Evarts Dinner Anecdote Shows Wit and Champagne Puzzle
The account recalls a Washington dinner in 1888 with Charles Fairchild and William Evarts. A scientist at table questions a supposed natural law about champagne vigor. Evarts, with a sly joke, prompts the professor to investigate while subtly poking fun at the scientist.
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Savant
William M.varts
Mr. Evarts
Ren
Charles 8. Fairchild
Treasury
Cleveland
Evarts
Senate
Washington
Soiace
Proeisor
BE. J. Edwards
Let the Worst Come
Quote from Emporia Gazette warns that excessive wealth is the greatest burden for anyone, reflecting a moral or cautionary stance on money's ill effects. The saying emphasizes how abundance can corrupt or weigh down a person regardless of gender.
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Emporia Gazette
Peter Cooper's cheap device helped Morse bury no wires
Abram S Hewitt recounted how Peter Cooper, friend of Professor Morse, devised an inexpensive overhead wire insulator using a bottle neck to avoid burying telegraph cables. Morse adopted the idea, using bottle necks or bulb insulators atop poles, enabling long distance transmission and aiding the Atlantic cable effort.
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Abram S. Hewitt
New York
Peter Cooper
Newfoundatin
Ireland
Cooper
Cyrus W. Field
Europe
United States
Professor Morse
Mr. Cooper
Washington Square
New York City
Theodore Vail
Mr. Morse
Hewitt
B. J. Edwards
John Neal of Portland Pushed England to Read American Works
The article recalls John Neal of Portland Maine as a pioneer of American letters who sought to make England notice American writers. It details Neal's move to England to publish Yankee sketches in Blackwood's Magazine and his success in convincing English readers to adopt American fiction, inspiring readers of Fenimore Cooper later.
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John Neal
Portland
Thomas B. Reed
Congress
New York City
Edgar Allan Poe
England
Engish Quarterly
John’ Neal
Great Britain
Sjohn
Neal
Tohn’ Neal
Blackwood’s Magazine
All England
United States
Secret Blotter and Spy Tricks From Diplomats
Harper's Weekly notes how foreign offices guarded secrets with blotting paper and tools like sand shakers and absorbent rollers. The piece traces evolving methods to dry documents and prevent imprint spooing by spies.
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Foreign Office
Europe
British Foreign Office
Oroller
the. Cleveresti
Harper’s Weekly
Reporter Probes Diamond Theft Claim From Star
Press agent and reporter spar over the size of the diamonds allegedly stolen from the prima donna. The exchange centers on the claim and a playful misstatement about chestnuts.
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Bo Big
Thrifty Gracious Bar Gain Opinion Scribbles
A fragmented opinion piece critiques thrift and honesty amid a scattered barroom remark scene. The jumble references a bargain, a spouse, and accusations of lying, ending with a puzzled or mocking tone.
Handy Feeder For Poultry Invention From Illinois
An Illinois inventor presents a quad angular pyramidal poultry feeder with four compartments and four hollow legs in circular cups. A built in cut off above each leg controls feed flow to each cup, allowing same or different feed types per compartment.
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Illinois
How to Fatten the Geese
Practical advice on fattening geese for markets. Warns against old stock, recommends gradual confinement, clean darkened pens, feeding with corn meal milk beef scraps and grains, three daily meals, no green food, ample drinking water, grit at age 50, 24 hour fast before killing, goslings fatten best at 8 to 10 weeks, older birds fatten after twelve weeks with grass prior range.
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W. F. Purdure
Cull Out Now For Breeding Stock Management
The guidance urges culling of adult breeding stock for the season. Keep females with open-air quarters on shaded green ranges, avoiding exposure to males. Select best yearling cattle for continuation, with some two-year-olds if sound. Males kept should be in small colony coops on grass, only if breeding. Cull unwanted stock promptly and dispose before the birth cycle, ensuring lighter feeding in summer quarters.
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Sumumier Quarters
Canadian crop fortunes spark western farm boom
Reports from western Canada praise record yields with wheat reaching 35 to 40 bushels and oats 60 to 100 bushels per acre. Barley and flax are praised, with land sales rising as railways and land companies anticipate growth. Government agents offer farming guidance to Americans seeking homes and opportunities. Cole's Carbolisalve ad concludes the roundup.
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United States
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
States
Canada
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound praised for female ailments
A Pound Wis reader reports relief from dyspepsia and female troubles after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Elixir. The ad touts decades of use, lists conditions treated, and invites letters to Mrs. Pinkham for free advice.
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Pound
Wis
Lydia EE. Pinkham
Herman SteTn
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Investment offer for first mortgages through Gen Manager Cole
An aid on small months offers 10 percent interest on investments secured by first mortgages. For particulars contact Gen Mgr Cole, Con Inc Co Dept 12 410 Quincy Didg Denver Cole NY Minneapolis No 41 1911.
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Secuerity
First Mortages
Mgr. Cole, Con, Inc. Co
Dept
Quincy Didg
Denver, Cole
Reader’s Constipation Cure Promoted by Dr Caldwell
The Health Hints editors answer a common question about constipation. Dr Caldwell argues Syrup Pepsin trains the stomach and bowels to work naturally and offers a lasting cure with tonic ingredients. Free samples available by writing Dr Caldwell at Caldwell Building Monticello Illinois.
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Health
Caldwell
John Graveline
Milwaukee Ave
Detroit
Mich
A. Vernon
Oklahoma City
Dr. W. B Caldwell
Caldwell Building
Monticello, IL
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Black River Falls
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Goshen
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W.L. Douglas
W.l.douglas
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
W.L. Doug
Spark St
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