Christmas Dinner with Nez Perces at Ponca Agency
A delegation from the Ponca reservation travels sixteen miles to the Nez Perces camp near the agency. The piece describes the ceremony and the tent, Joseph’s nephew James Rubens speaking, and the feast of venison, fish, and other fare shared with the visiting white guests. The account praises the Nez Perces progress under education and Christianity and notes the generous ration allotments. General Jordan offers thanks for the hospitality.
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Indian Territory
United States
Poncas
Ponca
Agency
Archie Sawyer
Joseph
James Rubens
Moses
Lamab
Gen. Jordan
Philadelphia
Nez Perces
Royal Visit to Longleat Recalls 1789 Event
The Prince of Wales visited Longleat House to meet the Marquis of Bath, a royal visit last seen with George III and Queen Charlotte in September 1789. The stay drew about 30,000 visitors, with a large royal retinue, meals for many, and substantial game prepared for the occasion.
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Prince of Wales
Bath
Longleat
George
Queen Charlotte
Weymouth
Gunter
Lord Allesbury’s
Savernake
Windsor
Domestic Trifle Preparation with Whipped Cream
Instructions describe making a trifle the day before, including whipping sugar and egg whites with cream and sherry, draining the whip, then layering sponge cakes macaroons and ratafias with soaked cake, lemon rind almonds and jam, custard, and a tall whipped topping garnished with jelly and candy.
Seasoning Food On A Budget With Herbs
The article argues fine flavor need not cost much and suggests affordable herbs like sage thyme majoram tarragon mint basil parsley and others. It explains growing drying and storing methods including window boxes sun drying in June to August and preserving flavor in airtight tins or tightly corked bottles.
Ink stain removal from old papers suggested
The Journal de Pharmacie d Anvers advises pyrophosphate of soda to remove ink stains without harming fiber. Apply tallow first, then wash with pyrophosphate until both disappear. Red analine stains respond to alcohol with nitric acid. cosine stains may not. Paper is barely affected. test on blank paper first.
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Journal de Pharmacie d’Anvers
Oxalic Acid Uses in Detergent Work
Oxalic acid is described for removing ink rust mud stains and old urine stains. It may also treat fruit juice stains but damages fugitive and light fast colors, so its use is limited to white fabrics. Apply by dissolving in cold or lukewarm water, let sit briefly, then rub with fingers.
Tomato Catsup Recipe For Canned Tomatoes
A home canning method using one large can tomatoes half ounce salt half ounce mace one teaspoon black pepper half teaspoon cayenne one teaspoon ground cloves three tablespoons ground mustard one spoon celery seed boiled with half pint vinegar until thick, strained and stored in a corked bottle.
Scofen Cake Method from a Old Recipe
Stir to a cream one pound sugar and three quarters pound butter. Add lemon rind and juice. Beat whites and yolks of nine eggs separately until frothy. Fold into cake with one pound sifted flour. Stir fifteen minutes. Before baking line pans with buttered paper. Add one pound raisins and spices to taste. Bake one hour.
Dutog by Lxcx Sweet Meat for Pud ding and Bread
A Spanish sweet meat recipe describes a dessert sauce for pudding or a bread spread. Ingredients include one quart of milk one pound of sugar one teaspoon ground cinnamon and one teaspoon flour. Cook in a china lined vessel for five to six hours until it hardens when cooled.
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Dutog
Apple Rice Pudding Pudding Delight
The method suggests turning leftover rice pudding into a light apple pudding by layering sweetened apple sauce with cold rice pudding, adding butter and sugar, then baking until heated and browned. Any flavoring can be used for the pudding.
How to Cook Fish Livers in Bermuda Delicacy
In Bermuda fish livers are a delicacy. Use striped bass and other local fish livers like black bass sea bass red snapper and white fish from the lakes. Cod livers may be too oily. Fry like giblets or stew and they are excellent when broiled.
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Bermuda
Tomato Soup Recipe Summary
Twelve tomatoes pared and cut fine are boiled an hour or use two quarts canned tomatoes boiled half an hour. Add two quarts rich milk and stir constantly. Add one pint oyster crackers rolled and butter the size of an egg. Serve immediately.
