Old Facts and Fancies From Oddities and Accidents
A collection of quirky reports from across North America and beyond. Topics include an Iowa farmer killing 278 skunks, a Monterey bean habit, a wedding prank on a mouth organ, a Manchester terrier pocketing pool balls, and a drunk man in Bradford dying after choking. Also noted are frozen water snakes in Tuscarawas, a Mexico lottery scare, Chico duck warehouse entry, a Kentucky apple tree bearing fruit for sixty seasons, German coast defense tweaks, a 33 foot Panama Bay shark, Norwich deaf mutes Bible class, New York mustard adulteration fatality, and Windham hay sold after 22 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannibal
Manchester
N. H
John
Bradford
Tuscarawas River
Morelia
Mexico
Chico
Cal
Mercer County
Panama Bay
Norwich
Germs of Fever and the Earth Closet Solution
A health essay urges attention to neglected cess-pools as breeding grounds for fever. Dr B W Carpenter notes a family outbreak likely linked to a nearby cess-pool and argues for sanitary reforms. The piece advocates earth closets as a safer alternative where sewers are unavailable, noting disinfection and compost value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. W. Carpenter
Carpenter
Cough Disturbs Sleep Piso Cure Promise Night Relief
An old ad copy claims one dose of Piso's Cure will quiet coughing and cure sleep disruption, offering a remedy to sleepless nights caused by coughing.
Hampton Indian School Students Produce 18000 Mittens
Eighteen thousand knit mittens and wristlets were made by students of the Hampton Indian school last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hampton Indian School
Warner's Safe Cure praised by a string of grateful readers
Public notice collects letters praising Warner's Safe Cure from individuals across states and towns, detailing cures for kidney disease dropsy Bright's disease and related ailments. Testifiers include F. B. Randolph Jersey City N J A F Caquissi Carlyle Pa D E McCarthy Virginia Nev J M Mundell Lodi Cal F B Semple Denver Cal J B Woopruff Winsted Conn Lafayette Wallingford East Rochester N H James Bruce Exeter N H E B Buck Carlinville Ills Gro C Stevens South Norwalk Conn C B De Noye Albany N Y and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warner
Bright
E. B. Buck
Macoupin County Enquirer
Carlinville, Ills
Agnew “and Webster
New York
Gro. C. Stevens
South Norwalk, Conn
Codfish Speculation Leaves New Hampshire Grocer Cornered
A New York grocer’s agent visits a New Hampshire village and learns a trader piled codfish to secure a corner. Roads block shipments for a month after the three Florida-bound families left, leaving the stock practically sunk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Globe
New York
New Hampshire
Florida
Charles Bradlaugh in Paris Through French Eyes
The French perspective by M. Philippi Daryl in Les Temps hails Charles Bradlaugh as the genius of cavil, muscle like a tiger, always sifting tangled legislation for weaknesses rather than extracting the spirit of the law. The piece notes Massachusetts plans to fund free textbooks for public schools at 150000 dollars in year one and 100000 dollars annually thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Bradlaugh
M. Philippi Daryl
Les Temps
Cavil
Massachusetts
Boston
Advertisements and hotel notices dominate Omaha and west
An assortment of promotional notices, patent medicines, and hotel ads fill the page. Mooney praises Allen's Long Balsam while Carter's Little Liver Pills promise quick liver relief. Grand Union Hotel in New York markets cheap rates, with Metropolitan Hotel in Omaha. Various remedies and products claim cures for headaches, malaria, eye ailments, kidney and urinary issues, worm disease, and teething. Jumbo, a newly incorporated Texas town, is noted.
Commercial Wheat and Corn Prices and Miscellaneous Goods
Market notes list prices for wheat corn oats and flour with multiple regional figures. Includes butter eggs chicken hay cattle and hogs prices, plus tonic and cough remedy advertisements and a Vanderbilt quotation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messina
Hama
Chicago
ST. Louis
Serene MA
Bam
Indulgence and Excess After a Sumptuous Dinner
A fragment hints at effects of indulgence such as ecatt or drinks and remedies. The text suggests relief from dullness pains and distress after leaving the head clear and nerves steady. It mentions the pleasing aftereffects following a Christian or sumptuous dinner.
