The Woodchuck and Other Country Lore Featured
A collage of natural history notes on the woodchuck beaver and elephant seals from country life to beavers winter breathing and beaver teeth with tales of geese mistaken for Central Park visitors. Includes a fable about wild geese in a park and wing clipping lesson.
Lightning Rods and Fashion Plates Highlight Urban Engineering
At Glasgow last month Kil lingworth Hedges described St Pauls cathedral lightning rod redesigns with horizontal cables, spikes, and new joints. A lightning committee was formed to gather more data while Harbor’s fashion plates illustrate six barber styles for October, including legal and medical cuts.
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British Association For the Advancement of Science
Glasgow
Killingworth Hedges
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Westminster Abbey
Hedges
St. Paul's
England
Wallsend
Oliver Lodge
Harbor’s
Philadelphia Record
Old Names for Guns in the Artillery Era
The piece traces how artillery evolved from large cumbersome pieces to more portable well built guns. It lists numerous historical names for cannons and related weapons such as culverins bombards serpen tines rakings and falconets, noting inventors pursued varied improvements over a century.
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Gentleman's Magazine
A Great Mistake in the House of Lords
The late Lord Morris voiced disappointment after his first speech in the house of lords. He quipped that he had made awan mis take and should have practiced soaking to a lot of gravestones before addressing their lordships.
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Lord Morris
House of Lords
Crown Indians Grow From Wild Past To Self-Sustaining
The Crow Nation of about two thousand people on the Montana reservation is described by Washington as self-sustaining. The piece notes varying tribal value judgments but highlights the Crows as more energetic in both wild and semi civilized life and quicker to dispense with government rations.
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Sou- West
Miramichi Lake
Sam
Stanley
Turnbull
Reese
Central Park
Swallow
Plains
Montana
Washington
St Jacobs Oil praised for sprained ankles in Cardiff Times
A Welsh testimonial extols St Jacobs Oil as healing sprained ankles after months of inability to stand. It notes medals awarded to the remedy and contrasts medicals opinions, while touting other patent medicines and quack cures in a dense, period ad style paragraph.
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ST. Jacobs Oil
Cardiff Times
St. Jacobs
Thomas
Alexandra Road
Gelli
Yabrod
Pontypridd
South Wales
St. Jacoby Oil
Lydia E Pinkham Vegatable Compound Endorsed By Reader
Dear Mrs Pingswam health is the greatest boon and anything that restores health is a blessing to consider Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It cures mothers and daughters and makes them well and strong.
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P, Viroqua
Lansing
Mich
Pinkham
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