Summer romance at Rye Beach ends in engagement
Miss Sarah Anna Deantiful heiress of Pennsylvania becomes engaged to Rye Beach skipper Robert G as he heroically rushes a doctor, jeopardizing his own safety after a codfish backbone incident. Despite social differences, love blooms after his daring ride and injury.
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Rye Beach
Sarah Anna
Sarah
New England
Miss Brown
Portsmouth
Robert Miller
Portsmeath
Tory Swift
Robert
Lkmen
Hunger and Thirst Located in the Body System
Michigan University medical faculty conducted experiments on a dog to locate hunger and thirst within the body. After gastric access, the dog consumed large meals via a stomach tube yet could refrain after time. thirst and hunger are driven by the body system rather than the stomach or throat, with relief noted when immersed in water.
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Medical Faculty
Michigan University
Rheumatic Ailment and Safe Botanical Remedy
Early rheumatic symptoms are hard to treat and may become chronic. Avoid poisonous medicines and use a botanical corrective that removes accompanying liver and other body ailments, reducing pain in muscles and joints without risking life.
Home Made Phosphate From Bones and Manure
The article describes making a home fertilizer by layering bones with stable manure in alternating layers, moistening with water or liquid manure, and turning the heap to prevent overheating. It notes six weeks to six months for decomposition, compares the result to commercial superphosphates, and highlights cost savings and purity.
Hot Shoeing For Horses Favored By Dr. Eleming
Dr. Eleming argues that hot shoeing is superior to cold methods. He claims cold shoeing is costly and often injurious due to excessive rasping and cutting. Hot shoes reportedly soften and fit the horn without causing deep heat damage and should be applied at red heat.
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Eleming
Dr. Fleming
Flemming
Feeding Large and Small Animals Profit Comparison
A former exchange view argues that feeding larger breeds yields more profit than smaller ones, due to greater feed needs and body systems. Exceptions exist like the Jersey cow, noted for high color and flavor in butter, but the general rule favors larger animals for milk or meat.
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Jersey
Butter Machine Suggests Quick Churning Method
The article advises adding two or three quarts of near ice cold water to cream as it begins to churn. This speeds butter formation and yields a harder product. Water should be added near the end, not at the start, to avoid cooling the cream excessively. Churning usually completes in fifteen to twenty minutes when conditions are right.
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Canada
Feture Galtolphia
Address Home Medicine CO
Deafness From Tobacco Smoking
Smoking tobacco irritates the middle ear through inhaled particles, more than saliva. Cigarette use, especially when smoke passes through the nose and ear connections, risks chronic middle ear inflammation and reduced throat and nose sensation in chronic smokers.
An Indian's Logic recounts a fall and spring tavern tale
In 1763 an Indian visits a Connecticut tavern asking for rum. The landlord charges two coppers, then three next spring, explaining winter storage costs. The Indian questions the logic comparing hay and water, yielding a sharp satire on humor and wit.
Miraculous Anakesis Cure for Piles Promoted by Dr Silsbee
Dr Silsbee advertises Anakesis a claimed instant relief and certain cure for piles in all stages. He says 20,000 sufferers testify to its virtue and prices at 100 dollars per box. Samples offered free from Anakesis Depot Box 3946 New York with druggists carrying the product.
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Silsbee
New York
A New French Clothes Washing Method
A French towns report a novel washing system that claims real economy. Two pounds of soap are pulped with water and warmed then cooled in ten gallons of water with turpentine and ammonia. Clothes soak two hours then are washed, re warmed solution reused with minor adjustments, then blueing after hot water. It promises great time and fuel savings and whiteness without pounding.
Red hue illusion on waking linked to retina nerves
Professor Tait noted a lamp flame in his room turned deep red for about a second upon waking from fever. Ogden N. Rood records green color blindness from nervous disturbance and cites his Munich dentist experiment showing brief red illusion of hair. Similar effects observed by Rood after typhoid fever.
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Tait
Edinburgh
Ogden N. Rood
Columbia College
New York
Silliman
Munich
Rood
Breech loading shotguns reshaping sporting arms in Britain and America
The article traces breech loading development from Lefaucheux paper cases to modern shotgun manufacturing. It highlights English makers Purdey Lancaster Westley Richards and others, American progress by Colt Remington and Parker, and notes Grubb & Co in the United States showcasing refined models and offering pamphlets.
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Europe
M. Lefaucheux
Paris
Lefaucheux
England
London
James Purdey & Sons
Charles Lancaster
Stephen Grant
Westley Richards & Co
W.& C. Scott & Son
P. Webley & Son
United States
Wesson Arms Co
Ethan Allen & Co
Parker Brothers
Remington & Sons
Nichols & Lefever
Fox’s Patent
Colt’s
Patent Fire Arm Manufacturing Company
Philadelphia
Joseph C. Grubb & Co
Eee
How to Can Fruit and Preserve Tomatoes at Home
Domestic guidance explains using glass or stone jars for fruit canning to avoid health issues from tin. Fruits are better steamed than stewed, sugar ratio is four pounds fruit to one pound sugar, jars sealed via boiling water and reboiled if bubbles appear. Tomatoes are canned in stone jars by two hour stewing, then corks sealed with rosin beeswax and tallow sealing wax, stored in a dry cool cellar.
How to drive away mosquitoes with smoke and acid
The article advises using incense powder burned on a hot shovel to generate smoke that drives mosquitoes from a room. If fire is scarce, ignite gum camphor then burn pyrethrum, blow out the flame and let the smoke linger five minutes. A cloth dampened with carbolic acid hung by the bed also helps. beware touching the cloth at night. For burns, apply Canada balsam.
