Among the insane thrilling experiences of a professional nurse
Alfred J. Nutt, a nurse who attended John McCullough, describes dramatic cases from his career. He recounts cholera work with Florence Nightingale’s corps, bizarre hallucinations of gasometers and Chinamen, a dancing master, political delusions, self harm, and a violent encounter with a champagne obsessed patient, detailing risks faced in asylums.
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Phila. Sunday News
Alfred J. Nutt
John McCullough
Ile
St. Thomas’ Hospital
London
Guy's and Bartholomew's Hospital
Nutt
Florence Nightingale
Genoa
Poorman
Carthagenia
New York City
Bef
Fifth Avenue
Strauss
Mr. Nutt
Piper Heidsick
Mr.Nutt
Misled By His Wife Over Fancy Fabric Purchase
A husband trusts his wife’s grand descriptions to describe a fabric and buys at forty cents a yard, thinking it would be more expensive. The store clerk confirms the item as a plain fabric, correcting the husband’s inflated expectation.
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Myrid
Coors
Chantz
Scott
George Stinson & Co
Portland, Maine
Castoria Reference Echoes Through Generations
A nostalgic ad style line recalls Castoria as a remedy from infancy to motherhood. It ends with a subscription pitch for the JOURNAL and a note on quality at the JOURNAL Office.
Havana voyage notes reveal Cuba travel cautions and unrest
A Havana correspondent describes customs checks at landing, street mendicants, and a bullfight viewed by American observers. He notes Cuban Spaniards control wealth, creoles and slaves tensions, and warns snowdiggers to avoid Cuba except fall and winter.
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Indianapolis
Jownal
Mayana
New Orleans
Madrid
Signor Mastin Ferretti
Havana
Cuba
Spain
New York
America
England
Corliss
Bay
Tramp Seeks Charity By Clever Card Ruse at Mansion
A beggar visits a suburban mansion claiming the last remaining card worth 10 000 is his only support. He asks for cold victuals while the mistress dismisses him then relents and sends him to the kitchen for cold doughnuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Manville
Salt Box Clue Kills Suit in Pioneer Press Tale
In Minneapolis a bookkeeper seeks marriage with a daughter but the father balks after noting his salt box handling suggests he is familiar with poker chips. The salt gesture exposes the suitor as a gambler, ending the engagement prospect.
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Minneapolis
Paterfamilias
Juliet
Romeo
St. Paul's Pioneer Press
Drummer Boy of the Cumberland Claims Youngest Civil War Service
Avery Brown born September 28 1852 in Delphos Ohio. Mustered August 18 1861 at Camp Chase Columbus into the Thirty first Ohio Volunteers age eight years eleven months thirteen days. Resides Elkhart Indiana and is known as The Drummer Boy of the Cumberland.
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The
Chicago Ledger
Captain Mott
Avery Brown
Cumberland
Delphos
Allen County
Ohio
United States Service
Camp Chase
Columbus
Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Fourteenth Army Corps
Brown
Elkhart
Ind
Grand Army Post
Why the Crow Is Black Legend
The northwest Indigenous tale explains the crow’s black plumage as a consequence of a night visit to Chief Cannook. Denied water, the crow fled through a smoke-filled hole, and Cannook's wife roused him as logs and dense smoke hardened the crow’s feathers to black. The crow’s white plumage was transformed during the escape.
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Can-nook
Origin of the Phrase “Go West” by Horace Greeley
Orange Judd recalls how Horace Greeley’s famous advice originated. A dinner conversation yielded a letter asking the best path for a young man. Judd suggested go West and claim land, and the next day Greeley wrote the editorial echoing that refrain.
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Horace Greely
Orange Judd
The
American Agriculturist
New York Tribune
Congregation Threatened with Excommunication over Gossip
The Episcopal Church of Our Saviour in Centreville Camden faces a threat of excommunication after Bishop Scarborough warned Rev. William B. Thorn that ongoing slander by church officials and parishioners could lead to removal. The area rests in a rural ward of Camden.
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Episcopal Church of Our Saviour
Centreville
Camden
William B. Thorn
Scarborough
Busines&a
U.S. Patent Office
Washington
U. S. Patent Office
C. A. Know & CO
Patent Office
Washington, D. C
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India
Constantinople
Bay of Biscay
Tie
Castoria
Journal
Kansas
the Cumberland
France
Jacob Pisenhuth
D. I. Brown
D. J. Brown
Main St
Millheim, PA
Mr. Brown
Eisenhuth
Phila
F. A. North & CO
Cuxstout St
Philadelphia
Police Gazette
United States
Richard K. Fox
Franklin Square
N. Y
Domestic Mf’g CO
Marion
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Maryland
Delaware
Virginia
North Carolina
N.E. City ‘Y Hall Square
Sinusé St
P. KR
Philadeli’hia
Keystone Hotel
Selinsgrove
Penna
Grand Outfit
Taur & Co
Augusta
Maine
H. Halieré Co
Yortland
Chestnut Street
Buadelgtte
J. A. Nor
J. B. Mayer
Areh St
Keystone House
Reading
Arwood
Furniture
Hanwood
Reme
H. D. Cushman
Three Rivers, Miche
Marsh
Battle Creek Machinery Co
Attle Caret
Do Ney Furniture Pree
W. T. Mauck’s— Furniture Store
Couny
W. T. Mauck
Springfield
Ste&m
Enterprise Vapor Medicator CO
Union Square
Dantel
Eto
Nes
U. 8
ES. Daniels &Co
Reading Organ CO
Bantner
Ward & CO
Louisiana, Mo
Jamaica
Joseph Burnett & CO
Boston
Chicago
ST. Loan
Pang Hey Ee
A. J. Weidener
Sele
Second Street
Palmer
Palmer Boss
H, Palmer & CO
Rockford
A.B. Farquhar
York, Pa
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