Emotions Among Birds Revealed by Ornithologist Professor Abbott
Professor Abbott, noted ornithologist, claims birds show emotions. His photo collections and studies describe feather postures, body poise, and eye expressions as emotional signals. He suggests testing canaries by approaching the cage with sympathy and whistling. The text also notes a northern Scotland goose displays surprising intelligence and craft.
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Clinton G. Abbott
Prof. Abbott
Abbott
Scotland
Whistle Sound Carries Far in Quiet Night
A Harper’s Weekly note explains that low pitched sounds travel farther than high tones. It compares organ tones in a church with steamboat whistles on Ohio and Mississippi packets, noting the deep resonance seems to stretch into space, especially at night in the country.
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Ohio
Mississippi
Harper’s Weekly
Remarkable Patent Remedy Praises Electric Bitters
Mrs O Rhinevault of Vestal Center New York extols Electric Bitters as a great gift from God to women. She claims the medicine restores buoyant spirits, vigor, and health, and quickly cures nervousness sleeplessness melancholy headache backache fainting and dizzy spells, with a 50 cent price at all druggists.
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O. Rhinevault
Vestal Center
N. Y
See Our Christmas Goods Before Buying
Phoenix Drug Store urges shoppers to view Christmas goods to save money. Local ad copy highlights discounts and value on seasonal items in a concise store promotion.
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Phoenix Drug Store
Diplomats of 1890s New York Speak on Civil War Unity
Secretary of War Dickinson and Mayor-elect William J. Gaynor addressed 600 Southerners at the Southern Society dinner in the Waldorf Astoria. Dickinson praised Southern civic conquest and Northern integration, arguing the Civil War was a local conflict with many Northern-born Confederate officers, while urging unity and a shared heritage under law and justice.
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New York
Dickinson
William J. Gaynor
Greater
Southern Society of New York
Waldorf-Astoria
South
Judge Gaynor
North
United States
Kingdom of
Great Britain
England
Middle
West
Cooper
Albert Sidney Johnston
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Kirby Smith
New England
West Point
Kentucky
Abraham Lincoln
Virginia
Thomas
Rock
Chickamau
Tennessee
Parrait
Farragut
New Orleans
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New York City
Men of the South
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Apadine
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T. M. Parker Co. Ltd
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