Watered money orders and a mix of ad blurbs from 1890s press
The snippet cites New York postal money orders totaling 60,081,782 in 1898 and 115,488,020 in 1899, with a $25,407,146 rise. It also lists varied notices from Dr. Kline's nerve restorer to starch premiums and a Cleveland Plain Dealer remark about a colored lawyer in Virginia, ending with a humorous misreading about Alexandria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Adelbert College
Virginia
Alexandria
Nervous Women Seek Relief Ad Promoted by Mrs Pinkham
An 19th century ad describes nervous female patients as troubled by monthly suffering and insanity, claims a remedy provides prompt relief, cites letters from cured women, and urges nervous women to follow Mrs. Pinkham's advice, offering her Lynn Massachusetts address at no cost.
Curious Battle Fatalities in Crimea and Beyond
A historical sketch recounts remarkable war deaths and injuries. Surgeon-General Mackinnon entered Redan after evacuation and found a Russian officer dead on a gabion. A soldier raised a cup before a shell fragment killed him, jaw intact but headless. Nolan’s headless horseman vision and a Transvaal British soldier discovering a kneeling foe add to the eerie catalog. A war artist notes fixed bayonets in Anatolia where Russian and Turk died in a swift, paired thrust, both men with bayonets in the chest as they stood apart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackinnon
Redan
Cincinnati Enquirer
Rosabach
Wurzburgh
Nolan
Balaclava
Transvaal
Irving Montagu
Anatolia
The Vainest of All Birds Observed by a Pet Canary
An observant man notes a canary’s vanity by upgrading a shabby cage to a brass house. After the switch the bird sings louder than others, its behavior changing markedly, illustrating pride in a pet’s refined surroundings.
Jumping Charger Breaks Through Norwich Riding School Door
A Seventh Hussars charger, with rider absent, charged straight at a door six feet three inches high and squeezed through a three foot aperture. The horse slipped on flat stones and fell, bruising the animal slightly but recovering fully, a feat described as marvelous by observers in London.
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Norwich
Seventh Hussars
London Daily Mail
Pricing Antiquated Curios In A New York Old Shop
A wary reader recalls finding a shabby New York curio shop that tags goods like first class jewelry, often higher due to condition. A woman spots a spinning wheel in the window and, after ringing, asks its price. The man replies Twenty six dollars and then vanishes back to the basement.
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New York City
Moody's Last Words Recorded By Stenographer
Stenographer Ben Wright of Boston reports the final utterances of evangelist Dwight L. Moody's son recounting Moody's last words as he faced death. The transcript quotes Mooy's last statements about earth receding and heaven opening, declaring death sweet and refusing to be called back as God calls him.
The man with the dough and the hoe
A verse from the St. Louis Star laments how the trust in wealth drives industry regardless of direction. It warns progress slows when profits dictate every move in farms, offices, and workshops, suggesting cyclical tides may lift or topple fortunes.
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St. Louis Star
Humor Snippets From 19th Century Papers
A collage of brief jokes and quips from various papers features plays on words about politics, publishing, marriage, and daily life. Notable lines include barbs about a hand organ trust and a grinding monopoly, plus light anecdotes on editors, grammar, and names.
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Bill
Jill
Yonkers Statesman
Detroit Free Press
Time Begins Its Flight Across the World’s Date Line
John Ritchie Jr. in the Ladies' Home Journal imagines rapid transit across the globe’s date line. A theoretical instant after midnight on January 1, 1901 would place different latitudes in both centuries, with Pole regions in the new century and mid latitudes still in the nineteenth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Pole
Equator
John Ritchie, Jr
Ladies’ Home Journal
Pole
Aleutian Islands
A Sixteen Hours' Sleep From Wynberg to Ladysmith
A Private of the First Leicester Regiment writes from the hospital at Wynberg to his sister in Nottingham recounting the Battle of Dundee and the forced march to Ladysmith. The column notes a roughly two hundred mile detour, exhausted troops with little sleep, and a final sixteen hour sleep upon arrival.
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Leicester
Wynberg
Nottingham
Dundee
Ladysmith
London Daily Mail
Cent Squire Dunham Marries Couple for a Cent
Indiana justice of the peace Squire Dunham in Anderson reportedly charged the smallest marriage fee on record by accepting only one cent from a couple in dire finances. The groom, in bad straits, offered all he had and paid a single cent for the ceremony.
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Lyons
J. Cutxyny
F. J. Cxexes
Toled County
HaLl
A. W. Gleabon
F. J. Dnunny & Co
Toledo
O. Wld
Squire Dunham
Anderson
Indiana
Burr and the Assassin in Burr's Courtroom Tale
An old Washington lawyer recalls Aaron Burr confronting a witness with lit candles and a dramatic challenge to the jury. The anecdote appears in Clemens's lost novel The Rivals, shaping Burr as hero and Hamilton as villain, and contrasts with Burr’s real courtroom bravado. A second piece recounts an amusing electric-car umbrella mix-up, ending with a humorous lampoon of mistaken ownership.
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Ouse Creared
Washington
Manhattan
Aaron Burr
Jére Clemens
United States
Alabama
Burr
Clemena
Hamilton
South
Clemens
Milford Journal
Lakes far above sea level in Peru amid mysterious lakes
From Crucero Alto a Boston Journal account describes Lake Lagunillas and the Sarachocha Cachipascana group in the Cordilleras. The waters are frost cold, level year round, with rare inlets yet mysterious maelstroms said to swallow crafts. Indians guard legends of hidden outlets and centering whirlpools near Lake Popo and Titicaca.
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Crucero Alto
Southern Railroad of
Peru
Lake Lagunillas
Cordilleras
Boston Journal
Puma
Sarachocha
Cachipascana
Romania
Arequipa
Lake Popo
Lake Titicaca
Bolivia
Africa
Have You Lost It Hair Vigor Ad
An old advertisement promises hair color restoration with Ayer’s Hair Vigor. It claims to revive color, thicken hair, remove dandruff, and prevent hair loss, priced at $1.00 per bottle and sold by all druggists.
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Ayer
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Hood
Kline
RH. Kune, Ltd
Arch St. Phila
Brooklyn
Red Cross
Habinger
Lydia E. Pinkham
Arters Ink
Indianapolis Journal
Puck
Mary
Chicago Times-Herald
Atchison Globe
Spacer
Chicago News
Todd
Willie
Mr. Busyman
Harper’s Bazar
Charlie
Imogen
Papa
Collier’s Weekly
W.R. Williams
Antioch, Ills
Geo. Felett
Towson, Md
Syver
John A. Balzer Seed CO
Crosse, Wis
4. C
A. T. Stewart
Carson
DR. Arnold
Saeco
Sal
Sear
Gibson-Stewart Mfg, CO
Gibsonia
Wok
Monts
Rev
Brand New
D. Worthington & CO
Hartford
Portan D. Ac
Coar
Boston
Ulicura
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