Destroy Rep Snipers By Lime Water Treatment On Plants
To control red spider infestations on plants, fill a barrel with water and add a quarter peck of lime until clear. Hold infested plants bottom up for five to ten minutes, rinse with pure water, then dust with flour of sulfur. Separate affected from untouched plants and rinse repeatedly during treatment. Continue weekly as a preventative measure.
Rev. Praises Hop Bitters For Genuine Remedy
A Washington DC Reverend champions Hop Bitters praising its merit and daily use by physicians. He argues clergy should not endorse quack medicines but supports this remedy as valuable and trustworthy.
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Washington, D.C
Acid Drinks for biliousness in warm weather
During warm weather people troubled with biliousness crave acid drinks. Unfermented fruit juices mixed with water offer relief. Tar taric acid can be added sparingly to water to produce a pleasant sour note, omitting sugar for better cooling effects. Do not drink for pleasure alone.
Water Risings for Bread
Directions describe making an airy bread starter by combining hot water and flour to batter thickness, adding salt and soda, then kept warm for five to six hours. The method notes it may replace hops or brewer's yeast in leavening.
Doctor Bull’s Baltimore Pills Suggested for Bilious Fever
A suggestion praises Dr Bull's Baltimore Pills as a remedy for bilious fever fever and ague indigestion and other ailments. The advert notes the pills’ curative power, with a price of 25 cents and a call to sufferers to use them.
Imperial Gingerbread and Mould Prevention Tips
The recipe details rubbing butter into flour, mixing treacle with cream, adding sugar and caraway, forming shapes and topping with candied peel. A note explains mould prevention for ink, paste, leather, and seeds, recommending cloves or essential oils, plus alum and resin to stop paste moulding.
Muffin Recipe From Dough to Baked Cakes
Take one pint of bread dough, mix in an egg, half a cup of butter, two-thirds of a cup sugar, a pinch of nutmeg, beat well and let rise. When light, fill buttered muffin cups and bake immediately. This quantity yields ten muffins.
Molasses Cake Recipe from Old Recipe
A historic cake recipe lists one cup molasses one brown sugar one milk one raisins one butter and five flour two eggs cream of tartar soda or baking powder and spices. Beat well and bake for a light cake that stays fresh up to three weeks.
Pimples and Blotches Can Be Treated With Alterative
Dr. Jayne's Alterative offered as a safe cure for skin diseases eruptions tetter salt rheum and related blemishes. The advertisement promotes a rational remedy claimed to remove annoyance from skin conditions.
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Jayne
Saloonist’s late night caper ends with doorway mishap
A jolly saloonist tells how he crept home at dawn to avoid waking his wife. He crawled through a transom, lost balance, and crashed into the floor. His wife, alarmed, discovers the open door and big joke he claims as the night’s comic caper.
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Alfright
Cure for Drinking Warns Hop Bitters Miracle
A railroad official from Chicago cites Hop Bitters as a cure for insatiable thirst for liquor. He claims the remedy stopped the craving, steadied nerves, and kept the man sober for over two years, with others also reportedly cured.
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R. R
Chicago
General Johnston Reproves Self After Letter Forgetfulness
A Winter 1860s anecdote recalls General Albert Sidney Johnston discovering a long forgotten post letter. He had entrusted it to a captain who delivered it late, prompting the General to apologize to the surgeon and admit his own lapse. He then pardoned the captain for the supposed carelessness.
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Albert Sidney Johnston
Utan
Conscientious
Editor Seeks Editor Over Racial Slur Retouch
A public exchange shows a politician enraged at an editor after a racial term was softened from a harsh slur to a milder form. The politician demands the editor’s location as tension rises over the manuscript’s wording.
Farmer’s Wife Saves Time with Dobbins Electric Soap
Advert describes Cragin & Co. Philadelphia Dobbins Electric Soap as a time saving cleaner. It claims one pound equals three of any other soap, suggesting high cleaning efficiency for large washing tasks.
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Cragin & Co
Philadelphia
Humorous Fragments and Quips From a Bygone Era
A collage of tiny scenes and witticisms includes a chemistry lesson bid for focus, a ship seen as feminine for rigging costs, a barrister courting, a landlady offering lodging, laudanum cautions, fashion notes on collars, a flirtatious miscue, railway mishaps, and social ironies about modern youth.
Lost voice restored by Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery
The ad claims phonographs preserve voices but asserts the Discovery quickly restores a lost voice and cures hoarseness sore throat bronchitis and consumption. It notes ministers abandoned by throat illness regained health and strength and says the product is sold by druggists.
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Dr. Pierce
Umbrella Bird Described With Crest Like an Umbrella
A South American island bird called the umbrella bird is noted for its umbrella shaped crest when the head plumage is raised. The species is black with blue purple gloss, about crow size, with a white shafted crest when fanned. It is rarely seen on the mainland.
Hiesley's Terror OmTMent Claims All Ailments
A vintage advertisement for Hiesley's Terror OmTMent promises to cure sore eyelids sore nose barber's itch on the face or grocers' itch on the hands. It is offered at 560 cents per box with mail order available for 60 cents from Johnson Yeiones Oo 602 Arch St Philadelphia PA.
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Hiesley
Johnson
Yeiones
Arch St
Phila
Experiments in Riga Warn of Oil soaked Rags Fire
Experiments in Riga show wool and cotton rags soaked in oil and refuse substances burst into flame at 60 to 70 degrees with varying intervals as heat from chemical reactions causes combustion. Researchers suggest hydrogen lamps to warn of poisonous gases in mines as hydrogen burns with a nearly colorless flame indicating gas quantity and quality.
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Riga
Roasted Coffee Said to Be Powerful Disinfectant
A claim circulates that roasted coffee acts as a strong disinfectant. The statement suggests health uses but lacks detailed study or official endorsement.
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