An Old Skinfiint Tells of Ex Wife and Finances
A narrator describes his estranged wife who spent money wildly, leaving him in a hard winter. He laments her extravagance, recounts his attempts to please her with outings and gifts, and says he will remarry only if her relatives cover a divorce. The piece uses rustic dialect and humorous bitterness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tibbons
Lias
Hanner
Popcorn County
Agin
Chicago Ledger
Ohio
McWhirter
Brazos County
Republic of Texas
Boston Globe
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 Passed by Congress
The act titled an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters passed the Senate and House without debate by 48 to 7 and was signed by President Washington on February 12, 1793. It empowered owners to seize fugitive slaves and bring them before Federal or local magistrates with proof of ownership, making concealment and obstruction punishable by a 500 dollar fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House
Washington
The Pope Seals and Dandy Drag and Oddities
The article outlines papal seals with two types, the fisherman's ring and a stamp showing St Peter and St Paul, with the reverse bearing the pope’s name and arms. It also recounts a bishop’s critique of a fashionable idle youth, plus quips about weather, a wife who never asks for money, Frank James clerking in Nevada, a cheese thief, and a note on black-eyed home fashions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Peter
St. Paul
Frank James
Nevada
Digestive Effects of Liquors Tea and Coffee
In a British Medical Journal discussion Dr W Roberts reports on how liquors tea coffee and cocoa affect digestion. All slow chemical processes and many stimulate glandular activity and muscular action. Distilled spirits slightly retard digestion when used sparingly wines retard salivary and peptic digestion yet effervescent wines offer more benefit with less harm. Tea paralyzes saliva even in small amounts while tannin in strong tea is harmful. Strong coffee and cocoa also harm digestion in excess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Roberts
England
T. J. Seals
Bellaire
Ohio
Warner
Tippecanoe
Cider fermentation tale and a political vignette
A Pennsylvania piece discusses cider making, distinguishing hard cider from safer varieties, and describes a method to retain alcohol with a clever venting tube. It then shifts to social change as women work widely and labor shapes class, followed by Colonel McWhirter’s bristling campaign anecdote ending with a whispered punchline.
Gambling Argument Cited By Stockton Papers
The Stockton Herald critiques a man who bets on an ace with a dead card and calls the turn while the week’s salary rests on a weak hand. The Stockton Mail notes a borrower letting money ride on a jack, a drunken intruder seizing winnings, and a player misreading a queen as coppered, all shaping the debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson
Stockton Herald
Stockton Mail
Catching a Hare and a Cold Ledger
A quirky ad says to catch a hare first to cook it and notes it is easier to catch a bore than a cold. It promotes Red Star Cough Cure priced at twenty five cents as the remedy for colds, implying a simple purchase to cure a cold.
Where Gods and Editors Weep in Quiet Garden Scene
An Advance newspaper line reflects on aging and indifference to disasters from a cyclone to an earthquake, noting a rare image of a left handed woman shyly crying while stones are staked in the garden, a moment that prompts a private quiet response.
The Happiness of Elysium and Athlophoros Claims
An Indiana newspaper anecdote extols Athlophoros as a cure for inflammatory rheumatism. Mrs. Kate Sherman from Streator Illinois describes dramatic relief after three doses, with multiple testimonials from Rev. Samuel Porter and others. The ad invites readers to order Athlophoros from Tulomnokos Co. of New York if local druggists lack it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elysium
Elysian Fields
Kate Sherman
Streator
Ill
Samuel Porter
Crete
John Hews
Dake
Clererman
C. Hartley
Hantley, Jr
A. M. Blakner
Union and
Cireen Streets
Decatur, Jr
TuLomnokos Co
Wall Street, New York
Nesting Hummingbird’s Clever Leaf Covering
A hummingbird built a nest beside a window and during a heavy shower used a large leaf as a rain cover, leaving a hole and an attached twig in the nest. After the storm, the old bird returned and unhooked the leaf, leaving the nest dry and observable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yonkers Statesman
A Peep into Early Patent Remedies and Car Starters
A brief item notes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets advertised to ease constipation and bile, praised as safe and vegetable from a Whitehall Times clipping. It also mentions a car starter sold by Borden Sebeck & Co in Chicago and Lyon's horl stiffecet claiming yearly boot and shoe savings of five cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borden, Sebeck & Co
Chicago
Ill
Schumacher
Schumacker
Persiunsa
S. Brainard’s Sons
Wabash Ave
HH. H. Green & Sons
Jones Avenue
Atlanta, Ga
Health remedies and tonics claim blood purification
An assortment of medical claims touts Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and similar tonics for improving strength by purifying blood. Advertised products include Caswell, Hazard & Co oils, Athlophoros for rheumatism, Juniper Tarn Soap, Seovin’s Sarsapariela, and Scurin’s Blood as a Tiver syrup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Also Mentioned on This Page
Spaulding
Department of Knowledge
Earth
Auri
Pennsylvania
Satan
the Wild West
Animal Kingdom
Whitehall Times
Lyon
Yonkers
Carl Pretzel
Caswell, Hazann & Co
New York
S¢E
HH. Joy
State Street
Harrison Street
Caswear, Hazanto & Co
Seovint
ScurIin
Aui
Rolautes
Emiet
GT Jacobs
Altimore, MD
ERMAN
Coanses A. Vogaler
BR CO
Mattimnore, MP
Gatarah
Allays
VLD
Fhayfever
Migik
Eirendar Ely Brothers
Owego
DR. Radways
Radway
Hradway
Murray Hill Co
E.28th St
R.S.& Alp
Lacey
Washington, D.C
Porrasy Poe Kaestner Poes
Sans Kaestner Rco
P. O
the National Co
Dey St
N.Y
Ping Moen
Canal St
Particulars Re Co
Boston
Mase
J.N. Harris & CO. (Limited
Prop'rs, Cinclynati
Sitesseveen
Vinzcarbi
Yvi wagAn
McDonald Drug Co
Washington St
J. Stepak
Lebanon
TOD
Lotheo? CO
Franklin St
Magazin
Amake
Sena
Ladundamanto
USC
Home Magazine
S. Arthur & Son
Philadelphia
Sohmer Pianos
Steger & Sauber
Wabash Av
Wort Soon
J. H. Schenck
Dr. J. H. Schenck & Son
B. H. Douglass & Sons
Montgomery Ward & Co
Feng
Robert Turner
M. D
Flat Rock
Mich
Devon
Mica
Bacharard
Chicago Telegraph
Valentine Brow
Janesville
Win
Evel Mile
Jie Aiden
Russia Cement Co
Gloucester
Mass
Taylor
Mowth
Ola
All Drugs
Walter A. Taylor
Atlanta
Dunham ‘Wayne, du Page Co
France
Wayne, Ills
Chicago & North-Western
Express
P.O. Addres
DR. T. &. Slocum
Pearl St
Arene
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