincinnati, unable to find a bed, shares one with a barber’s room. He is shaved while asleep, leaves early, and realizes his hair is gone when he looks in a spring, crying that they’ve called the wrong man.
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Cincinnati
Pat
Where the Paint Went in The Philadelphia Press
A brief note from The Philadelphia Press recounts a witty house painter who jokes about a quarrel with Jay Krank over painting his new house. The exchange lands in a humorous anecdote about who ends up applying the paint.
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Philadelphia
Jay Krank
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