An Aged Settler Remembers Jersey Mountain Family
Nele Zeke Holland recalls John Sickle, a colored man who worked for Legislator Hunt, and speaks of his own aged forebears in German Valley New Jersey. He mentions a Lutheran church, clearings, and the old settler era with bears snakes and wolves. He describes his father aiding in church construction and the family stories tracing back to colonial times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sickle
Nele
Zeke Holland
Darkey
German Valley
Jersey
Orange County
New York
Braddock
Boston Harbor
Washington
Delaware
Schooley’s Mountain
Seelain
Australian parrot learns songs and tricks from owner
An Australian bird fancier describes his parrot’s two year tempering, from uneducated beginnings to singing pieces such as The Bells and Cease Firing. The bird fetches, plays like a monkey, toys with a string, hunts mice, and survived swallowing glass after two days of illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlie
God
the Prince
Peter
Investigation on cess-pool drainage suffocation incident
An investigation by MM Boutmy and Descoust concerns asphyxiating cess-pool drainage. A cubic metre of liquid, even after disinfection, forced eight cubic metres of air that proved fatal to animals made to breathe it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MM. Boutmy
Descoust
Indian corn yields large harvest with labor noted
The article asserts that no crop yields as much food as Indian corn and acknowledges considerable labor involved in growing it.
Cotta in Horses Aids to Colic Care and Remedies
Agricultural piece on colic in horses outlines causes linked to cold water after exertion or fasting, distinguishing colic from bowels inflammation. It cites early symptoms, bowel emptying when constipated, and home remedies including gin ginger mixtures and whisky milk, plus a veterinary turpentine oil formula and hot belly bathing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cole
Water content in roots matters more than size
The article notes that solid matter, not total weight, determines crop value. It cites dry matter averages for root crops—turnips 8–10 percent, carrots 12–14 percent, sugar beets 16–18 percent—and warns that very large roots often imply inferior quality. It links rapid growth with watery, saline, and nitrogenous composition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural and Horticultural Societies
Feeding Growing Fowls For Strong Development
The article advises diets for young and growing fowls rich in nitrates and phosphates. It recommends coarse oatmeal with milk, cracked or whole wheat, milk curd, and if needed boiled freed meat. After starting, corn meal becomes the general grain, with oatmeal and wheat kept as preferred but costlier. Boiled potatoes mashed with wheat-bran are good vegetable additions.
Dangerous Home Chicken Cholera Remedy And Pasture Grass Mix
A dated receipt prescribes dissolving alum and copperas in a gallon of drinking water for chicken cholera symptoms and feeding medicated sand until recovery. It also lists grass species and sowing rates for permanent pastures on moist soils including red-top creeping bent meadow grasses tall fescue timothy and several fescues.
Nutritive comparison of corn and hay for livestock
The piece notes that 57 pounds of Indian corn roughly equal 100 pounds of hay in nutrition, with the caveats of varying effects by purpose such as fat, growth, or milk. It also recounts a Leyden farmer whose Southdown ewes were not harmed after the dogs stole them once, their tongues replaced, and the dogs prevented from further bother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pousremive
Whybrew
Rochester
N. Y
Fibre diameters and soil effects noted in old table
A comparative table lists average fibre sizes for various wools and fibers. It also notes soil fertility depends on physical factors, with sand improving clay porosity. A home poultry feed recipe uses powdered charcoal, bran, and kitchen scraps moistened with warm water to boost egg production.
Wall Street veteran recalls quitting with wealth and rough start
An elderly speaker reflects on seven years in Wall Street, noting he made and lost fortunes. He recalls starting with forty dollars, drawing eighty thousand, and quitting before ruin, just enough to pay fare to Elmira and reach his father in law's house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Elmira
Lusty railroader seeks whiskey in Fort Clark store
A Teutonic railroader visits a Fort Clark shop with a small jug asking for whiskey. He is told only vinegar is sold. He protests and, after the clerk explains, the bottle is emptied into the vinegar as a temperance lesson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Clark
St Jacobs Oil Praised By Local Newspaper
The St Louis Republican notes it is rare to endorse patent medicines but commends St Jacob's Oil after individual experiments. It calls the remedy an excellent agent and offers a hearty recommendation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Republican
St. Jacob’s
William's Bold Act Inspires Vigilance Committee Motto
Witnesses praised William for flawless rope work and fearless sacrifice as he hanged himself in a public display. The vigilance committee chair remarks on his chic and precise leap into uncertainty. The message urges thorough, honorable effort rather than seeking political gain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prorce
William
Vigilance Committee
Senate
Witty Dispatches and Grins From Uncertain Shores
A collage of humorous anecdotes and colonial oddities. The Madison Democrat jibes at St Jacob's Oil cures for politics, remarks on savage Solomons, and records a Polynesian nurse tale and Barnum tent dare. The pieces mix satire with travelogue and tall tale flavor.
