Miscellaneous items mix danger and curiosities in era notes
A compilation of brief sightings and anecdotes covers a child killed by a fall in Union, Washington, exotic hazards like quicksand in Arizona, theatrical figures and roving curiosities, scientific oddities, and social quips from various locales. It blends tragedies, curiosities, and human-interest flashes across the period.
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E. C. Vincent
Union
D. C
San Pedro
Arizona
Miller Sara Bernhardt
Paris
Ing
Ife
Boston
Virginia
Miller
Bat Muller Gremly
Lingering squibs and social quips in a 19th century miscellany
A collage of fragments satirizes language and manners with jokes about dogs, horses, wills, and phrases. It cites a doctor’s quip on legislator aims, and notes on infection control beliefs among Lancastrian mothers regarding scarlet fever and whooping cough, highlighting superstition and tradition.
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Orrell
Wwan
Lancashire
Household Recipes and Care Advice from a 19th Century Page
A collection of practical kitchen and equine tips including homemade remedies for sleeplessness, a wagon grease recipe from tallow castor oil and black lead, methods to settle coffee with egg white, carrot stews with cream, lemon flavored apple dessert molded in syrup, French rolls using compressed yeast, and horse care observations. Also includes a cake recipe using egg whites and butter and a tip to rub carbolic acid soap on horses to deter flies.
International Congress to Meet in Washington January 1861
A 1861 science summary notes an upcoming International Congress in Washington under government authority. It reports Mount Etna’s summit drop of about forty feet from recent eruptions and discusses long lifespans of chestnut and oak versus beech and ash. It mentions Arlberg Tunnel work, Earth’s magnetism tests, Gulf Stream survey plans, river current power ideas, a Bronze Age lake village near Neuchatel Auvernier, and Claude Bernard’s protoplasm findings.
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Washington
Silvestri
Mount
Etna
Arlberg
United States
House of Representatives
Gulf Stream
Saragossa Sea
Auvenier
Neuchatel
Claude Bernard
Schustenberger
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Burling- Hawkeye
Picer
Boston Commercial Bulletin
Peter
Arliament
Broad‘Burnt
Stoke
New Zealand
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Foach Island
Ndon
Toemin
Zfonathan H
Inerica
Philadelphia
Hoe
Pennsyvania
Maryland
Ohio
Garfield
Grant
Jack Everman
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New York Suva
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India
Sinbad
Sanderson
Government of India
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Charles Greenburgh
Cleveland
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Conn
Heidelberg
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Geo
Lew Haren
Jones
Boston Transcript
Chicago Times
Veaterdas
Detroit
Aaron
Yinna Strauss
Galveston
Graveston Nees
OM and Fireside
Bedte
Science and Industry
Ea & World Bgation
Satay
BouthiHer
Saar
St. Albans
C& Hossboa
Wells, Richardson & CG
Alinutos
F. Downs
Davenport
Hadden’'S Drug Store
Hull Bros., Moline, I
EH. Hazen, M.D
Offique
Forrest
Iowa
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Rock Island
Oneshalf Ratles
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Liza
Indiracion
Tvasaie
Goa
Angyea
B. Cochran
Nowell & CO
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Jean
Eritire
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New York
Genoa
Shepard & CO
BatHo Creek
Michigan
Mature
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Black Hawk
H. A. Pitts’ Sons Mfg. CO. Rand
Jefferson St. Chicaqo, Ill
Cr Indy
Thoae
Greenwich
Oh ‘Streeh
Orurion
Medina
Prion
Deyrorr
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Anakesis
Moran
W. 1. Devore
Port Byron
Illinois
Hamburg
Rencees
Mitchell & Lynde
Bankery
Ill
Firet Natioal Bank
Lowa
First National Bank
Chignyo
Firat National Bank
Milwaukee
Wis
Nativns Bank of Commerce
Union Bank of
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New York City
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Keyond Ave
Atranon
Ibland, Ill
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