Alchemist Death in Prague Triggers Chemistry Reflections
A Prague accident recalls alchemists and chemists of old as Prof Fischer, age twenty five, dies amid experiments with cyanide of potassium. The piece warns of prussic acid dangers, explains gunpowder analogies, and notes chemistry’s dual power to aid life and threaten ruin. It contrasts engineering progress with chemistry’s perilous reach.
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Ulty
Pitof
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Bohne
Roger Bacon
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Tor
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London
Open Letter From Mark Twain On Presidential Run
An extended satirical piece presents Mark Twain as declaring plans to run for president with an open record. He jokes about the need for a candidate who cannot be harmed by past investigations and rails against reformers, recalling his own misdeeds and reckless boasts in a wry political trap. He also cites a separate medical case of a man with a brain injury and a dramatic recovery.
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Drabrant
North-western Fertilizer Company
Forty-Fourth Street
Stock-yards
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South Halsted Street
Times
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Crane
Chicago Times
Henry Hammond
Marshall
Hammond
Wellers
Pennsylvania
Murray
Haggart
Westervelt
Jim
Gabriel
Hurey
OlgMra
Duie
Acme edition of Chambers Cyclopaedia issued for June 1
Announcement of the Acme edition of Chambers Cyclopaedia of English Literature Volume IV due June 1 with four volumes to follow at once. Prices fixed at 200 paper, 300 cloth, 475 half morocco gilt, 375 four-volume half morocco. Discounts for early orders and clubs. postage 48 cents. American Book Exchange advertises direct sales and free specimen pages. Also mentions a mysterious Grove affair and a young woman missing three weeks ago, likely dragged by criminals, body not found.
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Morocco
Phare
American Book Exchange
Beekman’ Street
New York
How Women Would Vote on Favorite Prescription
A letter from Iowa City dated March 14 1878 endorses Dr Pierce s Favorite Prescription as an unfailing remedy for diseases of women. Mrs Paul R Baxter reports months of suffering relieved after using the medicine and credits its use with a complete cure.
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Dr. Pierce
Paul R. Baxter
Brave bantam rooster saves crow from fox scuffle
A Dayton Journal tale pours over W P Lewis's Gem City mill scene where a tiny bantam rooster rescues a tame crow from a sly fox. The rooster dives in with wing and spur, forcing the fox to abandon the crow and retreat to its den, leaving the crow unharmed beyond a few feathers.
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Gem City” Paper Mills
Millson
East Water
Cincinnati
Raynard
Sle
Reynard
Dayton Journal
Lamentable Annie Moore Story and Williamsport Fire Alarm
The Lamentable Story of Annie Moore reports Mrs. Frank Dangerfield nee Annie Moore living in Salem Ohio with a colored husband and declining insanity rumors while asserting contentment and independence. The Pittsburg Gazette notes Annie Dangerfield’s determination to stay with her spouse, and a Williamsport fire chief, spotting a upside down Union flag, rang alarms and demanded an apology, but he was later described as drunk.
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Annie Moore
Sajem
The
Sunday Critic
Dimont Insane Asylum
Ly Roy
Annie
Mr. Dangerfield
Pittsburg
Drunken Stuff and Questionable Medicines Critiqued
A column warns of hidden dangers in cures claimed as safe medicines. It highlights deaths among women and children from improper treatments and touts Hop Bitters as an alleged harmless remedy. The piece questions whether readers can trust such products and directs to another column for more details.
Local morals clash over courthouse cherubs and public figures
Fragmented OCR text covers a variety of items including removal of cherubs from a courthouse portal in Rockford, aging indifference to complaints, medical ads, a Boston man dead, and notes on a Missouri murderer, a bank statute, a barbershop incident, and revivalist campaigns with dramatic conversions across cities.
Rights of the road and farmer ownership contrasts
A historical legal opinion explains that a ter dee edges the road to its middle, granting the farmer rights to grass, trees, stones, and surface use, yet restricting feed, cutting, or building on the right of way. Public travel remains primary, with highway surveyors directing material use and access.
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Ideugi
Maddy
Shane Mesgaborg
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