Sunflower theory and curious feats in a busy page
The item catalog notes claims that sunflowers reduce malaria in swamps and at the Scheldt, plus a barber who shaved a sleeping customer with eyes closed. It also highlights Dr Thomas Salpy French’s linguistic prowess in Lahore and a New England railroad manager urging better lighting to protect eyes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Salpy French
Lahore
Punjab
India
French
New England Railroad
Beaton Road
Sonoma Fishers Use Noisy Method To Net Saltwater Carp
Our readers describe a Sonoma method where people gather at the embarkadero at high tide to create loud noise with sticks to herd fish into creek holes. After tide runs out, men and boys spear, pitchfork, and club carp, some weighing up to three pounds, previously escaped from Poppe's pond near Glen Ellen and now thriving in brackish water.
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Sonoma
Embarkadero
Poppe
Glen Ellen
Iron and steel substitution for wood spreads in Europe
In France and England the shift from wood to iron and steel in making common goods grows. Hollow iron window frames and doors are praised for lightness and durability. Corrugated iron barrels may replace wooden containers for liquids. Steel gains in carriage production though furniture still faces prejudice.
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France
England
Three Arrest Types in Russia Drawn by Recent Writer
A recent writer outlines three arrest types in Russia aimed at terror, extracting confessions through torture, and detaining political suspects in extended solitary confinement. He notes slow justice, extensive police power, underground service, and the absence of law for the subject, risking insanity or death before guilt is proven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
The Chair That Was Just Right After Three Trials
A Nashville furniture dealer shares a tale of a discerning woman who rejects a chair until after three revisits it becomes just right. The story highlights customer perception and a subtle misdirection in her insistence on comfort. Sam W. Sway of Atlanta is described in detail as a pale, bespectacled evangelist with a Southward air and a background linked to dissipation and Rob Ingersoll.
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Nashville
Sam W. Sway
Atlanta
Evangelist
South
Sam Jones
Rob Ingersoll
Enigmatic Verse Fragments From a Fragmented Text
A cryptic line portrays ivy and misery entwining with human happiness. It references Feliciy as not bound by earthly oaths and mentions gardens named skiesurton, suggesting a surreal, poetic reflection on fate and nature.
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Feliciy
Urton
Care of the Teeth Practice and dentifrice guidance
The article outlines strict tooth care emphasizing postmeal cleaning with wooden toothpicks, avoiding pins, and using a medium stiff brush with lukewarm water and pure Castile soap. It recommends brushing up and down, inner and outer surfaces, cautioning against hard brushing, and suggests powders like powdered charcoal or burner bread only if finely pulverized. It also covers rinsing, myrrh tincture for gums, salt and cream of tartar mix for whitening, and optional myrrh for inflammation or after extractions.
The Man With Baby Defends Stranger On Train
A baby on a train near Bloomington provokes a heated scene as a benevolent man, caring for the infant, faces a hostile passenger. The stranger reveals the child is not his and reacts when taunted, then confronts the aggressor with force.
Baby救ed by mother as big prizefighter calms crash scene
An incident aboard a car ends with a baby rescued by the mother who returns to calm the infant in seconds, while a large prizefighter and a stern passenger react, the man reddening with embarrassment as others settle into seats.
How Cigars Are Sold in Russia
A Russian tobacco system makes buyers purchase a full box to inspect cigars or cigarettes behind glass lids. Boxes show the article but cannot be opened until sealed, with a dealer providing exact quantities. Most cigars are poor and prices high, a relic of czarist tax guards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Ivan the Terrible
Peter the Great
Lewisville Courier-Journal
Seine
Persian Mosques: Interior Design and Decoration
The article describes Persian mosques with a central courtyard, water vessels, and ablution tanks. It notes domed roofs in even modest structures, extensive tilework, blue and white porcelain-like exteriors, and grand interiors with long inscriptions and high relief tiles, once looted for their gilded inscriptions.
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Persia
Battle Incident and a Daring Rally at Dusk
A Civil War battle excerpt shows Major Livingston of the Seventy sixth New York ordering a retreat to become an advance. Confusion in brush and dusk leads to him rallying troops with a sword gesture, only to be mistaken for attempting to rally the Second Mississippi by a passing officer.
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New York
Livingston
Currant
Major Livingston
Seventy-sixth What
Seventy-sixth
San Francisco
Music in Man and Bird Echoes of Song Across Species
Naturalists compare bird song with human music and note a shared love of sound. Maurice Thompson cites Dr. Coues on humans and birds both singing, contrasting rhythms in bird melodies with human rhythmic beat and praising color, phrasing, and cadence in birds like the mockingbird and thrush.
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Maurice Thompson
Scribner’s Magazine
Coues
Georgia Campaign Tales of Giants and Flags
A Mill edgeville Union item recalls 1844 Georgia politics with William Skinner of Richmond County famed as the tallest man in the state. It details a Madison mass meeting by the Whigs and a parallel Macon gathering by Polk Democrats. John Gaston of Meriwether, taller than Skinner, bore a poke stalk in the street procession and later served in the Legislature.
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William Skinner
Richmond County
Madison
Richmond
Skinner
Clay
Georgia
Polk
Polk Democrats
Macon
Meriwether County
John Gaston
Big Bill Skinner
Grand Street
Meriwether
Milledgeville
Isaac Newell
Frightened by Tigers Ends Safe in Tree Bag
A plant-collector armed with a knife and a large baghut concealed in a tree to escape two fighting tigers. The tigers spotted the bag and its contents. He cut the bag rope to drop down and fled, while the tigers fled in fright. He stayed hidden for a half hour before leaving for home.
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Tigers
Bilavia Nieuwsblad
Harsh fashions and historic torture of laced waists
A memoir excerpt describes girls at school wearing steel stays and tight lacing, with busks and chin rods forcing posture. It recalls back boards, iron collars, and hanging by the neck to stretch muscles, noting such mistreatment was common before modern reforms.
Regular fire-eater Nathan astonishes Denton crowds
A Denton legend Nathan, famed for fire eating, demonstrated dangerous feats from hot coals and molten lead to bare footed stunts on stoves. He earned money at live shows, theater engagements, and public events in Centerville, Church Hill, Easton, Hillsboro, Greensboro, and nearby towns, while skeptics doubted his lack of protective measures.
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Baltimore American
Denton
Nathan
Purnell
Fred Lawrence
Lawrence
Easton
Judge Stump
Centerville
Church Hill
Hillsboro
Cireensboro
Vront Street Theater
Baltimore
Douglas Institute
Turned Wo'm Sary Jane Defies Bill Jasper in Farm Deed Fight
A Detroit Free Press excerpt describes Sary Jane Jasper resisting her husband Bill Jasper as he pushes her to sign away ten acres of land. She demands a third of the money before signing and warns of consequences, then leaves with plans to take half of him and return to her father. The piece includes a note about Jupiter's great red spot and a remark by English astronomer W F Denning on its origin.
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Bill
Sary
Jane
Mel
Bill Jasper
Lary Jane
Jane Jasper
Sary Jane
Buck
Billy
Detroit Free Press
Jupiter
W. F. Denning
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the Register
New Harmony, Indiana
Potomac
Scheldt
Holland
London
William Burgess
Midland Counties
E. P. Barney
Utica Observer
Bloomington
Hugh
Corry
Fred H. Carruth
Maryland
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