Little Things in Life Causes That Lead to Death and Fortune
A collection of anecdotes on how accidents and fear trigger deaths and remarkable lucky turns. Tales range from a coffee grain choking a child to bravado and misfortune with snakes, war, and superstition. Famous figures and historical moments illustrate how chance and imagination shaped lives and inventions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marks
Batgoon
Peter Francis
Indian Medical Service
Penteman
Frederick I
Prussia
Louisa
Mecklenberg
Pri ‘Rupert
Henry Schonward
Nuremburg
Pliny
Harles Goodyear
Chicago Times
Popular Science Catechism on Medicine Safety
A dialogue from Life magazine mocks druggist errors with morphine and quinine on one shelf and a deadly mix up. It notes Memphis Mississippi River bridge talks revival and hopes it would lift Memphis as a southern hub with a solid rock bottom claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarks
W. Y. Life
Mississippi River
Memphis
South
Peacock family almost mourners after coffin mix up
In Winsted Connecticut a Peacock family nearly held a funeral for a child thought dead who later revived after the coffin was returned. The child had slipped from the piazza into a tub of water and showed no signs of life until the next day when the coffin arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peacock
Winsted
Conn
Sun
Notable 19th Century Figures Cited in Literary Notices
A collection of brief items mentions President Buchanan at fifteen, Horace Greeley at Harlem, Beecher’s Stowe, and Mrs. Stowe’s income from Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Other notes cover Longfellow’s son illustrating a volume of his father’s poems, Don Pratt’s liver ailment in Ohio, Mollie Garfield’s sixteen beauty, John A Campbell’s legal stature and Confederate service, Annie Louise Cary’s fidelity to art over a Brooklyn offer, and Dr. Frederick H. Knapp’s distinguished medical and Masonic ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Longfellow
Bon
Don Pratt
Mac-a-Check
Ohio
Chicagoews
Mollie Garfield
N. Y
John A- Campbell
New Orleans
United States Supreme Court
Chicago Journal
Annie Louise Cary
Brooklyn Philharmonic
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Frederick H. Knapp
Chenango
Henry Clay
Thomas H. Benton
Charles M. Colrat
Zachariah Taylor
Andrew Jackson
General Santa Anna
M. Y
Humorous Bits From Coastal Papers And Jokes
A collection of quips and light humor from various papers. Silly puns include an oil city choir over the Hallelujah Chorus and a cranky conductor who can’t “kill time.” Other bits joke about bashfulness cures and a fashionably dressed tram-car passenger, with spoof quotes and mild wordplay throughout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oil City
Digby
Chicago Tribune
Schelling
Talbotsville
Norristown Herald
Pittsburgh Telegraph
Utta S
Puck
Also Mentioned on This Page
Geng Republican
Geo. Burt
Jbw
Eplonnars
Josephine Pollard
Brandenburg
de Montrevel
St.Simon
Anacreon
Tove
Aschylus
William the Conqueror
Chrysoppus
Elass
Thomas May
George Etheridge
Fopling
Lee
Pryden
Edgar
Allen Rée
Jean Baptist Santeul
France
O Cowley
Thomas Sprat
Rochester
Cowley
Xenocrates
Charles Lamb
William Duprat
Cleremont
England
San Domingo
Wylie
Felton
Pritts
Kingston
Galileo Gatelels
Editie
London
Brighton
Uise
William Lee
Cambridge University
Exper
Bill Lee
Joshua Heilman
Mulhouse
Alsace
Lord Bute
Mousley
Frederick
Prince of Wales
Kew
Leicester House
George III
Scottsman
Liverpool Scientific Society
Popular Science Catechism
Buchanan
Calles
Horace’ Greebts
Harlent
Beecher
Stowe
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