Sleeping wonders and narcolepsy cases from old times
A historical summary describes long involuntary sleeps attributed to narcolepsy and sunstroke, noting Dr Blanchet's cases. It covers a 13-year sleep saga ending in 1803, a Bremen girl waking after eight and a half months, and a Schenectady man felled by sunstroke with a four week coma and eventual relapse, set against brief notes on large palm leaves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanchet
Gretchen
Grambke
Bremen
Germany
Sisters of the Little Sleeper
Amazon
Pala
Eomi
Ceylon
Scientific American
Mr. Staylate
New York
A Bizarre Office Tale of a Boy and a Typewriter
A long column of humorous clippings relates a 10 year old boy’s prankish demonstrations in a lawyer’s office. He toys with a hired amanuensis and the “pretty typewriter,” then reveals his plan to get a quarter, prompting parental intervention and the dismissal of the typewriter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fair Typewriter
Washington Star
Allegheny
New York
Rose
New York Tribune
Warning to Young Men and Lincoln Anecdotes From The era
A miscellany of quips and comic vignettes includes a playful scene where Felisty McGinnis and Jenkinson discuss a ring hidden by a hole in a sofa, followed by a Lincoln anecdote about a barber and a ball. The piece also references a post office clash with Col Crocker and a string of humorous courtroom and social squibs from various papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenkinson
United States
Prince of Wales
Felisty McGinnis
Felisty
Chicago Tribune
Arizona
Moolguill
Mountain
Col. Crocker
Ilindy
Detroit Free Press
Chlorodyne advertised by J. T. Davenport London
An 1880s advertisement purports Dr J Collis Browne's Chlorodyne as a universal cure and sedative for coughs, consumption, diarrhea, cholera, neuralgia, and more. Symes & Co praise its efficacy in Hindostan and the East while warning against imitators and noting government stamps on genuine bottles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Collis Browne
Army Medical Staff
Symes & Co
Pharmaceutical Chemists Medical Hall
Simla
Toj. T. Davenport
Great Russell Street
Bloomsbury
London
Hindostan
Collis Browne
Pharm. Society of Great Britain
Viceroy’s
W. Page Wood
Frouman
Times
J. T. Davenport
Tondan
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Rip van Winkle
Nathan G. Vrocoman
Schenectady
N. Y
Ero Jong
Vrocman
St. Louis
Jas. G. Fairburn
Boot & Shoemaker
Hah Kam
Hilbert
Ther
Smith’s Crossing
New York Weekly
Lillian
Ethel
Cashboy & Cheaply
Evangeline
Burdette
Brooklyn Eagle
Charlie
Maud
Edith
Charlie Flashby
Pan Maud
Buffalo Courier
Harper's Bazar
Dumley
Brown
Robinson
New York Sun
Lowell
Misa
Mrs. Handley
Mount Holly
Philadelphia
John
New York A
Canadian Pacific Rail
Asi
Shaw
Nanaimo
W.bredemeyer
Vancouver
B. C
J. M'Vicker
Salt Lake City
Asia
Europe
United States of America
Lincoln
Gen. Porter
England
South
Sangamon County
Charles Theodore Russell
Cambridge
Post
Fred
Yankee Blade
Sho
Pittsburg
Columbia - Carriage - Works
Hastings Street
Carroll
Thas
Eyers
Mr. McNabb
Kman
The
Dominion
A. T. Mecnabb & Co
Garesche Green & Co., Bankrers
Victoria
U.S
U. S
San Francisco
Canada
Ireland
Scotland
Wells, Forge & Co
British Columbia
Nesbitt, Dickson & CO
Fort Striht
Dougly
AND
Investmant Age
Thomas Allsop
Henry
Mason
Cuyler A. Holland
E'S
Allsop & Mason
Isleem
Cillorodyne
Albion Iron Works
Discovery
HEALD
STS
E&nges
Ratmaw
Welling
Wellington
Postal Service
Way
Eveeeeseee
Comox
Alberni and Way
G. H. Blakeway & CO
Nanaimo Pharmacy
Skinner Streets
Vaimo, B.C
Jenikins
T. A Adam and
R. Schilling
NEW Fruit Store
Co-operative
Queen Chop and Oyster House
Long Bridge
Nanaimo, B. C
Oystinxs
Ualawin Fawile Nan Lv (Limited
Burrard Inlet
Moodyville
C. P Railway
Puget Sound
TRE Mullati
Follome
Seattle
New Westminster
Ladner's Landing
Lulu Island
Plumper Pass
Fraser River
Hope
Chilliwhack
Barclay Sound
Comer Maude
Alberni and Sound
Sardonyx
Fort Simpson
Queen Charlotte Islands
G. A. Carleto
John Irving
Fien
Nanaimo Land Office
Hawthornthwaite & CO
Newcastle
Comox Road
Port Angeles
Jas. Harvey
Red House
Alex. Mayer
Marcus Wolfe
Alex, Mayer & Co
I Shipping
B.C
Harewood Lake
Louis Stark
Wm. Blackmore
Hte
Cordova Street
B. B
C. C. McKenzie
C. L. Smith
Bastion Street
Yanaimo
Glasgow and
London Fire Insur Company
City of
Gough
M. Bate
C.m.c
R. Craig
Bastion Street Bridge
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