The Wax Show and New York Wax Figures Experience
Bill Nye visits New York wax exhibits and a chamber of horrors praised for value and shock. He notes the pedestals fund and carnival style attractions, observes wax Presidents, and recalls perfumed crowds and curious pickpocket scares in the wax crypt. A referenced exchange touches on enduring fascination with ancient coins and an 1885 timeline remark from Texas Siftings.
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Bill Nye
New York
Gotham
United States
Winter Garden
Chamber of Horrors
Historical glimpses of temperance in New England churches
The piece recalls 125 years of ecclesiastical discipline driven by fornication and drunkenness among early New England churchgoers. It cites Parker and records from probate showing heavy wine at funerals, mentions councils against drunken ministers, and notes Leonard Woods noting many temperate and intemperate clergy.
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Andover
Mass
Theodore Parker
Fathers of
New England
John Norton
First
Boston
Inswich
Massachusetts
Leonard Woods
President's Journey and a Brigadier General Appointment Tale
A former war secretary escort describes taking the President to Gettysburg for the first anniversary of the battle. He recalls the President comparing a trip to the gallows and recounts handling army office applications, including a note about a Mrs whose husband became a Brigadier General, signed A. L. and attributed to Gen. J. B. Fry.
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Secretary of War
Washington
Gettysburg
White House
Illinois
Regular Army
A. L
J. B. Fry
The Better Present and the Progress of Society
The essay argues the past holds reverence despite blemish, while insisting present decline is unfounded. It praises wealth growth and shifting power, notes evils of greed and corporate influence, yet asserts global advancement. Citing Burke, Mirabeau, and Smith, it extols improvements in France England and the United States, and the rising moral and intellectual tone.
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Europe
Bismarck
Lieber
Burke
France
Mirabeau
England
Walpole
Chadstone
Old Sarum
Charles Imory Smith
Dickinson College
The President's House and White House History
A New York World excerpt recounts plans for a private presidential house on high ground north of Washington to replace the current building as executive offices. It explains the White House was originally brown stone, painted white after a 1812 fire, and notes John Adams and John Quincy Adams were the first presidents to occupy the structure, with East Room details unchanged since Adams except for later interior additions.
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Washington
White House
John Adams
John Uincy Adams
New York World
Work For Father Donovan Ends In Grave Digging
In Yonkers Gazette style dialogue, Pat acknowledges aiding Father Donovan by digging his grave. The exchange notes the work was approved, with Kilrain Church cited as the burial site and the speaker claiming to have been a sexton involved in the grave digging. The tone suggests a historical newspaper snippet.
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Pat
Father Donovan
Sur
Kilrain Church
Yonkers
Sunday Dinner and Desert Oasis Exchange
Briggs at the boarding house jokes about tea cream as an oasis in the desert while a thin boarder quips it is more like a dessert in the oasis. A darker note follows with a line about the female locust that makes no noise yet does all the devilment.
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Briggs
New York Graphic
The Lord Hit ’em Again in Scotlands Early Chapel Tale
A 19th century sermon parable recalls a rich Scot who mocked repairs for a new chapel and is struck by falling plaster. It pivots to a critique of patchwork cures for kidney and liver ailments, urging Warner’s Safe Cure as a sensible alternative.
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Scotland
Warner
Loundon Press
Drunken Chicago Women In Front Of Shops A Chicago Letter
A Chicago letter criticizes popular confectionery shops and restaurants for functioning as drinking rooms with an afternoon crowd of wealthy ladies. Observations note cabby efficiency, private upper parlors, and groups of women inebriated to near oblivion. A restaurateur admits high spending but unable to manage intoxicated patrons and sends them home with apologies.
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Chicago
Where are the American poets in public life now
An English critic asks about American poets and the response notes their ubiquity in newspapers and presses. The piece remarks that many are real poets in every room and many more confined to press basements, alongside a drive to defend American poetry amid critique. It ends with an aside praising Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a preventative and curative tonic against malarial disease and digestive issues.
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Legion
United States
Parnassus
Boston Courier
Sure Road to Fame Pugilist Dream in Philadelphia Call
A father's warning and a son's bold vow unfold a family scene in Philadelphia. The son declares his intent to become a pugilist, hoping his future fame will reach civilized nations and place him among the great men. The exchange highlights ambition, discipline, and the era's boxing interest.
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Philadelphia
A Socialist's Paradise in Tokio Economy
The piece notes that in Tokio a thousand dollars yearly is wealthy while a saver with $100 is near the wealthy class. It contrasts this with the empire's 37 million population and fewer than 10,000 paupers, a striking social statistic.
