Quaint Directory Entries From New York City 1786
The New York Post notes a first directory from 1786 with quaint listings. Entries show doctors as apothecaries, clergymen with precise titles, trades like breeches makers and tooth pullers, and roles such as shopkeepers, tavern keepers, and watch men.
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New York City
Samuel Bredhurst
Queen
Don Pearl
Church of
Rowe
Beekman Street
Leon Rogers
Broadway
John Bean
Cherry Street
Punch and Potter House
Jo Deleplane
Queen Street
D. Hitchcock
John Hogland
Gaddier
Henry H. Kip
King Street
John Nitebie
Garden Street
Samuel B. Webb
Lower Dock
AgroraniienEp in 1680 Nellogg Enterprise ad plot
Readable fragment records an 1680 Nellogg Enterprise entry with P Coutts and Mesten ang Faerun prospects. It mentions a $1.00 price and a note on Mwess Tmersenn No 86. Entities include Nellogg Enterprise, P Coutts, Faerun, and Mwess Tmersenn.
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AgroraniienEp
Nellogg Enterprise
P. Coutts
Mesten
San Francisco Harbor Named a World Class Port
Walter J. Kenyon notes San Francisco Bay as a vast fifty five mile long harbor where Pacific tides enter through the Golden Gate. He highlights the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers feeding the bay and ranks San Francisco as a premier harbor south of Puget Sound, with rugged coastlines and dramatic cliff fortitude shaping its commerce and hazard.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate
Anchorage
California
Interior
Sacramento
San Joaquin
New York
Puget Sound
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Seaboard
Ind’s. Eve
Meaning of mole signs and curious tales
A gaggle of antiquated odds and ends on facial moles predicting luck or misfortune, a few quick home remedies for neuralgia, and a string of humorous vignettes from a late 19th or early 20th era periodical. It mixes superstition with light wit and short anecdotes about manners and money.
Early Genius and the Age of Scientific Discovery
The piece notes how great minds such as Davy, Fresnel, Arago, Forbes, Joule, Mayer, and Thomson began groundbreaking work in their twenties or early thirties. It cites Herschel’s saying that a man may be young in years yet old in hours, illustrating the rapid start and late-life impact of these scientists.
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Mes
Davy
Young
Royal Society
Fresnel
Arago
Forbes
Mobr
Joule
Mayer
Heimhaltz
Willian
Thomson
Pest
Clausina
Rankine
Chinese Skill With Axes Observed by Engineers
A discussion notes that biases against Chinese workers mask a sharper grasp of tool merit. It praises Chinese carpenters for balanced small axes, accurate surfaces, and efficient two handed swings. The piece highlights their precision and speed in heavy work as seen by Engineering Magazine.
Great Bustard The Heaviest European Fowl
The Great bustard Ots tarda remains the heaviest European fowl and is found in southern Russia. Old males reach about thirty five pounds, with some specimens weighing thirty eight to forty pounds where food is plentiful. Once common in western Europe, they now live in small flocks in sand hills by the Dnieper and Caspian coasts. The hen has eyes as large as pears. The cassowary is larger and heavier but cannot fly and uses wing quills similarly to a cock’s spurs.
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Russia
Westerno
Europe
Dnieper
Caspian
Young Shrubville Doctor Faces Consultation Request
A newly settled Shrubville doctor is asked to consult on an elderly patient’s wife. The man resists inviting the Brookfield physician, insisting he will be offended if urged to bring in help. A Milton aside notes the writing of Paradise Lost around 1639 to 1667 with financial details from the London Graphic.
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Brown's
Henry
Shrubville
Brookfield
Milton
London
Samuel Simmons
London Graphic
Passports in France Reveal Ciphered Identities
In Sunday Magazine the Count de Vergennes era’s passports are described as ciphered cards. Color signified nationality, borders showed civil status, dots indicated profession and fortune, and punctuation revealed religion. The device allowed quick judgments on a stranger’s morals and role, from gamester to preacher.
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Count de Vergennes
de Vergennes
Louis XVI
France
Sunday Magazine
The Cold Water Ordeal and Oddities from New Zealand
An overview of the medieval cold water ordeal testing guilt with Anselm sinking yet innocence floating followed by notes on New Zealand birds the clever mocker honey eater and the parson bird and a humorous antique and child verse items.
