Vast variety of 19th century curios and notes
The column surveys diverse items from the era including fast trains reaching thirty five miles per hour between Chicago and New York, a large peanut harvest valued at over two million dollars, pension figures for Queen Charlotte’s servants, a legal jab about a donkey in a slander case, and California’s unprecedented wheat export figures. It also reports on city status changes, a pole top mishap, satirical student humor about the sun distance, a lawyer’s mortifying anecdote in Boston, a near fatal morphine incident, Pennsylvania crop tallies, and a dramatic elopement aborted by sour mash drinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
New York
Perilous power of officers over private soldiers discussed
A historical critique on the enduring abuse in military relations noting officers may exploit dependents for menial tasks. It cites a court case where a kick was defended as moral reproof, outlines martial figures like Capt. Joe Peevy, and recounts a dramatic royal domestic conflict where Queen Theeba wields authority to detach from the king.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Texas
Joe Peevy
Arkansas
United States
New York
Confederacy
Indian Territory
Peevy
Oregon
Rheumatism Cured by St Jacobs Oil Report
Harrisburg journal cites Des Moines Tri Weekly Tribune noting D Bensinger of No 4 Market Square Harrisburg was cured of a violent rheumatism attack by St Jacobs Oil. Pain relief reportedly followed treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Tri. Weekly Tribune
Harrisburg
D. Bensinger
Market Square
St. Jacobs Oil
Ecstatic airs and a canary’s music lessons
Oliver Wendell Holmes contemplates art and taste through a humorous tale of piano players and singers who imitate canary fed demonstrations. He argues the mind behind the movement is the truer critic, not the outward theatrics of performers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. W. Holmes
St Jacobs Oil Promised Cure Featured in Ohio Paper
A Columbus Ohio Daily Times line proclaims there is no use groaning with rheumatism because a bottle of St Jacobs Oil will cure it a claim presented as common knowledge in the era of newspaper advertising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Jacobs Oil
Columbus
Ohio
Daily Times
Silent Heroes Graced By Marble, Marbled Graves
A reflective ode notes unnamed quiet workers and silent guardians who die without fanfare. It contrasts soldiers with peaceful laborers whose memory rests beneath laurel busts, marble piles, and flowering turf, as spring rolls over the sea-green waves.
A Chapter on Poisons and an Opium Case
A discussion on the nature of poisons traces ancient and modern views, then details opium as a prime example, its forms from China Turkey and Smyrna, and its medical use. It recounts symptoms, antidotes, and historic cases including the Castaing affair and a French trial. It notes other poisons like prussic acid and outlines sensational misuse in personal-crisis plots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Turkey
San Francisco
Smyrna
England
America
Edmund Castaing
France
Hyppolyte
August Bailet
Castaing
Auguste
Augusta
Poisons and their deadly effects across plants and animals
The article surveys prussic acid killings and other poisons, detailing how substances from laurel water to strychnine, curare, upas, and cyanide act on the heart or nerves. It notes quick deaths in animals, dangerous plants across tropical regions, and historic poisoning cases. It also mentions venomous reptiles, poisonous fish like the mussel and yellow-billed sprat, and bees affected by laurel in honey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodosius Boughton
Price
Guilford
Cuba
Java
South America
Guiana
Amazon
Orinoco
Caraccas
Esmeralds
Madagascar
Africa
Algiers
West Indies
England
Leith
Toed Poison Rumors Stir Historic Debates In England
The New York Dispatch notes conflicting views on deadly toad venom with mentions that King John of England was once thought poisoned by water contaminated by a living toad. The piece reflects a blend of superstition and evolving medical belief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
England
New York Dispatch
Folger Family Origins and Notable Traits in Nantucket
The Folger lineage from England to Nantucket is traced, highlighting Peter Folger and Abiah Franklin, with notes on Walter Folger’s mathematical and navigational skills. Observers praise Ingenuity, Industry, Temperance, and moral duties across generations, remarking on Rev. Franklin links and Charles Folger’s finance aptitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles J. Folger
Orange Street
Nantucket
New England
John Folger
England
Norwich
Norfolk
Peter
Mary Moriel
Mary
Abiah
Benjamin Franklin
Fleaser
Sarah Gardner
Nathan
Eleager
Sarah
Sarah Church
Barzillai
Phebe Coleman
Walter
Phebe
Elizabeth Starbuck
Franklin
Folger
Walter Folgerod
Chice
Herschel
Court of Common Pleas
Treasury Department
Albany
N. Y
Parson Visits Bedridden Aunt Sukey in Texas Sittings
Parson Blesdo of the Austin Blue Light Tabernacle visited a bedbound Aunt Sukey last week. He urged joy as she neared death, but Sukey retorted she would rather stay where she is, sending him away in anger as she claimed she would not ascend to the golden stairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kine Toersay
Burmah
Theebaw
Napoleon
Kan-Pat Menghee
Theeban
Parson Blesdo
Austin Blue Light Tabernacle
Sukey
Yale
Blesdo
Texas
Louis the Solitary Bavarian King Shuns Publicity
The young Bavarian king nicknamed Louis the Solitary avoids publicity, preferring nights for railway travel to escape observation and attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis
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George Til
California
Evurera Spainxes
Ark
Meriden
Boston Journal of Education
Durant
Boston Paper
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Board of Agriculture
Louisville
Indiana
Gey
Luxaman
Kennedy
Wall Street
Quincy
C. W. Holmes
Shfe
Honor
Glory
Calla
Epring Rolla
Valor
Love
Trenanny
Louis the Solitary
J. N. Harris & Go., Proprietors
Cincinnati
Holman’s Pad
Mediciness
Holman
HOLMA
Holman Pad Company
Holman Pad CO
Broadway
Adina Day Bronson
Botrolt
Ds. J. Stephens
Lebanon
Obie
Johnson & CO
Boston
Masts
Bangor
Frazer
Bnett
Frasers
Nold Roy
Iowa R. R. Land Co
Cedar Rapids
Wanner
Wanner & CO
van Schaack, Stevenson & CO
Northwestern
Tara
Halle
Mans
Anyont
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