Science notes on malaria, water safety, nettle fibre and electric fish
The article surveys gnat fever as malaria transmission via mosquitoes, warns mountain streams may pollute town water, cites a typhoid outbreak in a southern Pennsylvania city due to a polluted mountain branch, and discusses nettle fibre cultivation in Africa. It also reports on unvulcanized India rubber absorption, gas liquor boosting beet root and cereal yields, and Professor Francis Gotch's description of the Nile electric fish with a 200 volt organ and a giant nerve cell as its impulse source.
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Pennsylvania
Francis Gotch
Nile
Gotch
Curious Facts From a Century Ago About Pins and Telegraphed Marriages
A century ago ten men making 48 000 pins a day was celebrated, while today three men produce 7 500 000 in the same span. Wyoming horses were dug out after five feet of snow. A D Storms sought a Hartford marriage license claiming no Christian name. A ruby’s talisman myth and the Great Wall’s measured height are noted. A Kansas City couple wed by telegraph, with a 25 minute ceremony across wires and a judge, clergyman, and families involved.
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Wyoming
Battle Lake
Kansas City
M. A. M. Candell
Mulhall
Oklahoma
Miss Cundiff
Washington
James Smith
Rochester
Smith
Brighton
Giyp
Gyp
Lee Smith
Chemistry in Modern Life and the British Polo Question
A compilation notes chemistry powering modern disinfection and antisepsis, from lab driven drugs to antibiotics, and links it to physiology. It also critiques wartime British military training, arguing polo and civilian sports diverted focus from critical soldierly preparation.
Migratory Spanish Merino Sheep Travel Ancient Routes
In Spain about ten million migratory sheep, called transhumantes, move annually up to two hundred miles from plains to mountains where shepherds feed them until snow. Laws from the fourteenth century regulate routes, grazing rights, and resting places with a ninety yard corridor on private land. Flocks travel with mules, provisions, and dogs as guards. Merino sheep undertake four hundred mile treks totaling fourteen weeks away and back.
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Spain
Spectator
Best Exercise For Reducing Flesh
The article endorses walking as the best simple exercise to reduce fat. It cautions against restrictive clothing and emphasizes brisk, open-air walking with good posture for effective perspiration and muscle development. It notes Turkish baths are not reliably effective and that enforced rest after bathing can negate weight loss.
Brazil's Gem Output Through 150 Years of Mining
Brazil has yielded about 100 million dollars in gems over 150 years of mining. This total is matched every six to seven years by Kimberley mine outputs. African diamonds are judged less beautiful, yet their cumulative sales far exceed Brazil's total gem value, despite only around thirty years of mining.
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Brazil
Quail Hunting in Egypt and Other Historical Notes
Features on quail hunting in Egypt with nets and traps described, boundary surveys of New York State with 1875 1885 milestones, a German school reform by Dr Herman Lietz, a tale of memory in the National Library for the blind, and the early career of General French in the cavalry, all from a historic newspaper page.
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New York State
New York
Senate
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New Jersey Boundary Line
Pennsylvania Line
Nation's drink bill tops one billion dollars in 1899
A New York Post summary shows U S alcoholic beverages coffee tea and cocoa totals for 1899 at about 1 146 897 822 dollars. Beer wine spirits coffee tea and cocoa consumption are broken out with per capita figures and costs. The article notes a shift toward illicit distilleries and a rise in coffee and tea use while outlining the overall household drink burden for 76 011 000 residents.
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Weoe
United States
New York Post
Jell O and cures touted in odd ad mix
A collage of 1900s advertisements notes crops rising in Manitoba by 2.5 million bushels and oats by 600,000, plus consumer pitches for Jell O desserts, Allen's Foot-Ease, Piso's Cure, Beeman's Ginger Gum, Frey’s Vermifuge, and tobacco use in Europe, interspersed with population stats for Nevada and Edinburgh.
The Messiah on the Plains Easter Musical Event in Lindsborg
The annual Easter performance of Handel’s The Messiah by the Swedish colony at Lindsborg Kansas draws about 10,000 attendees with 400 singers and 50 piece orchestra. Local leaders note strong religious sentiment and community pride in this westward celebration.
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Lindsborg
Kansas
Charles M. Harger
Ladies’ Home Journal
Elmer
Philadelphia Times
Theodore Jones
Lydia E Pinkham’s Remedy Wrote Women to Health Claims
Clara Kore of Rockport Indiana describes four years of illness with back and body aches, irregular menstruation, cramps, and breath shortness, seeking advice from Lydia E. Pinkham. Cuana Kopp of Rockport shares that after correspondence she became healthy and urges other women to heed Pinkham’s advice based on her experience and the Vegetable Compound.
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Clara Kore
Rockport, Ind
Lydia E. Pinkham
Cuana Kopp
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Cuzzies
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Petit Bleu
Brussels
Gaston Cremieux
Marseilles
M. Hughes
Lieber
Pasteur
Prof
F. W. Clarke
Appletons
Popular Science Monthly
Egypt
Port Said
Alexandria
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
Ilsenberg
Hartz Mountains
Herman Lietz
Lietz
Dean Jackman
Chicago Tribune
National Library
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Ward
Mount Vernon Association
Iron Quill
Dewey
Hussar
Barrow
Susquehanna County
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Penn
Dispatch
Havana
Cuba
Manitoba
Padua
Rome
Allen
God Shoe Stores
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Olmstead
LeRoy, N
Morocco
Fez
Piso
Wx. O, Expstey
Vanburen, Ind
Nevada
Gnove
England and
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Tom
Beeman
London
H. M. Norton
St. Paul
Mino
Saya
Frey
Edinburgh
Austria
Russia
Europe
Hood
America
W. Andernch
Kurkeka Chemical CO
la Crosse
Wis
the Fire Department of
Chicago
Hall
F. J. Coursey & Co
Toledo
Denmark
Kline
RH. Koing
California
Jon
Wisconsin
H. H. Green
Soya
Atlanta
the Messiah
Mendelssohn
Indianapolis News
Clara Kopp
Mrs. Pinkham
Adevice
Vere
Rootbeer
Iren Charles Hl Maivers
Nature
Conran
Cascarets
Sterling Remedy Company
Catal We
Gilson-Stewart Mfg. Co
Giovonia
Atisata, Ga
Si Thompson
Iti
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