A Theory of Perfumes and Nasal Education
An historic sketch describes Dr Fabris’s experiments in Venice on how perfumes allegedly shape female character. Classes of girls aged 10 to 15 were exposed to scents like music musk rose geranium violet vida patchouli. Results claim musk makes dress and behavior more luxurious, rose yields neatness, geranium steadies but dulls strength, violet best overall, patchouli causes widespread flaws and public ire.
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2S Sam
Fabris
Venice
Tan
Pabris
Musk
Guardi
New England
Suppe Charms Vienna Cafe Encounter About Payment
Composer Franz von Suppe finds a Vienna cafe lunch free and refuses payment while the friendly waiter explains the house is paid by Deputy Holzman to influence votes. The tale ends with von Suppe leaving as music plays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franz von Suppe
Patinitza
Vienna
Holzman
von Suppe
The Narwhal Unicorn of the Deep
An 19th century natural history note describes the narwhal as a smaller relative of the whale with a famed tusk. The male bears a long hollow tusk used for defense and feeding myths, while females have smaller teeth. despite fearsome appearance the species is normally harmless and relies on group movements to evade hunters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denmark
Scoresby
Rust on Wheat Remedy Proposed by German Method
The North Carolina agriculture commissioner notes wheat rust causes millions in losses yearly and a Greenville, South Carolina contributor claims a German method using lime and cattle urine can prevent rust when applied before sowing. The piece cautions rust arises from different ripening conditions than smut and other fungi.
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Commissioner of Agriculture of
North Carolina
J. D. Cooper
Greenville
8. C
Germany
Swine as insect destroyers in fields and orchards
Swine eat white grubs in meadows and crop roots, devouring larvae of May beetles that damage land. Hogs hunt nests of field mice and prey on various insects, offering potential aid to pest control. Some German farmers blame penning swine for a mouse plague, but freeing swine in fields may reduce vermin and pest insects.
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Germany
Beetfield Preparation and Planting Guidelines
The ground for beets should be mellow deeply and rich. Seed sowing should begin early in rows two and a half to three feet apart. Sow three to four pounds per acre and thin or transplant to twelve to fifteen inches apart for large roots and a crop of twenty five to thirty five tons per acre.
Pork fattiness contrasted with beef and mutton
The article explains that pork differs from beef and mutton not only in flavor but in a higher fat to lean ratio. It attributes this to the pig’s nature of storing fat and to feeding practices that promote rapid fattening. The pig stores about three times as much of its food as the ox, contributing to cheaper and faster growth and fattening.
Exiled Khedive and Harem Sail to Naples aboard Mahronssa
After the deposition of the Khedive of Egypt, orders were issued to ready the royal yacht for departure. The harem, including Ismail Pasha's wives, boarded in Cairo and at sea as Naples was chosen. families moved by special trains with nine barges ferrying travelers to the yacht. The scene at Cairo station was filled with heartache as departures began.
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Khedive
Egypt
Constantinople
Turkey
Rhodes
Smyrna
Naples
Italy
Khedivial Harem
Cairo
Ismail Pasha
Tewfik
Sweet Apples as a Nourishing Light Lunch
The article extols baked and sliced apples as healthful, versatile foods. It praises fresh apples in baked desserts, puddings, and in a simple lunch with home made milk risen bread and milk. It argues a daily bread and sweet apples meal benefits children and sedentary adults.
How to Get Sick and Get Well With Hop Bitters
A satirical note advises readers on health habits and warns against excess and doctor overkill. It then declares the cure in three words Take Hop Bitters and points readers to another column for details.
Traveling tramp peddles tonics sparks humorous town scenes
A wandering vendor hawks toothache drops and corn-salve at Monroe avenue, flattering a crowd with travel tales. A coal-cart driver challenges the insult, while a theater joker and a Michigan avenue boy add mischief and wit to the street anecdotes from a bustling day.
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Monroe Avenue
Paddling In Prisons At Clinton State Prison
Exposed account describes Hugh Fitz Patrick flogging a fifteen year old inmate and a pattern of brutal punishment at Clinton prison New York. The warden endorses paddling and uses iron cages and chained confinement to discipline inmates for speaking during work hours.
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Clinton Prison
New York
Hugh Fitz Patrick
John Clabby
Clabby
Fitzpatrick
Clinton Parson
Deacy
Who Has Not Been Bilious
The text lists symptoms of bilious issues including sallowness, constipation, nausea, vertigo, headache, loss of appetite, thirst, and dark urine. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the remedy, praised by medical men as pure and wholesome and widely used for bilious remits and digestive disorders.