Humbugged Again by the Bitters Praise
Letter from H. T. of St. Paul extols a tonic advertised as Hop Butters. He claims his wife, habitually ill and repeatedly treated by doctors, was cured in under two months and has remained well for eighteen months. He says he is glad to have been humbugged and endorses the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. T
St. Paul
Dwarfed Corn on Shares Notion Sparks Street Question
A boy hoeing corn near Bethel Indiana tells a passer by his crop is dwarfed and yellow. The exchange reveals the plot to plant on shares. The incident echoes a rural exchange about farming practice and crop output.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steble
Bethel
Indiana
A Verdant Youth Misreads Mirror as Door in Party Exchange
A conceited young man at a party points toward a couple in an adjoining room and calls them prigs. His companion corrects him, noting the apparent doorway is in fact a mirror reflecting a sociable scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prig
Aunt Phebe Bids Bertha Stay With Her
A tall elder, Aunt Phebe, moves into Bertha's home. When Bertha's mother plans to leave, she suggests Bertha stay with Aunt Phebe, but Bertha refuses saying Aunt Phebe is big enough to stay alone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phebe
Bertha
Mamma
Tay
Origins of Pompadour Waste Fan Sparks Debate
The Philadelphia News discusses a lace fan owned by Mme. Pompaport that cost 30 000 and required nine years to manufacture. The piece is linked to the phrase Pompadour waste and ignites questions about its origins and significance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Pompaport
Philadelphia Newe
Pompadour
Musical Policeman Refuses to Play Then Cleans Out Pot
A gambler asks for a hand but the musical policeman declines to play, saying he only finger the notes occasionally. He then sweeps the money from the table, taking the pot.
Miracl Lovs Nsoapr
Mose Schaumburg returning from market with spare ribs for Sunday dinner saw four or five children leaning over a second story window. He warns them to move away. he fears a fall and urges them to be careful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mose Schaumburg
Refined Women Silent on Kidney Ailments and Constipation
An 1900s Union column notes that many women suffer silent kidney diseases and constipation, cured by Kidney-Wort in liquid or dry form. A boardinghouse guest jokes about chess endings and a temper control remark closes the item with a pointed quip on marital behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield Union
Vegetine Proved To Cure Cancer On Face
A Beverly Massachusetts reader describes a two year cancer on the left nose spreading from pinhead size to a cent, then healing after using Vegetine. After sixteen bottles the cancer disappeared leaving a scar, and the writer praises Vegetine as a blood purifier and health booster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Stevens
Federal St
Beverly
Mass
Schoolmaster Corrects Cunard Captain on Navigational Error
A Boston schoolmaster aboard the Cunard steam ship Bothnia from New York to Liverpool warned the captain his course would bring the vessel to Gibraltar. The captain claimed friends in Gibraltar would like to meet him, and on arriving near Queenstown the man asked how the miscalculation occurred. The captain replied that he could not explain, not being a schoolmaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cunard
New York
Liverpool
Boston
Gibralter
Queenstown
Popular Hop Bitters and Odd Local Notices
A collage of product ads and schoolroom quips. Hop Bitters is touted as a popular tonic, while quirky anecdotes cover a six year old misnaming her father as Mr Brown and a mollifying moral about a mother’s blunt joke. Also promotes Dr Lindsey’s Blood Searcher for scrofula.
Spurious bank note rules and odd local quips in brief
A jumble of phrases notes exchanges about detecting counterfeit notes, a wedding ceremony piano scene, a butcher's loss, cures for headaches, travel advice, editor’s critique of Europe and stage artists, and a remark about cooling after heat.
Kidney-Wort and Rat Poison Ad From Salt Lake City Tribune
An old Salt Lake City Tribune ad promotes Kidney-Wort as a liver and kidney remedy and urges use for bilious symptoms. It also advertises Rough on Rats insect and rodent killer for 5 cents, sold by druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City Tribune
Diamonds Offered at Low Prices by Morgan & H Eadly
Messrs. Morgan and H EaDly of Mutual Life Building Tenth and Chestnut streets advertise a superb stock of extra fine quality diamonds. They claim stones of first quality color and shape can be sold for low prices and invite buyers to inspect their selection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. Morgan & H&eadly
Mutual Life Building
Tenth and
Chestnut Streets
Hive
Anakesis Pile Remedy Endorsed by Dr Silsbee
Anakesis Dr Silsbee's External Pile Remedy is praised as a simple safe prompt cure for piles. The advertisement claims half a million sufferers certify its infallibility and notes doctors across schools prescribe it. Sold by first class druggists at 100 per box with free samples by mail from P Neustaedter & Co New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silsbee
Anakesis
P. Neustaedter & Co
New York
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Leyden
East India
China
Leicester
Southdown
Galveston News
Wis
Solomon
Mr. Barnum
Andre
Cleaves
C. Woodberry
Apoth’y
Richard Pedrick Herbert
Smuh
Andrew L. Eaton
A. Glidden
Geo
Millett
HM. B. Stevens
Boston, Mass
Oad
Lydia E
Pinkuaca
Lywh
Nanda News
Treaoner
Mattie Brown
Mattie
Mr. Brown
D. O. F. Brown
New Haven
James
Lydia E. Pinkham
Charley Smart
St. Jacobs
A. Vogeler & CO
Baltimore
Realmaker
Bop Bitters Mfg. Co
N.Y
Ont
Gru Foo Pecalte
Rdia
Wescrn Avenue
Lyon
Noruine
Europe
WELLS
Richardson & Co
Prop’s
Cwill
Burlangton, VT
Kidneyswort
A. Todd
Pultneyville, N. Y
E. H. Gelston & CQ
U.S
Washington, D. C
Philadelphia
Qenera _s'draggiete
Telce Macy
First Avenue
N. YF
BROS
Janesville
Wisconsin
Denver Land & Improvement Co
Denver
Archie C. Fisk
M. H. Smith
A. H. Estes
Treas
Larimer
Denver,Co
Vickery
Augusta, M
Mike Ee
J.C. McCurdy
Macqueen Agents Manufacturing C
Market Street
C. K. Berg
Cresco
Iowa
Madway
Oman
Delias
Bettie
Radway's
Rapway
Radway
Radway &Co
Warren, Col. Church St
IDEAL
Beacon Light
Sun
Spschnam Cate
Oliver Ditson & CO
Chas
H. Ditson
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