Parrot shipment, wakes, and oddities from across the U S
A miscellany of short items notes 1400 parrots shipped to New York for display or sale. A Palestine Texas cat climbs a rail ventilator and starves in forty two days. Salt Lake City raises funds for cowbell chimes used at local reunions. A Toronto tale tells of a sick man and a vision delaying medicine. Also reported are locomotives bound for Brazil, unsafe toothache drops, and a variety of curiosities from across cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New of York
Palestine
Tex
N. Y
Salt Lake City
Europe
Denver Tribune
Forborne
Kingston
Canada
Toronto Mail
Philadelphia
Brazil
Rio Janeiro
Philadelphia Press
New York
Chicago
Curiosities of Manitoba City Landmarks and Legends
Winnipeg cor report describes Fort Rouge Silver Heights Bird's Hill Seven Oaks and Stony Mountain as historic curios with notes on the old red fort the Selkirk settlers flood era fur trade battles and Pleasure grounds. It details Stony Mountain geology a penitentiary asylum and a keeper with a menagerie an oval threshing stone a cave and Indian burial sites plus buffalo bone reminders and wild garden like mounded terrain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Rouge
Assiniboine
Red Fort
le Verandyre
Red River
Silver Heights
Bird's Hill
Selkirk
Seven Oaks
Stony Mountain
Manitoba
Jas
Barnum
Winnipeg Cor
Graphis
The Little Darling and a Growing Town
From Texas Siftings and Chicago Herald snippets: a fourteen year old girl admired for beauty within an Austin family circle, and a note that a Nebraska town is named Base-Ball. The passages read as social aside and local curiosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Nebraska
Chicago Herald
Rembrandt and His Works: A Critical View
Erskine Clement writes on Rembrandt noting his faults of vulgar subjects and rule-breaking yet praising his honesty and earnestness. He describes shifts in light and tone before and after 1633, six hundred paintings and four hundred engravings, and highlights portraits and scenes from common life as defining, with rare landscapes and few profane histories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rembrant
Rembrandt
Lis
The
Hague
Goi Hag
Refuse of Newfoundland Coil Fishery Curbs Sardine Riches
British Consul at Nantes notes Atlantic refuse from Newfoundland cod fishery affects Gulf Stream, drifting to France and aiding sardine fisheries. About 30,000 tons yearly dumped by North American coast fishermen during Northwest winds, altering currents and delivering food and gelatinous matter to sardine spawning areas. The report appears in the London News with other notices on divorce petitions and a Bible reading dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Segrave
Nantes
France
Atlantic Ocean
Newfoundland
North America
French
Lon_don News
The Roar of London in Stillman’s London View
W J Stillman in the Century describes London as audible yet green from a study five miles away. He contrasts traffic roar with meadow quiet, noting trains, drays, and soothed birdsong creating a continuous sound tapestry. The piece frames London as a distant hum with a nearer whistle interrupting the monotone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Stillman
London
Rescue claims for St Jacobs Oil and other tonics
A long列 clipping describes personal testimonials about relief from rheumatic pain using St Jacobs Oil and other medicines. It includes praise from James White of Broadway, mentions Ely's Cream Balm, Wells' S S S, Brown's Iron Bitters, and Warner's Safe Cure, with various local endorsements and references to Seth Green, the father of fish culture, and his experiences with malaria and fish pond research in Caledonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
R. James White
Broadway
Dickel
St. Jacobs
Seth Green
Rome
Tod
Caledonia
Mr. Green
Thig
Fishworld
Man of News
Green
Socrates
Seth Greer
Florida
Bright
Warner
United States Medical College of New York
Gunn
Europe
Beth Green
Waerner
N. YF
A WOMAN'S AFFAIR
A fragmentary item lists various remedies and products such as ribbed tonics and salves, touting cures for nerves, muscles, digestion, sore eyes, fevers, worms, and kidney issues. It reads like an advertising column with brand names and claims, including Brown's Bit-A-String sax and Repvine's Russia Salve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Isaac Thompson
Vital Questions on Remedies and the Hop Bitters Claim
An excerpt promotes remedies like Buchu Mandrake and Dandelion as cures for kidney, liver, and digestive diseases. It extols Hop Bitters as a universal curative, claiming relief for nervous disorders, insomnia, rheumatism, scrofula, and other ailments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chee Ape Ei
Bright
Buchu
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Ireland
Inter Ovenn
Mattie Young
Cuba
Sears
Waray
Luneth
Galveston
Detroit
Colomile Desert
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Post
George Huston
N.Y. Tribune
Albany
Curiosities of
Darling
Newfoundland Coil Fishery
Henry L. Taylor
Delain
Mad
Baltimore Sun
Chicago Tribune
Pierce
Pierca
Worth
Buffalo
A. NicHolls
Ely
Evens Bros
Independence
Iowa
Wacon
Royal Road
Cincinnati Traveler
Florence
W.B. Prather
Swift
Hawes
Clarksville
Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry CO
St. Louis
General Markets
Ahould
Woastp
Catcaco
Cincinnati
America
W.B. Surre
Grafton
Mass
Lyon
Wise
K. S Crey
Sally
Mother Swan
Repvine
Russia
Cts
Man
M. H. Gazz
Topeham
Huot
Johnson
Hunt
Lommze Lonard
If Clkariva Street
Portland
Lombard
Jones
Tamera
Nichol
Webster
Sheep
Turkey
Gov't Printing Office
Supreme Court
Sup'ts
Denison
G. & C. Merriam & CO
Springfield
Tron Tavern
Binshamton
J.C. McCurdy & Cop
Ala
Shopping xi
Fuuniy
Airealy
Bolents
Vries
Schawegrd & Simpson
Nineteenth Street
Mixth Avenur
Aaa
Isso
Aurora
Kane Co
Ritet
Roene
Essi
Ques City
Nuspenter Co
Cincinas
Chicago Scale CO
Jefferson Street
Guedivent CO
EL Arnham
Aine Street
Okof
B.m.wootley
M. D
Atlanta
Desert Body
Myntress
Boody & LO
Stannard
Pearl &T
Acre
Valentine Gros
Junesville
Wis
Brown Chemical Company of
Beret
Johnson & CO
Boston
Maas
Siriana
Anakess
Plank Bevier
Veaterico
Tadiaoa
Invaswational Avy
Boxfi
Chatham
Ont
de Lee
Ubia
Leamph
Jax Bronson
Detearr
Mraz
Staanere
Mgr
Seong
ARK
Fitein
Arecusl Bt
Hallett & Cx
WEN Whiting
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