The Kleptomaniac Chapter in a New York Case
A physician recounts a case where Miss Alice Milton seeks help for her father a wealthy merchant whose erratic acts, hidden thefts and sudden violent episodes blur lines between kleptomania and deliberate theft. The tale follows his memory lapses mood swings and a dramatic night when forty thousand dollars go missing triggering a tense clinical inquiry into his true condition.
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Alice Milton
New York
Miss Milton
Ergraved
Inside a Siberian prison dormitories with free movement
Stephen Bonsal reports from Nicolaieff describing a Siberian prison where inmates live in large dormitories with 30 by 20 foot rooms and no cells. Prisoners move freely most of the day, few are manacled, and a small daily outdoor period is allowed. Meals are basic and consistent with soldiers’ rations.
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Siberia
Tath
Nicolaieff
Sakhalin
Khaberovka
Stephen Bonsal
Pers Magazine
Dean's Kidney Pills endorsed by Lowell resident
The Daily Work praises Dean's Kidney Pills as a trusted remedy and prints a Lowell citizen's endorsement. G S Emerson of 512 Westford Street reports long grocery-driving work with kidney issues improving after using the pills. He bought from Ellingwood Co. and urges others to remember the Dean's name. Pills sold by all dealers for 50 cents.
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Lowell
Dean
G.S. Emerson
Westford Street
Ellingwood & Co
Col. Merrimack
Central Streets
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Dean’s
From a West Hartlepool Draper to a Shipping Magnate
The life of Sir William Grey started in a small West Hartlepool draper shop and grew into far larger ventures in shipping. He built a respected estate, employed vast wages, and remained humble in demeanor. The piece contrasts his rise with the costly failures of many British peers in joint stock ventures. It urges nobles to verify promoters’ honesty and investors to doubt guaranteed reputations, citing Hooley’s associates.
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Sir William Grey
West Hartlepool
Grey
Sir William
Hartilepool
Great Britain
Hooley
Three Doctors in Consultation Offer Best Advice
Fragmentary OCR shows a staged scene with three doctors Dr Inga Dr Experience and Dr Reaschold advising on a cough remedy Crain's Cough Remedy. It mentions scientific grounds for the remedy and a local shop at Merrimack and Middlesex Coffee’s corner. A stray line about a museum and a child appears.
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Scond
Inga
Experience
Reaschold
Csaken
Crain
Exp
Reason
Nature
Food & Co
Merrimack Ar
Middlesex and Coffee
Agassiz Visits Oken and Potatoes Theme
A friend of Agassiz recounts Harvard professor Louis Agassiz visiting German naturalist Lorenz Oken. Oken proudly shows his zoological library worth about 7000 and explains he avoids luxuries to sustain it. He notes potato days, using meals of potatoes and salt thrice weekly.
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Agassiz
Harvard
Lorenz Oken
Monsieur Agassiz
25 Cent Carter's Cough Balm Ad
A brief 19th or early 20th century ad stating a bad cough and cold can be treated with Carter's Cough Balm costing 25 cents. It notes Carter & Sherburne, low priced druggists located at Merrimack corner Bridge Street, as the retailer.
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Carter
Carter & Sherburne
Merrimack
Bridge Street
Real estate bargains on Highlands streets and nearby towns
Advertises multiple properties on School Street Centralville and near Middlesex Street depot with eight and ten room houses, cemented cellars, furnaces, and large land lots. Prices range from 2000 to 5600 dollars, with easy terms and estate sale notes. Also lists Lowell and surrounding area offerings with acreage, cottages, barns, and mortgages. Offices Shepard Fuller 40 Central Street and J Howe & Co. Courier-Citizer Building.
Modern Mt Vernon Street Residence Seeks Quick Sale
A 16 room modern residence on Mt Vernon Street offers attic bath pantry hot and cold water furnace heat cemented center granite steps and a well graded lot. Neighbors are described as the best and the property is pitched as a first class opportunity for a doctor lawyer or business person of moderate means to obtain a 66 place near the city business center at a low price and easy terms.
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Milford
I. H
Pee Posade Fish & Plumma
Central Street
Lowell
Fish & Plummer
Mass
Imer
Fleh & Ulummer
Lawrence
Sh & Plummer
Cenrall Street
For Sale of Burgess Real Estate Shaw Hastings Area
Auction notice lists sale of the late Thomas F Burgess estate on So Hastings Shaw Burgess Grace Spaulding and E streets by administrator M L Hamblet. Sale may cover all or any part of the property per court authority.
