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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1893
Page
3
An old paragraph extols the Tremedy from California Pig Group Co as permanently beneficial to the human system, while condemning cheap vegetable extracts and mineral solutions as injurious. The piece also mentions Beecham's Liver Cure, Russian snowshoe plans, and various promotional lines about cures and products.
A collage of humorous snippets and cartoons from the era, featuring quips on poetry, politics, marriage, and everyday life. It includes gags about an ostrich misadventure, a witty exchange with a poet, marital comedy, social pretenses, and light crime or cleverness gags. Prominent names and papers referenced include Truth, Life, Boston Globe, Texas Siftings, Puck, Detroit Free Press, and Bazar for a period tone.
Snooper meets Haskins on a rainy day as they discuss the peril of a shopping wife inside a dry goods store. The man fears a lengthy wait and a costly spree, estimating fifty dollars from the rain. The banter appears in Harpers Bazar via the New York Weekly.
The Cincinnati Commercial notes Queen Victoria leads a quiet, untroubled reign while other European rulers struggle with rebellions, opposition, and political turmoil. It contrasts her serene control with monarchs like Oscar II, Wilhelm II, George I, Leopold II, Alfonso XIII, and others facing various crises.
A tall tale from Brooklyn Eagle notes a hydra can turn its mouth and stomach inside out when overfed, then revert to normal and die if prevented. It also reproduces by regrowth: a cut tentacle yields a full animal, a body splits into two, and interfacing parts can fuse into one.
Article surveys unusual practices among famous singers to protect or enhance their voices. It cites Gallmayer rubbing throat with rum and glycerin, Labatt eating salt pickles, Wachtel using egg yolk with sugar, Waller drinking cold coffee, Zelin Trebelli preferring lemonade, Kindermann drying prune skins, and Sontheim using snuff. Some performers avoid smoking on performance days. Bt Louin Post-Dispatch.
Practical domestic guidance urges ironing with a clothes wringer to save effort and fuel. Frugal tricks include using wrung towels and linens, repurposing lamp wicks, soap scraps, and bone remnants for croquettes and soap grease. Water softening, washing with alum, and borax enhanced suds improve cleanliness and efficiency. Berry desserts are also offered as thrifty recipes.
A detailed account describes how aging horses in France are processed after death into chemical byproducts. Hair used for upholstery, bones for knife handles and glue, bones dissolved for phosphate and lime, sulfuric acid calcination yielding phosphorus for lucifer matches, and distillation producing cyanide compounds and prussic acid. It notes animal oil as an insecticide and vermifuge, and the broader chemical chain ending in Prussian blue dyes and dangerous poisons.
In Frances a fashionable duchess planned a grand winter fete with a shepherdess reading a flock of sheep among mirrors and shrubs. The sheep escaped their glass enclosure, charging the ballroom, scattering dancers, causing screams and fainting as chaos ensued. A second note mocks a spring poet and advertises eye wash remedies.
An essay blends floral badge ideas with social commentary on ner ves and epilepsy. It cites Sir Rosse and Georgia Medical College, noting sudden social shifts may trigger convulsions in various peoples and tribes. Buckwheat is claimed to be of Siberian origin.
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