The Pride of a Pleasure Poem Fragment
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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1876
Page
7
Relics Of A Dead Race In Ozark Caves Discovered
The Missouri Republican describes artist A. J. Conant returning from the Ozark Mountains after a week exploring caves on the Gasconade and tributaries in Phelps and Pulaski counties. He found skulls and bones with flint tools and animal remains amid stratified ash layers, noting a old man skull and an infant skull, plus ash deposits at Ash cave from saltpetre years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ozark Mountains
The
Missouri Republican
A. J. Conant
Gasconade
Phelps
Pulaski
Conant
Bruce's Caves
Gasconade River
Strange London Mystery Moves to New York Hoax
A strange tale of a London stone house vanished to a New York scam unfolds on Fifth Avenue near Central Park. A man posing as captain rented, furnished, and stocked the home then disappeared with all contents including mantels and ranges, leaving neighbors puzzled and a stylish hosting business suspected.
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London
Holy Land
New York
Fifth Avenue
Central Park
Ovelty Printing Press
Bene Everinventel
How to Break Off Bad Habits
Understand why the habit is injurious and study the subject until doubt clears. Avoid places and thoughts that tempt you and instead frequent people and settings that support change. Keep busy to counteract idle time, and persist after each failure by reviewing causes and remaining vigilant for recurrence. Breaks take time and effort.
The Mexican New Fire festival and world renewal myth
The article recounts the Aztec belief in periodic world destructions linked to a fifty two year cycle called a sheaf of years. At Toxilmolpila the old gods fade, fires are extinguished, and a new fire ritual signals whether the world will endure another fifty two years. It describes the midnight ascent, the captive sacrifice, and the social rites around the renewal rite, noting the last celebrated cycle was 1507 and the next predicted renewal in 1559 yielded no observances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thiseriod
Mexico
Zeal in Mohammedan Pilgrimage Draws Global Crowds
A Pall Mall Gazette letter describes a vast Mecca pilgrimage concluded early this year. A renowned preacher in Mecca attracts scholars from Turkey Africa Soudan Arabia and India with sermons that influence pilgrims. One elderly man traveled from Lahore to hear him and died soon after arrival.
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Alexandria
Pall Mall Gazette
Mecca
Medina
Arabia
Turkey
Africa
Soudan
India
Persia
Urrachee
Europe
Crescent
Constantinople
Ome
Trade Winds Describe Global Air Circulation
C C Merriman explains in Popular Science Monthly how the earth's rotation creates varying wind speeds by latitude. Trade winds arise as rising hot air near the equator draws in cooler air from both hemispheres, producing persistent northeast and southeast breezes that shift with latitude.
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Equator
C. C. Merriman
Scienece
Poisoned Arrows Kill Commodore Goodenough in War Tale
The account describes arrows used by British navy Commodore Goodenough that were poisoned by immersion in a human corpse for days. It notes blood poisoning can kill after a latent period and compares Papuan practices as warlike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commodore Goodenough
Arrows of Poisoned Bamboo Bowed in Dwellers’ Fields
The passage notes that people refuse to leave their homes for field work unless they carry a bamboo bow and arrows. It describes poisoned arrows as highly ornamented with carvings and paintings, barbed with human bone and sharpened to needle points.
Remarkable Cure Claim for Golden Medical Discovery
Letter from Mrs. L Cuarrxxr extols Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Sage’s Catarrh Remedy for scrofula goitre and chronic catarrh with complete recovery after four bottles. The notice touts blood purifiers and liver medicines, warns against mercury and iodine, and promotes various patent remedies with testimonials and ads for Dobbins’ Soap and Schenck’s Mandrake Pills.
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Wellincton, Lorain Co
R. V. Prexce
Buffalo
N. Y
Sage
L. Cuarrxxr
Pierce
Medicines —Com
Juniper Tar Soap touted to cure skin ailments in ad style
An advert claims Juniper Tar Soap by Caswell Hazard & Co New York cures head skin rashes pimples and other cutaneous affections while warning against imitations made from common tar. A Baltimore monk nicknamed Dom Pedro appears, attracting street youths who invite him to wipe off his chin.
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Caswell, Hazard &Co
New York
Dom
Baltimore
Dom Pedro
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