Sealskin coat request sparks domestic scene
In a San Francisco Call excerpt, Sho and Slo attend Lim with affection as Tlo teases about a sealskin coat. The tale blends flirtation and marriage, while a later note recounts Robert Adair, famed Irish surgeon, and a Portland spoof about a safe drill. The piece ends with social satire on money and politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Adair
Lonnon
England
Holyhead
Adair
London
Caroline Keppel
Earl of
Caroline
Bath
Robin Adair
Relatives and Robbery Case Turn on Bacon and Hogg
A quip from Sir Nicholas Bacon over mercy to a robber who cited kinship ends with a sharp line about being related only when the hog becomes bacon. The note recalls old jests from the San Francisco Argonaut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bia
Nicholas Bacon
Bowan
Bacon
Sir Nicholas
San Francisco
Argonaut
The Game of Ten Pin and Its Ancient Roots
A survey of ten pin origins in England and America, describing early lawn play, lawn grounds, equipment, rules, and costs for building alleys. It notes pins of swamp elm, lignum vitae balls, frame structure, and the economic drift from penny bets to public resort pricing.
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America
England
Henry VIII
New York City
Lower Broadway
The
Battery
New Amsterdam
Tu Mora
Washington Irving
Rip van Winkle
Heinrich Hudson
Catskill Mountains
Tor
Cincinnati Enquirer
Whipping a Failure and Reformers Call
Ex‑warden Willis, a veteran Missouri penitentiary lessee, argues corporal punishment should end and a humane reform system replace it. He cites Huntington Pa as a model, notes branch reforms, and says most convicts can rejoin society with work, schooling, and supervised reintegration rather than punishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Penitentiary
Willis
St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
Huntington
Col. McClaughrey
Joliet
New York
Sing Sing
Elmira
India
Jefferson City
Movel Phinowans
Ufe
Round House
Bill
Jean Valjean
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Newfoundland and terrier duel ends in flood and release
In Youngstown Henry Tod’s Newfoundland and a small terrier befriended after a bulldog mauled the terrier. A storm flooded Briar Hill gullies. the two dogs confronted the bulldog, the Newfoundland dragging the bulldog into the water, both emerging muddy and exhausted, then walking home with the terrier amid humor. Also notes on hunting wild turkeys with dogs and a bridge material debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newfoundland
Youngstown
Henry Tod
Tod
Briar Hill
Mr. Tod
Mr Tod
Newfounland
Newfoundlland
Newfoundland and the Terrier
Pitteburg Dispatch
Bredemeyer Dr. P H Mining Engineer and Assayer
W Bredemeyer Dr PH mining engineer United States and Provincial surveyor and assayer Vancouver BC late partner of J M'vicker Salt Lake City Reliable reports underground surveys and maps of mines at low rates Assays on all minerals Goa and silver bars thirty years experience speaks ten languages Assays from distance promptly addressed Vancouver BC All quartz for assaying left with W C Hallack Nanaimo will be forwarded to Dr Bredemeyer
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J. M'Vicker
Salt Lake City
Asia
Europe
United States of America
Vancouver
B. C
W. C Hallack
Nanaimo
Bredemeyer
Dr Collis Browne Chlorodyne promoted as universal remedy
An 1880 advertisement extols Dr J Collis Browne's Chlorodyne as a premier cure all for coughs, consumption, bronchitis, asthma, diarrhoea, dysentery, neuralgia, rheumatism and more. It claims unparalleled efficacy in cholera, lists endorsements from Symes & Co and notes quotes praising the medicine's wide spread utility in Hindostan and the East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Collis Browne
Army Medical Staff
Symes & Co
Pharmaceutical Cheutists Medical Hall
Simla
Tu J. T, Davenport
MW Street
Bloomsbury
London
Hindostan
Collis Browne
Pharm, Society of Great Britain
Viceroy's Chemists
Caution on Chlorodyne origin and fake products
Vice-Chancellor Sir W Page Wood affirmed Dr J Collis Browne as the inventor of Chlorodyne and denounced the defendant Free man’s testimony as false. The notice warns bottles sold at various prices lack genuine authentication and urges consumers to buy only from J I Davenport at 33 Great Russell Street London. Overwhelming medical testimony accompanies each bottle and piracy warnings follow.
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W. Page Wood
J. Collis Browne
Freeman
the Times
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