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America
To Make Vinegar and Jam Turnders
Instructions describe making vinegar from sugar water yeast and heat and turning dalle making jam turnovers with short pastry apple jam and careful folding bake until crisp then reheat briefly for finishing notes on flavor and aging potential.
Dr Bull's Pills and Household Tips in Old Ledger Form
Advice on using Dr Bull's Baltimore Pills for sickness and recovery, plus a lime eggs preservation method. Also tips to prevent color loss in stockings with linen wrapping and spirits of salt in wash water. Includes a meat cheese recipe made from beef liver heart tongue pork and spices for breakfast or supper.
Dobbins Electric Soap Praised For Rubber Piano Covers
A cider of praise for Dobbins Electric Soap by Cra kin Co Philadelphia is given. Instructions advise cleaning a rubber piano cover by soaking with warm water and borax, drying with a soft cloth, then applying two to three drops of sweet oil to restore luster.
Corres CakkE Recipe Fragments Include Spices and Raisins
A partial recipe lists ingredients such as molasses butter coffee brown sugar flour eggs raisins nutmeg baking powder and ground cloves and cinnamon. The note appears as a stray or draft fragment with imperfect wording and missing steps.
Cream Royal Dessert Preparation Steps
A recipe for Cream Royal combines one quart milk one third box gelatine four tablespoonfuls sugar and three eggs. Soak gelatine in milk for thirty minutes then whisk yolks with sugar and fold in. Gently heat over hot water until mixture thickens to a soft custard.
Dr Jayne's Ague Mixture Promoted for Fever Relief
An 19th century advertisement touts Dr Jayne's Ague Mixture as a remedy for fever and related illness. It claims the strongest constitution is strained by fever but can be preserved by using the product, advertised as available everywhere.
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Jayne
Skeptical Doubts on Plant Remedies Like Hop Bitters
Questioning whether common plants such as hops buchu mandrake and dandelion can produce the many cures claimed by Hop Bitters. The piece notes universal testimony from all social classes and professions prompting both belief and doubt.
Humorous Snippets and Cures in a 19th Century Page
A mosaic of quips from a domestic scene, a spinster and a lawyer exchange lines about heart and fees, plus a medical ad for Dr Bull's Baby Syrup boasting safety and local availability. A breakfast-room aside notes curiosity at keyholes, and a restaurant pun riffs on time as money with pie. Temperance line links wealth to restraint.
Dr Pierce Family Medicines Ad Promotes Patented Cures
The notice touts Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for scrofula throat and lung diseases and Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy as a cure for catarrh. It praises Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for women’s health and promotes the People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser priced at $1.50 with over 100,000 copies sold.
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Dr. Pierce
Sage
Anakesis External Pile Remedy Claims Instant Relief
A period advertisement touts Anakesia External Pile Remedy by Dr Silsbee. It claims instant relief and infallible cure for obstinate piles, citing 20 000 grateful users and offering free samples via Anakesis Depot Newark Box 3046. Sold by first class druggists.
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Silsbee
Anakesis
Newark
Reproved Lady’s Eye Glass Leads to Humbling Bow
In Edinburgh, a fashionable young woman who used an eye glass to stare at passersby is rebuked by a rough cleric. He greets her with genteel questions, then jokes that he does not know her either, prompting her to drop the habit forever. Her companions laugh as he departs.
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Edinburgh
Marie
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Michigan Avenue
Dr. Bull
Baltimore
Crakin & Co
Philadelphia
Mrs. B
Mr. A
Hieskell
Johnson, Holloway & Co
Arch St
Phila
Hoorand
Hieskel
Oakland Female Institute
Norristown
J. Grier Ralston
L. O. Emerson
Voice OF
Emerson
Waite Roses
Oliver Ditson & Co
Boston
J.E. Ditson & CO
Oolong Tea
Cts
Perl
Thompson Black’s Son & Co
Chestnut St
K. & J. Beck
Ootislans
Piotee Tea
P.O. Bo
D. A. Vickinlay
St. Pal
Sansom Street
Trade On
Julia McNair Wright
Luxumas & Co
Marshall
Pettengill
Pettengi
Tanovan
Park Row
W. F. Bartlett
South Ninth Street
Naperkor
Brigeion
N.Y
United States
Canadas
M. Pettingill & CO
Chestnut Street
M. Pettengill & CO
Landreth
Landreth & Sons
South Sixth St
Sta
VOLT
Jos
S. M. Pettengill & CO
Chestnut St. Phila
Eggleston Truss Co
Hicago, Ill
Canada
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