Paralyzed Man Recovers After Using Williams Pink Pills
O B Dallimore of Madison, Nog reports sudden Landry's paralysis in March 1891 with rapid decline. After starting Williams Pink Pills for Pale People on April 28 he improved, walking by July and resuming work by October, with sworn affidavit dated 1894. The second item notes Washington Capitol building milestones and dimensions.
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Times
Philadelphia
Landry
O. BE. Dallimore
Madison, Nog
Mr. Dallimore
London
York City
Ont
Williams
Niagara
Ontario
New York
Amus Crathrbun
Schenectady
Nickel Plate adds dining car on No 6 and No 2 trains
The Nickel Plate Road announces new dining car service on train No 6 departing Chicago at 2 p m daily and on train No 2 leaving Chicago at 9 20 p m with direct connections to New York and Boston. Breakfast and dinner on No 6 and notes on routes rates maps folders are available from agents or J Y Calahan General Agent Chicago Ill.
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Nickel Plate Road
Chicago
New York
Boston
J. Y Calahan
Chicago, Ill
Short Journeys on a Long Road promotional notice
An illustrated book promises over one hundred pages of summer resort descriptions north and west of Chicago. A free copy can be obtained by sending ten cents for postage to Geo H Heatford, General Passenger Agent, Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway, Chicago Illinois. The Custom House at New Orleans is highlighted as the largest in the country. Begun in 1848, it took over thirty years to finish. Built of Quincy granite with marble interior, it comprises 111 rooms, stands eighty feet high to the cornice and 187 feet to the dome. The dome is 49 by 61 feet, and the total cost is given as 4 000.
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The
Capitol
Washington, Day
United States
Washington
Chicago
Geo. H Heatford
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
New Orleans
National Council of Women
National Council
Democratic Party
Council
Women's Republican Association
Mia Davis
Mra Dickinson
Mra Davis
Vigueura
Indianapolis
Removal of Nickel Plate Ticket Office Moves to Adams Street
The Chicago city ticket office of the New York Chicago and St. Louis Railway known as the Nickel Plate Road will relocate on May 1 to 111 Adams Street opposite the post office. J Y Calahan serves as General Agent.
Colonial Landmark Gone in Virginia Fire
A colonial house at Mantau in King and Queen county Virginia once home to Carter Braxton signer of the declaration burned to the ground. A new dining car service between Chicago and Buffalo via Nickel Plate Road offers meals on through trains for travelers. For reservations see your ticket agent or J Y Calafan Chicago. Among Hottentots a widow who remarries must present a finger joint to her new husband.
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Mantau
King and Queen County
Virginia
Carter Braxton
Mr. Gresham
Cheago
Buffalo
Nickel Plate Road
Chicago
New York
Bos
Heal
J. Y. Calafan
Leaders of Women Elect Mary Lowe Dickinson Chair
Special correspondence profiles Mary Lowe Dickinson president of the National Council of Women. A New Englander by birth and education, she became a New Yorker by adoption and a tireless worker guiding the council through reform and temperance efforts. The piece notes her career as teacher and professor, her editor role, and the council’s structure and future plans with Washington 1898 as next meeting location.
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Mary Lowe Dickinson
National Council of Women
John B. Dickinson
New York
Silver Cross
King’s Daughters and Sons
University of Denver
Emerittus
Dickinson
Isabella Charles Davis
King’s Daughters
National Council
Mary Wright Sewall
Foreign Affairs
National Woman Suffrage Association
Pans
Rachael Foster Avery
Department of Home
A &F
Washington Mte
Lillian M N. Stevens
Francis Bagley
Michigan
The
Currency Values Across Nations Mentioned in 19th Century List
A dense catalog lists foreign money values including the pound sterling at $484 and the guineas at $5.05. It notes Napoleon at $3.84, fire franc 96 cents, and various coins from Saxony to Belgium with figures like the ducat of Austria at $2.28 and the Swiss franc at 18%4 cents.
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Pound Sterling
England
France
Thaler
Saxony
Netherlands
Austria
Spain
Russia
Belgium
Bavaria
Switzerland
Tuscany
Poor Man's Region in the Pine Barrens
A description of the Poor Man's Region extending over seventeen hundred miles from Richmond Virginia along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts to beyond western Louisiana. The belt features long stretches of pine forests dominated by a chief tree the longleaf pine and yields timber pitch rosin turpentine.