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Tokio
Meatless tomato soup recipe in Michigan paper display
A Michigan paper with display columns runs a recipe for meat less tomato soup, joking that leaving out meat may earn a name for the cook. The item is part of a string of humorous notices and advertisements mentioning pills and a medical remedy from the World's Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo offering cures for pile tumors via pamphlets sent for stamps.
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Michigan
Puck
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
Wonderful recovery of Mr T Posey druggist at Canal Street
An editorial note in a New Orleans paper lauds the complete health restoration of Mr T Posey druggist at 225 Canal street after a severe sciatica attack. His wife used St Jacobs Oil, which the writers say cured him promptly and entirely.
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OanEans
T. Posey
Canal Street
St. Jacobs
Origin of the Chestnut Expression in French Prisons
Memphis Acalanche recounts a practice in a French prefecture prison where a night watchman dropped a chestnut every half hour to mark duty. Missing chestnuts led to dull, false explanations, giving rise to the term chestnut for stale stories.
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Memphis Acalanche
Proper Study Of Mankind Is Man Says Pope In Joke
The piece notes Dr. K. V. Pierce’s life study of both genders with Favorite Prescription aimed at women and chronic sex related ailments. It mentions a price cut to one dollar by druggists and ends with a child’s quip about being made of dust and getting muddy inside when drinking.
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Pope
K. V. Pierce
R. U
Lorillard
Lorilard
N.Y City
Grant
Newman
Col. Bure
Drugs National Publishing Co
Chicago
Golden Medical Discovery and city hotel pitches
A collage of health claims for Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery praising liver cleansing and blood purification. Also promotional notes for Grand Union Hotel Chicago and Gault House ads. Ends with mentions of Akron Sewer Pipe and Frazer Axle Grease as best in the world.
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Dr. Pierce
New York City
Bagzage
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Grand Union
Akron
Injunction Against German Hop Bitters Case Opens
Hop Bitters Company of Rochester wins a circuit court injunction against Collatinus D Warner of Reading Michigan. The order bars manufacturing or selling German Hop Bitters and any lookalike bottles or labels that could mislead the public into believing the goods are those of the complainant. The ruling, signed by Chief Justice Morrison B Waite, issued July 15 1885 in Detroit, restrains any further infringement pending further court order.
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Rochester Morning Herald
Hop Bitters Company
Rochester
N. Y
Collatinus D. Warner
Reading
Michigan
United States of America
Mich
Circuit Court
Stanley Matthews
Henry B. Brown
Detroit
Court of Chancery
Collatinus
D. Warner
Collatinus B. Warner
Tur Hoxnornale Morrison B. Waite
United States
Walter S. Harsha
Prosecute the Swindlers in Readine Michigan Case
Court action targets C D Warner Readine and all salesmen druggists and imitators involved in Hop Bitters fraud. Indictment seeks conviction and dawn reward for swindle as US 8 referenced. Readine Michigan drug world operatives named for prosecution and accountability.
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Ami Ike
Dawn
C.D. Warner
Readine, Mich
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American Poets
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Hell Gate
Mensman
Caswell, Hazard & Co
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Mark
Drurgista
SHE Charles A. Vodeler Company
Sule Gnberg and Manufacturersaltimore
Maryland
U. 8
Lirom
The
Indianapolis Times
Harry W Olmstead
the Times
Indianapolis
Ind
David Kennedy
Rondout
Dean Sur
Indiana
A. T
Sam
Harry W. Olmstead
Kennedy
Ublic
Rondout, N.Y
Feidi “Knents
Davis & CO
Washington St
F. Pond
Aucoba Kane Cool
Perry Davis
Pain Killer
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AERA
Che
Erica Aeron
Ehan Linines
Ieader Vite Siuid
N. A. Williams
Washington Street
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Valentine Bros
Jan
Esville
Wis
Dee -Stapiens
Lebanon
Ohio
FED Ae Regulator CO
Lemont, Cen
AO Abe
I. C. Howman
Jefferson, Wisconsin
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Dr. CG. McLane
CLS
Eleming 1 Bros
Vittshurzh
SSO and
JONES
Bingramton
Addraes Binghamton
Hawa Pany Piuot Cours
Lyon & Healy
Man and
Beast
Balliple
Newark
Hamilton
Esa
Erie
Mae
Hamilton & Katz
Two Rivers, Wis
Chicago Ledger
Franklin Street
Ragan
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