Emery Quarried From Naxos Island in Eastern Med
Emery comes from soils on Naxos in the eastern Mediterranean where beds lie in the island’s northeast. About 800 men are employed in the trade and must be married to join the fraternity. The material is extremely hard to mine or break. Great fires heat blocks, cracks expand, and hoes pry them apart. Blocks shrink to cubic foot or jenna sizes before shipping as coal. Estimates claim 20,000,000 tons remain and last export reached 3,950 tons.
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Naxos
Mediterranean
Naxon
Tides on Inland Lakes From Winds Create Big Level Shifts
The piece notes that inland freshwater lakes lack ordinary tides yet gusty winds cause tide like effects. In Lake Erie a gale can raise water seven feet on one shore and lower the opposite side by a matching amount for a total fourteen foot level swing. Caspian Sea shore measurements in heavy gales show about a twelve foot difference.
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Itnland
Lake Erie
Batanca
Caspian Sea
Couldn't Keep Count Mamma Comic Exchange
A humorous exchange shows Mamma scolding Charlie for approaching the sideboard while Charlie admits he can only count to leven, highlighting a playful mispronunciation and family banter.
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Mamma
Charlie
Toleven
Fragmented 19th Century Ad Fragments Across Readable Text
A jumbled newspaper fragment shows several product pitches and odd notices. Ads reference Carter's Ink Co, a blood poisoning death from a playground incident in Elizabethport New Jersey, various tonics, a Tibetan monastery claim, a heat prescription, a cough balm, and a schoolroom quip about rent clothes.
Westport Woman Credited With Headache Cure
Mrs. Fred C. Lasher of Westport New York suffered thirteen years of constant headaches until a doctor warned of insanity. After trying Dr Greene's Nervura remedy relief followed within a year, with local authorities and a justice endorsing the account. The ad promotes Dr Greene 35 West 14th Street New York City offering free consultation.
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Fred. C. Lasher, Jr
Westport
N. Y
Pino's Cure for Consumption Promises New Medicine
An 1860s style excerpt describes Pino's Cure for Consumption touted as an infallible remedy for coughs and colds. It references M. W. Samuel of Cowan Grove New Jersey and a humorous exchange with an explorer and a savage, portraying colonial era adventure tropes.
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Pino
Colin
M. W. Samuel
Cowan Grove
N. J
Gas engines may eclipse steam and water power says Bradford paper
A Bradford meeting of the British association featured J B Kershaw’s paper on the comparative cost of power from steam engines water turbines and gas engines. He argued gas engines have a promising future and could displace turbines and steam under certain conditions. The discussion noted hydraulic power growth in Europe and America and the need for extensive cost data to determine the cheapest source of power.
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Bradford
British Association
7. B
Kershaw
Balimore Sun
Mr. Kor~staw
Europe
France
Germany
America
Niagara
Switzerland
New Handy Hoop Remover for Barrels and Hoops
An inventor offers a rapid tool to remove hoops from barrels with a lever and hooked end, reversing for hogsheads. The device uses a fulcrum foot and crosswise operation to detach hoops without harming the barrel, with variations for different barrel sizes.
Self leveling chair to curb sea sickness on voyages
Two Englishmen patent a self level ing chair that counteracts rolling and pitching in any direction to keep the seat horizontal and reduce motion sickness. In extreme conditions or for on deck use, screens and tilting rings allow motionless seating. the concept also applies to cabin berths to evoke land familiarity. Spectacles require baths, says an optician cited from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, as daily wiping wears off a fine film of dust that clings to lenses.
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Optician
Cleveland Plain Dealer
His satanical majesty smiles at whipping boy to attend church
A vivid, ironic line notes a cruel ritual described as coercive pressure to force a boy into church attendance, highlighting the harsh social control and preacherly zeal in a religious setting.
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Peruna Medicine Company
Ohio
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Carter
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Haine
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Wilson Ave
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Franklin Co
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Davis
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HE. J. Gooden
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
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