A Ninety-Line Pound Horse Forces Express Wagon Stop
A powerful horse yanked an express wagon around Fourteenth Street in New York, resisted by a heavy 200 pound driver. The animal tangled on Thirteenth Street, toppled onto the downtown car track, drawing a crowd as bystanders urged effort, jokes, and improvised rescue attempts. The incident ended with the horse back on track and the driver resuming duty amid laughter and exasperation.
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Fourteenth Street N. Y
Fourth Avenue
Mr. Wallack
Thirteenth Street
Mr. Vanderbilt
Hare
Woman's Sixth Sense and a Boston Baby Rescue
A mother in Boston experiences a powerful instinct to check her sleeping infant. She retrieves the baby just as a ceiling collapses, saving the child from injury. The scene is framed as a mysterious sixth sense more common in women. The text shifts to unrelated brief items about a Rockville office, a General Maley, and then descriptions of Urholm rock formations and flooring improvements in Scandinavia.
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Boston
Brighie
Bachu
Nealuf
Crafting Colored Putty In Woodworking Exhibit
A young workman in a major factory finishes a panel by blending colored putty with varnish to hide nail-holes. He explains choosing swamp whitewood over costly woods for cost and appearance, and notes the need for precise color matching. He recalls nearly ruining a machine at the Centennial Exhibition due to varnish color changes.
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Ryorkina
Coure
Lynch laws and curious frontier justice recounted
A late 18th century Virginia origin of lynching is described with a method of hanging on a horse and whipping as summary punishment. The tale, quoted by Mr. Lynch and corroborated by locals, notes executions occurred within the association without formal courts and mentions a few hangings not by common method. The report ends with a digression on a grocer and strawberry pricing.
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Lynch
Wittsylvanie
Mr. Ellicott
Compound sand bath mix boosts poultry health and eggs
A reader reports success with a dust bath of floor sand mixed with equal parts old lime wood and finely sifted coal ashes. Since adopting the mix fowls dust more, lay hard shelled eggs, and nests benefit from added earth and sulfur. They also advise cocoons, feed regimens, dusting for lice, and lice prevention measures.
Domestic recipes and a comic tale from a historic menu
This page compiles home cooking directions with tart apple pudding batter and a lemon rind infusion, plus a range of savory dishes like toast with oysters and potato soup. It also includes a humorous, staged medical joke about a New Orleans physician and a moral tale from an Austin Sunday school class.
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Amur
Tramp encounters sharp welcome as Brown residence turns him away
A tramp rings at a house door seeking Mr Brown. The woman behind the door denies Brown is in and refuses access, stating Mrs Brown will handle business and he must leave. The tramp departs to look for another address, amid a city scene of domestic routine and sharp winter commentary.
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Rockville
Maley
Sins
Jttm
Japan
Mr. Brown
Kline 4 Wholesale Ag'ts
Phila. Ps
O.m.crittonton
Tramp’s Breakfast Trick Ends With Poisoned Breakfast
A seedy tramp tricks a New Haven style socialite into serving breakfast at her Austin avenue home as a ruse to steal. After he eats, she suspects the ruse and doses his coffee with tartar emetic. He becomes violently ill and the door is shut on him as he staggers away. The tale includes sharp social nudges and a city diary of quirky incidents.
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Whomas
Ale
Jess Ticky
Jlostetter
Rae Wesett
Austin
Temple of Learning
Tina Carboline
Druggiata
Austin Avenue
New Haven
Cicely
Mysrmny
Gus de Smith
Young de Smith
Opium Horror Aboard Western Ranches And A Reporter’s Warning
Bill Nye recalls opium deaths and a murder on Wyoming ranches near Medicine Bow. A reporter describes Curtis’s shooting by a tramp herder, the inquest verdict of death by self harm, and Nye’s warning on narcotics in a new country. Chicago papers note a surge in saloon keepers versus preachers.
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Bill Nye
Laramie
Medicine Bow
Sheep Mountain
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Old England
The
Metropolitan Ass
United States
Long Branch
Curtis
Gortiy
Harry
Arancher
Chicago
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Chmatiana Fjord
Herr Geelmuycen
Scandinavia
Artille Heshaakcs
Captain Lynch
Gardiner
Sfabold
Java
Holland
France
Bouloonais
Natonel Norman Horse Association
America
Ny Paint Store
Manassus Coontes
New Orleans
Devtor
Amale
J. H. Goldsmith
Walnut Grove
N. Y
Puarne
Dack
Wells, Richardson & Co
Burlington, Vic
Carlyle
Sterling
J. W. Graham
Tex
Caswell, Hazard & Co
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Waltham
Masa
Dr. Graves
Wold
Esid
Brgorst
Dexicare Caxa
New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Orwell
Ely
P. F. Hyatt, M. O
Bordentown
N. J
Eyre
Herve
Arch Street
Philadelphia
Fiso
Hale’s
Forbes Ramedien
Foikrean Cheng Ism 8 Soc
St. Bernard
St, Bernard
Mercer Street
New You
Cratiem
Lydia E. Pinkham
Toson Benky
Lynn
Maas
Ade Atadrvapiste
Ailadolphie, Pa
Lindsey
J. B. Brocka
Painesville
Akred
Larimers
Pa Price Bl
Adllers & CG
Prop's
Pittaburel
Schotsrshi
Pleman Baninens
Waltane Leaf Fair Restorer
Sanrutfitfres
Queen Suspender Co
Olactanstl
Bright
Anak B . We
Hop Ping
Hop Plaster Co
Mannaduxera
Haxjey
Bagregt
Taster
Goud
Oruesssis Bs
Clark
Sriling
Grant
Gaiters
Hartford
AbBhin
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Peta Gayre
Poudre
MLB
T.goutes
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Ne Oranle
Broadway
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MT Seley
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Ide
Murat
Mhessbrough Manufacturing Co
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WOM
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