Life of Napoleon on Elba Reveals Power and Intrigue
The article reviews Napoleon Bonaparte’s Elba regime showing careful administration of finances and security, the mixed local loyalties, and the court's intrigues. It notes Princess Borghese, Madame Mere, Countess Walewska and Maria Louise amid scorned love and political maneuvering.
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Elba
Napoleon
Elbans
Fontainebleau
Elban
Tuileries
France
Louis XVII
Keller
Sir Neil Campbell
Marciana
Walewska
Porto Ferrajo
Schonbrunn
Caroline
the Two Sicilies
Maria Louisa
Neipperg
Dresden
Metternich
Meneval
W. M. Sloane
Century
Tradean helps Sunderland lad with new clothes
A Sunderland tradesman offered to buy a poor widow’s son a new suit for sixpence weekly repayment. The boy missed work after his mother explained he looked respectable and might get a better job. The tale reflects on selfishness versus generosity and a medical salve ad closes the fragment.
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Sunderland
London
Edelweiss Myths and Realities for Alpine Gardeners
The article debunks the myth that edelweiss only grows in inaccessible Alpine spots, noting it is common on rough slopes 6000 to 8000 feet high but found in many districts. It describes the plant, its scientific name Gunaphalium lontopodium, and nearby relatives, and warns that transplanting often kills it, with seed available from nurserymen.
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Edelweiss
Zormatt
Tosa Falls
San Bernardino
Alps
Britain
Switzerland
London Standard
Immersion Bath Cures Abscesses In St Louis Hospital
A New York Ledger account reports a patient in a St Louis hospital kept in a bathtub for six weeks to treat a large sloughing abscess. The method relies on constant pure water immersion to maintain asepsis and reduce germ toxins, with the author citing prior work in gangrene and crushed injuries.
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St. Louis Hospital
Vienna
New York Ledger
The Atmosphere’s Role in Life on Earth
A reflection on how air enables breathing plants and animals, provides carbon for food, and carries water. Without atmosphere the planet would lack winds, currents, and life sustaining cycles, leaving seas stagnant and uninhabitable.
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Earth
A Thoughtful Girl and Modern Chair Banter
A stout youth mocks modern chairs while a thoughtful girl defends durability of a bamboo design. The exchange ends with them testing the chair’s strength and a note on practical engineering versus appearances.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Solution to the Negro Question Declares Mass Migration
The Yale Review argues that southern blacks are moving from farms to wages in towns and mines, creating an urban proletariat and vacating the black belt. It contends voluntary diffusion will solve the race problem, with diffusion under12 percent preventing dominance and promoting industrial leveling through white standards.
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South
Yale Review
Catchup Recipe Quest Sparks Small Town Venture
A Connecticut woman seeks a New Jersey catchup recipe after a bottle from a local maker prompts a trip to the factory. The proprietor declines to share the exact recipe but offers a lifetime supply deal in exchange for her name and address, easing her curiosity with a dozen quarts delivered. Meanwhile a New York Press note explains the whale's mouth and feeding process, including its filtering system and whaling term spouting.
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New Jersey
Connecticut
Jemima
New York Press
Cost of living and city fire loss in 1848
Dialog notes spending limits of 3000 and 2000 dollars a year with clothing costs 1000 dollars a year. The New York Herald cites a Constantinople fire of 1848 along the Golden Horn destroying 2500 dwellings shops and bazaars valued at 15 million dollars.
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Constantinople
Golden Horn
Carlyle Replies on The Cornhill Magazine Request
The excerpt shows Thomas Carlyle declining to contribute to Thackeray’s magazine due to decades of distraction and fatigue, yet leaving a sliver of possibility if circumstances improve. It also notes 1797 Paris silk hat origins and a series of consumer medical ads from J. H. Bacher & Co, plus brief humorous exchanges from the Herald and Berham.
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Dean Thackeray
Thackeray
T. Carlyle
Cornhill Magazine
Jones County Board of Supervisors 1897 Claims List
Claims allowed by the Jones County Board of Supervisors during the January 1897 session cover services for the poor including wood rent and nursing care, office supplies, doctoring, court house upkeep, and sheriff fees. Various individuals and firms such as Lamey Bros Shaw Dutton Fuller Bros and Sumter & Sumter appear among the billants with items for meals nurse care and provender. The list also notes rail excursion tickets offered by the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Co and local advertisement blurbs.
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Board of Supervisors
Jones
J P Ellison
Lamey Bros
Seeseneerene
Frank Kairns
Shaw & Dutton
A Matthiessen
Mershon’s Sons
Ed Foley
Essenes
Jennings
H Curtino
Stuhler& Sons
Hubbard & Dress
Cook
T All
Warren
Tater
Mary W Slocum
Walston & Merrett
Sam McLaughlin
Wood
Court House
Burr Court
Dias T AG Smith
Wtald Shaw & Dutton
A H Marshall
Nursing Poor
Hubbard & Hanken
cCoffin
Hakes
Wood Poor
LD Carlton
O Bowker
R Johnson
R Calkins
H Sanford
L B Warren
E Foley
P Warren
Giltrap
Sigworth
Ebersole
Howard
Cunningham
Anamosa Water Co
Richardson
Miles Cook
Overly
Wm Thomas
Rk O Stephens
Wro
Fletcher
Pat Head
CA Wherry
W L Ketchem
G A Thomas
AG Pangburn
Do Kehoe
Jno Curran
John Gerdes
Geo Heln
MH Morse
Jno O'Brien
WA Overing
AJ Wassoba
PO Babcock
Acc
A G Smith
Gos Bolas Esa
Rercanbrack
Sevsewneseeeen
B McQueen
Do Terreiatveaves
E Booth & Son, Do
Coxsee
St Hanes
Cole Bros
Deeder Dias
Chamberlain
Wallace PubCo
Carrier Blank Book Co
Books and Statonery
Egbert
Fidlar & Chambers
Matt Parrott & Sons
Jos Kulhave
T K Paul
Ad Sutherland
RG Lyons
MJ Kulhave
JG Suter
Harvey Niles
HH Monroe
Geo W Johnson
E R Seals
Do E Horton
J C McLees
Orphan's Home
Decaco
JI B McQueen
Sevees
G W Johnson
T J Cowan
HO Frink
Constable
Sean
Isaac Rigby
Weaes
EJ Wood
W O Jackell’s
Dama
Arnold
Arymore
New Year Carol Singer Admitted At Front Door
In southwest England the first carol singer of the New Year is admitted at the front door and sings through the house until exiting at the back door, a custom said to insure good luck.
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England
Dr Hand's Colic Cure Teething Lotion Ad
An old advertisement touts Dr Hand's Colic Cure promising immediate relief for babies with colic by removing wind and quieting nerves for restful sleep. It urges mothers to buy a 25 cent bottle at drug stores and notes Teething Lotion for sore gums at 25 cents.
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Naroron, O
Nand Medicine Co
Dr. Hand
Arthur Simmons
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