Scientific American advertisement from 1876
An extensive promotional text extols Scientific American as essential for farmers, mechanics, engineers and professionals, highlighting weekly industrial coverage, new inventions, practical receipts, and broad distribution. It notes a January 1st, 1876 volume, 832 pages per year, subscription terms, club discounts, and patent services by Munn & Co.
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Scientific American
United States
Scientism American
Messrs. Maxn & Co
Sciewvific American
U.S
Munn & CO
Park Row
N.Y
Cor.f and
7Th Sts
Washington, D.C
One Dollar Yearly Subscription Push Marks Centennial Campaign
A Great Centennial Campaign promotes a yearly subscription for one dollar, inviting readers to join the cause. The offer targets broad participation and emphasizes affordability during the centennial initiative.
Advertising rates and payment rules for The Register
The Register lists subscription costs and strict payment policies. It details advertising rates by column size and duration, notes that arrears terminate or renew subscriptions, and requires advance payment for all ads and job work.
Ode to Spring Parody Declares Winter’s Tyranny
A poem jokes about spring’s arrival while mocking the idea that spring brings only warmth. The speaker, amid a cold, sneezes and declares winter’s grumbling throne is ending as spring approaches, ending with comic exclamations and a playful spoof of the season’s myths.
Only a Withered Violet and a Lifelong Vision
A poetic reminiscence of lost loves and cherished tokens. The speaker recalls a fair face and blue eyes, a crumpled twenty year old letter, and a golden ringlet, finding solace in memories until reunion. An advertisement note about the Tux Register appears at the end.
Power of words and the harm of slander in society
A sermon on slander denounces false reports and malicious gossip as ruinous to reputation and happiness. It warns readers to avoid repeating untrue stories, notes how slander corrupts innocent lives, and urges careful speech to protect others. The piece ends with a recipe for kidney stew and a political remark about Congress.
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Webster
Fountain Head
Revolutionary Battles List and Mule Humor Run
The piece lists major battles from the American Revolution with dates and locations including Concord Lexington Bunker Hill Trenton Saratoga Yorktown and Monmouth among others. It also interjects a lengthy humorous essay about mules describing their habits dangers and comical traits.
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Concord
Lexington
Bunker Hill
Long Island
White Plains
Trenton
Princeton
Bennington
Saratoga
Monmouth
King’ S Mountain
Cowpens
Huton Springs
Yorktown
Easington
Piconderog
Montreal
Ethan Allen
St. Johnns
Great Bridge
Wal
Quebec
Montgomery
Fort Washington
Sander’s Creek
Damien
King’s Mountain
Fish Dam Ford
Broad River
Moore’s Creek
Boston
Fort Sullivan
Charleston
Warlem Plains
Hubbarton
Brandywine
Bemis Heights
Sar'ga
Wyoming
Savannah
Kettle Creek
Brier Creek
Stony Ferry
Stony Point
Hanging Rock
Blackstocks
Guilford
Habkirk
Augusta
Kanes
Trmcstown
Usli Eutaw Springs
Cornwall
Donkey Jokes and Witty Quips From A Local Page
A humorous column excerpt notes a stubborn wife riddle and a wife’s retort about a husband’s birth, followed by a pithy remark on defects and a quip about profanity and tin tobacco. The piece closes with a remark that large type isn’t needed in advertising and that blind folks don’t read newspapers.
Ice Foments Antiseptic Use in Scarlatina Care
Edward Martin cites using ice formed from antiseptic solutions to deliver topical meds to children with scarlatina threats. He describes freezing mixtures of sulphurous acid, chlorate of potash, or chlorinated soda in an ice mold and administering via a teat tube, noting low taste and good acceptance by young patients.
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Edward Martin
Lancet
Fence Rows as Farm Assets Not Taxed Land Loss
A 160 acre farm divided into ten acre plots with five miles of one rod wide fences wastes land equal to six and a quarter percent of value. Weeds in fence rows add cost, totaling about twenty percent. Proposes fewer fences or convert rows to grass or clover for seeds hay and grazing.
How to kill stumps with saltpetre and kerosene
A reader suggests a labor light method from Scientific American to dispose of tree stumps. Hollow a central hole eighteen inches deep, fill with saltpetre, seal with water, and ignite later with kerosene oil. The stump is said to smoulder to ash without a blaze. The Ballard News notes a grub worm with a persimmon sprout growing from its mouth, an odd specimen observed by a reader.
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Scientific American
samThe Ballard
C.C. Terrill
Parisian Inebriate Speaks to Fallen Hat on Boulevards
An overheard soliloquy on a Parisian street describes a drunk man addressing his hat that has fallen. He muses that lifting the hat would make him fall and failing to lift it would leave him, then strides away proudly.
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Atciter
Darkey
Stanley
Delirious Virginia Man Sparks Whisky Sales Battle
A Virginia man recently ill with delirium tremens is said to have seen angels instead of snakes and his case triggers a feud among local saloons over who sold him the whisky.
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