Detroit Magician Exhibits Pasted Tricks and Tools
A well known Detroit businessman famed for modern magic displays his cabinet of illusion to a reporter. The tour includes sword, card, bottle, and knife tricks, a loaded tin box, and a performance showing how the six-vent liquor bottle works. The master notes the need for palming skill and years of study to master the craft.
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Detroit
Prestidigivator
King of Clubs
Wiln
Tokes
Herman
Portland girl marries fugitive fiancé before his death
A Portland woman once engaged to a man who squandered wealth on an actress kept faith despite his desertion. When the man lay dying of consumption in Philadelphia, she brought him home and wed him two days before his death. His effects included a tear-blotted record revealing letters and a sum of £600.
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Portland
Dsink
Tian
Philadelphia
Quail
Two Yorkshire sisters and a mastiff guard a hidden fortune
In a Yorkshire village two lone sisters inherit money and fear prying eyes. A hacksmith’s wife tells the men of the town, the sisters trust a carrier who leaves his mastiff as guard. The dog drives off a robber, the wife robs the truth, and tragedy follows when the thief is killed trying to escape through the toll-bar window. The tale ends with a moral about fear, sin, and nerve.
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Yorkshire
John
Janel
Lai
Jane
Blanksouth
Hill planting favored by farmers in corn culture
A farmer argues after twenty years of practice that hill planting yields longer, heavier ears and about ten percent more weight, though drill planting produces more stalks. He urges balanced care, fodder corn, and efficiency with horse tools, citing western Missouri and Duchess County examples, plus notes on cattle feeding and broader farming reform.
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Cory Iy Hin
Permitine
Yiel
Missouri
HER SECRET TROUBLES AND DUTY OF WOMAN CARE
A weary mother on a hot day faces exhaustion from household duties and a sick child. Rev William Watson recounts how Warner’s Tippecanoe revived his wife after overwork, urging other overburdened women to seek relief. The piece links women’s health to daily duties and offers health guidance alongside miscellaneous culinary and scientific notes.
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Geldom
William Watson
Methodist- Episcopal Church
Watertown
N.Y
Warner
Warners Tippecanoe
Brest
America
Rome
Mustard and home remedies for common ailments
Practical household tips advertise mustard plasters and leaves as quick remedies for colic headaches and internal pains. The text extols mustard's emetic effects, cautions about blistering, and offers mustard leaves as a ready substitute. It also covers sleep induction methods, kidney and liver tonics, and diverse cure claims for various ailments.
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Bright
Humorous Missives Puncture a Love Note and Hotel Ad Parody
Fragmented reads mix a tale of misaddressed love notes to a vexed admirer with spoof hotel copybrash ads for the Grand Union, a German conductor gag, jokes about stomach bitters and quack cures, and light social vignettes from a bygone paper. Names and places appear in quick satirical sketches.
Fragmented Tales and Moral Reflections From a Morning Page
A collage of snippets covers romantic dialogue about future plans and a praised literary work, a charity visit to feed a poor family, a scornful take on a boxing match, juvenile mischief and classroom quips, a photographer's joke, and philosophical musings on mystery and faith. The piece blends daily life anecdotes with exhortations on duty, religion, and moral energy.
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Journal* of Medicine
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Medical Gazette
Australia
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Hay
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Burlington, Vt
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New York City
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Fage
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Marie
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Mechanicsville
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Millay
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Austin Avenue
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Caswell, Hazard & C0
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Lafayette
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Amd
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Thompson
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