Queer Ways of Dying From Unusual Exits Through History
James Payn surveys sensational and curious deaths from antiquity to modern times. Notables include emperors killed by lightning or flawed fates, poets and doctors, jail fever in Oxford, and odd wills and vanishings that shaped local legends.
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Mount Vesuvius
James Payn
London News
Empedocles
Pliny
Anastasius
Gaius
Johann
Constantinople
Tarquinius
Charles II
Navarre
Henry I
Spain
Clement VII
Adriag VI
Heraclius
Anacreon
Oxford
Tavistock
Pinmstock
Devonshire
Dartmoor
Plumstock
Prodigal Sons Tale Recalls a Virginia Family
Major Steele of Albany recalls an adventure about the Reynolds family in Alleghany Virginia. Two sons skip school and meal trip, fear harsh flogging, and disappear. After years, the search ends with a surprising turn revealing how their fate unfolds.
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Major Steele
Albany
Alleghany County
Virginia
Reynolds
Forgetful Traveler's Wakeup Worry Recalled
In a humorous exchange a fat man and a sharp dresser recount a traveler who fretted over a forgotten task. He boarded a sleeper, remembered nothing, missed his business, hopped off and back on, and nearly ruined his plans before realizing a profitable wire deal saved him.
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Fatowan
Chicago Tribune
Take an Air Bath Remedy for Nervous Restlessness
A 19th century note recommends the air bath for nervous distress in women. It advises five to ten minutes in sunshine with doors closed, then dressing slowly in fresh linen and a crisp new gown to restore calm and brightness to appearance.
City Mayors Salary Gaps Highlighted in Epoch Tidbit
The Epoch notes Philadelphia mayor earns $12 000 annually while New York mayor gets $10 000. A quip about liquor odor and a dialogue with characters Stras gers and Braggers appears in a satirical exchange.
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Philadelphia
New York
Cnergyman
Stras Gers
Famous Quotations Attributed To Noted Authors
A collection of adages and sayings linked to Shakespeare Washington Irving Samuel Johnson Goldsmith Dryden Prior Milton Keats Franklin Sterne and others. The passage cites familiar lines such as Look before you leap Better late than never The end justifies the means and God helps those who help themselves.
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Sores Fashiar
Washington Irvine
Thomas Norton
Thomas ‘Pusser
Dryden
Matthew Prior
Colley Cibber
Richard
Cowper
Milton
Pacon
Thomas Southerne
Dean Swift
Campbell
Keats
Franklin
Latyrence Sterne
The Shah and His Critic
A Persian shah, famed writer and poet, tests scholars with praise and punishment. After a critic flouts a poem, the monarch orders flogging, then relents when the critic retreats to the stable. The king later hears a new piece and forgives the offender.
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Shah
Shah of
Persia
Carlyle
Confessional in Ireland Praised by Famed Father Curtis
The Life of Father Curtis, S. J., recalls a thronged confessional where poor penitents praised his mercy. A street cake seller donated gingerbread and asked if he should eat while speaking. The priest affirmed hearing generals and majors in confessions, guiding souls back to peace.
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Ireland
Father Curtis
S. J
Look of Admiration Echoes in Dismissive Exchange
A conversation reveals a flirtatious moment as Big Brother accuses a Pretty Sister of admiring Saphead. She retorts that she was merely gazing at her reflection in his eye-glasses, dismissing the claim.
No One for Hens Farmer Seeks New Egg Source
A distressed farmer and wife debate selling off hens as prices fall while patent incubators hatch a thousand chicks per hen. They discuss a western inventor producing artificial eggs by the million, questioning the hens' value.
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Matilda
Joshua
West
The Only One Word Puzzle Ad and Notes
A fragmented newspaper item notes a word puzzle ad from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co offering lithographs in return for guessing the unique word. It also mentions a Stockholm regatta with nine young ladies in dresses, J C Simpson of Marquess West Virginia, Hal's Catarrh Cure, and a Ripley Ohio curiosity a sun flower growing from a crevice in a maple tree.
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Dr. Harter Medicine Co
Stockholm
J.C. Simpson
Marquess
W. Va
Hal
Ripley
Castoria Slogan Recalled Across Generations
An old advertising jingle notes a motherly habit as Castoria was used from infancy to motherhood. The refrain emphasizes consistent reliance on the product through stages of a child’s growth and family care.
Notable snippets from a late 19th century Florida harvest and curiosities
A cypress tree in Florida yielded 125 pounds of pressed comb honey. An ad touts FATS-AN Fits stopping free by Dre Rue’s Great Neve Restorer with a $240 trial and a Dr Kinne address in Philadelphia. Also notes Hawaii sugar ownership by Americans, Piso’s Cure for Consumption claims, a one-year-old in St John New Brunswick patenting a toy, and Kansas school population at 509,614.
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Florida
Dre. Rue
Dr. Kinne
Avel St
Philadelphia
St. John, N. B
Kansas
German Syrup as Cure for Consumption Suggestion
An article argues that consumption is caused by tiny lung germs. It explains germs enter via food air or skin, reach the lungs, and multiply. German Syrup is claimed to loosen kill expel and heal the damaged tissue to make consump tives germ proof and well.
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Wellstead
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