August Flower Dyspepsia Testimonials From North America
A collection of endorsements for August Flower from diverse readers including Mr Quebec at Lauzon Levis Canada and Geo Gates Corinth Mississippi. Claims include relief cure and strong recommending language. Manufacturer cited as G G Green Woodbury New Jersey USA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec
Bergeron
General Dealer
Lauzon
Levis
Geo. Gates
Corinth
Miss
G. G. Green
Woodbury
New Jersey
Rageed Edge Clothing Care Ad Promotes Pearline Soap
An old advertisement claims Pearline saves wear on washed clothes by reducing rubbing and labor. It asserts the soap cleans all fabrics without harm and warns against imitations. Signed by James Pyle, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Pyle
N.Y
Russia’s Fra Diavolo and the Charms of a Bandit Chief
A long account tells of Kronkow ski a Volhynia brigand who rose from a fortune to lead a band terrorizing nobles across Russian territories. He evaded capture for years, even fooling a Russian lieutenant with a fake letter, married none, and eventually was sentenced to life penal servitude and exile to Sakhalin. The piece also rambles with a short anecdote about tame hummingbirds, recounting a spring sighting and a caregiver’s interaction with a returning bird.
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Krouko
Sita
Volhynia
Russia
Podolsk
New York Sun
Keot
Stratery
Jas
Kroukowash
Gallea
Loutsk
Doulno
Kevertai
Leutenant
Kroukewakl
Kronkowski
Tle
Sakhaline
Monliman’s Death Sparks Divided Inheritance Dispute
A local tale describes a man who died intestate leaving three sons and seventeen cows. The monks and elders seek a fair division of the herd into fractions half for the eldest, a third for the middle, and a ninth for the youngest, prompting debate on equitable distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen
Brothers Split Cow After Clever Lawyer Plan
A story of two brothers disputing a cow. They ask a lawyer for a solution. The lawyer suggests borrowing a cow and then dividing the herd. After following the plan, they return the borrowed cow and divide the original cow as if it included the borrowed animal.
Immigration to Louisiana Attracts Northern Settlers Influx
Immigrants from the North settled vast Wisconsin Prairie like lands in Louisiana after the Cotton Centennial Exposition and the Inter Suite Agricultural Convention of 1487, bringing homesteads, booming shanty towns, and demand for fertile soil ready to yield cotton rice sugar cane fruit and vegetables. By 1890 most desirable land was taken, towns scarce, and newcomers faced high costs and the need for cash or favorable town sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisana
Louisiana
New Orleans
On the Carpet Origin in Oriental Legend
The Free Press notes a Western rendering of the phrase On the carpet tracing to Solomon’s green silk carpet. Eastern writers claim Solomon rode a carpet large enough for his army and attendants, with wind guiding the flight and birds forming a canopy to shade the party as they moved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solomon
Strength of Men and Ants
An ant three-eighths of an inch long bears a burden of one sixth of a grain and moves a mile in eleven hours. This weight is eighteen times its own. By comparison a man four feet tall weighing 140 pounds carries 1.5 tons of lead from St. Louis to Jefferson City and back in twenty two and a half hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Jefferson City
Sights and Casualties From a Fractured Ledger
A collage of odd happenings and mishaps from across towns. A Tunisian girl weighs over 200 pounds to avoid marriage, a New York man uses a sewer as a fatal trap, a West Paris meteorite fragment draws interest, and a Virginia woman loses cash after leaving it in a hotel satchel. Other items note currency finds, botched medical tales, a butterfly hoard, a soda fountain accident, and a barefoot girl evading danger among reptiles.
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Paris
Warriage
Bangor
San Francisco
Blo
New York
Fartier
Wetmore
Kay
Conperticut River
Hartford
W. 5B. Marrly
Virginia
Nev
Duisburg
James Moser
Paterson
N. J
Tonn
Nm Rattionnaire
Belfast
Masschusetta
The Trained Ear Aids Engineers In All Machines
An engineer, H. H. Dantzer, describes how trained listening guides railroad and marine machinery. He notes engines, presses, and telegraph rooms emit distinct sounds when out of tune and how skilled workers identify and locate faults instantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Dantzer
Reading
West
Philadelphia
Dantzer
Reaon
Western Union Telegraph Company
Long Servieu
Water Clock at Rome garden. windless functioning
The Horological Review describes a water clock at Monte Pincio Rome a three branch rustic case sits on a stone block beside a water basin. A battle axe vane marks hours and quarters while coral like rust pleural pipes feed water to spoons driving a centrifugal pendulum escapement. The monk who built it crafted the mechanism and artwork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monte Pincio
Rome
Australian butterfly bathers defy water avoidance
In a Victorian Naturalist note M G Lyell reports Australian butterflies deliberately entering water to bathe. Observers saw multiple insects backing into the water, keeping forelegs dry while bodies and hind wings wetted, then flying away refreshed. The behavior appears driven by heat, with butterflies later returning to land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
M. G. Tyell, Jr
M. Lyell
Poole
Canadian regatta at Harrie mt features senior singles winner
The Harrie Mount regatta saw senior singles stir with James Hender son of the Catlin club of Chicago prevailing. J J Ryan led early but tired, Thompson stayed strong, allowing Henders on to win. Wurter was second and Melrey third as others faded amid wind and water conditions.
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Harrie
James Henderson
Catlin Club
Chicago
J. J. Ryan
Sannoyside
A. F P. Barret
E. Mc
F.J. Thompson
M. Shes
Thompson
Ryan
Seems Qarter
Thomson
Lere
Cithin
Iines
Wurter
Melrey
Shen Foweth
Ren Bast
Fragmented 19th century ad list shows quack cures and odd claims
A garbled page lists many dubious products and claims such as Melt's Cetarrh Cure, Tintion's Magic Salve, and a sun's brightness claim, plus references to a Chilean or South American railroad, a Japanese tactic, and a Chin ese newspaper poll. The text reads like an OCR mishmash of advertisements and odd statements with exaggerated medical and product promises.
When she became Miss she cen to historical tale
Fragmentary OCR note mentions a miss and a shift to a Castoria like product, with garbled phrases about childhood and ownership. No clear person, place, or dated event is readable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chstoria
Castoria
Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription Promises Relief and Refund
Advertisement touts Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription as a cure for female ailments and general weakness with a money back guarantee. It promotes Pleasant Pellets to regulate liver and stomach and relieve sick headache constipation indigestion and bilious attacks.
Wine quality praised by New York health board official
A report mentions Dr Janes of the New York Board of Health endorsing Alfa Spoor Part Wine as superior for the sick. It also notes the London national training school for cookery with 600 pupils entering and 77 teachers claiming diplomas since opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Heaton Wine
Janes
New York
London National Training School For Cookery
Isin
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