The First Clocks and the Leap to Watches
In 1309 the Brat clock in San Eustargio Milan amazed crowds with its sun, moon, and planetary indications. By 1944 clocks adorned Padua’s palace, foretelling celestial cycles and year’s months. Andrea Alciuto helped bring a famed Milan clock’s alarm bell and candle automation, while the 1740 addition of a second hand marked slow progress toward modern timepieces.
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Podvey
Mochuntum
San Eustargio
Milan
Timapiece
Padua
Josecasor
Andrea Alciuto
Browning Letter and Curious Ads From 1909 Item
A fragmentary Victorian era exchange shows Browning praising a lord's reading, with a sharp Browning reply about understanding his work. The text shifts to a dismissive mock office scene, then a testimonial ad for Cuticura paraffin remedies, featuring Mrs Egert Sheldon of Litchfield Conn reporting her child’s recovery from severe sores after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment in 1909.
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Baby
Akeleton
Tie
Sam
Mre
Egtert Sheldon
How to Voow Potatoes
Potatoes can be boiled baked or fried with baked potatoes praised for crisp skins and hot serving. Use a hot oven for best texture, bake just done not soggy, and serve with cold meats. Roll potatoes cook slowly covered, start in cold water, drain, and keep warm with a towel. A stray note quotes a traveler in Belfuet about women and children.
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Cnid
Abe
Improvised Poultry Barns and Farm Gadgets From Then and Now
The piece outlines a versatile 14 foot wide General Purpose Poultry building with optional extensions, simple durable construction using lightweight roofing and 2x2 studs, a double air space, and a stone or brick foundation. It discusses ventilation, window treatment, and a method to haul coal, plus a Pennsylvania inventor praised for the horse ghost device. It also explains horse shoe corrugations for better footing and notes nitrate of soda as a soil and plant aid with about 17 percent ammonia content.
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Thia
Walla
Horace
Pennsylvania
Exterior Poultry House Uses Cloth For Warmth And Dryness
An exterior view describes a poultry shelter with heavy muslin and grass, two courses of cloth to match grass warmth, and a dry interior. A room contains two double rows of nests with a wire partition, and the hen’s nest opens to a small adjoining chamber.
Worthnesse Bat Benator a reporter's wartime query
A garbled exchange features Worthnesse Bat Benator asking who will bear the costs of a complete war footing. Senator Lots min brushes off, suggesting the burden lies with posterity of European or Absintle powers, while dismissing the question as uninteresting.
Juvenite Ipmorance Ledger Reveals Forlorn Exchange
A fragmentary dialogue shows two youths debating value and consequences of mischief. Tommy-Pew questions worth while Mr Ticker-About $4,000 prompts a puzzled response as Tommy contemplates fines or penalties.
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Juvenite Ipmorance
Tommy—Pew
Mr. Ticker
Tommy
Paw
Doan’s Kidney Pills Prove True for Charles Waster
A patient from Buffalo, New York, recounts severe back pain and kidney distress that left him unable to sit, lose weight, and feel clean. After trying various remedies, he used Doan’s Kidney Pills, improving gradually and achieving a permanent cure, with sales at 60 cents a box through Foster Milburn Co.
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Charles Waster
Hast Locustat
Wateeko
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Livery Day Philosophy in a Cheerful Tune
A reflective verse offers guidance that fortune tends to flirt with plans failing. The speaker urges continued optimism and a resilient smile as one moves forward, turning misfortune into lighthearted perseverance despite setbacks.
Securing Proper Grade in Trenches and Poultry Practices
The article outlines trench laying with five foot sight lines, rope and stakes, and a doorless practice yard. It notes warm sheds for winter, a brood room, and incubator basement, plus feeding methods for a flock and careful management for poultry profits. It also covers tree felling by electricity as impractical, strawberry variety Joe for mid-season berries, and dairy feed weight measures for ration planning. It notes Holland dairying, land values, and butter production as a competitive practice.
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Nes Norbes
Eastman Thaz
Deafness Cured by Constitutional Remedies Only
An ad explains deafness results from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and mucus membranes. It claims hearing loss can be permanent unless the tube is restored, offering $100 for any catarrh deafness not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promoting Hall's Family Pills.
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Hall
WJ. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Not Guilty Acquittal Quip At Irish Trial
A historic Irish murder case ended with the judge directing a not guilty verdict after palpably weak evidence. A famed lawyer, seeking his fee, offered to address the court and joked about preferring to acquit first to avoid an accident, prompting a wry exchange with the judge.
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Ireland
Lydia Pinkham Ad Promotes Herbal Tonic in 19th Century Note
A fragmented advertisement text urges women to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the recommended remedy for female ailments. It touts near-miraculous benefits, claims thirty years of use, and invites readers to write Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn for advice, presenting a gendered health promotion from a period newspaper voice.
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Den
Lydia H. Pinkhan
Womer
United States
Pinkham
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California Fig Syrup Co
Minelerippl
Mowcow
Western Canada
Dolliver
Iowa
Sayaz
Ominranta
Canada
Weoia Ichoala
Ciutrehon
Degeris
Dion
Anp't
Ottawa
BT. Holm
Sid Jeckwondt
Ht. Tau
Mion
J. M. MacLachian
Vox 10
Watertown
Howth
Dakota
Uso Aduroas
Ramley & Son
Lake Providence
Browning
Coleridge
Justica
Bunlies
Havery Tramcur
Belfuet
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
Chambers
Blemens-Schubert’ Company
Berlin
High River
Holland
America
Black Duck
Minn
Anna Anderson
Mit
Douglas
Cnea
Herdeads
Wa Parish
Pierce
Dr. Pioros
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