Ideal Woman: Health, Modesty, and Maternal Duty
Special to Our Lady Readers discusses Napoleon’s ideal of a woman who honors nature, preserves health, and bears strong, healthy children. Mothers urged to guard daughters’ physical development, ensure proper bodily function, and prevent irregularities that threaten future happiness. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound touted as a remedy for irregular or suspended action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon
Butterfly
New York
E. Pinkham
Paper Horseshoes Novel Invention From Berlin
A veterinary surgeon in Berlin successfully applies paper impregnated with oil or tar to make waterproof horseshoes. The shoes are layered with a cement of Venetian turpentine chalk linseed oil and lacquer, formed under hydraulic pressure, and can be filed to fit. They may be nailed or glued to the hoof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Eggs as symbols across ancient cultures and New Year customs
The passage traces eggs in diverse histories from Persians Romans Egyptians and Capetians to German and Jewish traditions. It notes eggs as fertility and renewal symbols, divination aids, and ceremonial foods tied to holidays like New Year Good Friday and Maundy Thursday, with various regional beliefs about eggs affecting outcomes or fortunes.
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Suffolk
Germany
Egypt
Westphalia
Fifty two new islands appear this century with losses noted
The article cites 52 new islands formed by volcanic action and 19 submerged, yielding a net gain of 33 islands. It also mentions the Corn Belt monthly farm lands paper by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and provides subscription details. It adds a quip about timing and a travel note on The New Orleans Limited taking 24 hours Cincinnati to New Orleans and a brief gender joke.
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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Corn Belt
Adams St
Chicago
Sebastopol Fort Taken By Assault And Bitters Claim
Sebastopol was not impregnable as a fort fell under attack yet a physique built up by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters may defy malarious disease in prevalent localities. Emigrants to ague breeding West regions urged to begin with a supply. The Bitters subdues dyspepsia rheumatic and kidney complaints nervousness constipation and biliousness.
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Sebastopol
Tropical Birds Win German Gold Medal for Forest Introduction
A gold medal honors Herr Prosch for introducing tropical birds into German forests in Southern Saxony. All imported tropical species except canaries and African parrots have acclimatized, and even young birds survived last winter’s severity.
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Germany
Herr Prosch
Saxony
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertisement and testimonials
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It cites endorsements from West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin and asserts the remedy works by internal circulation. Includes price, testimonials, and a railway safety statistic.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Reir
West & Truax
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Ice and Pain and a Populist Take on Travel
The item parodies winter suffers from cold weather and skating, notes aches from frost bites to toothache, and promotes St Jacobs Oil as a remedy. It mentions Chauncey Goodrich dying poor at 70, a former Connecticut state senator, and reports the Florida Limited train from Cincinnati to Jacksonville arriving next day. The quip closes on work versus trouble and a wry moral.
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Jack
St. Jacobs
Cincinnati
Jacksonville
Rock Island Playing Cards for Sale at 10 Cents
Advertises Rock Island playing cards at 10 cents per pack with three purchase options and optional engraved whist rules. Also contains a quip about suspicion, a medical pitch for Dr. Jayne’s Ex Rectorant, and a moral aside about enemies and appearances.
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Rock Island
Express
Sebastian
G. P.A
Chicago
California bound Burlington excursion trains from Chicago
Personal excursions to California aboard Burlington Route sleeping cars depart Chicago each Wednesday with through cars via Denver and Salt Lake. Amenities include carpets upholstered seating bedding and toilets. Descriptive pamphlet available from T A Grady Excursion Manager 211 Clark St Chicago. Also notes on aging and various advertisements for cold remedies and romance lines.
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California
Burlington
Chicago
Denver
Salt Lake
T. A. Grady
Clark St
It Is a Good Plan About Fault and Friends
A reflective note on friendship and judgment asserts that friends only overlook faults when no fault exists, implying human tact and the limits of forgiveness in social bonds.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Eges
New Orleans
George Washington
A. W. Greely
Ladies’ Home Journal
The
Curtis Publishing Company
Philadelphia
United States Railway Service
Chauncey Goodrich
Connecticut State Senate
D. Jayne
Piso
L. C. Johnston
Iola
Texas
Brown
Florida
Queen and Crescent
Asheville
N.C
Morse Bros., Prope
Canton
Masc
U.S.A
Boers Pastilles
Walter Baker & CO
Kate Dorchester
Mass
Walter Baker &Cos
Dorchester
Sapolio
Aeemotor Co
Entalegr
Rockwell
Fillmore
Lake Orange
Belt
Fury Lands
Stapylton & CO
Leeabu
W. WN. U
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