Printer's plight and a tramps hopeful offer in Missouri
A Brunswicker tale records tired printers facing hard times as a boss offers work in exchange for land in Missouri. A tramp seeks a corner lot but learns of a deeded sale to a boy papers carrier, while the boss hints at swamp land value and future riches before the tramp departs toward the East. Also notes on teachers value and pay in schools and a Brown University address stressing education quality.
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Aike
Printer
Missouri
Bari
Lian
Brunswicker
Providence
Robinson
Brown University
V, Y. Tribune
Bonding the Twig in Early English Education
The article argues that early schooling shapes intellectual and moral habits, stressing the teacher's crucial role in guiding children to read, write, and think. It warns against mechanical instruction and emphasizes forming good habits like honesty, obedience, and industry to prevent lifelong character flaws.
Early Chemical Experiments and Historical Lectures
Notes cover tests for gold and silver using lunar caustic, making imitation ground glass with putty, a new optical instrument called a microscopic telescope, and a lecture on coal by Prof. Brewer. It also cites the Journal of the Society of Arts criticizing wood pixtype and references parliamentary discussions, coinage data, and lectures in Keokuk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal of Chemistry
Brewer
Journal of the Society of Arts
Lemon Custard Cake and Home Remedies from 19th Century Farm Journal
An 19th century agricultural column offers recipes and domestic tips. It describes preserving fruit in sugar syrup, lemon custard cake assembly, hot slaw preparation, and apple preservation. It also discusses farming as converting manure into soil nutrients and emphasizes keeping the farm well maintained for fertility and productivity.
House Ventilation and the Health Value of Fresh Air
A Westminster Review piece urges universal focus on home ventilation as vital to public health, especially for the poor. It argues pure air equals water and food in importance, criticizes modern houses for neglecting ventilation, and describes a practical system using a basement fresh air chamber and a stove to circulate tempered air. The article urges builders and laws to prioritize healthful ventilation in homes, churches, and public halls.
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Westminster Review
Popular Science Monthly
Tribune
Ene
Balgihorn
Florence Nightingale
London
Chicago Tribuns
Honey Cakes From An Old Time Recipe
To make honey cakes mix strained honey with powdered sugar butter and citrus juice. Warm enough to soften butter then beat vigorously with grated nutmeg. Stir in flour to a stiff dough roll into a half inch sheet and cut rounds with a tumbler. Bake in buttered shallow pans.
Cigar Maker Enters Dubuque Alderman Race
A Dubuque cigar manufacturer enters the aldermanic contest with strong backers. Supporters praise his candidacy while opponents doubt his Havana style chances as he campaigns on the stump.
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Dubuque
New York Commercial Advertiser
New Haven Journal
Doston Post
Havana
Chicago Times
Schenck’s Medicines Promising Cure for Consumption Cures
A vintage advert claims Scuenck’s Pulmonic Syrup and associated tonics and pills cure consumption and other ailments. It notes the syrups purify blood, tonics aid digestion, and liver pills restore bile flow, with all medicines offered by Dr. Schenck at his Philadelphia office and through druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scuenck
Schenck
Sixta and
Amu Sts
Philadelphia
Schencks
Proprietary Chill Cure Promoted by WheeLock Inlay Co
A tonic claim lists cures for chills fevers bilious ailments and spleen enlargement. It asserts protection from malaria and liver hypertrophy and names Wheelock Inlay Co of New Orleans as proprietors with sale through all doctors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheelock, Inlay & Co
New Orleans
Heritage Health Brews Tips and Advertised Remedies
SASE BALL provides exercise and amusement but risks eye injury skin burns and blistered hands. Johnscn's Anodyne ointment promises swelling relief and pain reduction when used sparingly. Parsons' Purgative Pills pitched as safe and effective laxative. The Herald subscription offer notes Geo J Yeager 202 La Salle St charges $2.50 yearly with 25 cent sample.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnscn
Herald
Geo. J. Yeager
la Salle St
Eac
Finet Grand Exposition Opens in Pittsburgh Trade Institute
The Finet Grand Exposition of the Tradesmen's Industrial Institute in Pittsburgh opens October 7 and runs through November 6. For details contact AJ Nellis at his Pittsburgh address and inquire at local grocers about Prussing's White Wine Vinegar.
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Ues Prussing
Mesers Buckwalter Co. Bankers and Brokers at 36 Wall Street
Advertisement profiles Mesers Buckwalter Co Bankers and Brokers at 36 Wall Street New York as reliable in railroad stocks bonds and gold offering best references and urging correspondence for investments. Also mentions Chicago rail trips hotels and transient rates with fare details and a Liver Medicine endorsement from M R Lyon H D Lyon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesers, Buckwalter,&,Co
Wall Street
Sya A
Markets and notices from a 1920s page
Fragmentary OCR shows market listing snippets and recruitment lines. Mentions include Barron’s bone, Bible for the Young, salary notices, male applicants, address in Marion Ohio, a sample value note, and an invitation to the Grand Exposition of the Thantsuey Institute in Pittsburgh with a November open house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thantsuey 1 MorstRay Institute
Pittsburgh
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Trion Pub
Thac World
J. Bronson
Detroit
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Adams St
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Hannibal
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