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Thomas F. Burgess
So. Hastings
Shaw
Burgess
Grace
Spaulding
E Streets
M. L. Hamblet
WANTED Positions and staff referrals at Central street bureau
Old Relame employment bureau at 104 Central street lists multiple help requests. Proposals include Protestant girls for general housework, coachman, meat cook, pastry cook, all round cook, Swede as Good TMan, cook for six miles out, and general house and kitchen help. Mrs. Geo. W. Cummings notes many positions are filled through the office with monthly referrals.
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Old Relame Employment Bureau
Central Street
All Round Man
Geo. W. Cummings
New Haven Railroad Schedule Changes for October 1
Eastern District timetable lists limited departure times from Lowell to Taunton New Bedford Newport Providence Pawtucket Marlboro South Framingham with connections at South Framingham to Boston and Albany for Worcester Springfield Albany and the west. 4 25 pm connects with the Stonington line for New York and the south. Sundays include South Mansfield Pawtucket stations with 7 16 pm and 5 33 pm returns. Officials Peter Clark A C Sendall Isaac N Marshall George W Miller note Middlesex street ticket office.
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Lowell
Qgmi
Taunton
New Bedford
Newport
Providence
Pawtuci Marlboro
South Framingham
Boston
Albany
Worcester
Springfield
Concorde Junction
Fitchburg
Stonington
New Yorkity
South Mensfeld
Pawtucket
Wary
Peter Clark
A. C. Sendall
S Pass
Isaac N. Marshall
Geo. W. Miller
Middlesex Street
Boston and Maine Timetable Revised for October 3, 1898
The Boston and Maine timetable lists train departures from Merrimack Street Depot Lowell and Middlesex Street Station Lowell to Boston and many destinations including Lawrence Salem Mass Somersworth Saco and Portland with numerous weekday and Sunday schedules, prices and notes. It cites corrections dated October 3 1898 and attributes details to General Agent H C Taft with notes on express and bedford/Wilmington routes.
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Merrimack Street Depot
Lowell
Boston
Middlesex Street Station
Lawrence
Salem
Mass
Mésbury
Portsmouth
Exeter
Dover
Rochester
Alton Bay
Augusta
Bath
Waterville
Lewiston
Bangor
Belfast
Skowhegan
Rockland
St. John
N. B
Halifax
Montreal
Quebec
Eastport
Portland
Castine
Deer Isle
Sedgewick
Bar Harbor
Jonesport
Munchinsport
Frank Jones
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Lindley
Nurs
Saee
Benjamin Fran
Yonkers St
Sical Estate
Shepard & Fuller
Highlands
Freer Street
Centralville
Vrice
Pawtucket Bridge
Lakeview
Coad Brook
Willowdale
Merrimack River
J- Howe
C#O
Courier-Citizer Building
Pawtucket Street
Mt. Vernon Street
Queen Street
Fulton Street
Broadway
Rock Street
Franklin Street
At Street
Ste
Grand Street
Lincoln Street
Fourth Street
Helvidere
Gorham Street
EH. Podge
Merrimack Square
Tenevent
Northern Station
Gentramilie
Belvidere
Soardere
H. Elliott Sweet
Amos B. French
Grand Army Hall
Central Stree
O. Greenwood
Leighton Bros
Central See
Billerica
S&tf
H. A. Kitg
Billerica Centre
Secondhard Emerson
Cail
Fletcher Street
New Hampshire
T. H. Elliott
Warwick Street
Harles Griffin
Walker Street
Ripans Chemical Co
Lowell Rendering Co
Myer’ Contect
A. J
Ryan
Hastings Street
Centramvilie
BEC
W. E. Dodge
Railroads
Boston & Maine
ST. Paul
Minneapolis
Pacific Coast
D. J. Flanders
Vicket
New York, New Haven & Hartford
R. BR
R. R
Woburn
Amherst
Wilton
Greenfield
Peterboro
Pennington
Hisboro
Keene
Hillsboro
Nashua
Manchester
Canco
Franklin
Lebanon
White River Junction
Warner
Bradford
Sunapee
N. H
Claremont
Claremont Junction
St. Johnsbury
Lyndonville
Wells River
Montpelier
Essex Junction
Burlington
St. Albans
St. Johns
Central Vermont
Montreat
Boston Air Line
Quebec Express
Plymouth
Sherbrooke
Express
Dally
wVia
Western Division
Bedfore
Wilmington
Flanders
H.C. Taft
Frank W. Dobson
Central Bloc
The
Tivoll
Merrimack St
Jones
Merrimack Street