Sleep Deprivation and Recovery Amid a Writer's Turbulent Episode
In Virginia Point Comfort a writer recounts months of wakefulness and delirium after sleeplessness halted an ongoing Sunday serial. He details visions, terror, and attempts to sleep using chloral and bromides, then gradual recovery and return to work with lasting eyesight changes.
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Ng Musele
Waa Anac
Point Comfort
Virginia
Fortress Monroe
Old Point Comfort
Blue
Chesapeake
de Quincey
Piper
Light of Other Days and Michigan Forests Reflections
A Victorian column discusses the shift from candles to coal oil lighting and its social benefits, noting cheaper, brighter light fosters reading and education. It also reports Detroit area notes warning Michigan’s pine forests may exhaust in a decade, with widespread logging and veneer demand shaping the economy.
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Polynesia
Tabu
St. Louie
Ull
Michigan
Detroit Post
Perryannah
Traverse City
The Fascinating Dorian and Its Extreme Aroma
A London Telegraph piece details the dorian fruit and its uncanny allure. It describes a grotesque recipe mix of almond paste onion sauce and cream cheese served with a dead cat garnish to evoke its perfume. The write up notes the dorian’s strong flavor and obsessive popularity among eaters and compares it to the jack fruit, highlighting its size odor and elusive taste across a shifting sensory spectrum.
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London Telegraph
Fachne
Vanderbilt Beginnings in Bellona Hall and a Steamboat Dream
A historical vignette recalls Cornelius Vanderbilt starting from Bellona Hall near New Brunswick. Mrs. Vanderbilt ran the eating house while he steered the boat along the Raritan, pooling savings to buy his first steamboat. The tale notes his early wealth through thrift and, reportedly, a strict, combative approach to family life.
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Vanderbilt
New Fork
Narrows
Raritan River
New Brunswick
Hersale
Bellona Hall
Cornelius
Commodore
New York
Umbrella Man Rain Joke and Beecher Sermon Anecdotes
A Detroit Free Press fragment mixes humorous bits and moral vignettes. It recalls an umbrella merchant praying for rain, Beecher recounting a Brooklyn sermon that slept a regiment of Maine recruits, plus a health tip on keeping rooms under 72 degrees and a quip about lawyers and presidents.
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Jupiter
Bain
Poset UL Henry Ward Beecher
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Maine
Brooklyn
Ply Mouth Church
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