Early Bird Radish Seeds and Salzer Catalog Offer
An editor quotes a market gardener praising Salzer's northern grown seeds for earliness and reliability. Readers are urged to mail 10 cents to John A. Salter Seed Co. for a sample Early Bird Radish and their catalog. Also noted are varied brief ads and local notices including a mule sale, a salve, and timber/lumber mentions.
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Salzer
John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
W.d
Old Time Remedies and Notices Packaged in One
A patchwork of items from a bygone era includes notes on a Northern firm planning a cotton picking machines factory in Atlanta, teething remedies, a Transvaal school question, Brown's bronchial troches for hoarseness, bread as life’s staff, January travel promos from Iron Mountain Routes, and millet used in ancient bread making.
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Atlanta
Pink Pills Proclaimed Cure for Stomach and Nerve Ailments
Cincinnati Enquirer reports Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as a remedy for digestive and nervous disorders fueled by fast living. H P Owens narrates lasting relief from constipation and stomach heaviness after using a box or two, with his mother sharing the praise. Mrs Owens corroborates the medicine’s ease of use and rapid, lasting results alongside nervousness relief. The testimonial highlights widespread approval and availability from druggists and direct mail order from the Dr Williams Medicine Company.
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The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Dr. Williams
H. P. Owens
Central Avenu
Cincinnati
Ohio
Owens
Enquirer
Commercial Gazette
These are queer fish. Australia’s sea life described in NSW waters
Sydney letters recount several species long vanished elsewhere but alive in New South Wales. Port Jackson shark teeth resemble fossil acrodus, ceratodus links lizard and fish, frog fish walks among marine plants, hopping fish evolves legs to leap amongmuiants, eyes move independently, sea horse hippocampus draws praise, phyllopteryx likened to a sea weed ghost, dugong formerly common at Richmond Tweed Brunswick mouths now rarer south of Brisbane. Dugong size reaches fourteen feet, weigh about 300 pounds.
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Sydney
Boston Transcript
New South Wales
Port Jackson
Phyllopteryx
Australia
Richmond
Tweed
Brunswick
Brisbane
Queensland
The Great Forest: World’s Largest Woodland Explored
A report from a congress on science notes forests in Quebec and Ontario claim vast size, while a French writer argues the Amazon and Africa host larger woodlands. The African Great Forest, vast and largely untouched, dominates accounts, with Stanley’s Darkest Africa recounting days of near perpetual shade.
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Congress For the Advancement of Science
St. Lawrence
Quebec
Ontario
South America
Amazon
Africa
Stanley
Murderers' Mascot Follows Trials Across Canada
A man known as the murderers' mascot says he has attended seventeen murder trials in two years with no convictions. He was present at the Hyams twins first trial in Toronto for the murder of William Wells, where the defense, confident by the mascot's presence, believed victory was near. The jury disagreed, and the Hyams were later acquitted at the second trial.
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Terry
Hyams Twins
William. Wells
Toronto
Hyams
Wilkie Collins
Omaha
Werkly Wor o-Llorano
William J. Bryan
Nebraska
Black Foxes Released In Maine For Fur Propagation
Four black foxes from Alaska were released on Heron Island in Boothbay Harbor Maine a few days ago to propagate the rare fur bearing animals. Of a band of fifteen shipped from Alaska in September ten died en route to San Francisco one died before Chicago and four survived in good condition. If successful the plan may spread to other seasons and locations.
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Alaska
Heron Island
Boothbay Harbor
San Francisco
Chicago
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