Grand View to Falls of Yellowstone Trail Route
A Grand View describes traveling from Mammoth Hot Springs to the Falls of the Yellowstone. Tourists must abandon wagons at Tower Falls and pack for an 18 mile trip to the Falls or 40 miles to reach the lake. Tower Falls drop 150 feet in solid sheets. the canyon view offers 2000 foot walls, dramatic mineral formations, and vast panorama including the lower falls at 370 feet.
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Mammoth Hot Springs
Yellowstone
Tower Falls
Falls
Mount Washburne
Great Falls
Tower Creek
Grand Canyon
Point Lookout
Colorado
Elephants Hate Dogs and Hunters Use Them in Pursuit
The essay notes elephants intensely dislike dogs and recounts hunters, Boers and natives using dogs to chase and enrage elephants. Dogs learn quickly, tracking spoor, baying, snapping, and driving the giant to attack trees as hunters close in, allowing a near certain kill at the first shot.
Front Gate Tale in Detroit Court Scene
In a Detroit justice court a witness recalls building a fence and a tangled chain of local incidents. The exchange threads through references to a drowned boy in Sabin's well, a Dearborn wrestling injury, a peddler knocked eighteen feet, and a cow strike that hid the exact year. The date remains unresolved, tied to a string of neighborhood calamities.
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Justice’s Courts of
Detroit
Dearborn
Duggan
Sabin
Tyler
Brown
Deacon Tracy
Water gas for heating gains traction in Yonkers
The Yonkers fuel gas company has invested over $100,000 to build water gas apparatus using the Strong process. Two and a half miles of mains feed thirty sites including a hotel and factories, with a four horsepower engine ready for a ten horsepower unit. Gas costs under 15 cents per 1000 feet while the price to consumers is 50 cents. Production runs about 400 000 feet daily and will double, promising less labor, dust, and space use than coal.
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Yonkers N. Y
Yonkers
Hen House Guano How-To For Winter Compost
A method to turn winter hen-house sweepings into a strong guano using absorbers in thin alternating layers. Use road dust or coal ashes as fillers, layered with droppings in barrels, then break up in spring to seed or fertilize crops.
Ice houses for farms offer cheap summer cooling
The article urges farmers to build ice houses to store 20 to 25 tons of ice, claiming a cost of about fifty cents per ton with winter harvest. It argues ice saves on food and meat, and provides a long lasting convenience for hot months. It stresses building a substantial ice house now for the winter ice crop.
Live ON THE Farm freehold farmer ideal
The author argues that in older countries tradesmen teachers and professionals envy farmers who own land. A freehold farmer even with few acres earns respect surpassing those who sit at desks counters or wear fine clothes. The piece critiques the notion that urban status is superior and predicts this sentiment will fade like log cabins and corduroy roads.
Tree roots extend beyond trunk in wide circle
A saying notes roots extend far beyond the trunk and often exceed the tree’s height. An example describes a thirty foot tall tree with a root circle over sixty feet in diameter.
Cabbage worm control method by Gouxy
P. T. Gouxy favors a mixture of twenty parts gypsum three or four parts quicklime and one part carbolic acid applied to cabbage leaves when wet. He repeats the spray as needed, potentially several times.
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P. T. Gouxy
Beal Advises Orchard Care Through Seven to Ten Years
Proressor Beal of Michigan emphasizes practical orchard management urging careful cultivation for trees aged seven to ten years. He recommends spreading ashes manure or salt broadcast and cautions against wasteful feeding of young trees to clover and timothy or oats and wheat crops.
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Proressor Beal
Michigan
Bean Meal Cures Garget in Cattle, Writer Claims
A writer asserts he has never failed to cure garget in cows using bean meal. He feeds one pint of bean meal mixed with other meal for four days, finding this amount sufficient even for severe cases. He suggests feeding bean meal several times yearly could prevent garget altogether.
Castor Oil Mixture Serves as Farm Lubricant Preserver
A farm advisory notes a mixture of castor oil with a touch of kerosene as the best lubricant and preserver for farm use. It claims the blend provides more body with less gum for saws, mowers, buggies, and similar equipment, with kerosene amounts varied by purpose.
Huge Bell for St Pauls to Rank Among Europe’s Heaviest
Great Paul, the new St Pauls Cathedral bell in London, is expected to be among Europe’s six or eight heaviest. Its dimensions are 8 ft 10 in high and 9 ft 63 in in diameter, tuned to E flat with audible upper partials, costing about $15,000 for bell and installation, to debut on Easter Sunday.