How to Remove Finger Marks from a Polished Piano
Wipe with a cloth dampened in pure cold water to remove fingerprints. The finish is untouched by the moisture and dries quickly, restoring the piano's new appearance at once.
Alum and Borax Clarify Stained Rain Water for Washing
A simple purification method uses two ounces powdered alum and two ounces borax added to a twenty barrel cistern of rain water that is blackened or oily. In a few hours the sediment settles and the water clears, becoming suitable for washing.
Cream Reserve Makes Bread Moist and White
A morning practice of skimming a cup of cream from milk pans for bread dough yields softer, lighter loaves. The small amount of cream enhances moisture and color, with minimal noticeable loss.
Pennsylvania Third in 1880 Tobacco Production
Tax data show American tobacco crop in 1880 places Pennsylvania third in rank among states, with production only surpassed by Kentucky and Virginia.
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Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Virginia
Unsympathetic Romeo Worries Over Street Cleaning Snow
In a witty verse passage a woman rests against Reginald and teases him about happiness after the yule tide. He grips a coal shovel by the fire and fears change in the street cleaning department if winter worsens.
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Romeo
Reginald
St Jacobs Oil Praised By Kalamazoo Druggist
The Kalamazoo Daily Gazette reports Burdick House druggist Chas. D Arcambal calls St Jacobs Oil an unprecedented success and says it is highly extolled with general satisfaction.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Daily Gazette
Chas
D’arcambal
Burdick House
St. Jacobs
Penny Flip Rule Of The Railroad Conductor Tale
A traveler asks how a conductor built a home and a fast horse on fifty dollars a month. The conductor explains turning fares into a coin flip, favoring the company when heads and reflipping when tails. The passenger ends up selling railroad shares.
Relief For Neuralgia With St Jacobs Oil
George Barnes of Bagnall and Barnes on South Water street says his wife suffered neuralgia for years and tried many remedies before finding relief with St Jacobs Oil.
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Chicago Times
George Barnes
Bagnall & Barnes South
Christmas Pie Mystery At Home With Sick Brother
A boy greets his mother with festive cheer and claims six mince pies were on the pantry shelf yesterday but only five remain today. The mother suspects mischief as she learns their brother Bill has been sick all night, possibly related to the missing pie.
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Charlie Miggs
Bill
Marvel of science captures runaway horse incident
The latest marvel of science is instantaneous photography. It can produce a photo of a person being thrown over a stone wall by a runaway horse. The image, placed in a mahogany frame, serves as a warning to keep control of the reins and avoid dangerous hugging in mountaineous rides.
Guiden Medical Discovery touted for lung cures
The advertisement claims Dr. Pierce's Guiden Medical Discovery can cure badly wasted lungs, describing it as a tonic alterative and nutritive for bronchitis colds and incipient consumption. It promises superior efficacy to cod liver oil and asks readers to send two stamps for a pamphlet from Worth's Dispensary Medical Association Buffalo NY.
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Dr. Pierce
Mysterious Gallant Fails to Impress in Boston Encounter
Forpippen meets a Boston girl who judges him harshly after they browse a tattered album. He asks about stockings during a Christmas chat. She resents his remark, proclaims independence, and exits with stiff dignity while he slumps by the window.
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Boston
Colonel Thompson and the dog steal a steak
Colonel Oscar Thompson from Iowa meets Mr Gemuend and his dog. Thompson wagers the dog will not eat meat. The dog takes the steak and races off with it to eat in secret under a building, proving breed dogs will eat meat.
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Oscar Thompson
Iowa
Gemuend
Thompson
Kidney-Wort Promised To Restore Health
An urging advertisement from Loansville Tribune touts Kidney-Wort as a cure for disordered liver yellow skin bowel distress and piles claiming it cleanses poisons and restores organ function. Druggists sell both dry and liquid forms.
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Loansville Tribune
Bath advice and household anecdotes from a 19th century page
A physician urges daily baths to Plodgers the valetudinarian who recalls a rare bath years ago and worsened health. Moruer complains to a new nurse about noisy children as Mary responds. A local anecdote mentions a son with a side abscess and a cure claim by Lindsey's Blood Searcher from Painesville Ohio.
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Lindsey
J. F. Brooks
Painesville
Ohio
Lost in Translation on a Tarred Road
A tourist complains the miles are long while Jat replies the road length is deceptive. He notes that the stones fail and builders placed a mile stone every two miles to compensate for the missing surface.
