Island Woman Rescued After Eighteen Years Alone
An Indian woman was found abandoned on St Nicholas Island off Southern California after eighteen years in isolation. A search party discovered footprints, then a companion spotted her in a brush enclosure. She wore seal skin clothing, used a jade knife, and lived on pale santo cabbage and corcomite roots with seal blubber. She communicated by signs and appeared about fifty, with fairer features than mainland Indians.
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St. Nicholas Island
California
Tate
South
Rome
Museum of the Propaganda
Haunted London house tale of a ghostly visitor
A young English lawyer recalls returning to London with his wife and renting a modest house in a principal street. The wife dreams repeatedly of a presence, and the husband later sees a pale blondeness man enter their room and walk to the dressing room. The figure vanishes and reappears at the doorway, centered on the couple's bedchamber. Neighbors identify the visitor as the former owner who died twelve years prior.
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London
England
Blockade to be Raised for Constipation Relief
The article notes that waste material should exit the system promptly during a blockade caused by constipation. Ostetter's Bitters is praised for restoring regularity without the harsh effects of drastic cathartics, which can weaken the intestines and harm users who misuse such remedies.
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Ostetter
Cure for a horse's bad temper through candy and bribes
An old agricultural note describes a horse named Bobtail that rebels when harnessed but calms after receiving apples or potatoes as rewards. The writer compares the animal’s stubbornness to a child and cites a General Jackson quote to suggest bribery as a cure for vices born of vexation or habit.
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Curine
Bobtail
Phil
Jackson
Physician Offers Free Remedy Recipe for Lung Ailments
An elderly physician long retired claims a vegetable cure for consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and throat and lung maladies along with nervous debility. He says he will mail the recipe free in German French or English with preparation directions to any reader who writes from Rochester New York.
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W. W. Sherar
Powers’ Block
Rochester
New York
A Driving Horse on the Farm Necessity and Benefit
The article argues that a good driving horse is essential on any farm large or small with extensive driving. It explains that a half day of road work strains a work horse more than two days of farm labor, as muscles adapt to tasks. Keeping horses on farm duties preserves health, looks, longevity, and social life, and farmers can raise their own driving horse.
Be Gentile With Cows
A New York dairyman outlines a humane milking method. Cows are led to the barn and settled calmly in their stalls with no fright or rough handling. Milking is quiet and orderly, relying on gentle kindness to evoke full, cream-rich milk.
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New York State
Hop Bitters Restores Elderly Mother to Health
A Providence woman reports her 70 plus mother suffered neuralgia and fatigue for years. Three months of Hop Bitters brought the patient back to vitality, with the family declaring no other medicine fit for use.
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Acain
Providence, R. I
Lima Braxi beans grown as bushes yield high production
An experimental method in Lima Braxi beans shows that pinching off the ends to prevent climbing causes the plants to form a thick bush. The bushes proved nearly as productive as climbing vines, suggesting a viable alternative cultivation approach.
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Lima Braxi
Tips on Storing Potatoes to Prevent Odor
A little dry sand over potatoes in the cellar is said to destroy any unpleasant odor. Sprinkling dry air-slaked lime can mitigate rot.
Ground bone in feed aids laying hens
A teaspoonful of ground bone or bone flour every two or three days mixed into their food is beneficial for laying hens. This simple supplement supports bone strength and calcium intake, helping shell quality and overall productivity. Regular small doses are suggested for steady results.
Dr Jayne's Expectorant Promises Quick Recovery From Colds
A historical notice proclaims Dr Jayne's Expectorant treats congestion of the lungs and inflammation with difficulty breathing linked to severe colds. It stresses its forty year reputation as a guarantee of practical merit and claims to break feverish tendencies, relieve throat constriction, and promote free expectoration for natural respiration.