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Great Paul
St. Paul’s Cathedral
London
Europe
Olmutz
Vienna
Stainer
St. Paul’s
Humorous Misunderstanding Of Piano Duet Delights
A three nine year old girl overhears parents debating a four hands piano piece. She asks how two people can play one piano at once. Her mother explains with a playful hint and the child answers with a quirkily musical split between sides.
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Mamma
St Jacobs Oil Praised By Kalamazoo Drugist
In Kalamazoo Druggist Charles D Arcambal hails St Jacobs Oil as an unprecedented success and highly extolled, stating it gives general satisfaction to customers.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Daily Gazette
Chas
D’arcambal
Burdick House
St. Jacobs
Unprincarned boy’s reply to Sunday school rent question
A playful tale describes a boy from a moving family asked why Israelites left Egypt. He quips they moved not from freedom but because they couldn’t pay their rent, reflecting a humorous, easygoing interpretation from a child.
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Egypt
Relief from neuralgia claimed by Chicago couple
Mr George Barnes of Bagnall and Barnes on South Water street says his wife suffered neuralgia for years and tried many remedies without relief. He credits St Jacobs Oil as the only treatment that brought her relief.
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Chicago Times
George Barnes
Bagnall & Barnes South
Tony Pastor
New York
United States
Ngy
Pastor
Ublic
ST. Jacobs
Cominy
Brooklyn
N. Y
Cairo
Beening Sun
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St. Louis
Bonnie
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Eugene 8. Stork
Junction City
Kansas
John Arnall
Washington
Ohio
M M B Goodin
Charcon
Anna L. Jarrett
South Salem
John B Does
Jackson
Old Joke Passed to Man With Diamond Hat
A humorous old joke is assigned to a man described as wearing a large diamond and a shiny plug hat. The man is identified as a black minstrel and will handle the joke as his business, earning ten dollars weekly.
Man Smashes Glass Piece in Streetcar Stunt
A man boarded a Main Street car with a brown paper wrapped glass square. He placed it on a seat, paid his fare at the box, then sat down and smashed the glass piece, drawing laughter from other passengers.
Favorite Prescription Praise Letter from Mrs Rhoads
A testimonial from Mrs Emily Rhoads of McBrides Michigan praising Dr. R V Prexos Favorite Prescription. She claims six years of female complaints including dragging-down and inability to work, spending hundreds before taking three bottles with “much good” and recommends it to other sick ladies.
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R. V. Prexos
Buffalo
N. Y
Emily Rhoads
McBrides
Mich
Landlady Ads Spark Comic Grammar Exchange
A spoof exchange centers on a landlady who lists a room as twelve by twelve feet for a gentleman a suite of rooms for a family in good repair and a hall bedroom for a single woman. A professor and a sophomore debate which sense proves the touch when seating on a pin shows nothing yet proves existence.
Health cures and odd notices mix in 19th century ads
An assortment of vintage clippings features Lydia E Pinkham health claims, a war horse scene, a fashion lapse for Clara, a Kidney Wort cure claim, a prison joke with a smooth countenance, eviction fines for Jinks, and a registrar’s hiccup over a birth registration.
Hop Bitters praised for liver and malaria relief
A short testimonial from P. M. Barnes of Long Jaox Missouri dated September 14 1879 extols Hop Bitters as superior for liver complaint and malaria fever and claims great benefit from use.
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Long Jaox
P. M. Barnes
Horse Radish Tale Keeps Tears Flowing in Jest
A humorous fragment presents Wie tasting horse radish from a jam jar, eyes watering as he acts lovesick. Vignettes follow with quips about Pat Junior, Saxon tourists, liver pills as essentials, a boy misplacing the text, and a riddle about blood relations.
Sunday School Then and Now
An Austin Sunday-school teacher explains Genesis to boys. He asks why Ham laughed at Noah and notes the reason was Noah’s drunken condition. A student replies he never jokes at his father because he returns home late and the boy is always asleep.
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Austin
Geneses
Ham
Noah
What Ailes You
Column ad for kidney wort remedy claims liver, skin, bowels, and kidneys faulty. promises purification and renewed function with Druggist sold dry and liquid forms. Evansville Tribune.
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Evansville Tribune
Franxik Describes Squeaky Boots and Burdened Noles
Franxik says his new boots squeak badly and, when questioned, cannot explain the reason. He cites it as the expression of two burdened noles in a light, odd remark.