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Jat
Eure
Winter Rhymes and Prices From a Bygone Page
A quirky mix of seasonal verse about warmth and a playful medical pride, followed by an ad line offering ten visits for seventeen dollars and twenty five cents. The text ends with a humorous quotation about hearing Moses and Bob Ingersoll traded for a large sum.
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Ruymes
Josh Billings
Bob Ingersoll
Moses
Gun plants and their deadly shoots
A child asks why guns are planted and grow leaves. The father replies simply that guns do not grow like plants but they shoot. The exchange presents a stark image of violence explained through a gardening metaphor.
Paravoxs Cultivate Eyes to Grow From Planting
A brief note suggests Paravoxs require attentive eyes to nurture their growth. The statement implies vigilance and observation as keys to successful development.
Pennsylvania grand jury indicts man for stolen umbrella
A Pennsylvania grand jury indicted a man for stealing an umbrella. As they left the jury room into the rain, they noticed many umbrellas on a rack and muttered, What a fool a fool is, reflecting on the theft.
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Pennsylvania
Favorite Prescription Helps woman with chronic female complaints
Mrs Emily Rhoads of McBrides Michigan reports six years of dragging-down illness eased after using three bottles of Favorite Prescription. She praises the remedy and urges other women to try it, addressing Dr R V Prevot of Buffalo New York.
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R. V. Prevot
Buffalo
N. Y
Emily Rhoads
McBrides
Mich
Swirners Question Hats as Remedy in Odd Debate
Mr Swellington explains his two hats idea for the country arguing that tipping hats causes disreputable tiles and colds in the head. He suggests bowing as the remedy, presenting it as a social experiment.
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Swirners
Swellington
Mr. Swellington
Mails Transport by Woman Highlighted in Vermont Route
A remark praises a woman for delivering mail from Vergennes to Addison Vermont calling it a wonderful thing while noting mail transport has long been a woman’s work. The comment underscores changing or challenged gender expectations in traditional roles.
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Vergennes
Addison, Vt
Kidney-Wort Claims Quick Cure for Kidney Disease
A sick man asks a druggist for a cure for back pain and disordered urine, signs of kidney disease. The druggist recommends Kidney-Wort, which soon cures him. If you have these symptoms, get a box today before it becomes incurable. Anoxville Republican.
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Anoxville
Jealous Quip Over Amanda and Arthur Marriage Plan
A witty exchanges questions Amanda wedding Arthur, remarking she is intelligent while he is deemed unfortunate for marrying her. The brief dialogue hints at social humor about compatibility and choice in marriage.
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Amanda
Arthur
How to spot the most stylish dress by crowd reaction
A guide suggesting you observe a crowd to identify the dress that women universally dislike. It implies fashion judgments are social and rely on collective reaction rather than individual taste.
Is your daughter at home Mr Brusk
A short quotation from a 1879 Missouri notice notes Mr Brusk answering that his daughter and mother are at home. The item records a later, unkept visit by Long Jack and a testimonial praising Hop Bitters for liver complaint and malaria, attributed to P. M. Barnes.
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Mr. Brusk
Calion
Long Jack
P. M. Barnes
Between Two Great Paries and Odd Advertisements
An unusual exchange notes David Davis stands between two great paries revealing the distance between them. The text mocks visible colors and the dentist’s plight while mentioning Warner's Late Kidney and Liver Cure. It comments on a miscoscope hat showing irregular ragged teeth.
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David Davis
Maxim electric siphon plan for Mexico basin
New York inventor Mr. Maxim forms a company to electrify the basin around Mexico City. Waterwheels on the western slope would generate twenty thousand horsepower to drive dynamo machines and pumps twelve miles away on the lake margin, lifting water forty feet and using the drop to drive a Pacific coast fountain, aiming to curb centuries of floods.
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Maxim
New York
City
Mexico
Pacific
Hop Bitters Promise Quick Health Boost for Damsels
A public appeal from mothers asks what can be done for weak daughters and cites Hop Bitters as a simple remedy that could restore health in one to four weeks. Separately, Cross and Carpenter describe French Academy work on color photographs using layers of coagulated albumen and colored screens with distinct bath colors to reproduce painted images.
