The Healthy Drummer on Medicine and Placebos
A traveling drummer jokes about medicines and tonics used to chase minor ailments. He ridicules self diagnosis and shows how fellow performers carry large home remedies, citing a Boston drum man who overmedicated and a hosiery man with a long list of supposed illnesses. He warns against dosing and clinging to cures while sharing comic anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Wardly
Fel Jer
New York
Ggife
Rey Pardon
St Paul
Philadelphia
George
Bright
Jim
Detroit
Chicago
The Yankee and Work A Portrait of Restless Labor
The piece portrays the Yankee as preferring to avoid labor, seeking wealth to hire help or automate tasks. It argues he loves contemplation, resists direct effort, and aims to minimize human intervention while supervising the process. The tone blends satire with cultural critique.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lie
Gays
Scribner's Magazine
Face of Paris surrender seen through German ranks at Blackwo rld
From Blackwood's Magazine an observer in Paris during the siege recalls the German officers. He identifies Meiningens Hohenzollerns Altenburgs Linpes Keuss Pless Schondburgs Waldecks Wieds Hohenlohe Mecklenburgs and other leaders. The focus is on the fourth man in the rank as his expression remains unreadable and he appears fatigued and somber after victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Versailles
Meiningens
Hohenzollerns
Altenburgs
Linpes
iKeuss
Pless
Sehoenburgs
Waldecks
Wieds
Hohenlohe
Mecklenburgs
Hismar
Paris
Blackwoul
Have you heard of Jack the Slasher
A Washington man asks about a figure named Jack the Slasher while a visitor covers a scratch on his face. The exchange hints at a barber who tried to shave him earlier. Johnny's uncle and the visitor discuss holidays and the child’s ability to stay home from school without help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack the Slasher
Washington
H’m'm
Johnny
Saint-Foix
Fleet-footed Zebras in South Africa and Their Decline
The article reflects on zebra species once common in South Africa, noting the quagga’s near extinction and Kurchel’s zebra moving farther away. It quotes Sir Cornwallis Harris 1840 observations on zebra herds and Burchell’s zebra described as fierce and splendidly adorned, with zebras remaining largely untamed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
Cornwallis Harris
Kurchell
Ife
Burchell
Very Hot Bath and Odd Habits in Japan and France
A column describes Prof Nipnord linking Japanese baths to health, detailing 104 degree hot morning baths and cold douches, Kusatsu’s 150 degree sulphur springs, and a ritual hot bath ordeal. It also recounts Saint-Foix dodging creditors while shaving and ends with a note that dearest items are often advertised free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nipnord
Tokio University
Japan
Herr Nippond
Kusatsu
Arift
Also Mentioned on This Page
Milwaukee
Canada
Frew Press
Bismarck
Michael
Ano
Fremontle. Co. SE
Goodrich and Myers
Coldwater
Yeast of Fame
U.S
C.a.snow &Co
A. Pilliod
Hilton House
Fremont, Ind
R. Heberling
Prop
Q@DOD
Atioga
City of
Fort Wayne
Star
West Main St
Gro. H. Beabold
Prop’r
Webster's
Isteo
G. & C. Merriam Co. Publishera
Spri
Mofetil
Bps
Inius
Websters International
Bank OF Fremont
Fremont, Indiana
Qro. F. Baie
Newt. G. Haru
Doesa
Apocia
Boleatife Am Agency
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!