Air Sack Lift Restores Glenola Schooner
The Glenola a two masted schooner sunk six months ago in Great South Bay New York has been raised by Grant Brothers air sack system Divers entered the hold and placed canvas bags measuring 20 by 44 feet Each bag connected to a powerful air pump and inflated to lift the vessel to the surface It took about one hour to raise the schooner after bag adjustment was completed
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Great South Bay
N. Y
Messrs
Grant Brothers
Remedy of General Utility Claims by Proprietors
The piece argues against panacea claims for medicines though affirming Houtetter’s Stomach Bitters as a general utility remedy. It states the product restores stomach, liver, and bowels to normal function, supports health, helps resist malaria, and promotes kidney activity to expel impurities linked to rheumatism gout and dropsy. It urges confident use.
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Houtetter
Antiquity of Boots in Ancient Cultures
The history of footwear traces to Eastern origins with boots linked to the Carlans and cited by Homer. Grecian women wore twenty two types of footgear, ranging from full foot coverings to top foot ties with ribbons. Shoe and sandal use spans thousands of years, with biblical references from Exodus to Acts and notes of a shoe ratchet in Avraham’s era.
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Avraham
Low Rate Harvest Excursions From Wabash Railroads
Low rate harvest excursions to Iowa Minnesota Kansas Nebraska Col orado Wyoming Utah North and South Dakota Manitoba Tennessee Mississippi Alabama Louisiana Arkansas Indian Territory Oklahoma Texas and Arizona will depart from all Wabash Rail road stations on October 10 at very low rates. Tickets valid returning twenty days from date of sale. For particulars apply to the nearest agent of the Wabash Railroad.
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Iowa
Minnesota
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
North
South Dakota
Manitoba
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
Louisiana
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Texas
Arizonas
Wabash Railroad
Rubber Scarcity Prompts India Rubber Planters Program
The Brazilian Department of Agriculture warns that India rubber forests are rapidly declining and urges establishing plantations for rubber tree cultivation. A recent report notes potential profits for planters and calls for action to curb depletion.
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Department of Agriculture
India
Tough on the Indian in early New England history
A brief, pithy historical musing notes how smallpox devastated Indigenous populations during European settlement, contrasting disease with colonial conflict. It mocks reliance on remedies and references patient witnesses like Small Bile Deans, while hinting at a harsher view of frontier violence and attitudes toward Native peoples.
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New England
Salt Rheum Cure by Dr Pierce’s Discovery
Miss Lorre Crank of River Falle Pierce County Wisconsin details a long salt rhum illness cured by Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery after months of painful itching burning and cracking hands. She reports taking six bottles and praises the remedy highly with sales by dealers.
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Ible
Giar
Dr. Pierce
Morroccan justice and a British envoy in Fez tale
A British vice consul in Fez confronts insults from a youth and pays a punishment price. The dispute exposes local law and English customs, with the Basha settling damages and suggesting the Moorish father be flogged. The anecdote sits beside a Robespierre era jailer tale and a note on marriage customs involving a fiancé’s kin.
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Morocco
Mr. MacLeod
Fez
MacLeod
Basha
Kasha
Too Much Threshing in City Life Tale
A country boy to city work learns city bustle wears him down. He quits after seven weeks, preferring the farm's rough but finite pace. The anecdote, from Farmer's Review, ends with a farmer's life having its compensations.
Kondeh of Nyassa Coast Civilized by Geography
Mr. Merensky details Kondeh society in German Nyassa district. Geography along Lake Nyassa and Livingstone Mountains fostered high civilization and strong gender equality. Marriage friendship thrives. suicide and crocodile suicide as death by self harm occur. prisoners freed in war. women hold legal equality with men and offenses against women are punished severely.
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Verlin Anthropological Society
Merensky
Lake Nyassa
Livingstone Mountains
St James’s Gazette
Great Men With Large Abdomens Across History
From Victor Hugo to Napoleon and Caesar, the Medical Journal notes prominent figures who grew fat in later life. It cites Janin Gautier Dumas Eugene Renan and others, claiming even rulers like William the Conqueror and Peror Maximus became bulky before death.