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M. M. L. Cross
J. Carpenter
French Academy of Science
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Compound Promises Women Relief
An advertisement claims Lydia E. Pinkham’s Compound restores health and happiness for diseases women suffer and directs readers to send for pamphlets at 233 Western Avenue Lynn Massachusetts to learn more.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Western Avenue
Lynn
Mass
Hair belts and engines dominate industrial notes
German hair belts offer strong wear resistance and better pulley grip. belts resist dampness and reduce machine stoppages. Prices have fallen to leather levels. The issue also covers Centennial engine horsepower, Providence steamer power, Cunard Servia forecast, and Sproia advertisements. It notes micro scopical iron ore studies by M J Wadsworth and reports on a Maine gold mine.
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Corliss
Philadelphia
Centennia
Providence
New York
Leffel
Cunard
Servia
M. J. Wadsworth
Cambridge
Mass
Cures for Coughs and Cures for Ailments in Advertisements
An assortment of old time remedies offers Dr Bull s Cough Syrup for nervous coughs at 25 cents and notes electric lighting on many Mississippi steamers for safety. Marketing highlights urge readers to request pamphlets from World s Dispensary and claim liver pills are essential, while arsenic solutions are advised to be mixed with glycerine to avoid precipitation. A Maryland gentleman touts liver pills as nearly bread-like in value, and oil of turpentine is recommended to exterminate red ants injected via a sewing machine oil bottle.
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Tony Pastor
New York
United States
Pastor
Ublic
Jacobs
Amon
Brooklyn
N. Y
Wagle
Cairo
Evening Sun
St. Louis
Disuch
St. Jacobs Oll
St. Jacobs
Charles A. Whitney
Park Garden
Providence
R. 1
Maryland
Chicago
Tres Moines
Council Bluffs
Omaha
St. Joseph
Atchison
Topeka
Kansas
Pas
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
Arizona
Idaho
Oregon
California
Hannibal
Fort Scott
Denison
Dallas
Houston
Austin
San Antonio
Galveston
Texas
Palace
Horton
Seata
Palace Ae
Canada
Percival Love
T. 4
Monsey
Thirty Days Trial Offer for Electro-Voltaic Belts
The Voltaic Belt Co of Marshall Michigan offers a thirty day trial of Electro Voltaic Belts and other electric appliances to persons with nervous debility and related ailments. They guarantee complete restoration of vigor with no risk, address supplied for immediate response.
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Voltaic Belt Co
Marshall, Mich
Diamond stock advertised by Morgan and Heapty Mutual Life
Messrs Morgan and Heapty Mutual Life Building at Tenth and Chestnut offer an outstanding stock of extra fine quality diamonds at prices as low as first quality stones. Diamonds are described as perfect in color and shape and available for sale.
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Messrs. Morgan & Heapty Mutual Life Building
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Chardon
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South Salem
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Jackson
Lid, Mass
Wells, Richardson & Co
Prop's
Rurlingtos
Germany
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Ve Son Teleklin
Lodin
Lydia E. Pinkmann
Lydia
Pes Musical Journal
F. Brehim
Eric
Ot Green
Rochester
Payne
Chen Y. Augusta
Mississippi River
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Boston Journal of Chemistry
Perschne
Livstetter
Hops
Di.c
Druggita
Hop Bitters Mfg. Co
Toront
Ont
Evi Ged
Burlington
Chas. G. Blatchley
Man
Market St
Chrismas Music
Christ the Lord
Cam Voloks, A Res
Anabene
Norway
Ud Dimoue
Franz
Sahan
Goed
Oliver Ditson & CO
BR. Bitson & CO
Broadway
J. E. Ditson & CO
Chestnut St
Phila
Axpanpoxep and Revecren Pension
Bpeci
Pritchard
Washington, D. Ca
Rupertus
Ishos Simpeon
Foster
Warrequrst
Foss
Joseph Cook
Maroh
McCosh
Krome
Carige
Sales
Tnonense
Cir P. W. Ziegler & CO
Arch St. Phila
A. Beat Estates
Beatty
Cataee
Daniel F. Seatty
Wasurxaron
New
Rte Roe
Hing Iron Co
Bitaburg
Cota
Situation
Valentine Bros
Oman
Delaware Avenue
Mans’g Co
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