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Franxik
Relative Values Highlight Grandfather’s Gentle Manners
A Larrit girl recalls her grandfather’s polite guidance and kindness as he encourages self-reliance and sharing, noting his gentlemanly conduct and use of sugar to teach practical generosity.
Hop Bitters Promises Restore Daughters’ Health
A plea from mothers about frail daughters aged 80 feeble and breathless prompts a simple hopeful remedy. The text claims one to four weeks of Hop Bitters will revive health and cheer, followed by an unrelated parental scolding scene about disciplining a child with a strap.
Man of wide knowledge urged to curb biting nails
Slogan notes that even the most informed should not bite nails as it risks biting off more than can be chewed. It advises young and middle aged men with nervous debility memory loss and related symptoms to request Part VII of pamphlets from the World's Dispensary Medical Association Buffalo NY by sending three stamps.
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World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
N. Y
Press coat advice spawns cheeky era opinions
The fragmentary note jokes about proper dress at a swell dinner and hints at witty asides on creeds and relief methods. It recalls quarrels with a brother over pie and mentions a revised by an employer strike, though context is unclear.
Axiom Revisited: To Err Is Human To Forgive Is Unusual
A concise pondering narrative notes that human nature leans toward error yet forgiveness remains uncommon. The piece reflects on moral fault and the challenge of granting mercy in daily life.
Wonders of the Columbia near Prest Rapids described as lakelike wells
Adam Duncan reports curious features in the Columbia region near Prest Rapids. A four mile long basin vanishes at high water leaving hundreds of wells with varying waters and colors, some trout filled, others bitter or black. When the river falls the wells overflow to form a lake, prompting questions about subterranean systems and regional ice formations near Moses’ Cozier.
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Adam Duncan
Columbia
Prest Rapids
Moses’ Cooieer
Commission to study school seating and lighting effects
The Minister of Public Instruction forms a commission to study how classroom seating and lighting affect shortsightedness among students and to find ways to counteract the condition. The inquiry focuses on material conditions in schools and aims to propose remedies.
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Minister of Public Instruction
Dr Bull's Cough Syrup for Nervous Coughs
A vintage advertisement claiming Dr Bull's Cough Syrup cures nervous coughs that linger after a cold. The product is offered at 25 cents per bottle with a bold marketing tone.
Real happiness teased in a comic reply
A gushing young lady asks Mr Snap for his idea of happiness. He replies he has not reached its full meaning but suggests pork and beans would cover the ground in a playful, humorous exchange.
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Mr. Snap
Coal
Mr.Snap
Dr Pierce’s Medical Discovery Aids Lung Ailments
An 19th century advert claims Dr. Pierce’s Guiding Medical Discovery cures advanced lung wasting and bronchitis and surpasses cod liver oil as a tonic and nutritive. It offers a pamphlet on Consumption and Kidney Affections in exchange for two stamps, from Works Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, New York.
Changing furnace tech boosts Pittsburgh output and heat use
The article compares blast furnace efficiency from earlier designs to Pittsburgh plants using regenerating stoves that reclaim heat, noting 1500 tons of metal weekly on about 1500 tons of fuel, versus older 400 ton outputs. It also mentions 5000 deg heating and gas retention strategies.
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Pittsburgh
Burtington Rout Offers Inducements to Travelers
A notice to travelers states Sprorar inducements are offered by the Burtington Rout and that readers should view the advertisement found elsewhere in this issue.
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Burtington
Odd Global Fuel Uses and Temperatures Reported
In various regions peats and grasses serve as fuel while Esquimaux use peat, Asia uses grass, Arabia camel chips, Nova Scotia shores burn moose antlers, and H C Hovey notes Mammoth Cave Kentucky averages 64 degrees Fahrenheit in midsummer. A loose leaf book bound over and boys’ rubber slings are mentioned with caution.
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Ireland
Esquimaux
Asia
Arabia
Nova Scotia
H. C. Hovey
Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
Diamond sales at low prices from Maxdan and Headly
Messrs. Maxdan and Headly offer a superb stock of extra fine quality diamonds from their Mutual Life Building location at Tenth and Chestnut streets. They advertise stones of first quality, perfect color and shape, available at prices as low as such stones can be sold for.
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Messrs
Maxdan
Voltaic Belt Co Offers 30 Day Trial for Nervous Debility
The Voltaic Belt Co of Marshall Michigan will supply Electro-Voltaic Belts and other electric appliances on trial for thirty days to any person with nervous debility or related troubles, promising full restoration of vigor. No risk. address given. 80 days trial allowed.
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Voltaic Belt Co
Marshall, Miah
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