Scientific American advertisement urges readers to subscribe
The text extols Scientific American as essential for manufacturers, mechanics, engineers and inventors. It highlights weekly illustrated content on industrial progress, new inventions, and practical receipts, plus patent services by Munn & Co. Subscriptions priced at 3.20 yearly with club discounts, single issues 10 cents.
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McEriciano
Scientific American
United States
Scientirre American
Messrs. Manx & Co
U. S
Munn & CO
Park Row
N.Y
Cor. F
7Th Sts
Washington, D.C
A Year’s Subscription Offered for One Dollar Campaign
The Great Centennial Campaign announces reduced rates for the Weekly Courier. A yearly subscription drops to one dollar as part of the promotional drive, inviting readers to join the centennial effort.
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Weekly Courier
Ohio Valley
Dollar Weekly Courier
Evansville
Courier
Dollar Courier
America
Courier Company
Ind
Value of Leg for Love Proved by Englishman and Surgeon
A Boulogne surgeon, Etienne Lefebvre, is approached by an armed Englishman who demands amputation of a healthy leg. The operation is performed, and the patient later marries Susan Black after revealing the sacrifice. The act is praised as noble, and the Englishman expresses enduring gratitude to Lefebvre.
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Etienne Lefebvre
Calais
Lefebvre
Monsieur Lefebvre
Paris
East Indies
Susan Black
Susan
London
Miss Black
England
Arthur Oxby
Adam
Eve
Tmenne Lefebuvre
Oxley
Blue
Loefebvre
Not flirt An Old Brooklyn Eagle Poem Explores Youthful Charm
A Brooklyn Eagle poem parodies flirtation as a deliberate life program. The speaker boasts about daily meals and social play, claims affection from numerous men and even a young cousin, and envisions aging among beaux as a stylish performance with caps and knitwear.
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Grandpa
Ben
Cash
Bruno
Brooklyn Eagle
Don't Be Sorrowful Darling A June Love Poem
Eben E Rexford laments sorrow while praising the present joys of summer. The poem urges the beloved to enjoy June’s warmth and sunshine, deferring worry about autumn and later months until they arrive. It contrasts cheerful days with impending seasonal shadows.
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Darling
The Disappointment and Red Snow Tale
A rustic tale contrasts a stubborn husband with a playful wife and a warning to brides. The piece shifts to reports in Daily News about red snow sightings across Forest Hill Streatham Reading and Thurston, Norfolk with Pliny and Prococcus nivalis cited.
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Old Birch
Kate
Daily News
London
Forest Hill
Streatham
Reading
Thurston
Norfolk
Pliny
Pull Down Your Vest Misunderstanding Provokes Vest Joke
An elderly man fumbles over a joke about pulling down a vest and causes amusement with his accent. A clerk explains the humor and sells the vest as the man exits claiming he has not heard such a matter in Germany before.
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Board of Drustees
Curing a Liar and a Doctor’s Odd Remedy
A comic tale recounts a hypocritical liar visiting a doctor who offers a cod liver oil capsule as a cure for lying prompting a sick reaction. An unrelated Union Medicare claim claims corn cures via iron chloride via straw, for fifteen days with little pain.
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Union
Medicare
London Gas Industry Facts and Costs in Midwinter
The article outlines London's gas industry with eight major companies holding about 50 million dollars in capital. It notes 17 million cubic feet of gas sent out nightly in midwinter and an annual consumption of 14 billion cubic feet. Coal use, coke production, and residuals value are quantified, as are the gas rental total and lamp costs. It details street length, mains, lamp counts, and streetlighting costs, plus railroad traffic between New York and Philadelphia.
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London
Newcastle
Metropolis
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