Sleep and senses shape a higher spiritual world view
A fragmented debate contrasts waking life with a sleep influenced spiritual realm. It argues that most insight comes from bodily activity, not extra natural powers, and cites Dr. Radcliffe and Prospero to illustrate limits of dream states. An anecdote from Detroit Free Press adds rustic contrast.
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St Peter
Hiim
Carpenter
Ratliffe
Prospero
Dr. Radcliffe
Radciffe
London Spectator
The Native Michiganger at the Veranda Conversation
The narrator recalls an evening encounter with a rustic Native Michiganger who sits beside him on the veranda after a day on the farm. The man, wearing a straw hat, questions whether the narrator is the Duke of Otherland and reveals his odd habits and eccentricities as they share talk about life in Michigan.
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Virgin Wilderness
Hull
jack+pines
A. Quad
Detroit Free Press
Duke of
Otherland
English miller loses church visit to loyal hens
A rural tale tells of an English miller whose tame hens refused to return home while he attended church. The birds followed him to the sanctuary and would not be coaxed away, forcing the miller to abandon his religious privileges for the day. The anecdote sits beside brief notices of a senator’s land gift and various ad lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thay
Vermin Control Claim Prompts Drugstores to Sell Rough of Rats
A terse 1564 notice urges druggists to supply Rough of Rats to clear out rats mice bedbugs vermin and insects. The brief instruction highlights a vermin eradication product and its intended use.
Fatal freight collision near Elmira claims five lives
Five people died when two freight trains crashed near Elmira New York on Saturday morning. The wreck disrupted rail traffic and left a mangled scene with emergency crews responding to the collision.
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Elmira
N. Y
Choice Extracts From Drugglita Advertises Malt Bitters
The passage touts alt hops cglisaya and fron in Malt Bitters calling them best medicine for blood purification and liver chills. It claims lady customers praise them and physicians prescribe them, with boasts of the largest bottle and cure claims, alongside baseball standings noting the Chicago Base Ball Club with 51 wins and Buffalo and Providence tied for second with 41 wins.
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Matt Bitters
Chicago
Buffalo
Providence
Havng
Electric Bitters and Voltaic Belts Advertised for Health
Delicate Women seeks relief from stomach liver and kidney complaints with Electric Bitters a recommended cure. Fifty cent price at druggists. Also ad for Electro-Voltaic Belts Bands and Suspenders promising restoration of manhood with a thirty day trial offered by Voltaic Belt Co Marshall Mich. Bark Ida Van Valkenburg wrecks on Lake Michigan with all hands perishing except one sailor.
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A. van Valkenburg
Lake Michigan
Marshall, Mich
Lydia E. Pinkham
Western Avenue
Lynn
Mase
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