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Victor Hugo
Fat Men’s Society
Gautier
Janin
Alexander Dumas
Eugene Sue
Paris
Renan
William the Conqueror
Pirot Cally
Peror Maximus
Cesar
Napoleon
Medical Journal
Ink Spills Guide Salt Treatment for Fabrics
Instructions advise sprinkling common salt on ink spills whether on carpets or woolen tablecloths, absorbing the ink, scraping off, and repeating. For unseen carpet stains apply hot water sparingly to prevent spreading, then salt to dim the mark though full removal may not occur.
Freaks of Lightning Fulgurites Formed by Hot Sand
A geologist explains that a lightning bolt striking sand plunges into the ground and fuses silica into glass, creating a glass tube whose size matches the bolt. Fulgurites can extend nearly thirty feet, with interior diameters ranging from a quill to three inches depending on the bore of the ash.
Extraordinary oil from egg yolk heals wounds in South Russia
Reports describe a new oil derived from boiled egg yolk. The yolk is crushed, heated until nearly igniting, and oil separates for collection. One yolk yields about two teaspoons. Widely used by South Russian colonists to treat cuts, bruises, and similar injuries.
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South
Russia
Oil Regions Map Highlights U S Oil Wells
A new phytographic relief map measuring seven feet by fifty inches displays oil bearing districts across the United States. It marks states with active wells, illustrating the extent of oil development for dealers and engineers.
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United States
Modern Beauty Sustains Health With Open Air Living
A description of a healthy lifestyle emphasizes good food sunshine and outdoor exercise. It notes a glowing arm and blooming face as signs of health and mentions using Syrup of Figs as a gentle laxative remedy to cleanse the system.
Calcutta Lab to Study Snake Venom and Treat bites
The Snake Laboratory project funded by government supervision in Calcutta will be the world’s first institution dedicated to researching snake venom properties and testing cures for snake bites. It aims to advance medical understanding and safer antidotes.
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Calcutta
One Small Bile Bean avary lab tor for 6 week arouse
An unmarried young man never hears the truth about himself. The greatest ambition of most men is to own a buggy that won't rattle.
German Syrup praised by Army Veteran and Druggist
William McKeekan of Bloomingdale Michigan testifies to Bo schee's German Syrup easing his severe asthma after fifteen years in the drug trade. Miriam Coles Harris, author of Rutledge, is noted for a summer home on the Long Island border with a cousin praising her discretion and secrecy. Philadelphia Press reports.
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William McKeekan
Bloomingdale, Mich
Fang
Boschee
Miriam Coles Harris
Rutledge
Leasant
Longsland
Atlantic
Miriam Cei
Philadelphia
Ress
To Clean Brass Using Government Solvent Method
The United States arsenals employ a cleaning method using one part nitric acid to one half part sulfuric acid in a stone jar, with water and sawdust nearby. Items are dipped in the acid, rinsed in water, then rubbed with sawdust to achieve a brilliant color. If greasy, items are first dipped in hot potash solution to dissolve grease before acid treatment.
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Uni States
The Cocked Hat and Continental Fashion History
The old naval full dress persisted with cocked hats both at sea and on the continent where officials wore them. Forty years ago militia line and field officers wore hats to excess. Besanklin’s round hat traveled to Paris with Rochambeau and Lafayette’s soldiers and was warmly received there.
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Besanklin
Paris
Rochambeau
Lafayette
Hall's Catarrh Cure Proclaimed by West Toledo Man
Albert Burch of West Toledo Ohio testifies the Hall's Catarrh Cure saved his life in a public endorsement. The advertisement by Bold by Druggists lists product name and a price tag of 750 with no further details on availability or dosage.
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Albert Burch
Toledo
Ohio
Hall
English artisan crafts shirt stud watch ornament
A watch shaped shirt stud crafted by an English artisan features a 3 16 inch dial worn with two other studs. Winding is done by turning the upper stud while adjusting the hands uses the lower one. It is described as economical and easy to carry, with a motto about a man not admitting slight but feeling the same.
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Schlaberndorf
Robespierre
Schuberndorf
Renin
Hood
Washington Star
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