Eminent Testimony on Medicinal Wine Tax Claim
A New York witness on August 15, 1880 testified that the beverage contains hops and medicinal roots making it a medicinal preparation not a beverage. The analysis asserts that the distilled spirits provide a full dose for an adult, arguing it should bear an internal revenue tax as a medicinal bitter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y
Green B. Raum
U.S. Com. In
Hop Bitters Restore Health in Buffalo Patient
Five years of kidney and liver ailment and rheumatism left the writer unable to move. The liver became hard and the limbs swollen. Doctors said no cure was possible. After seven bottles of Hop Bitters the liver hardness and leg swelling disappeared and the writer proclaims a miracle in his case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warner
J. H. Hupson
Altoona
J. W. Money
Buffalo
Also Mentioned on This Page
Iowa
Monteray
New York Board of Health
Deacon Mayberry
Windham
F. B. Randolph
Jewett Ave
Jersey City, N. J
A. F. Caquissi
Clarion
Carlyle, Pa
D. E. McCarthy
Chronicle
Virginia
Nev
J. M. Mundell
Lodi, Cal
F. B. Semple
American House
Denver
Min‘eral
J. B. Woopruff
Winsted
Conn
Lafayette Wallingford
East Rochester
James Bruce
Exeter, N. H
C. B. de Noye Elles
Broadway
Albany, N. Y
Cleveland, O
H. C. Mooney
Astoria
Allen
Berlin
Carter
Metropolitan
Omaha
West
Utah
New York City
Bageuge
Expreseage
Carria Hire
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Metropolitan Hotel
Houday House
Dr. Seaford
Neal Dow
Maine
Isaac Thompson
Michigan
Ely
John H. Summers
Stepney
Cour d’ Alene
Army
Navy
Feo Modjeska
Uncle Sam
Eilert
Sam
Winchell
Jumbo
Texas
O. Addresa
T. & Slocer
Pearl &J
Elling
Oately
Fis Rus. Co
West Ninth Street
Kansas
Gece
Davenort Business College
Lillibkwwge & Voncan
Davenport
Yale Silk Worke
New Haven
A Blessing
W. 5S. Johnson
W.«yne
Marshal Stown, Ia
Addeese
Corning, Iowan
Warren
Commercial
Drogene
Dr. McCosh
Princeton College
Carwell, Hazara &C
Vanderbilt
Deoggiste
Charles A. Vogeler Co
LWT
Pearl Sa
Argosy
Belessande
Pres
al Ali
Elatt
Zee
Waterbury
A Bae
Harry
Lemon
Frank I
Converse
Edward Lies Hale
Ncedee
Ordace
Argosy Publishing CO
Warren Street
ATONE
Coe
Gauy Cech
Iris’ Uulsios
Bkates
Sc-Rollar Geeonbecks
Wadiva
Ea Pictures
Tolid
Horatio Alger, Jr
M. E. Axtell
West Richfield
Ohio
Wlior
Portland
Oman
Pembertos
Pisae
Moonz
Ehudi
Wakefield
Kan
Witsts
Brooklyn, DL
Herald
Lewistown
Church Union
Vanity Fair
San Francisco
Iphia
Fiteantenta
Tilsen
Es Mgihers
Moroare
Gsmarita Rervine the Great
Dr. $. A. Richmond Med. Co
St. Joseph
Wilbor
OIL and Lime
A. B. Wilbok
Heston
HeaLiTa
Igor
Voltaic Belt Co
Marshall, Mich
Bass- Sree Eerie
W. L. Stellway
Otratman
Titus
Aultman & Taylor Co
Mansfield
Wright
E. Ferrett
Pearl St
Small
New Seeces St
Wabash Ave
Rich m & Co
E Draggists
Bt. Louis, Mo
Western Nation
Sal Pald
P.O. Borg
Louis
Barnes’ Wire Check Rover
Bering, Quinlan CO
Decatur, Ills
Brown
Qhambers, Bering
Qwinlan CO
Gecatur, Ills
Johnson
Johnson & CO
Mass
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