Torn Fragmented News Digest of Accidents and Tragedies
A roundup of mishaps and deaths ranges from a fifteen month old in Des Moines dying after drinking, to a Portland boy losing a two cent coin from his throat, to boiler explosions and railroad fatalities. Reports include a Brooklyn man who died on a hot stove, a fire in Tidcout Pa, a Milwaukee boiler yard blast, and a fatal pistol accident in Indianapolis. A tannery boy crushed in Moonroo and a Nashville dance tragedy add to the grim tally. The piece mixes scattered notes, weather quirks, and a geometry lesson about flagpoles observed by schoolboys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Lowat
Portland
Maine
Quebec
Joseph King
Tidcout
Fogue
Monroe
Mich
Wisconsin Central Road
James Lakin
Fredénia
Union Depot
Cleveland
Charles [Schcock
Mitchell Hoffman
Indianapolis
John Shields
Peoria
Waa
Shields
Ye Yard
Moon‘roo
Mick
Wredi Kenner
Nashville
Tenn
Briley
Robert Bates
Ady
Avor
Bates
Union
Johnson
Corpae
How They Measured the Flagstaff on Scote Hill
A correspondent recounts how boys in Fairmount Park set up a simple measurement device to gauge the flagstaff height on Scote Hill. They improvised with a four foot rail and two perpendicular sticks three and four feet high spaced one foot apart to form a makeshift instrument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nasheed
Aleo
Ard
Scote’s Hill
Fairmount Park
Bo l
Reading Advice for Self Improvement and Knowledge
Henry Ward Beecher on reading outlines how to choose texts and build a library through essential works. It urges ownership of dictionaries atlases gazetteers and encyclopedias, advocates careful, map guided study and frequent dictionary use to expand vocabulary and pronunciation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rey
Thirin
Extraordinary Paris Jewelry Robbery Aboard Calais Train
Paris merchant M. Cohn bought jewels valued at £6000 for London houses. After dinner with clerks he rode a Calais bound train in an empty compartment. Four strangers entered, bag and valuables vanished at Calais. a later Dover arrival found him unconscious after a suspicious Havana cigar.
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Tux
Paris Figaro
M. Cohn
London
Calais
Cohn
Colin
Dover
Bag
Stranger
Home remedies and farm tips from the era
A digest of household cures and farming notes covers isinglass jelly for dyspepsia and cloth care, chicken prep tips, gypsum and marshmallow plates, Rhode Island Johnny Cake, a weekly breakfast plan, use of wood ashes in soil, kerosene oil against lice in poultry, and manure handling in winter with irrigation insights from Western Rural sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica
Scientific American
Rhode Island
Drawing and Spreading Manure In Winter
Farmers are advised to haul and spread manure as soon as possible in winter or after freeze to improve spring crops. Spreading on frozen ground prevents soil heaving and reduces spring work, while late spreading risks muddy roads and poaching. Straw mulch or long manure helps pasture and mowing prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theresa
Brown's Bronchial Troches for Coughs and Colds
An advertisement touts Brown's Bronchial Troches as providing immediate relief for coughs colds and throat irritation. It claims benefits for hoarseness throat issues and voice clearing, endorsing Knowl's Proprietary Troches and warning against imitations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Lund
Knowx
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Henry Sward—Beecher
Reading
Stan Alley
Rosap
Almarag
Wilson Carr
Baltimore
Scrofula
Baltimo
Baltimore E. Conference South
Clements ,Co
Commerce
Azkyour
Rosanans
J. M. Vandyke
Walnut Street
Philadelphia
Penns
Radway
Baday
Ile
Napwax
Rapway
Tlas
Cicero
Kinney
Pate
Reyes
Drugzist
Radway & CO
Warren St
Scientific America
Munn & CO
Park New
New Yorks
7Ths Sts
Washington, D-C
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