Haunts of the Polar Bear and Arctic Life
A San Francisco Chronicle summary on arctic wildlife food chains. It notes seal and polar bears as vital sustenance for natives, describes seal meat preparation, details polar bears range to St Matthew Island, and recounts a large 1845 polar bear. It also discusses bear behavior, hunting practices, brown bears, and the broader issue of forest destruction and soil loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
San Francisco Chronicle
Arctic
Brain
Healy
United States Revenue Marine
St. Matthew Island
Behring Sea
Seal Islands
St. Matthew
Point Belcher
N. S. Shaler
Scribner's Magazine
The Importance of Forests and Future Earth Care
The essay argues civilization must protect forests as a lasting resource for climate and timber supply. It warns current frontiersmen exploit forests for progress while future generations depend on sustaining soil cover, noting eventual coal and metal shortages and potential shifts to solar power and alternative metals.
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Christ
The Wise Man and His Silly Six Day Salary Tale
A humorous fable follows a wise man who spends his wealth on petty pleasures and odd antics. He pays a publican, quarrels with neighbors, buys a shave, tobacco, and soda for the publican’s daughter, and attends a socialist meeting before misadventures lead to a chaotic morning. His wife buys fish for bacon and he watches the rich man in Abraham’s bosom.
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Lazarus
Abraham
John Ericsson Defying Time at 84 in His Beach Street Home
John Ericsson, 84, lives at 36 Beach Street in a row of tenements aside from his princely mansion. The inventor remains active, spending days in his workshop, modeling engines and devices, with a monklike routine, cold baths, and strict abstinence, believing life and invention can endure for many years. The New York Sun notes his temple-like house filled with iron and steel models and his unwavering dedication to science.
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John Ericsson
Beach Street
Monitor
Merrimac
The
Mechanic Arts
New York Sun
Assassin in Love and Hypnosis Curiosities
A dialogue depicts a condemned assassin bravadoing about his fate while a lawyer declines mercy. The text also notes a hypnoscope claimed to detect hypnotic liability, describing its tubular magnet design and claimed user sensations percentages from the Boston Herald.
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Ochorowies
Boston Herald
It Is Cold The Man In The Square Returns
The narrator tracks a peculiar,长期 resident known as He who haunts a downtown Chicago square. Across a hot day and nine years since a fatal hair-cutting incident, He recites a grim tale of a cashier who killed a barber after a shortage, and vows never to leave the sunlit street.
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Clark
Madison Streets
Dearborn
Randolph
Tam
Faith Cure
Chicago
Two Bullets Through His Stomach Survival Tale
A bar tale at the International Hotel recalls a veteran who, after two bullets passed through his stomach, allegedly swallowed the bullets and survived. The party offered drinks as the punchline lands with the barkeep collecting righty cents.
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International Hotel
Jim
New York Evening Sun
Quotations and Anecdotes From Old Newspapers
Curious snippets feature a Rudimentary philosophy paragraph from Chicago Sunday National, quips about manners walking on a pavement, a joke about hat styles and saloon visits, and a harsh note on a man selling Free Masons to colored people in the Carolinas with comical passwords. The tone reflects mid century humor and social attitudes of the era.
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Nashville American
Carolinas
Detroit
Marvelous Little Moxie Craze In Modern Medicine
The Moxie craze is hailed as a lasting remedy, surpassing stimulants and tonics. Physicians say it uniquely calms nerves, stops liquor cravings, and satisfies the nervous system, with no rebound effects or exhaustion.
Pink-Eyed Pittsleys of the Backyard Clan
A Brockson Mass Gazette note describes a Rochester area peculiarity the Pink-eyed Pittsleys a lineage marked by pink eyes and white hair spreading across families in Freetown Rochester Lakeville Long Plain Acushnet Myricks Middleborough Wareham New Bedford Taunton and Fall River. The old Merchant Pittsley had nine children with five pink-eyed sons and one pink-eyed daughter. some descendants inherit the trait while others do not.
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Rochester
Freetown
Lakeville
Long Plain
Acushnet
Myricks
Middleborough
Wareham
New Bedford
Taunton
Fall River
Pittsley
Merchant Pittsley
Brockson
Mass
A Perilous Postponement and Medical Cautions
The article warns against delaying action in health matters especially kidney and bladder diseases, praising Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a diuretic to support renal function and digestion. It also reports Hayem's Paris findings on decapitated animal heads showing brief neural activity and reflexes, followed by a reflection on a small candle’s beam revealing a good deed in a naughty world.
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Bright
Pierce Golden Medical Discovery Promises Superior Health
An advertisement touts Dr. R. V. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as unrivaled for bilious disorders impure blood and consumption described as acrofulous lung disease. The item notes a man with a gold headed cane appears beside the ad in the New Haven News.
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R. V. Pierce
Ecot
New Haven News
Pierce
Guilty Plea May Not Spare Penitentiary Time
A defendant pleads not guilty in a case risking a prison sentence. The article warns against overconfidence in avoidance measures and outlines potential consequences if found guilty. Court action and expected sentencing details are noted.
Delicate Diseases Cured Promptly by World’s Dispensary
A 19th century medical notice offers a large illustrated treatise on curing delicate diseases of any sex. Readers are urged to mail 36 cents in stamps to the World's Dispensary Medical Association at 663 Main Street, Buffalo, New York, for information.
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J B. Seiter& Coq
Sot. Louis
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo, N.Y
Mark Twain
Richard Proctor
W. W. Astor
Judah P. Benjamin
Imor
Columbia Law
Rele
University of Seonioe Roe
Colette
Fifth Loe
New York
Chicago Ledger
UnicaGo
Gino
Pierce
Chemical Laboratory of World's Dispensary Medical Association
Gem City Business College fall term opens September
Gem City Business College at Quincy Illinois begins the fall term on September 5 with courses in business, pedagogy, shorthand and typewriting under capable instructors. A grand reunion is planned for Friday evening September 9 at the Opera House. catalogues and full particulars are mailed free by Principal D. L. Musselman. Hazard & Co. advertise Pine Cod Liver Oil as pure and superior, preferred by patients and physicians.
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Gem City Business College
Opera House
D. L. Musselman
Quincy
Ill
Hazard, Hazard & Co
New York
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Supreme Court
Miss Witless
Carl Pretzel
Chicago Sunday National
Little Moxie
Academy of Science
M. Hayem
Medical School
Paris
Science
Hood
James R. Darrow
Fort Wayne
Ind
Ejoy
Ile Bean
Loni, Mo
Cincinnati Telegram
Lyon
Isaac Thompson
Ely
Frank B. Ainsworth
Indianapolis
B.S
A. P. Lacky
Washington
D.C
Marlin Repeating Rifle
Ballard Gallery
Marlin Fire Arms Co
New Slaven
Conn
Tansill
Joan Kt. Porter & Co
Rockford
R. W. Tansile & CO
Kidder
Hea Aaa
F. Kidder & CO
Arin Chemists
John St
R. Baird
N.Y
Procter & Gamble
DR. Pierce
W. Hausner
Ithaca
N. Y
Thomas J. Rushing
Pine Street
St. Louis
Exx Ropsins
Runyon P. O
Columbia Ca. Pa
Dre Sage
Bend
U. Be Pensions & Claim A
Ponte Fitzgerald & Powell
Indianapolis, Ind
J. Stephens
Brewster Safety Rein Holder Co
Holly, Mich
Ogists
Arn
Avitta
W. Va
N.S. J. Striper
Wizard ‘Ok
Saale
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