Quinine Supply Highlighted As Essential Across Empire
The article argues quinine is vital and resilient to war and politics, used by English magistrates and soldiers and familiar to Bengal natives as quinyan. It notes ongoing government plantations in India, a 114000 pound Neilgherries crop, export to England, and a net profit of about £35000 after costs.
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South America
Owen
Bengal
China
India
Neilgherries
England
Blacksmith hanged after village pleads for mercy
In a Spanish village a blacksmith killed a man and was sentenced to death. The chief peasants urged the alcalde to spare him since the village depended on the smith for shoeing horses and mending wheels. The alcalde held firm, while a laborer argued that with two weavers in such a small place one could be spared and the other executed.
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Spain
Acasde
Clinton
Harry
Mark Rutuson
Mark Ruthson
Jo Sterrette
Northwest
Big Lake
Sterrette
John Becker
Becker
Carlo
Onch
Remedies and odd tips from a past issue
A collection of household hacks offers diluted vitriol to remove marble stains, an E-EGG cake recipe, and foot the toe rub for cramps. It also notes a Connecticut cure for chills and fever, pepper in shoes, and a comic exchange about riding a locomotive with a rude youth advising to speak to the driver.
A Happy Loving Heart Is Better Still Than All
A verse extols the value of a cheerful hopeful heart above wealth health or genius. It celebrates a heart that gathers hope from spring, smiles at storms, praises God, loves children, aids the weak, and answers duty, deeming such humanity superior to all other gifts.
A Tale of Love and Murder in Colonial India
Marion Mercer endures a cruel marriage to Gabriel Mercer while her former lover Lieutenant George St. John goes to India. After bandits steal the five thousand pounds, Marion aids in poisoning them, leading to Mercer’s death. St. John discovers her involved, and he later helps her rebuild life with him. The accompanying narrative recounts wreck recoveries and frontier skirmishes, including a digression about the Erie and Madison wrecks and a later settler tale of Jane Mannering and the Indian wars featuring Harry Cleverly and Mark Ruthson.
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Marion Hastings
Gabriel Mercer
Marion
George St. John
St. John
India
Marian
Gabriel
Nettie
Officers of Justice
Marian Mercer
Erie
Lake Erie
W. B. Bishop
Madison
Silver Creek
Dunkirk
Wells and
Gowan
John Ledger
Manolia
Hindman
Boston
McArthur
Hamilton Morton
Hefford
Tope
Buffalo
John Green
Mark Ruthson
Jane Mannering
Harry Cleverly
Eddie
Harry
Saisd
Tippecanoe
The Jewsharp Maker of Greenwich Village
John Andrews, a famed jewsharp craftsman in Greenwich Village, explains the trade origin, techniques, and pricing for tin frame jews harps. He details making processes, tuning methods, and the rarity of skilled players while noting prices from fifteen cents to a dollar and twenty-five cents.
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Greenwich Avenue
New York
John Andrews
Sun
Jewsharps
America
Amerca
Thirty-sixth Street
Belfast
Dublin
Varick Street
Ninth Avenue
Ireland
Collins
Germany
England
Birmingham
Spuyten Duyvil
Tom
Harry
Booth Delivers Lord's Prayer Mastery in Dinner Tale
In Baltimore a renowned actor recounts Booth's reverent rendition of the Lord's Prayer before a dining party. The host, moved by Booth's devout delivery, confesses he never heard the prayer spoken with such beauty. Booth notes the prayer exposes vast beauty and divine truth in concise language.
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Booth
Baltimore
Sol
Artful Diction Tongue Twisters and Practice
A set of articulation exercises featuring alliterative lines such as bitter blustering blasts and cautious cat catching crippled crow. The piece ends with guidance on proper use of rules in building fortune and speech.
Money and Fame Hardest Hunted by Men After Death
A reflective note on human pursuit of wealth and renown, contrasting their value during life and after death, implying equalworth in the eyes of many as worldly success fades.
Bone found embedded in green timber near Spring Hills
A thigh bone was found embedded thirty feet up in a green fourteen foot ash log near Spring Hills Champaign County. Henry Sefier and companions described the strange discovery, noting the axe fragment stuck in the bone and speculation about an ancient murder. The story recalls other local oddities like a live frog found inside a growing tree years ago.
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Spring Hills
Champaign County
Henry Sefier
Absent-Minded Professor Sylvester’s Witty Travels
A Johns Hopkins mathematician famed for absent mindedness wanders from his lecture hall after stepping into a street ditch. He returns home, while the street is repaired a plank spans the gap. His travels joke ends with him chasing a paper, then discovering it in his own pocket during a transatlantic trip.
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Sylvester
Johns Hopkin’s University
England
Philadelphia
Liverpool
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