Harmony Among Animals and The Dream of Universal Peace
Essay on human influence over animals and the imagined future where lower orders live in harmony. It explores tame animals, wild beasts, and ethical coexistence, imagining embassies with Asia and Africa and a world where foxes graze with geese and dogs refrain from harming cats. It ends with a hunting anecdote from London Lounge and a vivid kangaroo encounter.
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M. Dinel
Asnicres
Spangles
Gautier
Hhis Covert
Asia
Africa
India
Lonidion Luchange
Kangaroo Hunt Through Australian Bush Chase Ends in Standstill
An narrator recalls riding ahead of pack dogs chasing a giant kangaroo and a fierce old man who leaped fences and a watercourse. The chase passes Wallerton Glentworth and Cameron as the man confronts the hounds, delivering brutal strikes before a final standoff.
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Wallerton
Glentworth
Cameron
Billy
Many Ways of Eating
A Journal of Recontructives essay extols natural appetite and warns against overeating and irregular meal times. It argues digestion depends on proper food and timing, condemns mid day snacking and hunger headaches as alarms of physical weakness, and urges meals at regular intervals for health and vigor.
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Journal of Reconstructives
Lord Lyons the Drinker Who Kept His Head
Paris Letter recalls Lord Lyons fondness for wine yet abstinence in practice. He spent hours at his desk, writing with a delicate Italianate hand. Social calls fatigued him but he never yawned in company, his eyes twinkling as he resisted scandal.
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Lord Lyons
Paris
Virtue and vice in society and a Hashish Club note
The piece contrasts virtue with immoral women and cites Ella Wheeler Wilcox on reputation. It then reports on a Paris Hashish Club on Rue St. Michel where members self-dose under medical and chemist supervision, sharing sensations as the drug takes effect. It closes with a wry line on gendered perception.
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Ella Wheeler
Wilcox
Rue St. Michel
Ancient Cure for Epilepsy and Neolithic Practices
The article traces historical epilepsy treatments from Kabyle rituals to South Sea island methods. It notes sacred iron instruments, priestly status of operators, and dressings of milk and butter. It cites neolithic roots, trephining, cranial amulets, and uses of human skull in Europe and Gaul burial finds, linking superstition to medical history.
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Kabyles
South Sea Islands
South Sea
Fletcher
Europe
Broca
Taxil
New York Editor in Training Draws Shocking Language
A scene on a sidewalk ends with a boy praising his future editor status as the old man is stunned by the lad's vile tirade. The mother notes Willie is being raised to be a New York editor, prompting the man to demand the mother explain the sailor language. The joke ends with the boy asked to write another editorial.
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Willie
New York
Chirago Tribune
In the Future. Mr Politician Addresses Convict Rally
A World editorial notes a convict yard rally where a self-styled reformer promises rights and voting access to inmates. He boasts of relatives jailed or hanged, praises “heroes” in the crowd, and ends with a call for three cheers for himself and running mates as the election nears.
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Penitentiary Yard
Minks
Omaha
A Shrew Speculator Witters In A South Boom
An Omaha man jokes about a booming South real estate market as city lots sell quickly and an old forecast of immigration centers on tariff removal. A muddled exchange about Mrs Fangle and a homeopathic claim completes the fragmentary overheard dialogue with a tax remark noted.
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Omaha
South
New Writing and Speaking Machines Attract Attention
Two early devices impress readers with pending public debut. The graphophone aims to serve as an Imanuensis with a West Virginia corporation and Gardiner G. Hubbard as director. Professor Elisha Gray's telantograph promises precise telegraphic transmission of handwriting and pictures, a boon for business and banking.
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West Virginia
Gardiner G. Hubbard
Elisha Gray
Coal and Coke. New Christmas edition offered by Curcaco line
The article advertises a lavish Christmas and New Year publication titled Coal and Coke, part of the Ruck Island Series. It promotes Watt Stephens and Voltagal works, and presents Coal and Coke as a comprehensive guide on coal strata deposits underground mining, processing coal into cake, and related topics with extensive illustrations. E A Holbrook offers copies prepaid by mail from Chicago for ten cents plus ten cents postage, worldwide.
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Isss
Phoasants
Aml
Hook Island
Tampa
E A. Holbrook
Chicago
Til
Cheap Southern Farming Lands and Travel Offers
The notice promotes cheap farming lands in the South including duchvon Tennessee Aberdeen Jack gor Pravissippi Hammond Crowley dennings Welsh Lake Charles Lou island and advertises round trip tickets to New Orleans dennings and Lake Charles valid through June 1 with stopovers south of Cairo Illinois. It urges readers to obtain the Southern Home Seeker's Guide and related circulars from J.P. Merny Manchester Town. It also mentions a physician’s cure claim for catarrh with a shameless solicitation for a stamped envelope to Prof J A Lawrence New York for a parvina fran of vshayers.
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America
Duchvon
Tennessee
Aberdeen
Jackgor
Pravissippi
Hammond
Crowley
Dennings
Welsh
Lake Charles
Louisland
Cairo
Illinois
New Orleans
Peavert
Illinois Central Railroad
Chicago
St. Louis
Southern Home Seeker's Guide
Manchester
Town
J.P. Merny
Gen. West
Pass
Apt
Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets Advertised
Readers are urged to ask anyone who used Dr Pierce’s Pellets about their benefits. Testimonials claim removal of pimples and eruptions, relief from constipation, restored appetite, and a repiped system. The text stresses vegetable ingredients, harmlessness, and powerful cleansing effects, noting availability at all druggists.
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Pierce
Chemical Laboratory
Womip's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
N.Y
Popular Wisconsin Central Line Gains Public Favor
The Wisconsin Central Line emerges as a popular and fast growing railroad in the Northwest. Trains run solid between Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Minneapolis with Pullman dining cars and unequalled service. Sleek sleepers travel between Chicago Ashland Duluth and mining regions of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan.
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Northwest
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Ashland
Duluth
Wisconsin
Michigan
Steling Piles and Swayne's Ointment Claim Cure
The notice describes moist itching and stinging piles worsened at night with scratching. It claims tumors form that bleed and ulcerate, and that Swayne's Ointment stops itching and bleeding, heals ulceration, and removes tumors. Sold by Dr. Swayne and Ben in Philadelphia or by mail.
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Swayne
Swayne & Ben
Philadelphia
Walltaris Sug. CO
Cleveland
Isaac Thompson
John I. Thompson
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