Strong Nerves Build Health and Energy in Body
The ad extols the power of strong nerves as the source of energy, vigor, and mental clarity. It claims nervous fatigue, irritability, restlessness, and insomnia improve with Dr. Miles Nervine, citing a Oklahoma testimonial about quick recovery from nervous prostration and debility.
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Miles
Okla
Dr Miles W Nervine Brain Nutrient Promises Renewal
An advertisement for Dr Miles W Nervine from Dr Miles Medical Co claims it is a unique brain food and nerve restorer that nourishes fortifies and refreshes body and mind. It urges readers to begin now and to seek the product from the Dr Miles Medical Co Etfhart Indiana.
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Dr. Miles Medical Co
Etfchart, Ind
Adages and Anecdotes From a Bygone Era
A collection of moral advice and anecdotes from the era, including a wry caution on publishing lies, reflections on contracts and livelihoods, and humorous recalls of Blaine Henderson and Queen Victoria with Jenny Lind. Also includes notes on Chinese roads and prehistoric diet analysis from tartar residues.
Origin of the Yosemite Valley Glacial Formation
National Geographic Magazine explains Yosemite Valley as a product of glacial erosion. The Te naya canyon glacier carved a steep grade, with branches from Little Yosemite and other creeks forming changing valleys. As the glacier receded a lake filled the valley bottom until Merced River eroded the rock wall at the valley foot.
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Yosemite Valley
Yosemite
Tenaya Canyon
Fort Monroe
Tenaya
Little Yosemite
Mlilouette
Bridal Veil
National Geographic Magazine
How the Car Got There on a Misread Sign
An inspector hopped onto a Madison Avenue electric car and found it bore three conflicting signs. The front hood read One Hundred and Thirty fifth Street, the roof side sign showed Second Avenue, and the rear hood listed Astor Place. The crew had not aligned signs, but the car continued downtown.
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Twenty-sixth Street
Madison Avenue
Brooklyn Bridge
One Hundred and Thirty Fifth Street
Second Avenue
Astor Place
Shaves of a Lifetime in Beard and Hair Growth Tale
Ainslie's Magazine asserts beards and head hair grow by the same rules. If a man starts shaving at 16 and lives to 70, he would have cut away substantial lengths. A 35 foot hair bundle could outlast seasons and advertise a hair restorer in winter.
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Ives
Ainslie’s
Engaged to Marry an Artist Mentioned in Odd Post
A fragmented notice references an engagement to marry an artist and mentions a real life doctor and a salve claimed to cure piles, skin diseases, and other ailments. It notes a city drug store in relation to the product.
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Sue
Ailladelphia Trudet
DeVines
Drovers City Drug Store
Poor Opera Glasses Criticized by Eye Specialist
An eye specialist denounces cheap opera glasses as harmful and urges theatergoers to abstain. He warns many young women ruin their eyesight with low quality lenses and argues distant balcony seating with naked eyes offers a fuller view.
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Philadelphia Record
The Minister and the Dog Lie Contest
A minister walking with a crowd of boys finds them seated around a ring with a small dog. He asks what they are doing, and a boy explains that the biggest liar wins possession of the dog after the crowd jokes about his own honesty.
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London
Suburban rail freight car humor from Sweden
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer exchange, two readers joke that Sweden’s suburban rail lines may offer a freight car for intoxicated travelers. They speculate labels like Spirits in packages or hardware, and quip hardware equals skates as a humorous mislabel.
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Sweden
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dickens Supremacy and Comic Book Shop Observations
A brief, period tone collage notes literary rivals Dickens and Thackeray in a shop with Joshua paying $2.40 more for Dickens than Thackeray. It blends a hornet sting analogy and a wry dispatch about spoilt pupils, diamonds, and novelty bashers.
Treating Burns and Anecdotes From Verdi to Ancestors
A column of practical burn care advice covers immediate cooling, air exclusion, and materials like baking soda and Carron oil, warning against flour and excess dressing. It also recounts Verdi hosting Paris critics with private rehearsals and a tale of a self made man who turns a bust into a fountain in his conservatory.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Verdi
Milan
Europe
Paris
Christian Endeavor World
Reaching an Understanding with a Fortune Hunter Heiress
A young man resents probing questions from the heiress father. He declares ancestral pride and asserts he is no ordinary fortune hunter. The father retorts that he is no plain, everyday duke chaser either, underscoring mutual resolve.
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Washington Star
A Remarkable Liniment Humoral of Cynthiana
A Democrat remark cites a surgeon discovering a liniment that revived a leg for a politician who had been unable to walk for years and began running for office after one application. Another trial on a friend’s arm ended with a strike for ten.
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Cynthiana
Democrat
Insecta on Yuman Food and Grub Sought in Timber
A snippet notes Professor Riley praising prairie locust as a tasty dish when fried and arguing many insects rival oysters in wholesomeness. It also mentions a large New Zealand grub found in dead timber, called bubu, eagerly sought like mushrooms.
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Yuman
Riley
New Zealand
Bubu
Meehan
The Prophecy Fulfilled at Editor's Tombstone Joke
The Atlanta Constitution notes the editor's widow used a line from his salutatory on his tombstone saying We are here to stay. It marks a humorous memorial remark amid tributes. Also mentions the Jenny Lind concert of 1850 where the first NY seat sold for $650 as an advertisement-daead.
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Atlanta Constitution
New York
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Tull
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