Law Decisions on Patents Nuisance and Attachments
A survey of statutory and case law covers patent monopolies on unpatented components, private nuisance caused by strikers, unconstitutional animal-killing statutes, district attorney power on nol pros, attachment creditor rights, and cruel punishment in fines violations. It notes numerous precedents including Butler Morse and Blaser Bros.
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Butler
Morse
Blaser Bros
First National Bank
Ark
Davis
H. B. Clafin Co
Mc Parks
Garvey
Bird surgery uses wounded snipe as improvised healer
A French savant notes birds dressing wounds with beaks and feathers. Snipes reportedly applied splints and dressings to fractures, even securing a broken limb with intertwined feathers and down. One bird, after a misdirected shot broke both legs, improvised bandages but nearly starved when feathers blocked its beak.
Hammock Purchase Sparks Quick Bargain Exchange
A humorous Life item shows a clerk agreeing to fulfill a bic hammock request. The woman insists on buying two hammocks, prompting the clerk to acquiesce. The exchange captures a light domestic moment set in a storefront.
Major’s Tall Story Wins Potent Prize at Drug Store
A Detroit Free Press recounts a humorous contest in a drug store where several locals told tall tales to win a potent flavored remedy. The major claimed a dog story about a brown setter and a $5 bill, prompting the judge to award him the prize immediately.
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Detroit Free Press
Munchausen
John
Aromatic Vinegar Recipe From Ailing Marseille Legend
A legendary tale from Marseille recounts robbers spared execution to reveal a scenting wash. The recipe mixes rosemary wormwood lavender rue sage mint in elder vinegar for four days with camphor, bottled and kept corked. It is said to refresh and cool the sick room and aid nurses.
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Marseilles
Six Fingered Monkeys Found in African Ciss Cave Sites
The New York Sun reports discoveries in Cape Colony and the Orange Free State of South Africa where caves yielded hundreds of mummified remains of a six-fingered monkey species. Key traits include a tail mounted high on the back, two sets of canine teeth, beards on males, and other distinguishing marks.
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New York Sun
Cape Colony
Orange Free State
South Africa
Fugitive Poet Expels Shotgun Foe in Tribune Exchange
A witty exchange from the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune features an editor and assistant discussing a fugitive poet. The assistant claims to have run the poet out with a shotgun, illustrating a sharp, darkly humorous moment in newspaper lore.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Women Invited to Seek Help from Mrs Pinkham
An appeal states that Mrs Pinkham, a woman with vast experience treating female ailments, offers confidential advice to women without cost. Letters are read and answered by women only from Lynn Massachusetts, promising trusted help to thousands of sufferers.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Enormous steamship carries 271 carloads across ocean
A Baltimers & Oblo railroad steamship loaded with 271 carloads of freight. The mix included lumber provisions sugar grain meat cattle lard copper and merchandise totaling 1 400 head of cattle and 1 400 head of grain. The load equals ten long freight trains and would stretch about two miles if lined up.
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Baltimers & Oblo Railroad
Philadelphia
Advertising Merit and Cascarets Endorsement
The piece argues that advertising succeeds only when it promotes a genuinely meritorious product. It touts Cascarets candy cathartic as a proven, repeat purchase item, claiming pharmacists call it a repeater and that it is guaranteed to cure or money back, presented as a beneficial laxative and liver stimulant.
Man digs up geraniums after removing weed from mower bed
The day after the man clears the last weed from the mower bed he must dig up the geraniums to protect them from frost.
How to Keep Embroidered Linens Bright and Fresh
Evita R. Parker explains home laundry steps to maintain wash silk linens. Use warm water and ivory soap for gentle washing, rinse with blue water and thin starch, wring and shade dry. Sprinkle and fold, then iron on the wrong side to press out embroidery stitches and restore beauty.
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Fenny
Evita R. Parker
Unique novel offered to club this afternoon
A literary club received a unique novel this afternoon. Members discussed the book but could not determine its core theme from the brief presentation.
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Loesch
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Denver Directory
Harness
Concord
Colorado
Fred Mueller
Larimer Soeaver
Denver
Procter
Weo Sor
Orks & M’fg. Co
Lawrence St. P
Florists
York
Howard
Bailey
Equitable
H Hote
Blake
eNo
J. S.J. Lalle
Boo St. Mfr
KNIGHT_ AMPBELL MUSIC CO
Ford Optical & Surgical Institute Co
Curtis St
BANKS
Morse & Company
Wazee Sts
Denver, Colo
Burlingame
Mall of Express
Lawrence St
Colo
Chicago
Santa Fe
BEST
Kansas City
Kansas
California
Phoenix
Portland
Galveston
el Paso
Mexico City
Pullman Palace
Fred Harvey
J. P. Hall
W. J. Black
Topeka
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