Aged Notables and Curious Anecdotes Across Papers
A collage of short notes from various papers recounting elderly figures and oddities. Noted names include Wendell Phillips, Sitting Bullas, Peter Hayden, Levi McCormick, and James Beard. Other items mention John C. Jennings, Mary Cain, the painter Weir, and the Newton family, with brief snippets of life stories and historical curiosities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendell Phillips
Boston Herald
Detroit Evening Journal
Sitting Bullas
Peter Hayden
New York
N. Y. Sun
Levi McCormick
Cumberland Valley Railroad
Philadelphia Press
Dooly County
Georgia
St. Louis Post
James H. Beard
John C. Jennings
Salt Lake City
Co-Operative Store
Chicago Journal
Mary Cain
Hamilton
Ont
Chicago Herald
Weir
White House
Military Academy
Tribune
Newton
Woodbridge
Conn
Nonsense Jokes and Quips From Various Papers
A compilation of short humorous snippets from multiple sources. It includes witticisms about Edward I, moon craters, lamp fuel, typhoid prevention, and playful wordplay about ladies waiting for mails and males. Also features jokes about a surgeon, a kiss making a young lady crazy, a husband amused by his paper, and a London man jailed for a window labor with an infant casualty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward I
Europe
Journal
Proctor
Detroit Free Press
Carl Pretzel
Burlington Free Press
Hartford Post
Norristown Herald
Lowell
Reeper
Brown
Boston Transcript
London
Worristown
British Association debate on Congo navigation and British rights
Mr Johnston read a Stanley letter from Leopoldville July 23 1883 arguing against Portuguese control of the Congo and urging a British protectorate. The speaker cites Livingstone and Anglo American funding, warns that selling to Portugal would ruin English growth and calls for open gates and timely British policy to preserve native peoples and trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Association
Johnston
H. M.stanley
Leopoldville
Stanley Pool
Congo
England
Kwango
Mantenba
Mobimbru
Kaissai
Sankuru
Aruwimi
Americas
Indies
Lower
Africa
Livingstone
Diego Cam
London Times
Phosphorescent Limestone Found Near Salt Lake City
A white loose-grained phosphorescent limestone was discovered near Salt Lake City Utah. The rock glows red when struck heated or rubbed and emits white blue and red light under various treatments. Its light is intense and lasts minutes after heating or striking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utah
Salt Lake City
Becquerel
Centeel Employment Bureau Proposed at Denver
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes that a Centeel Employment Bureau would help unemployed men seeking light work with steady pay, suggesting such an institution is needed in every city to aid those seeking reliable, liberal salaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Chicago Inter Ocean
Qne of the Elect. Foran Credited With St Jacobs Oil Relief
The Plain Dealer reports Congress man elect Martin A. Foran of Cleveland used St Jacobs Oil for a lame knee and found it safe and reliable. The piece contrasts Foran with a Pittsburgh Telegraph quip about a hog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
the Plain Dealer
Martin A. Foran
Cleveland, Q
St. Jacobs
Golden Medical Discovery Health Benefit Claim Ad
An 19th century style advertisement promotes Dr. R. V. Prrce s Golden Medical Discovery as a health aid for hard work and sedentary life. It claims to stimulate the liver purify the blood and treat consumption a scrofulous lung disease. Endorsed by druggists. AGraphic joke about Ismail Pasha’s fall bills follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. V. Prrce
S ** Golden Medical Discovery
Favorite Patches and Patent Remedies In Periodicals
A fragmented advertisement column touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a remedy for female weakness, and Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets for various ailments. It also promotes Ely’s Cream Balm for catarrh, Swift’s Specific S S S for blood poison, Brown’s Iron Bitters for indigestion and general weakness, and a range of patent medicines with testimonials. Mentions of a dentist, entomology quip, and multiple city names appear, with brief consumer-health pitches and mock-ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Pierce
Pierce
Fierce
Ely
VanGuan
Muskegon
Mich
Swift
C. H. Suiuzy
Quincy
J. A. May
Macon
C. G. Spinoxre
Supt
Rome
Germ theory explained and Warner's Cure praised by couple
In a quiet library scene a wife asks her husband to explain the germ theory. The wife reads a defense of germ-caused diseases, naming Koch and Pasteur and noting how germs invade the body. The dialogue ends with the claim that Warner's Safe Cure uniquely supports the body against germ infection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
John Tyndall
Ian
Pasteur
Bright
Koch
Warner
Gunn
United States Medical College
Also Mentioned on This Page
California
Los Angeles
San Francisco Chronicle
Christian
Miss
Pittsburgh Telegraph
Ismail Pasha
Buffalo Express
Charity
J?ochester Post-Express
C. H. Mackey
32Nd Iowa Infantry
Sigourney, Iowa
Elraye
N. Y
Taggart
Salamanca
M. ¥. Post
Dardanelle
Ark
M. M.croom
Chicago
Inter Ocean
J. W. Wreyles
Meadville
N. J. News
Saltmarsh
Ula
Jas. B. Mills
Larent
Detroit Post
Zdoston Star
Burlington
Hawkeye
Marathon Independent
Isaac Thompson
Croup
Pise
Wise
Wrst
General Markets
Kansas City
Nee & & Nerd
Kansas
New Utter
Missouri
ST. Louis
Beaceresenes
Charles A. Vogeler Co.Buchesers
Vogeler & CO
Baltimore, Md
U.8
Sitrer
FEVE
Ely Brothers
Uggiste
Owego
H. L. Gorms
Poquonock
Hunt
H. S. Clark
Lean
Frank B. Lee
Little Falls
Lee
Skinner
Father
John Bull
Smith
Bull
Main St
Louisville
Permas
Queen City
Queen City Suspender Co
Cincinnati
Loose
J. M. Loose & CO
Monroe, Mich
Chicago Scale CO
South Jefferson Street
Ill
Temple OF Music
Tep Wtate Street
Ray Sheng
S. S
Swift Srxretrio Co
Atlanta
I &Y
W. Jennings
ALL
Monarch
ISCO
Labor & Moneys
DR. Horne
Dr. W. 3
Obne
Wabash Av
Congress
T. W. Tallmadge
Wasumatrox
D. C
WM. Lawrence
U. S. Treasury
PISO
Argos
Bryant & Stratton's
Business and Telegraph College
O.D
Waele Sale
B.c.strehl
Wabashav
Motes
Cere
W. Richards
Guan’ Co
Mt C.c.b
E. E. Menges & CO
West Fifth Street
Isas City
Johnson
Mall
Johnson & CO
Boston
Mass
Newark
Paylor Gon
Mansfield
Ohio
A. P. Lacey
Washington, D. C
Stanpard Care Co
Pearl
Jay Bronson
Derxoir
Micu
Adress
Ins and Soniy
A. N.K
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