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Richmond
Atlantic
Gulf Cona
Louisana
B.mber
Low Grade Gold Ore Process Promises Efficient Recovery
A Beaver Park Coloras co mill unveils a ore grinding system using heavy hollow rollers and rotating pans to produce ultra fine powder. Free gold is separated and recovered via chemicals while rotary roasters enable daily capacity near 100 tons at low cost, reducing losses from rusted surfaces and gangue.
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Pew
Beaver Park
Col
Liberty their giant statue of liberty overview
The Liberty statue presented to the United States by France in 1885 is described as the largest statue ever built. It weighs 440000 pounds with 146000 pounds copper. iron and steel form the inner skeleton. the giant is 18214 feet tall excluding pedestal and foundation.
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Liberty
Bartholdi
United States
The Great Pyramid of Ghizeh Extends Vast Antiquity
The pyramid is the largest man made structure, with a base of 764 feet square and a height of 488 feet, covering four acres. It likely cost at least £30,000,000 and possibly $146,200,000 in US currency. Internal evidence dates its beginnings to about 2170 B C near Abraham’s era, built from about 6,000,000 tons of stone transported roughly 700 miles from Arabian quarries.
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Prent Pyramid
Ghizeh
United States
Abraham
Arabia
St Peter's Cathedral Rome Grandest Temple of Worship
The article notes St Peter's Cathedral in Rome as the world’s grandest church built on Nero’s circus site in the northwest city. It records interior length 612 English feet, transept 446 feet, nave height 152 feet, dome height 44h feet, dome diameter 193 feet, and a great bell weighing 18 600 pounds. Foundations started 1450 AD. forty three popes lived and died during the work. dedi cated 1826, finished 1880. Coat valued about 70 000 000 dollars. Carl Browne is noted for views on eggs as diet but not as apparel.
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St Peter's Cathedral
Rome
Nero's Circus
If Earth were perfectly level waters would cover six hundred feet
The text posits that a perfectly level Earth would have oceans depth to six hundred feet. It presents a geological thought experiment about global water coverage and topography without citing sources or measurements.
The Best Way to Eat. Plan Debate Prompted by Mr Depew
A Chicago Times-Herald interview quotes Mr Depew on American vs European plans for dining while traveling. He argues the American plan fosters temperate eating or a revolt into vanity, leading to dyspepsia and wasteful excess at the table.
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Mr. Depew
Chicago Times-Herald
Name of God in Forty Eight Languages
A catalog of numerous terms for the divine across many tongues. The list includes Hebrew Eleah Jehovah Chaldaic Fillah Assyrian Eleah Syrian Turkish Arah Malay Alla Arabic Allah and many more from Greek Theos Cretan Aeolian Germanic to Chinese Japanese Persian and beyond.
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God
Thies
Exposition touted for world value and medical advances
The piece proclaims the World’s Columbian Exposition will showcase mechanical arts progress and cites physicians praising advances in medical agents. It touts Syrup of figs as a superior laxative and mentions political anecdotes about poetry and a landslide. It also advertises Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Cheney’s druggists testimonials. It notes a Count de Castelane rumor of a low settlement.
Vintage Patent Medicine Smear and Advertisement Fragments
A collage of old time ads and quips touts cures for teething infants coughs and colds and remedies for fatigue and nerves. Mentions Wixsion's Footumna for Teething Prigo currency coins and Yanson's Maglio Corn Salve with promise of refunds. Includes a humorous parrot joke and a 1864 testimonial from Mrs. G Burst.
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Ernie
Mrs. G Burst
Sprague, Wash
Lake Superior the world’s largest fresh water body
The text describes Lake Superior as the largest freshwater body globally. It is about 400 miles long and 180 miles wide with a circumference near 1,800 miles. It covers 32,000 square miles, exceeds New England in area, and has depths around 1,200 feet with an average near 960 feet, while standing about 636 feet above sea level.
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Lake Superior
New England
Maine
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Yanson
Prigo
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May Manton
Coupon Pattern Company
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