Henry Clays Discovery of Constantia Wine Tale
A Louisville Courier Journal correspondent recounts Henry Clay while Speaker receiving three bottles of Constantia wine from Vevay Indiana. He carries the third bottle to Washington, serves it at a White House dinner, and President Wirt mistakes it for Kentucky whisky. A boy reveals the ruse involving a swapped bottle.
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Madison
Louisville Courier-Journal
Vevay
Ind
Constantia
Henry Clay
House of Representatives
United States
Kentucky
Ohio
Clay
Congress
Washington
White House
Mr. Clay
Tom
Vapor Baths Said To Cure Hydrophobia By Dr Buisson
A physician from this city cites hydrophobia curiosities noting animals that do not sweat. He advocates Dr Buisson of Paris and vapor baths to induce perspiration, recounting Buisson's 1850 experiments and claimed successful treatment of eighty hydrophobia cases. An anecdote of a white hunter and an Indian tale closes the piece.
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Buisson
Paris
Paris Academy of Sciences
New York
Swh
Peter W. Schmidt
Peters
Golden Seal Bitters Company
Holland City
Mich
Indian Gratitude and a Traveling White Man
A white man helped an Indian beggar for food near Litchfield Connecticut promising to pay the bill. Later the man was captured by Indians and taken to Canada. An Indian urged him to meet at a set time to repay the kindness, reproving his lack of confidence. The tale ends with the meeting arranged.
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Litchfield
Anon
Conn
Canada
Bowers Didn't Kneel In Street Corner Confrontation
A gray haired colored man armed with a club confronts old man Bowers over alleged slanders about multiple wives. The assailant vows to force a public apology, but Bowers knocks him aside and escapes as a shocked policeman observes. The attacker, after tumbling, laments his embarrassment.
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Old Bowers
Detroit Free Press
The Bite of a Mad Dog Explains Rabies Misconceptions
Philadelphia Necard reports remarks by George H. McCaughin, city pound superintendent, debunking the idea that mad dogs foam at the mouth. He describes mad dogs as dry mouthed, parched tongues, swollen lips, and almost blind, running straight and biting what they encounter. He notes few raids reveal actual mad dogs and warns hydrophobia symptoms emerge quickly after bites.
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George H. McCaughin
City Pound and Shelter For
Philadelphia
Dark heat rays and rock salt lens promise night photography
The article discusses photography with a rock salt lens and plates sensitive to dark heat rays beyond red. It suggests photographing hot bodies below self luminosity and hints at learning about cooled celestial objects or dark suns once seen but now invisible.
Face of kneeling figure in I Freedom’s Memori 1 tied to Missouri
The Capitol’s bronze group depicting Lincoln granting freedom is linked to Archer Alexander, the last fugitive slave captured under civil law in Missouri. He was recovered after escape by William G. Eliot of St Louis, then a Western Sanitary Commissioner, and later freed.
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Capitol
Washington
Lincoln
Missouri
Regio
Archer Alexander
William G. Eliot
St. Louis
Before She Forgot
A fragment from Harper's Bazar notes a little boy asking to be told about heaven before the baby sister forgets. The piece also references doctors warning mothers against kissing babies, while a boy remains under an elderly woman's slipper’s sway.
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Heaven
Harper’s Bazar
A Cunning Lawyer's Rise And Moral Twist
A sharp North man with a law license lands in New York and marries into a well-off family. An older daughter’s fortune of 14 000 and later the younger daughter’s 100 000 bring a secret engagement. On the dying mother's plea the wedding occurs, and the elder sister's protest exposes the deceit while the man remains prosperous in society.
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New York
Rascal
The Peruvian Senorita Dances With Enduring Grace
A Lima letter hails a Peruvian girl trained in a convent for arts yet notes her beauty surpasses intellect. It praises her dancing as animated gracefulness with remarkable endurance, a closeness in waltz and mazurka that would alarm a mother in the States.
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Lima
Remarkable wedding delay ends with extra fee tale
A punctilious parish priest refused to marry a couple until the bridegroom returned on time. When they finally appeared, the envelope held five dollars, the priest complaining the fee should be ten. The groom claimed the extra five was spent on back fare yesterday. Other notes praise Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and a Brookline dog that fetches the cat nightly, while a Boston Courier remark on inquisitive people closes the column.
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Hartford Post
Pleasant Purgative Pellets Gentle Laxative Claims
An old hymn line frames Pleasant Purgative Pellets as a mild laxative that avoids the usual pill side effects. The piece cites The Lancet warning hair fashion causes neuralgia, noting scalp nerves are irritated by tight styles and pins, as Dr Foote's Health Monthly explains.
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Foote
Red Star Cough Cure Promises Quiet Services
A vintage ad asserts Red Star Cough Cure calms the user to avoid disturbing church services and to enjoy the proceedings, priced at twenty-five cents per bottle.
Duty to Our Dog and Panacea Ads in Siftings
An assortment of 19th century notices urges humane treatment for dogs with advice on water, exercise, and companionship, then wanders into sensational medical columns. It touts products like Hall's Hair Renewer and Dr Jones Red Clover Tonic, claiming cures for coughs, colds, and consumption, with testimonials and a call to request “Facts for the Million.”
Free remedies and hotel pitch land in a single notice
An advert mixed notice promises free WammERs WHITE Wine or Tan Syrurp best remedy for coughs colds throat and lung diseases to ministers lawyers doctors and teachers who refer friends and arrange dozen bottles through their druggist. It also touts Taylor’s Cherokees Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein and promotes the Gault House in Chicago with low rates and central location.
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Wammer
Holy Land
C. D. Warner
Chicago
Til
Gault House
Clinton and
Madison Streets
Union Depot
Hoyt & Gates
McDonald Drug Co
Washington St
N.Y
Chicago Ledger
J. Badger
Barker
Barker & Co
Lincoln
Grant
Sherman
Sheridan
Franklin Street
Idunezar Wasne, du Page Co
Illinois
France
Wiyne
Tus
All Haga
Walter A. Taylor
Atlanta
Orchids Named by Shakespearean Playful Ponder
A humorous note explores how William Shakespeare would have named his pet orchids. It playfully considers the clash between literary fame and botanical naming, imagining era appropriate titles for named plants.
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Shaespearr
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Charles A. Voqgeler CO
Balttrore. HT
Blys
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Allays
Travas Siftings
Bigelow
Zeras
Hall
Yeast
Sallie Rats Local Herald
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Asa Thompson
Logan
Apo
Cincinnati
Aver
Taylor
Samus Hastings
Mendota
Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Bufalo
New Orleans Picayune
Calicaya
Caswell, Hazard & Co
William Hall
WM. Hall
LLEN
Suring
Allens
J.N. Harris & Co, (Limited
Prop
Radway
Radhway
Rumsey Bros
Westl
Field
R.S
A. P. Lacry
Altorweys
Washington, D.C
Standard Silverware Co
Boston
Maas
ANIO
Salzer
T. FE. Chacheld
S65
1Th Avenue
Milwaukee
Wik
Athloproros CO
Wall &I
Oarras Roene
Lepage
Ivor
Allion II
London
Inc
Russia
Centnr Co
Gloucester
Mass
H. Douglass & Sons
Ward & CO
Louisiana
Slocum
Pearl St
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Ostalc Belt CO
Marshall
Michigan
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