Rheumatic disease blamed on bacilli say Cincinnati doctor
A Cincinnati physician argues rheumatism is caused by bacilli from decaying vegetation. He cites microscope work and patient cases, noting exposure to plants and damp rooms as triggers. The claim accompanies discussions on manuscript poetry and Fort Yuma recollections.
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Cincinnati
Bacilli
Brown-Sequard
Br. Baveseiaties
Wrest Eighth Street
Cincinnati Enquirer
El Dorado canyon and Colorado river exploration claims
A San Francisco Examiner piece describes ancient camp gear in salt mines, microglyphs unknown to tribes, and Capt. Mellon extolling Colorado river valleys as a future irrigation rich orange country. He details El Dorado canyon’s towering walls, river width, and long navigable sections, predicting extensive exploration awaits.
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Louisiana
Salt Mountains
Mojave
Yuma
Mellon
Great
Colorado
Globe
el Dorado Canyon
Grand Canyon
Gila
Nevada
Utah
Pacific Coast
Columbia
San Francisco Examiner
A Railway Car of Steel From Chicago News
A mysterious Chicago iron car project near Wentworth avenue and Fortieth street is reportedly a steel boiler shaped like a horseshoe with riveted panels and windows. Backed by Missouri capitalists and attributed to Ford, the design claims durability, noncombustibility, and low cost with ventilating pipes and pumped air for winter warmth.
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Chicago
Re and Bolt
Wentworth Avenue
Fortieth Street
Ford
Missouri
Chicago News
Mixed Marriages in England and Catholic-Protestant Tensions
A Roman Catholic woman wished to wed a Protestant doctor. The cardinal granted permission for the ceremony but without the musical reception, removing a key attraction. The case illustrates the social and religious pressures surrounding interfaith marriages reported in the era.
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England
London
The Experience of Multitudes in a Cure Claim
A Rondout New York advertisement touts Dr. David Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy as a cure for fever and ague, biliousness, rheumatism, and debility linked to impure blood. It claims lasting benefits where other medicines fail.
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David Kennedy
N. Y
Ordinary scrap saves life with miracle discovery
In this aged advertisement style narrative a gravely ill woman near death from consumption reads a note about Dr King’s New Discovery on scrap paper. She uses sample and full bottles, improves rapidly, and gains weight to 140 pounds. A druggist in Fort Smith is urged to send a stamp for fuller particulars and Hildebrand's Drug Store offers free trial bottles.
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Dr. King
Fuller
W.H. Cole
Fort Smith
Hildebrand’s
Electric Bitters Promises To Cure Dyspepsia
A vintage medical advertisement touts Dr Miles cures and Benny Brown from Cleveland as a success story. It claims Electric Bitters aid digestion, cure dyspepsia, and improve liver stomach and kidney ailments. Sold by T E Hildebrand at 50 cents and 1 dollar.
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Dr. Miles
Benny Brown
Cleveland
Ohio
Tom E. Hildebrand
T. E. Hildebrand
Hotel Albion Promises Modern Comforts At Low Rates
The Hotel Albion near Union Depot Pittsburg Pa offers refitted first class accommodations with American and European plans. The house features a ladies dining room bathrooms closets electric bells and all modern improvements open day and night with meals at all hours.
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Albion
Union Depot
Pittsburg
The Beat Salve for Cuts and Skin Ailments
An 19th century advertisement promises Beat Salve as a universal remedy for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, rheum, fever sores, chilblains, corns, and skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money back, priced at 25 cents a box, sold by T. E Hildebrand, Druggist.
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T. E Hildebrand
Enterprising firms showcase exhibits amid bankruptcy sale
T M Latimer of Federal Street Allegheny features fur rugs cymistey and blypisodis carpetings while discounting J R Anderson's entire stock of ladies wraps wool dress goods blankets men's underwear and winter wear. With over sixty thousand dollars worth of goods packed away for summer the sale promises a busy Exposition week at 138 Federal St Allegheny.
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T. M. Latimer
Federal Street
Allegheny
J. R. Anderson
T. Matimer
Federal St
Odell Type Writer Ad Promises Sharp Manuscripts
The Odell Type Writer will buy the Odell Type 4 Pywarren. Warranted to do as good work as any $100 machine. It combines simplicity and durability speed and easy operation. Wears longer without repairs than others with no ribbon to bother the operator. Neat substantial nickel plated and adaptable to all kinds of writing. Produces sharp clean legible manuscripts. Two to ten copies can be made at one writing. Offers $1000 to any operator who can beat its output. Reliable agents wanted. For pamphlet address The Odell Type Writer Co The Rookery Chicago Ills. 8 nov'sd
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QDELL
Theodell Type Writer CO
Rookery
Chicago
Isls
Drexel Institute Plan Reexamined for Wayne near Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Ledger reviews the Drexel Institute scheme to be built at Wayne near Philadelphia. It discusses aims for free instruction, a large 2,000 seat hall, and broad facilities for up to a thousand day and a thousand evening students while noting cost concerns and governance simplicity. It also notes earlier concerns about home influence and the project’s potential endowment needing about 1.5 million dollars.
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Philadelphia
Cooper
Drexel
Wayne
Philadel
Franconsterasops
West
York
Drexel Institute
the Lion
Philadelphia Ledger
Kent County Horse Death Mystery Sheds Light
In Kent County a horse was found dead after an unclear incident described as a recent and puzzling death. Mysterious factors remain, with no satisfactory explanation of the nature of the trouble. Local authorities note the inability to determine cause at this time.
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Kent
A Great Physician Proclaims True Way to Act as Liver
A historic medical note states a physician declares the liver's proper function as a model for living. The quotation reflects ethical guidance and medical views attributed to a respected doctor of the era.
Rotary Shuttle Triumph Sparks Sewing Machine Victory
Cry of triumph greeted the first revelation of a sewing machine shuttle as old time machinists predicted rain recoiled. The Western inventor’s genius rewards millions, birthing a new era when garments nationwide yielded to the Rotary Shuttle’s work.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ole and
Whittier
Thomas ile _Aldrich
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Will Carleton
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Salem
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