Malaria defense and odd opera link in old notices
Advice touts Hoatetter's Stomach Bitters as best protection against malaria while noting a new method of listening to opera via telephone from the Castle of Rhonstock and Berlin's Royal Opera House. The piece also questions a vegan diet causing blood vessel disease and features a scene with Ethel and Maggie at a residence.
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Hoatetter
Edward Bellamy
Castle of
Rhonstock
Royal Opera House
Berlin
Castle
Germany
Austria
Saxony
When Nellie Went Away in the Grief of Dawn
A mournful poem recalls Nellie’s departure and its ache on a homestead. The speaker laments faded greenery and sunlit days, recalls Nellie at the piano, and wrestles with faith and hope. The verse contemplates turning pain into tempering strength and looks toward a hopeful dawn beyond sorrow.
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Nellie
Making Tide Laws A look at how a bill becomes law
A compact overview of the congressional process from introduction to final passage. It outlines steps from bill drafting, committee hearings, and calendar placement to engrossed and enrolled stages, and finally presidential approval, noting how speed depends on support and opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iits
Congress
Organization of Congress
House
House of Representatives
House Committee On
Senate
John Smith
Committee On
Senate Committee On
United States
Government Printing Office
State Department
Electric chime band rides aimed advertising tricycle
A new advertising instrument uses thirty chime bells hung above a piano style keyboard. An electric system drives the bells via electro magnets arranged on a tricycle, letting players produce elaborate tunes by striking keys.
Grasshoppers in Africa Claim Ravages and Blazing Fire
Stanley notes portions of Africa may be worthless due to grasshopper ravages. He recalls a valley where a ten by thirty mile column of young grasshoppers smothered flames when the grass was burned. A secondary witticism warns that mince pie and love fuel dreams.
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Stanley
Africa
Heligoland gossip and a Toledo catarrh cure ad
A London era anecdote notes Heligoland as Gretna Green for Germans with couples crossing for marriage without licenses and the steamship crew incidentally collecting champagne. the tale includes a 1896 affidavit from F J Cheney & Co offering 100 dollars for any cataract cure and Hall's Catarrh Cure claims, with sale details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heligoland
Gretna
Germany
Ileclgoland
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo, CO. R
Going You Far Jack-Oh, Mabel, I have come to say good-by
A humorous exchange notes a departure to Japan to a distant beloved, asking for a cherished kiss before parting. The dialogue hints at a bittersweet farewell with a playful tone.
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Jack
Mabel
Japan
Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Ad Prospect
An advertisement from a 19th century medical catalog touts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for scrofula and blood taints. It claims benefits for skin diseases, ulcers, boils, and enlarged glands, and promotes tonic and alterative effects to revive vitality. The notice seeks reliable traveling salesmen to distribute samples and line up territory preferences.
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Dr. Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
N. Y
OLL Co
Cleveland
Historical Railroads and Medical Ads Mix in One Page
A compact page features notes on New York State rail history from the Mohawk and Hudson line to the Central Hudson era, with dates 1826 1831 1847 1860. It also includes multiple medical and household remedy ads for Syrup of Wigs Dr Bull's Worm Destroyers Brown's Bronchial Troches Sapolio Piso's Cure for Consumption and homeopathic pills, plus a quip about divorce and servants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
Shiloh
New York
Albany and Schenectady
Mohawk and Hudson
New York Central
Hudson River Railroad
Central Hudson Railroad
Central Hudson
Dr. Bull
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Alanus
Holbrook
Joole
Bealth Monthly
Ethel
Alphonse
Maggie
Mr. Cumlets
N. Ogden
Mich
St. Jacobs Oil
J. M. L. Porter
Hagerstown, Md
Agnes Kelley
Beecham
DR. White
Ecura
Harry
Chester
Nellis
Avery
Electrica
Elipoland
Oxnto
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
A. D
A.W. Gleason
Notary Public
Ieal
Husband
Hood
C.1
Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
Dway’s
Tagobaa Systeme
Tacoma Invest Mes Co
Tacoma, Wasi
Fla
Lehmann
Washington, D. C
Apvrentisiax
Ade Adison
Wig
Wuarted
Eole
Ston Haut
Wyant Stony & Wellington
Patrick O'Farrell
W. F Snyher
Chicago
Lily
Jofin
Morris
Densio
Washington, B. Y
Clai
U.S
Stereoptigons
Sanery
Onseat
Chicaco, Ill
Pedine CO
Worep Burniine
Ne Secret Service
Grewonn
Cincinnati
Apie Sranian Detective Bureau Co
Arcade
Globe
A. Loisette
Fifth Ave
Isaac Thompsoon
John L. Thompson, Sons & CO
Troy, N
ELY Brothers
Warren St
Cis
Lincoln Park & Kendall
James Tanner
Commissioner of Pensions
Children's Aid Society
Dearborn Street
Ill
Dakota
M+ington
Oregon
Northern Pacific
R. R
CHAS
Lamborn
Land
Ated Publi
Minnesota
Northvan
Daha
St. Paul, Mica
State St
M. Hill Pub
East 2Th St
Mhmehesso
Smith & Wesson Arms
Smith & Wesson
Smeth & Whlson
Springfield
Civil Service Gazette
Grovers
James Beds
Portage Stanina
Chesebrough Mf. Co
State St. N
Ohio
G. H. Ingraham
ML D
Amsterdam
Big G
D. BR. Dyche & CO
Dougglats
New York State
Bheeechan
P Chichester
RED Cross
Drugulat
Igoutiterfelta
Ladlea
Setter
Stall, Chemical Co
MudSaun Square
Pel
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