Diverse World Notes From Chicago to Hartford
A sweeping collection notes for Sedgwick County debt per inhabitant, Russia’s population, steerage ships at Hamburg, Cuba market gardens, a Kentucky boat naming suit, Meharry Medical College’s influence, Algeria locusts on wheat, Peru Chile Bolivia land issues, and labor market anomalies in New England with farmers scarce workers yet city dwellers seek jobs, plus a Russia petition and Hartford County ferman figures.
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New York
Hartford
Conn
Courzut
New England
Hartford County
Oh Cheerful Lovelorn Verse Echoes in Song
A fragmentary poem excerpt recounts cheerful birds and brooks answering a lover. The speaker asks if loved, the daisy and crown imagery appear as wooing symbols. The piece evokes nature sounds, bees and clover, and a light romantic mood.
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Daisy
Emil W. Robinson
How He Found His Profession in Love and Healing
A biographical tale shows Willoughby Marable’s drift through schooling, mercantile failure, and literary ambition until a near blindness recovery scene with Margaret Western redirects him. Her revelation fixes his fate as a writerly physician and devoted husband, more valued than public achievement.
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Children’s Hospital
Wey
Willoughby Marable
Ilere
Margaret Western
Willoughby
Ile
Margaret
Board of Trade
Chambers of Commerce
Hlarper
Bone grafting from chickens saves man in Springfield hospital
John Dougherty, a Wabash Railroad section hand, suffered a severe shin bone infection in Chicago yards. Surgeons removed decayed bone and grafted live bone from four chickens under chloroform to restore strength. Four months later he walked with a crutch and months after without aids, later becoming a gateman at a Wabash crossing.
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Wabash Railroad Company
Springfield
John Dougherty
Chicago
Dougherty
Ife
New York Times
Dream Superstitions of Indians in Guiana
The article summarizes Thurmin on Indian dreams being as real as waking life and spirits acting in dreams. It compares the belief to Medieval German ideas of the soul leaving and returning to the sleeper, noting transformations often took the form of a small red mouse. Origin: St. Louis Republic.
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Mr. Thurmin
Guiana
St. Louis Republic
The Amende Honorable Aunty and the pikestaff remark
A short dialogue in Good News features an aunt puzzled by baseball explaining the game to a boy who corrects his phrasing with nose and pikestaff comparisons. The exchange underscores language play and humorous misunderstanding.
Jewels and Gold Seen as Symbols of Integrity Across Thought
A curio notes that authors and philosophers praise jewels while gold, seen as incorruptible, is rarely maligned. The quotation, attributed to Jenness-Miller Magazine, contrasts admiration for jewels with a harsher view of gold’s symbolic power.
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Jenness-Miller Magazine
The Human Ear and a Somnambulist Tale
A Washington Star interview explains why the ear remains elusive inside the skull while detailing the ear’s anatomy and the cochlea. A Grand Hotel anecdote recalls Louis Franz recounting a somnambulist’s midnight misstep, a miner in a dream seeking retribution, and a barroom water intervention that coolly resolved a blind rage.
Manna Like Lecanora Esculenta Reported In Asia Minor
A snippet from Youth's Companion notes a desert lichen, Lecanora esculenta, found after a rain shower near Mardin and Diarbekir in Asia. Described as edible bread substitute, pale inside white, yellowish outside, digestible and nutritious. Parrot reported its appearance in 1828 in Persia.
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Mansa
Bagdad
Turkey
la Nature
Mardin
Diarbekir
Tartary
Turkestan
Western Asia
Parrot
Persia
A Strategist Mrs Manhattan Beach Hat Dress Dispute
A Texan couple, Mrs Manhattan Beach pushing for a new hat and a dress, faces a tight budget. He fears money shortages and objects to a dress, offering only a hat if aid were possible, while she accepts a hat but remains disappointed.
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Manhattan Beach
Mr. Beach
Texas
Tall Idea Seeks Passage for Loucon in New York
A six foot six Tall Idea meets a stranger on a New York dock while seeking route for voyage to Loucon. The man offers odd advice about bread or Africa and a peculiar phrasing appears in the Harp’s Magazine excerpt.
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Professor C
Green Mountain
Loucon
New York
Night at the Central Park menagerie reveals animal rest positions
A late night visit to the Central Park menagerie shows elephants sleeping on their right sides, deer with forelegs bent, oryx horns arched, camels stretched, and many predators and birds resting on varied postures. The report notes numerous animals in the lion, hyena, hippo, and smaller mammal houses, with civets and monkeys also depicted. A separate item recalls a Bible with 165 pins inserted to mark verses.
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Central Park
Conklin
Jack
Ranny
Woness
Couchant
Fatima
Hippo
Zebus
New York
Also Mentioned on This Page
Indiana Progress
Wepsespar
Sedgwick County
Kan
Russia
Chicago News
Hamburg
New York City
Cube
Bermuda
Cuba
Detroit Fres Press
Kentucky
Kittie Marshal
Meharry Medical Department
Central Tennessee College
Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery
Meharry College
Algeria
France
Morocco
Tunis
Tripoli
England
Peru
San Francisco Chronicle
Chile
Bolivia
Tacna
Arica
Tarapaca
Gual
Ic & Villager
Washington Star
Helmholtz
Louis Franz
the Grand
Louis
Seattle Telegraph
Springfield Homestead
Panama
United States Naval
Consignee
Alexander Skerkoff
Sas
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