Origin of Salt From Oceans and Ancient Seafloor
The article explains that all salt originates from the sea, tracing salt, minerals, and rock deposits to the ancient oceans. It notes evaporation forming gypsum and salt beds, limestone and other sediments, and references Canadian springs and Cheshire brine wells. It also cites a 19th century New England law requiring water bays on passenger trains.
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Cornhill Magazine
Science
Punjab
Cheshire
England
Mediterranean
Canada
America
Dick Swiveller
Indian Fairy Tale Satire Of A Dwarf Hero
A San Francisco Ingleside excerpt critiques an aboriginal American fairy tale about a dwarf who slays wrens to gain a feather coat. The sun is captured by a hair rope but freed by a dormouse, exposing the dwarf’s vanity and mock heroism in a tone that blends humor with cultural caricature.
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High Dudgeon
San Francisco Ingleside
Water Boy Through Passengers in Connecticut Remembrance
A wartime survivor recalls the water boy who rode passenger trains in Connecticut with a pail of water and a tray of tumblers offering free drinks. He notes thousands of sick and wounded soldiers passed through during the rebellion era.
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Theassenger
Connecticut
Great Salt Lake a leftover lake system not sea
American geologists describe Great Salt Lake as the shrinking remnant of Lake Bonneville and Lake Lahontan, ancient fresh water seas that once filled a vast valley near the Rocky Mountains. As rainfall varied, these lakes contracted and left terraces along the Wahsatch range, now forming the salt crust around Mormon City.
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Great Salt Lake
St. Lawrence Chain
Lake Bonneville
Rocky Mountains
Superior
Lake Lahontan
Lake Gonneilie
Wahsatch Mountains
Mormon City
Bonneville
Geikie
Great
Cornhill Magazine
Cartwright’s Chicago tale charms Spooner at Grand Pacific
Senator Spooner, famed for a wide circle of friends in Chicago, recalls Peter Cartwright’s woods revival tale about Noah and the Universalists. The anecdote, told at the Grand Pacific, underscores Cartwright’s appeal and humor as a clincher with backwoods audiences.
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United States Senate
Chicago
Senator Spooner
Wisconsin
Grand Pacific
Cartwright
Boston
Universalists
Noah
Mount
Ararat
Heaven
Earth
Chicago Tribune
A Hardworking Teacher
A Stockton Maverick humorous quip depicts Miss McSwelter as the hardest working teacher praised by a boy for diligence while a joke about her learning underscores her devotion and perseverance in the classroom.
A Painless Operation Joke From The Dentist Chair
A comic exchange in the New York Times features a patient asking about pain during tooth extraction. The dentist jokes that it won’t hurt the patient if the nerve is already gone, noting that nerves cause the pain.
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New York Times
Drummond on Soil Tillage by Worms and Termites
Prof Henry Drummond argues for thorough agriculture as essential for crop succession. Darwin notes English soil turnover by earthworms moving ten tons of dry earth per acre yearly, while in tropical soils termites become the primary fixtures, bringing soil to the surface but to mankind’s detriment.
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Henry Drummond
Darwin
England
Drummond
The Two Colts Moral Tale and Odd Juxtapositions
A three year old religious prodigy tells a parable about two colts and their owners. One owner has a God and his colt thrives. the other lacks faith and the colt starves, a contrast the Boston Record notes with a child's humorous button wish. A later snippet offers a dire warning about insomnia and a cure touting Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for digestion and sleep.
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Boston
Oston
Commerce on the court steps and a judge praised
Lawyers chat on the courthouse steps about Judge Blank calling him the best on the bench and perfectly honest. A merchant joins, questions arise, and he walks away in silence. The Boston Traveler notes ill luck in some, while medical ads tout cures and remedies from Buffalo to Chicago.
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Court House
Blank
Favorite Prescription and Dr Pierce Address Female Weaknesses
Dr R V Pierce of Buffalo famed for Golden Medical Discovery offers Favorite Prescription a remedy claimed to strengthen pelvic organs and restore health and beauty in women. Also a brief note on Barnum and Jumbo compared to public perception.
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R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Worm Remedies
An old advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a tonic and liver purifier for coughs and consumption early stages. It also promotes Dr Walker's California Vinegar Bitters for expelling worms in children and purifying the stomach, noting parasite-related health harms in youths.
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Dr. Pierce
As the Crow Flies and Twenty Four Hours to Live
A travel note extols the Danville Route to Florida via a new Ohio River bridge near Evansville and Nashville access with Palace Sleeping Cars. A reader from Lafayette claims recovery from consumption after nine bottles of Dr Wal Halls Balsam for the lungs, despite doctors predicting twenty four hours to live.
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Florida
Danville
Chicago
New Orleans
Jacksonville
Ohio River
Evansville
Nashville
Palace
William Hill
A. Story
John Kuhn
Lafayette
Ind
DR. Wal. Halls Bas Sam
The Great German Physician Dr Peter W Schmidt
The text profiles Dr Peter W Schmidt called Dr Pete who treats patients without asking questions and claims phenomenal success. It touts Golden Seal Bitters and Lars Food for Consumption, selling thousands of bottles and saving thousands of invalids. Send to Golden Seal Bitters Company in Holland City Michigan for Facts for the Million free.
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Peter W. Schmidt
Pete
Lars
Golden Seal Bitters Company
Holland City
Mich
Gault House Ad and Medical Tonics Parade in Ad Copy
An assortment of promotional blurbs notes first class accommodations at the Gault House Chicago for 2 to 2 50 per day and location near Union Depot. It then touts Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh hay fever and cold in head with testimonials and price 50 cents, plus Caswell Hazard Ferro-Phosphoruated Elixir of Can s aya as a tonic for indigestion and fever prevention and a Lyon's Heel Stiffeners pitch touting comfort value.
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Gault House
Chicago
Clinton and
Madison Streets
Union Depot
Hout & Gates
Ely
Ely Hros
Owego
N.Y
Caswell, Hazard & Co
New York
Sfacer
Dwight
America
New Orleans
Royal Society of Burland
Galbraith Bros
Fanesville
Wis
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World's Dispensary Medical Association
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Revere, Mass
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Buckingham
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Washington, DC
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Wowaninay County
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Mass
Agair
RH. McDonald Drug Co
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Novelty Wheel Co
Congress St
Duston
GO Ink Regeipys
Painesville
Ohio
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Balbany
Berhis
Parser Review
Louisville and Jeffersonville Ferry Co
J. C. Dorsey
Wall St
Jeffersonville
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Ar Soup
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Frank Elin Street
Ill
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John A. Salzer
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Spencer's Alligator Press
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Australia
Taylors
Walter A. Taylor
Atlanta
Pizo
Isaac Thompson
James A. Perry
France
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Wilmington
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Iowa
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