Louisville and Nashville stock saga and other 19th century notes
A woman earns gains on Louisville and Nashville stock from 38 to 141 before selling after locating a certificate. A Detroit dentist offers free tooth extractions with laughing gas, using 700 gallons and 271 teeth removed. Nathan Greenfield builds colored cardboard card houses before his hanging. Also a malaria remedy ad and political bribery claim in San Francisco. Jasper Cargill walks 600 miles in six days, averaging 100 miles daily for four days. Continuous, period-voice notes with varied local items.
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Louisville
Detroit
Jasper James Cargill
California College At
Mendocino
Good Health Ad Claims Dr Guysett's Remedy
An advertisement extols Dr Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla as a universal cure and blood purifier for kidney weakness liver trouble and digestive disorders. It asserts no other remedy rivals it and urges readers to have their druggists supply the bottle then observe its effects. Joe Botts a negro desperado is described in a separate incident where Capt Hawley shot him after Botts struck Hawley and Botts fled wounded and captured later in a dying condition.
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Toledo
Ohio
Guysett
Joe Botts
Wyoming
Colorado
Missouri
Hawley
Rocky Mountain Detective Association
Denver
Botts
The Old Conductor's Story of a Night Express
A veteran conductor recounts a near fatal night on a Detroit to Chicago express. He ignores cries to stop for a dying sister, fails to heed signals, and only when the bridge is found missing do the brakes save the train. He credits a higher will with guiding the passengers to prevent catastrophe and implies a divine intervention.
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Detroit
Chicago
Dr Wistar’s Balm of Wild Cherry Adverts Cure Claims
An early medical advertisement touts Dr Wistar’s Balm of Wild Cherry as a superior cure for lung diseases including consumption asthma bronchitis and sore throat. It claims numerous cures and positions the tonic as a general remedy with rapid relief for coughs and colds. A large pint bottle is priced at $1 and readers are urged to ask their druggist to supply it.
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Wistar
Lyil
Robbery Motives Across Classes Stir Questioned Morality
In the Boston Commercial Bulletin argument, crime is driven by universal passions, not class, with examples from a thief abroad and a card cheat. The piece argues that judges may exempt harsh consequences to reassure society, linking women, cards, and drink as the common push.
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Ratinat
Royal Library
Maison d
We Might Have Been Poem Fragments In Aged Text
Fragmentary lines speak of life and lost potential. The speaker laments unfulfilled paths and the echoes of past love. The verse notes how vivid joys become mere sorrows when yearning for what might have been. The faded lines hint at a final, loveliness once seen that is now ended.
Hog-killing myths vs hog-scraping engine hype in Chicago
A humorous piece debunks the myth of a lightning hog-killing device in Chicago while highlighting new hog scraping patents. It notes the machine removes hog hair quickly and predicts output of thousands of hogs per day, then shifts to a historical anecdote about Thomas Marshall and a prophetic autograph erased years later.
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Detroit Free Press
Chicago
Gotham
Century-Long Centipede Tragedy at Utah Camp
At the mouth of Memphis Creek Utah Territory several Mexicans rested in camp when Telestoro Crucas spotted a nine inch centipede moving toward his leg. He fired to kill it but cramps ensued and he died within hours. A bullet nicked a nearby mule’s foreleg, and the animal died next morning with its leg swollen and skin bursting.
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Memphis Creek
Utah Territory
Telestoro Crucas
Crucase
Old Friends and Civil Kindness in Daily Life Passages
A reflective essay urges maintaining ties with old friends through simple acts of kindness and frequent visits, emphasizing the value of broad social circles as life changes. It notes ancient glasswork from Egypt dating back over 2,000 years and recounts a Brighton burial where horses drew the coffin to church, honoring a dying bride’s wish.
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Brighton
England
Catafalque
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Jones’ Drug Store
David E. Foutz
Baltimore
TUTT
Turr
Murray Str
New York
Welle, Richardson & CO
AV Ett Et Pret Pris
Roelineton
Banford
Oregon
Adieos Co
A. Cock & CO
U. S
Canadas
van Schanck, Stevenson & Co
Whoicente Druglists
Cincinnati
Gype Foundry Co. C. Wells
Breas
Wine St
Nathan Orlando Greenfield
Syracuse
Allen's Drug Store
Kane
San Francisco
Dundas, Dick & Co
Earth
Heaven
Boston Commercial Bulletin
Thomas A. Marshall
Kentucky
Washington
United States Senate
Old Capitol
Congress
Slade
British Museum
James Taylor
West Side Square
Ellers
R. E. Sellers & CO
Pittsburgh
Phillip Albaugh
Hathaway Block
John Bull
Smith
Bou
John J. Smith
Hubbard & Fry
Bainbridge, Ind
Thresher
Canton Monitor
Hubbard
Greencastle
J. A. Edwards
J. M. Randel
JO H Bull
Bull
Greencastle Foundry
Machine: Company
Culver
South Depot
Ind
J. L. Claspill
Tam
Henry C, Sterg
Limedale
Dr.Froase
S. Frease
M. D
New Brighton
Meaver Co
Shaege
Cornhill
Boston
Mass
Ben. Vandels & Co
Ann St
N.Y
B.A. Wilson
Penn
St. Williams_burgh
Advertiser
John DR. Ogden
Cedar 81
van Delf & Co
Ann St. N.Y
Ie CO
Ann &T., N.Y. Hin
Rolling Mill
John Ilby
Pheonix
Ek, Gus & Co
Pullen St
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