Dreamland memories and a grim winter to tell
A fragmentary poem recalls a lost dream love and a long-ago beloved, Florence Peacock, with reflections on memory and fate. It is followed by an historical note from Chambers Journal and London Tit-Bits describing brutal winters in England, including the 1663-64 Great Frost and the 1836 snowstorm with deep drifts and disrupted life.
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Tebali
Florence Peacock
Chambers
London
Thames
England
Gow
Chambers’ Journal
Sretchlyn's Cheap Flowers and Odd Colonial Lore
Brooklyn shoppers enjoy bouquets at deep marks below New York florists due to suburban greenhouses. The piece notes flowers and greenery sold cheaply, a practice rooted in Brooklyn’s access to greenhouse supply avoiding middlemen. Additional fragments touch on historical meals, Scottish anecdotes, and satirical snippets from Detroit Free Press.
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Srechlyn
Primitive Road Building and Early Indiana Highways
A compact narrative on Indiana road history from 1817 corduroy to plank roads, detailing swampy mud soils, old surveys in Parke County, and the shift from corduroy to rail to plank. It notes the era of road laws, water drainage myths, and a 7,000 mile plank-road claim followed by later disillusionment.
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Indiana
Ilinois
Vincennes
Spencer
Our County
Parke
Indianapolis
Sooner
Wabash River
Montezuma
Lane's Family Medicine Cure for Constipation and Headache
Dr Bilas Lane in the Rocky Mountains discovered a root herb combination that claims to ease constipation headaches and cleanse the blood liver and kidneys. Sold by druggists for 50 cents a package.
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Bilas Lane
Rocky Mountains
Lane
Moon Reflections and Zuni Lore Inspire Love Folklore
A Buffalo Express note recounts Frank Cushing describing the Zunish view of the moon’s reflection as the younger sister of the moon, goddess of love and coquetry, influencing Zuni women to part their hair. A Boston Transcript quip compares kissing the plain to a wiser choice than the prettier. Fernandina News covers a tramp who alerted about out of service trucks on a car near Madison, Florida, yet was refused reward. he was later invited aboard and paid his fare.
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Frank Cushing
Buffalo Express
Madison
Fia
Fernandina News
United States Senators Discuss Direct Election Change
The piece explains Farmers Alliance push for direct senator elections, historical roots of the Senate, including the constitutional convention of 1787, small and large state dynamics, and the process required to amend the Senate's method of selection. It notes the current two-senator per state rule and the hurdles to changing it, including two thirds congressional approval and ratification by three fourths of state legislatures.
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Farmers’ Alliance
Continental Congress
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Congress
House of Representatives
Alexander Hamilton
Pinckney
Franklin
Senate
Senate of the
United States
National Tribune
Heart Disease Warning From Dr Miles On Common Poisons
In a recent work on heart disease Dr Franklin Miles notes many new facts. He says thousands poison themselves and weaken their hearts through tea coffee tobacco and alcohol. The habit speeds heart strain causing pain in side and shoulder shortness of breath and fainting. Also mentions a sale at Hildebrand's.
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Franklin Miles
Eneh
Hildebrand’s
From Beefs to Bells and Beasts in Obscure 19th Century Notes
A collage of brief items: poison in meat. Dr Emile Welts as Swiss president elect. social usage notes on married women's cards. Buckingham Palace rumors denied. hydrophobia risks. Rev John Elliott’s long Randwick ministry. Alps vegetation retreat. Uruguay fish and insects diversity. Sherman Hoar inspiration for Harvard statue. William Morris’ limited poetry. fashion tips on footwear and gloves. a New Haven school anecdote about musical staff terminology. tips on ticks and old ticking reuse. Newcastle newspaper centenary note. color perception in metals. Patten Multiplex Telegraph linking NY and Philadelphia. 1845 wave pressure data at Skerryvore. a medical testimonial for Hibbs Rheumatic Syrup. Hibbard’s Pills claim safety and multiple cures.
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Alps
Uruguay
Sherman Hoar
John Harvard
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard College
William Morris
New Haven
Newcastle
England
Hts
Laboring Through Storms In Downtown Work
A New York Sun summary notes day laborers in downtown districts, including masons and carpenters, continue work in rain and storms under electric lights, shattering the idea that rain halts brick and mason work. The piece cites rapid downtown construction powered by night and storm labor. A second item mentions a pun costing $100,000 after a witty misstep with an obese aunt. A German professor unveils a sprungfinger device for solo flying leaps.
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New York Sun
A First Rate Case and a Nutty Pension Claim
A veteran asks a pension attorney to prosecute a claim after claiming injury in the late war. The attorney seeks details as the veteran cites buying and eating a piece of an army sniler. A note references Paris Eiffel Tower as the world's tallest structure and touts a nerve medicine from Dr. Franklin Miles promising health benefits. Testimonials from Mrs. J R Miller and J D Taylor promise weight gain. A free illustrated treatise and sample bottle are offered at Hildebrand's with a guarantee.
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Eiffel Tower
Paris
Franklin Miles
J. R. Miller
Valparaiso
Ind
J. D. Taylor
Logansport
Hildebrand’s
Discoveries claim liver nerves cure all ailments
An advertisement touts a new principle that acts on the liver stomach and bowels via nerves, promising rapid cures for Liliousness bad taste torpid liver piles and constipation. It markets 50 doses for 25 cents with free samples at T E Hildebrand's drug store and promotes furniture bargains at Messenger building and H H Steving 514 Water Street, urging shoppers to act while stocks last.
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T. E. Hildebrand
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C. K Riddler
Boston
Niagara
Professor Samuel Sheldon
Popular Science
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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Greece
Italy
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Edward VI
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James Dwight
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Boston Transcript
Odds and
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Henry J. Smith
Mr. Labouchere
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Marlborough House
John Elliott
Randwick
Patten
Philadelphia
Stevenson
Skerrygore
John Muellerweiss, Jr
Alpena
Michigan
Charles Wright Medicine Company
Bolar and Graham
Hibbard
Lenge
Mackintosh
Chicago Tribune
Griese
Kate Field
Washington
Miles
Paul Vogel
Messenger Building
H.H. Steving’s
Water Street
E. G, Orr & Bro’s
Cate
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H. H. SteEvine
Casteria
Rouse
Johnston & Mack
Insurance
Agene
Ealer Ins
Tremont
New Howard
Acme Auteuse
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