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Jayne
Domestic Broth Recipes for Sick Persons and Mutton Broth
A domestic guide explains two healing broths. First, pectoral chicken broth using a young fowl, pearl barley and marshmallow roots, simmered an hour and strained for use. Second, mutton broth with scrag-end neck, turnips, parsley, thyme, and salt, boiled an hour and a half then fat skimmed and strained for storage.
Veal Cutlets and Peas with Bacon and Mint
Small veal necks cut into cutlets with bone, seasoned and fried in butter. Bacon slices fried separately. Parsley and thyme minced, sprinkled over arranged cutlets and bacon in a circle. Centre holds peas boiled with mint, then drained and tossed with butter in a pan.
Vermicelli Substitutes: Egg Noodle Preparation Guide
When vermicelli is unavailable noodles serve well. Separate yolks and whites of two eggs, mix yolks with one pound sifted flour to form a stiff paste. Roll thin, dry, then slice into fine shreds. Cook in boiling clear soup and serve. refrigerate leftovers in a cool place.
Why Cooking Vegetables Aids Digestion
The text explains that heating vegetables makes them easier to digest by separating and dissolving fibres, removing absorbed water, and rupturing starch cells, allowing their constituent atoms to be more readily acted upon by the stomach.
Humorous Detroit tale of a cautious city resident
An elderly Detroit man, fearing burglars, consults the police weekly for security tips. He plans iron inner shutters and in home improvements, joking that burglars will be scared when he finishes painting every stair nightly.
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Gor ’Em Tiagatr
Detroit
VEGETINE Promises Renewal of Blood and Vitality
An advertisement asserts VEGETINE can revive lifeless bloo d from weather or climate change irregular diet and inactivity. It claims the remedy cleanses the stomach regulates the bowels and imparts vigor to the whole body.
A True Cast and Quick Rural Vignettes
A patchwork of jokes notes and anecdotes from a trial office visit. a girl dies at fourteen. humorous quips about soap cap festivals and elopements. stray lines on Dr Bull's Baby Syrup kerosene remedies and odd sayings.
Freshening Old Potatoes and Teaspoons of Egg Yolk in Sauce
Old potatoes may be refreshed by plunging them into cold water before cooking. Borep fowl with sauce over which grate the yolk of eggs for a magnificent luncheon. Te pid water is produced by combining two thirds cold and one third boiling.
Hop Bitters Promises Health From Sunshine Relief
The advert claims factory workers suffer from ailing faces appetite and vitality and must get out of doors. It touts Hop Bitters as the purest remedy bringing health sunshine and rosy cheeks at a low cost.
Mortal Farm Near Evergreen Park Known For Tragedy
A Chicago farm known as Shipp's Place has a brutal history of deaths and misfortune. The latest fatality was owner Alfred Shipp, impaled by a bull at the field gate. Over ten years seven violent or sudden deaths occurred, plus family betrayals, a murder for robbery, and a prostrate tale of ill luck linked with the unfinished Carl residence nearby.
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Evergreen Park
Chicago
Shipp
Alfred Shipp
August Franks
William Orvitt
Franks
Orvitt
Shepherd Dogs Guard Flocks in Scotland and Teach Loyalty
The text describes how young shepherd dogs are raised apart from their mothers to bond with flocks, learning to defend sheep and guide them home. It notes their fearsome bark upon approach, the hierarchy with resident house dogs, and the calming effect on wary wild dogs when a shepherd leads the flock.
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Scotland
Wisdom of the Wise Legislator and Patent Medicines
The passage argues that public good justifies selfless voting and influence for collective well being, criticizing selfish physicians. It extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets as inexpensive cures, claiming they cleanse the liver and blood and regulate the stomach and bowels.
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Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Anakesis Piles Remedy by Dr Silsbee Featured
A reforming critique cites Dr Silsbee as modern benefactor with Anakesis External Pile Salve. The product is advertised as a non internal suppository offering instant relief and cure, priced at $100 per box with samples mailed to sufferers via P Neustaedter & Co New York.
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Hypocrates
Silsbee
Anakesis
Sbee
P. Neustaedter & Co
New York
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