Fur Bearing Animals of Maine in Trappers and Markets
The Lewiston Maine Journal notes Maine fur trade value exceeds 100000 annually led by a Brewer dealer. It links supply to Andros coggin Kennebec and Penobscot headwaters, with trappers the main producers. Otters, muskrats, skunk, sable, fisher, beaver, lynx, minks, rabbits, raccoon and bear skins are shipped worldwide, with Russia and Europe as major markets.
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Maine
Brewer
Androscoggin
Kennebec
Penobscot
Lewiston
Germany
Italy
France
New York
London
Leipsic
Moscow
Nijni
Novorod
China
Poland
Geramany
Russia
Lewiston Maine Journal
Making Old Age Lovely
The piece argues that aging enhances inner beauty and charm through tempered temper, intellect, and experience. It asserts the mind matters most, and with kindness and modest brains, any body can become useful, respectable, and agreeable as the soul travels. It notes many plain youths become pleasant in later years, and implies mental ugliness persists visually less with age.
Gas Treatment of Whooping Cough in London Works
The purifying chamber in gas works uses a large open room with twenty four vessels holding lime and sulphate of iron sawdust. Gas passes through this setup as workers refill contents while children with whooping cough inhale vapors. the room maintains six atmospheres and contains various chemicals including carbolic acid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Life Inside the Arctic Circle Farm Homes Observed
M du Chaillu describes arctic farms with large dwellings, barns, and cow-houses. He notes low ceilings small windows, shared cooking and bathing pots, harsh heating, and family beds lining walls in a single-story compound with a guest room and various outbuildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. du Chaillu
Alligator Hunting in Florida Sparks Welfare Concerns
A Jacksonville correspondent reports on gator hunting along the Caloosahatchee Kissimmee and St Johns regions with skin use only. The piece warns of near extinction from tourism and profit driven slaughter, urging Fish Commissioners to restock if wholesale hunting continues. It also notes settlers in Norway’s Saltda inhabitant life.
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Caloosahatchie
Kissimmee
St. John’s River
Florida
Jacksonville
Savannah News
Saltda
Norway
Great measures and the value of effective Congress
The piece argues that originations of grand measures rarely succeed and waste time. It praises practical members who serve constituents, oversee finances, and speak purposefully to their chamber rather than chase unattainable goals. It cites the Forty-second Congress with 10,698 introduced measures and 634 laws.
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Congress
Buncombe
House
Senate
Providence Journal
Remarkable Cure Claim For Golden Medical Discovery
The text promotes Dr Pierca's Golden Medical Discovery, claiming it surpasses age of miracles, cures throat and lung ailments including consumption, cleanses blood, heals pimples, ulcers, and eruptions, and improves general health as an alterative and pectoral remedy.
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Pierca
Pretty Cheese Cloth Comfortables and Patent Medicines
Light, soft comfortables made from unbleached or colored cheese cloth with blue or pink quilts. Notes on Dr. Pierce's Pellets curing headaches and bilious attacks, and Dr. Prence's Favorite Prescription aiding women's weaknesses. Also a chemists' patented liquid sugar process using citric acid to prevent crystallization.
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Wo Liepsic
Get Out Doors and Lawn Tennis Mishap
An ad praises Hop Bitters as a remedy for factory workers exhausted by confinement and craving fresh air. A Humorous Tennis incident follows where Brown trips on a spare racket and laughs with Jones about the quick tumble, while a Lavy jokes about seven calls and finding everyone home.
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Christian Recorder
Brown
Jones
Thirty Days Trial Offers Voltaic Belts for Nervous Debility
Marshall Michigan based Voltaic Belt Co advertises Electro Voltaic Belts and other electric appliances on thirty day trial for nervous debility and related conditions with guaranteed restoration of vigor. Also promotes teething syrup, medicinal oils, hair growth product, bile cleansing pills and nerve and bone liniment with broad drugstore distribution and marketing language.
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The
Voltaic Belt Co
Marshall, Mich
N. B
Cat Dies After High Altitude Experiment On Castle Peak
Jim Townsend of Lundy and a companion climbed Castle Peak with a cat named Thomas to test if felines can survive at 13 000 feet. The cat showed distress after reaching the summit, refusing food, and died of exhaustion the following day despite watching and care. A separate church anecdote told of a minister's sermon prompting a deacon to reconcile with a rival, tears in his ears.
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Jim Townsend
Lundy
Mr. Townsend
Castle Peak
Thomas
Townsend
West
Sword’s Point
Stiggins
Rescued From Death It Claims Lung Cure
A Somerville man recounts a 1876 illness with lung bleeding and severe coughing, hospital stay, and a confirmed lung hole. After using Dr Hal’s Balsam for the lungs he reports improved health, attesting that consumption can be cured and praising the medicine over previous treatments.
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William J.coughlin
Somerville
Maes
William Havre Balsam
Williamm Hal
Almost Young Again with Hop Bitters Cure Claim
An elderly woman over 70 years old, long afflicted with neuralgia and general constitutional weakness, reports dramatic improvement after three months of Hop Bitters use. The anecdote is attributed to a Providence, Rhode Island reader. The item also mentions Warners Safe Kidney and Liver Cure and Kioney-Wort as remedies, with assorted light medical ads and a pun about a girl and a music book.
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Providence
J. I.—Journal
A Rule That Works Both Ways
The excerpt critiques double standards in virtue expectations for women and men. It argues that degrading a woman also degrades a man, citing a man’s tobacco use and a double life regarding saloon visits, and ends with a nostalgic, tender image tied to a familiar remedy.
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Evelina
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Lic
Acmh Puzzie Co
P.O
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Mass
Chicago Weekly Heraldy
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W. Palmer
Coffae Teter Derenn
Chinace
Kieht
Chicago Herald Co
Chicago
Sen
Hubbard Bros
Chicago, Il
Jtoinson
I. S. Johkson & Co
Bastor
Maines
Dibulls
Alome
A.B. Barngs
West Lake St
Chiaco
Monarch Lightning
Randolph Street
Pomeine
ER. Hunter
State St
Trur & Co
Augusta, Me
Kcha
Tos. Johnson & Co
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Bangor
Gun Works
Pittsburgh
H. Hallert & Co
Portland
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Huliday
Beatt
Wose
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Universa
Daniel F. Beatty
Wasmixcrox
New Juxaux
Best
Commercial College
C. BayLize
Dubuque, la
J. Sterne
Lebanon
Chia
Valentine Bros
Janesville
Wis
Vickery, Augusta
Mme
National Pusvisurme Co
Jay Hronson
Detroit
Mich
Kidder
G. J. Lane
Jackson, Mich
Swansea
Standard American Watch CO
Pitiburgh
Delaware Ave
Phila
WinhSson
Wilson Sewing Macerine
Wabash Ave
John E. Todd
New Haven, Conn
Warner
Dr. Bull
New World
Agenta
National Puptissniva Co
J. N. Marris & Co., Proprietors
Cincinnati
Magneton Appliance CO
Oregon
Washington Territory
Pacific Slope
Fostand
Pacific
Columbia River
A. L. Stokes
Clark St
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Drag. Co
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