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New Zealand
Attar of Roses Explained and Traced to its Origin
The article describes attar of roses as a costly perfume from the East, made from 100000 roses per 180 grams, often adulterated with substances or spermaceti. A sulfuric acid test reveals purity, remaining colorless, while adulteration darkens. Distillation occurs in rose fields with clay stills and careful handling to produce the oil in small vials.
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Turkey
East
Keep Your Desk Clean to Show Real Power in Business
A senior partner urges young professionals to keep desks clean and free of clutter. He argues that an orderly workspace reflects an orderly mind, aiding calm, focused work. The advice, cited from New York Press, contrasts with old notions that clutter signals activity.
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Iyime
New York Press
The Battle of Life Jostling Through the World
A reflective meditation on life as a constant struggle where individuals must elbow their way through society. The speaker notes that life is a battlefield of interaction, with offense, defense, and social maneuvering shaping one's path.
The Diplomat The Chill Mother Bet on School Rain Fate
A puzzling exchange hints at a wager about a child’s fate in rain. The dialogue references going to school while drenched and the risk of catching a cold or worse, tying to a personal name and absence. The fragment preserves names and a tense prediction within a cryptic public exchange.
Dreadful complaint cured at St Athans West Virginia
Mede Happy for Life reports happiness at St Athans West Virginia as his daughter recovers from a nervous ailment. The boy cites St Vitus Dance and a special treatment that claims a quick, sure cure for debility impoverished blood and malaria. A meet at C W Woodward's shore priced at 50 cents.
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Caime
Ge Biate
St. Athans
W. Va
St. Vitue
Sreth
C. W. Woodward
Demonstrating Earth's Rotation With A Simple Experiment
A historical note explains a basic experiment to prove Earth's rotation without math. Place a bowl of water with lycopodium powder on a still floor and draw a straight line in charcoal north to south. After several hours the line shifts east to west relative to a fixed room object, illustrating the Earth’s rotation.
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Berne
Cypress Sinks When Floated North of Latitude, Study Finds
A Washington led expedition of scientists examined bald cypress growth and uses at a large camp. They observed logs floated downstream, sank north of a latitude line while remaining buoyant south of it. The cause remained uncertain, with speculation about a rotational Earth effect. Philadelphia North American reported the finding.
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Washington
Fts
Scientific
Philadelphia
Croup Remedy Advised for Home Use
A reliable medicine should be kept at home for immediate use at the first sign of hoarseness or the croupy cough. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is recommended and sold by C. W. Woodward.
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Chamberlain
C. W. Woodward
Legend of the Topaz Stone of Gratitude
An ancient legend tied to Theodosius tells how a brazen gong gate policy granted justice to a mother snake whose nest was wronged. After the emperor ordered harm a wolfish creature slain, dawn revealed a gleaming topaz on his eyelids, and he awoke no longer blind, blessing gratitude’s stone.
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Grattude
Theodosius
Caesar
Long Sighted. Exchange about a nurse and bath caution
A fragmentary exchange mentions a nurse and a humorous line about bath time. The speaker questions why the bath is refused while joking about avoiding danger of drowning, ending with a playful remark about the exchange.
Well Worth Trying Dr Kings New Life Pills
W H Brown of Pittsfield VI praises Dr Kings New Life Pills as the next best thing to a pension, claiming they keep families in splendid health for headaches constipation and weakness, with a guarantee at C Widecap rd's drug store.
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W.H. Brown
Pittsfield
C. Widecap
Rd's
Umbrella Metaphors and Reflections on Life and Health
A collage of quotations and fragments on health, fear, and existence. It contrasts health as a fragile umbrella, critiques materialism in medicine, and includes a devotional plea for strength, tenderness, and total commitment to life. Notable voices include Pliny the Younger, Sir James Crichton-Browne, and Hamilton W. Mabie.
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James Crichton-Browne
James
Maude Van Willing and the Wagered Vase
A strict housewife threatens a new maid with deductions from her wager if she breaks anything. Maude, after two days, jokes she already broke a hundred dollar vase and would walk if the count were $4. A Latin teacher asks for a sentence using alter ego and a student quips about an otter.
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Maude van Willing
Maude
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