Diverse industrial and cultural facts from 19th century America
A Greens bor o business buys 250000 rabbit skins this season. Wood treated with palatine oil resists rot for years. US cattle kills total 11825000 with meat value 608200000. About 600 inventors submit stock car designs to the American Humane Association. California rail freight cuts average 25 percent. Engine 411 on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway touted as world’s most powerful. Census Agent Jenney catalogs 1874 1880 fire losses. 40000 blanks to be distributed. Railway mail service covers 69 lines, 102166001 miles yearly, delivering 2658483520 letters. California wine product 35000000. vineyards planted 8000 10000 acres. Napa up from 297670 to 2460000 gallons. Land suitable for wine costs 85 125 per acre. Prof Francis Child Harvard asks for ballad collection from Irish memory, noting risk of offense among unlettered elder women. ballads in English desired, fragments valuable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
N. C
United States
American Humane Association
California Railroad Commissioners
Philadelphia & Reading Road
Jenney
National Census Office
California
Sonoma County
Napa County
Francis Child
Harvard College
Scotland
Child
Witty Trifles and Rural Rumblings Across Periodicals
A collage of quips and observations from multiple papers. Jokes on weather, manners, and language mingle with notes on stock theft, California fruit canneries, and a Burlington lumberman’s arms crest. The piece blends humor with brief economic tidbits and regional concerns.
Laws Target Sheriff Duty to Halt Lynchings
A new law removes from office any Sheriff who allows prisoners to be taken from custody to curb mob violence. The notice also cites various ads and miscellaneous items including medicines and personal notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Scovill Blood and Liver Syrup Promises Health Renewal
An advertising fragment touts Scovill Blood and Liver Syrup as a universal purifier and strengthener. It claims to cure scrofula and syphilitic disorders, improve digestion, and energize the elderly, with further mentions of Baker's Pain Panacea and Rogers' Vegetable Worm Syrup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scovill
Rogers
Remarkable testimonials urge cures for consumption and dyspepsia
A letter from William J. Coughlin of Somerville Massachusetts recounts severe lung bleeding in 1876 and a near death, crediting Dr William Hall's Balsam for the lungs with a dramatic recovery after using two bottles. The piece also includes several other testimonials for Dyspepsia cures, Libby Prison illness, and multiple tonics, urging readers to buy from local druggists and merchants like Conrad Cook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J.coughlin
Somerville
Mass
City Hospital
WM. Hall
Diverse Odds and Ends From an Old Ledger of Curiosities
A miscellany piece chronicles a $30,000 Stephens library, Kaladlit Okal juktualliait Kaldlisut Kablunatudio, and a 8500 yearly dress budget for a society lady. It notes St Pauls Church as a childhood remnant, a Maine Central ghost light arson hoax, Irish gentry castles, a boreen humor clash, a frozen snake revival tale, William Yardley’s 200th anniversary voyage, and a high Texas mansion with $76,000 cost. It also covers a Paris egg basket accident, Mary Anderson’s health at Sherman reception, and Joaquin Bishop the lone platinum worker in the U.S. with Russian mineral notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander H. Stephens
Greenland
Kaladlit Okaljuktualliait Kaldlisut Kablunatudio
Peter Cooper
New York
St. Paul's Church
Washington
Water Street
Broadway
Harlem
Maine Central
Hallowell
Ireland
Clare
McNamarre
Georgia
William Yardley
Staffordshire
England
Bucks County
Ile
Penn
America
Delaware River
Yardleyville
William Penn
Proctor
Texas
Wm. Coleman
Bee County
St. Mary’s
Paris
Maubiuee
Mary Anderson
General Sherman
Evadne
Juliet
Parthenia
United States
Joaquin Bishop
Sugartown
Chester County
Association of Mining Engineers
Bishop
Ural Mountins
Russia
Isto
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Lancaster
Messender OF Health
Mishler Herb Bitters CO
Parker
MVS
Xanan Bo
IROL
H. 8. Renick & CO
Des
Lydia E. Pinkham
Flynn
DI Overen
Western Avenue
Lynn Moe
Joby D. Park & Sors
Cincinnati
Ohio
Perth
Eames Lew
Rentonne
Treen
Altre
Lowis
Whitehall Times
Boston
Adam Bede
L’hiladelphia Chronicle
Whitehall
Burlington
Hawkeye
Oregon
Conrad Cook
West Side Public Square
Phillip Albaugh
Hathaway Block
Poe
T, Williams
F. Water St
Silwaakes
Rye Ly
J. A. Goldsberry
Williamson's Block
Indiana and
Poplar Streets
G. W. Bence
Greencastle
Dence
WW. S. Muldeon
Donnahue & Lewis
Landes Drug Store
Washington St
Ind
J. R. Miller
J. T. Moore
Miller & Moore, Altorneys At Law i Real Estate Agents, Greencastle Indice
Ta Ayne’s
Parker, Mart
ING & CO
Monnon
Swift
N.L. Gatscoway
J.T. Ronisos
Atlanta
WM. RK
T. W
Ira Stenim
Berrigan Springs
Mich
Sanford
Hester Howard
St. Louis
Lupia E. Pinkuam
Lynn
Health and Happiness
Guilford
Con
G. H. Richardson
Paducah
Libby
Tate
F. T. Gillaland
U.S. A
Detroit
Shiloh
Ankor Moat
Shilow
Thompson
J. L. Thompson, Sons & CO
Troy
Vow
Estabe
Tonahea
J Sorsten
Chreu
Nichols, Shepard & CO
Batue Creek
Michigan
Prance Eee
Canoon
Winper & Co
Prkox Uh
Indianapolis
Coodell Company
Antrim
Nel
Fog
Ayla
Alent
Ani
Circulara
Florence Machine CO
Florence
GEO. P. Bent
Jackson St . Chicaco
National Publis "G Co
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