Overview of the year 1804 in world events and crises
A compact chronicle of 1804 highlighting economic distress in America, labor upheavals, and political tensions. Abroad, Japan defeats China while European powers experience relative peace. Russia mourns its Czar as fires, storms, battles, and disasters shape a turbulent year.
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Europe
Orient
Japan
China
Russia
Manchester
Eng
Ship Canal
Globe Theater
Boston
Rock Island
Linwood
Kan
Dayton
Toledo
Detroit
Franking Grove
Aftchinley
Columbus
Ohio
New Jersey
John L. Sullivan
Jackson
Des Moines
Sherman Wagoner
Mitchell
Ind
Prooklyn
Baltimore
Punishments of Criminals in Melun Prison
Describes prison discipline at Melun France where governors inspect offenses daily. Lists punishments from reprimands to loss of visits, fines, and discipline room days. Notes punishment cells with bread and water and light regulation, with inmates kept in rows on stone stools during visits.
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Melun
France
Oldest Scytha in the World in Petrie’s London Museum
A prehistoric Egyptian farming tool with a wooden shaft and a serrated edge is described as the oldest tomb find from the Nile valley. The tool’s 6,000 year old fi nte blades remain sound and well preserved, illustrating ancient husbandry practices amid the historian’s notes on furnace management and etymology of Milwaukee.
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Flinders Petrie
London
Lower
Nile
Great Victory Won by Science Over a Stubborn Disease
A Greenville lawyer and farmer Col Isaac Sugg credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for restoring his health after a 16 year nervous system breakdown. He narrates life saved and renewed vigor with pills sold by druggists or via mail for 60 cents a box, six boxes for five dollars.
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Atlanta, Ga
Constitution
North Carolina
Col
Isaac A
Greenville
Sugg
Pitt Co
Mr. S
Dr. Williams
Tani
Cold Weather Brings Wires Breakage and Electrical Damage
The cold causes electric wires to contract and break at weak points, leading to broken lines falling across others and causing damage. Linemen stay busy after the first cold snap as stronger wires remain, while weaker ones fail first and then quiet down for the winter.
Health Is Economy and Sleep Aids Mentioned
The article promotes health as a key factor in productivity. It cites Ripans Tabules as beneficial for clerks and suggests methods to induce sleep and rest, including a ventilated bedroom, porridge and milk at 9:30, and wet compresses around the body.
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Clerkebire
Book Promises Cure for Nervous Debility Through Home Treatment
An advertisement touts a 136 page book from the World's Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo New York. It claims to explain causes symptoms and curability of nervous debility memory loss low spirits irritability and related disorders. The notice offers the book sealed in a plain envelope for stamps and cites physician staff as authority and past patient cures.
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World's Dispenant Medical Association
Buffalo
N. Y
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