Inspector James tells a postoffice misfit tale
Postoffice Chief Inspector Christopher C. James shares a country encounter about a job applicant who took the wrong line for a position. A brief examination led to a mistaken trust, the man requesting his money and James realizing the mix up. The tale ends with a humorous remark about marks to identify him.
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Postoffice
Christopher C. James
Inspector James
Post Office
Astor House
Waal
James
Killing Off Mosquitoes Through Drainage and Fish Stocking
A New York scientist recounts a method to curb mosquitoes by draining swamps, stocking ponds with fish, and preemptively treating rain barrels and tanks with kerosene. He notes a July pond treatment killed 370 mosquitoes in ten days, suggesting drainage and biological control could lessen the nuisance.
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Onteora Mountain
Farmersville
Green County
N. Y
New York Post
Religious thief silenced at meeting over hay theft
In early Ithiel Smith’s Sunday River valley, a neighbor’s late visits and repeated hay theft led to a rare public confession. Smith tracked the culprit, exposed him at a schoolhouse meeting, and, after a shouts of religious fervor, observed the man’s hay safe at last, while the crowd laughed at the dramatic reveal.
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Sunday River Valley
Ithiel Smith
Smith
Saz
Hay
Lewiston Journal
Stillwater
Greenwich
Tom Jefferson
Hudson
Jefferson
William Tobin
Hoe
Odds and Ends Nuggets From an Old Column
A compilation of assorted notes and curiosities including sayings on men and women, early inventions like shoemaking machines, natural curiosities, and short anecdotes. It weaves trivia on weights, legends, a vibrating chair by Charcot, Franklin toast, and brief ads, reflecting a late 19th century miscellany taste.
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Socrates
Gallahue
Ashantee
Africa
Tintorello
Bentham
England
United States
The Light of the Future in Tesla's Electric Vision
A Chicago Inter Ocean excerpt champions Nikola Tesla's electric lighting as the future surpassing incandescent lamps. It describes phosphorescent glow, artificial auroras, and glowing planes, noting some ideas may or may not be realized while praising the guiding potential of his concepts.
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Hiram
Chisago Times
Richfield Springs
Richfield
Earlington
Tesla
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Tensorial
Inhabited High Places Across the World
The highest regularly inhabited place is in Thibet at 16 000 feet. The Americas' peak is Galera Peru at 15 635 feet. A Brooklyn man offers a free prescription for consumption and related lung ailments, claiming a sure cure. Contact Rev Edward A Wilson for details. A Purcell Indiana man touts Chamberlain’s Pain Balm as a cure for paralysis and rheumatism with local dealer listings. Farmers are told J C Moorhead will pay top market rates for rye undies No 1 timothy hay and mixed hay delivery West Indians cornered at his shed.
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Thibet
Americas
Galera
Peru
St. Louis Republic
Edward A. Wilson
Brooklyn
New York
J.C. Moorhead
Timothy
Misers with Good Motives and Cures Pitches
A mixed ad and anecdote piece discusses misers driven by noble motives who leave fortunes for public works, then shifts to promotional notices for Hood’s Sarsaparilla and other patent medicines. It includes an offer of free Otto’s Cure samples and an aggressive sales pitch from Daugherty Bros. Indiana Pa.
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Daugherty Broa
Druggists
Indiana
W. I. Moore
Homer City
W. A. Abbott
Messrs
Percival
Hatton
Des Moines
Iowa
Chamberlain
Daugherty Bros
Drauggists
W. ET. Moore
Misers
Itajan
Bethlehem Hospital
East End
Cassell
Hood
Vision relief notes from Indiana County readers
Over two hundred residents in Indiana County express gratitude for Dr. Churchill and Prof. Little. Oct 6 and 7 offer free examinations at Churchill's dental office, with glasses praised for clarity, headache relief, and comfort, including elderly and long-time wearers.
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Indiana County
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the Earl of Balcarres
Earl of Balcarres
Macmillan’s
London
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Manchester
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Chimbers’ Journal
Keap
Aiready
Bespood
Manayunk
Ben Davis
Joe Winpenny
Davis
Winpenny
Philadelphia Record
Dr. King
T. E. Hildebrand
Bucklen
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Colville
Wash
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Mashena
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Pall Mall Gazette
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Tom French
Mr. Franklin
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Joshua
America
New York Telegram
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Dot
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U.S
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Detroit Free Press
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Purcell, Ind
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W.L. Moore
Herrick Bros
Otto
J. R. Stumpr
Prof. Little
John T. Stuchul
David Miller
Orphans’ Court of
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Hugh Neal
Wim. A. Uncapher
Jas
Black
Wim. L. Neal
Wm. L. Neal
Booth
Potaresks
Green Township
India
Act of Assembly
Barbor
Jno. T. Stuchull
J. E.jhonson
Cherrytree Borough
Mary J. Johnson
Grant
Fiatta Smith
William Smith
Rayne Township
S. M. McMasters
S.M. McMasters
Church Street
Penna
James A. White
American House
the Atlantic Refining Co
Pittsburg
Standard Oil Company
Vicinity
J. F. Barnes
Palieotht Iy
BOO Bend Floming Mill
Townsend & Som
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South Bend
Orphans’ Court of Indians
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