Liquefying Oxygen and Color Photography Advances
A historical overview describes achieving near absolute zero, liquefying oxygen, and solidifying nitrogen and air. It covers James Dewar’s double chamber, new photography color methods by Ives, and a novel road bed design with crib framework. Early chemistry notes include ancient glass making, crucibles, siphons, and lab tools across civilizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Dewar
Royal Institute
London
Arctic
Dewar
Ives
WORK IN THE OLD DAYS AND HARD TIMES REMINISCED
A Philadelphia Times reader recalls childhood in a Pennsylvania Dutch household. Father a tailor, mother sewing at home, nine children helped from an early age. Apprentices, large family meals, and simple luxuries framed daily labor and thrift. Candle making from tallow, hand sewing by night, and pride in self reliance shaped a lifestyle of modest prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
Mother
Father
London
Jaques
Ip Street
Exs
Esafe
Dr. Jaques
Mtry
May- Smith Academy
Cricktown
Farmingtown College
Redericktown
Pouar
Indian Ocean
CURRENT LEVITIES. The Wife and the Husband
A humorous domestic panel features bickering spouses and bystanders. A husband warns against scolding in front of Mrs. Brown while debating expenses. A pastor notes rising morality as a closing year novelty, and shoppers discuss diamonds and dresses amid light flirtations.
Fragments of Patent Medicine Slogans and Ads
A scrambled OCR page mixes testimonials for Salvation Oil and Shilohs Cure with stray quips about conductors and theater dialogue. It mentions Dr. Ast Syrup, Hegeman Camphor, Brown's Bronchial Troches, and Tansons Magic Corn Salve, reflecting a late 19th or early 20th century ad landscape with playful parlour remarks and consumer remedies.
How's This Reward Ad For Catarrh Cure
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cugver & Co Toledo. Several testimonials from West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin endorse the firm. The half catarrh cure is taken internally priced 75 cents per bottle with free testimonials. A garbled romantic quote appears at the end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cugver & Co
Propa
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Wholale Drugegist
Ohio
The Modern Invalid Seeks Gentle Health Remedies
The piece notes that the modern invalid desires soothing tasteful remedies, praising pleasant form and wholesome composition. It advises consulting a physician and mentions syrup of figs as a gentle family laxative for constipation, warning against drastic purging methods.
Hood's Sarsaparilla Praised by Mobile Fireman
Thomas C. Barrett of Mobile Alabama, a member of Hook and Ladder Company No. 4, attests Hood's Sarsaparilla as the best blood medicine he has used, praising its spring tonic effect and appetite boosting properties, while noting prior ineffective remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas C. Barrett
Mobile
Ala
Hook and Ladder Co
C. J. Hood & Co
Lowell
Mass
Hood
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Field OF Industry
Science and Progress OF the World
North Pole
Frederick E Ives
Philadelphia
H. Carrington Bolton
B. C
Berlin Museum
Jeremiah
Job
Ezekiel
Geher
Egypt
Ceylon
Brethren and Sisters
Argonaut
Bishop
Bridget
Mamie
Maud
Harry
National Guards
KE. Devilkins
Triadelphia
Maid Bend
Ering
Ein Sk
Troy
Shiloh
Sipe
Hegeman's
C. G. Clark Co
Soak
Totile
John
Thomas C. Barnett
Alabama
W.N. Y
Adv
Thomas C. Barret
Mobile, Ala
Bens
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