Weather Liar and the Gropery and the Drug Store Satire
A Detroit Free Press piece lampoons local liars the weather liar the fish bar and the horse liar. It recalls aging boastful tales and exaggerated feats from past winters fishing escapades and horse racing myths with a closing nudge to end the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit ‘Free Press
Liar
Weather Liar
Reading Bank
Har
Barus
Goldsmith Maid
Flora Temple
Karey
Bursting Bogs Across Ireland From Heavy Rains
A long deluge causes Irish bogs to burst, flooding Castlerea and nearby regions. Reports recount moving bogs swallowing fields, roads, and arable land, with Baslik and Wistropp bogs threatening further damage to lowland farms and infrastructure.
Turf Deposits and Flooding Shape Irish Landscape
A London Standard note outlines repeated turf deposit floods in Ireland, where vast peat beds held too much water and burst their banks. It cites 25 feet subsidence in one area and a 100 acre bog between Xoomfield and Geevah in Sligo bursting in 1881, washing away the Bloomfield to St. James' Well road for 9,200 yards, as evidence of widespread turf-driven landscape upheaval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Xoomfield
Geevah
Sligo
Bloomfield
St. James
London Standard
The Texas Name Legend From Paradise Tehas Story
The narrator shares a Texas origin tale told by an Indian chief rescue party after thirst and peril. Crossing the Rio Grande, a group finds dry plains then the Colorado waters, green grass, and buffalo. They cry Tehas meaning Paradise, a Philadelphia Times account excerpts the legend as told by A. H. M.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Texas
Mexico
Rio Grande
Colorado
Paradise
Philadelphia
Queen Victoria Befriended American Toy Twins at Windsor
Queen Victoria welcomed Lady Mandeville’s twin girls known as the American beauty Yznaga daughters. Four year old girls, radiant and unshy, hugged the Queen and sought buns, charming Windsor with their playful boldness. The scene amused the monarch more than their formal lessons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lady Mandeville
Yznaga
New York
London
Girofle
Girofla
Lord Mandeville
Windsor Castle
Queen Victoria
Victoria
How to Tint White Lace With Saffron and Gum Arabic
A reader explains yellow lace tinting using saffron dissolved in cold water with powdered gum arabic to fix color. Dip lace or tulle without twisting, iron carefully on wrong side, and use weight or flannel covers for delicate points. An exchange note closes with a testimonial about Dr Guysett’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla curing nervous debility after many doctors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guysett
A Creditor's Last Tribute and Odd Anecdotes
A French note recalls a creditor tale where 2,000,000 francs go to a widow amid grave speeches. An accomplice laments as another bystander retorts that the deceased leaves 50,000 francs behind. An Alabama widow story follows with a jest about bridal tours and bridles. The piece ends noting 6,797,000 men fit for U S military service.
Mystery Dream Promises Cure for Consumptives
A sick man plagued by tuberculosis seeks relief through a dream and a pamphlet. After a long search he deciphers a monogram G M D and acronyms P P P and F P, claiming cures and life extensions for sufferers. He becomes a messenger promoting these remedies while others remain skeptical or unchanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. P
D. M G
John Robinson
Gen
P. P
Health Cure Promises Deluge of Letters and Proofs
A feature on health pitches from G M D and W D M A promoting Golden Medical Discovery and related remedies. The piece narrates visions of health, testimonials, and the promise of cures for consumption, scrofula, skin diseases, and digestive issues. It urges readers to contact the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo, New York, for advice and a medical adviser book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Jones
F. P
Jumbus
America
Pierce
Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
N. Y
Association
People
Common Sense
Leaves of Grass and other letters quoted in 19th century notes
A collage of quotations and brief notes references Walt Whitman Emerson Carlyle and Henry Bergh with remarks on Leaves of Grass Worth and fashion fuel a Boston Post comfort ad and a stray line about government numbers closing with garbled OCR text.
Pain Less Corn Extractor Promoted Across Cities
An advertising item touts Nam’s PainLess Corn Extractor as a painless remedy to remove corns quickly. It claims thousands have used it and urges readers to try the product sold everywhere with wholesale backing by Lord Stoutenburgh & Co. in Chicago. A jokey aside mentions a citizen embarrassed after signing a recommendation for a medicine linked to delirium tremens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NAM
Utnam
Lord, Stoutenburgh & Co
Chicago
Free Wine Syrup Offer to Churches Ministers
An offer promises one bottle of White Wine of Tar Syrup gratis to any minister who tests it and recommends it to friends if it proves satisfactory for coughs colds throat or lung issues. Also promotes Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya as a tonic for dyspepsia indigestion low spirits fever prevention and convalescence.
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Warner
M. L. Boones
Peetu
Reading
Mich
S. Inprvas
Albion
W. L. Lockwoop
Ann Arbor
C. D. Warner
Calisaya
Caswell, Hazard & Co
New York
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Switzerland
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Castlerea
Hellingare
Baslik
Wistropp
East Clare
Limerick
Galway
Queen Victoria and the Twins
Alabama
Missis
Sam
M. D
Smith
Lght
G. M
Jones
Walt Whitman
Emerson
Carlyle
Brooklyn
Walter Whitman
Walt
Glasgow
Henry Bergh
Tris
Searcy County
Ark
Worth
Kingdom Come
Boston Post
Hood
Rowe
Brown
Vourah Bere Co
Marshall
Mick
Dyes
N. B
Lyon
Spring Tobacco
Boston
Abe
John Carey
D Street
South
Clinton H. Cook
Milk Street
Co. I. Hood & Co
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
Baker
Roger
Denton’s
H. Hallert & Co
Portland
Stella Co
N.Y
I Donough
Brewster Street
Detroit St
Xauter Srivcow
Borland
Maine
T. W. Donough
Brewster St
Detroit
Peano
Rochester
Eerie Zante Free
Glass
C.O.D
Burnham
Btate Street
Valentine Bros
Janesville
Wis
Missouri
Arkansas
John E. Ennis
Clark Si
Roy Weta
Sur
Eich Mada Renal
Moldels
Sactors Co
New York, N.Y
Aultmadn & Taylor Co
Mansfeld
Ohio
J. E. Gardner
Wabash Avenue
Sara Iarely
Eggleston Truss, Co
Medicina
Ab. Moosrole
Ate
Sitadar
Thue & Co
Augusta
Peart
Tata
Mark Twain
Mississippi
Comic Card CO
Box 407
W. England
New York City
U. S
Alexander H. Stephens
Gvory County
Addres National Publishing CO
Pdameren
A.wmorgan 2
Indiana
Day Gua As
Stocklina Railroad Mail Manufacturing Company
McKenney Tumar Rail Company
Dearborn St
Wilbur
Colsam Piven
Wilborn
A. B. Wilbor
Comnation
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Ompan ¢ Street
BO In
Pacific Northwest
Oregon
Washingcton , Idaho
Pacific Ocean
United States
Liverpool
Oregon Railway & Navigation
Columbia
Northern Pacific R. R
On Railway & Navigation Co
Lang
U. L
General Eastern
Clark Street
Rts
Une Richmond Medical CO
Seie Proprietors
St. Joseph
Taclone
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