Nature’s tempered light and wood’s ancient spells
The excerpt blends nature’s awe with a critique of human triviality. It notes trees’ iron gleam under keen sight and urges living with nature rather than idle pretensions, invoking a timeless, divine sky beyond history.
Living Forest Watchers In An Ancient Wood
An extract from The Heart of the Ancient Wood shows a lumberman moving through a silent forest while animals and birds quietly monitor him. A cock partridge, two wood mice, and a hare watch from concealment as the lumberman’s slow progress stirs wary curiosity amid the woodland stillness.
Philadelphia Doctor Names Triplets After Wagner Heroines
A Philadelphia physician famed for Wagner’s music suggests baby names from his favorite operas for newborns. Recently three girls were born and named Eliza Elizabeth and Brunhilde as a result of his musical naming habit.
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Philadelphia
Richard Wagner
Eliza
Elizabeth
Brunehilde
Life as a series of surprises and divine concealment
A reflective meditation on life as a continual surprise. God isolates us daily, concealing past and future with an impassable sky both ahead and behind, inviting focus on the present experience.
Stomach Bitters Promoted as Vital for Digestive Health
An ays passage extols iron as key to national strength likening wealth to a stomach's utility and recommends Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for overworked digestion. It claims relief from clogged bowels appetite loss constipation dyspepsia biliousness and liver and kidney disease.
Darkness of Night Casts Fierce Light on Deeds
A reflective line notes how the cover of night exposes truths about actions and choices, turning hidden acts visible under darkness and prompting moral consideration.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Reward Ad and Endorsements
A 19th century advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case via Hall's Catarrh Cure. The notice cites F J Cheney Co of Toledo and endorsements from West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists asserting Cheney's honesty and solvency. Hall's remedy is claimed to be taken internally and affect blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials are promised and claims of wide druggist distribution.
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F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
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Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Ohio
The Eye Is Blind If the Mind Is Absent
A compact aphorism notes that perception depends on awareness. It contrasts sensory input with cognitive attention, suggesting mental presence governs understanding rather than mere sight.
Allen's Foot-Ease advertised to ease foot complaints
A vintage ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to cure swollen sore feet corns and bunions. It urges asking for Allen's Foot-Ease at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with free samples. Address given for Allen S Olmsted LeRoy New York. Roseless thorns remark appears as a separate saying.
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
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For Good Health Garfield Headache Powders Ad
Garfield Headache Powders promise relief from headaches and nervousness and other everyday ailments. Sample offers are sent by Garfield Tea Co. of Brooklyn New York.
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Garfield Tea Co
Brooklyn
N. Y
Winchester
Due Care in Handling Sensitive Community Issues
A guidance brief urges careful, respectful treatment of delicate topics to avoid causing offense. It emphasizes inclusive language, factual accuracy, and awareness of diverse audiences in public communication and reporting.
Wizard Oil and Piso Cure Featured in 1900 Ad
A 1900 advertisement touts Dicketys Eye Water and Wizard Oil for sore eyes and grippe relief, praises Piso’s Cure for Consumption, and notes N W Samaagh of Ocean Grove New Jersey as a testimonial. It also cheekily remarks on juries wasting time during verdicts.
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Ocean Grove
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Winsos Syrup Teething Pain Remedy Ad
An old advertisement promotes Winsos Syrup as a teething remedy and for stomach pains including wind colic. It claims quick relief for children and lists a price of 25 cents. The snippet notes many busy people feel they accomplish little.
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Bette
Reminiscences Of Lincoln Fair And Oddities From The Past
A nostalgic sketch recalls the Lincoln fair of the last week in April with its horse cattle sheep and a lively pleasure ground including a razor paste hawker. The piece quotes a drowning save by a mastiff and an old Civil War bullet kept in a New York man’s body.
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Lincoln
Mr. Morse
Mrs. Morse
Boltet
George Wattis
New York
Wattis
Facts About Oil and Petroleum Production
Kerr's Reports notes extensive oil data from 1859 to 1901 including barrel volumes, weights, and energy use. It cites US production surpassing 1.0 billion barrels by 1901, California refinery capacity, and large scale consumption by locomotives and railroads with millions of barrels yearly. It discusses refinery counts, coastal and inland usage, and geologic deposits in California and Beaumont.
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California
Union Iron Works
Fulton Iron Works
Ferries
San Francisco
United State
Beaumont
Kerr
Muddy longing for second chance to wash clothes
A reflective line laments enduring mud and repeats the wish for another chance to clean garments. The sentiment centers on everyday struggle and hope for easier chores.
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