Old-Fashioned Fishing Echoes of Youths Past in Memory
A first person reminiscence contrasts boyhood fishing with adult treks, recalling personal gear, makeshift lines, and secretive hooks. The piece blends humorous dangers and ballad-like vignettes about river expeditions, home-made gear, and the thrill of a nibble. It also touches on opals described with prices and museum value, illustrating two disparate, vivid topics within a single column.
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Roaring River
Hendrick Hudson
de Soto
Mother
Tiele
Lake Erie
Detroit Free Press
Opal Legend Through Ages From Nebuchadnezzar to Richard I
The opal has long stood in superstition as a sacred gem. Ancient tales place an opal guarding Moses as penance nears release. Kings like Richard the Lionheart trusted the stone in crusades and battles, believing it granted divine favor and victories.
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Imperial Museum
Nebuchadnezzar
Mt. Lebanon
Moses
Marah
Richard
England
Coeur de Leon
Saladin
Seige
Chanlus
Limoges
Bethought
The Sailing Boat Plot at Night in South Boston
A group of South Boston youths planned a nighttime launch of a small yacht they could not own. The craft drifted to a different dock, sparing them arrest, as a Hebrew father offered to sacrifice house and more to avoid disgrace over the incident.
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South Boston
Dot
Boston
Ameri
Tacelyft
Camplea
Anen
Addrens, Sumcon & CO
Tortland
Maine
Chicago the Ideal City quoted in Globe-Democrat critique
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat cites a Chicago themed critique arguing urban modernity erases ancestral ghosts. It contrasts Western restlessness with Asia and Europe, praising Chicago as an ideal city built to be burned every fifty years to rid ghosts.
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Tife
China
Asia
Europe
Hawthorne
Rome
Chicago
St. Louis
Globe--Democrat
High Notes: Man buys high piece of sheet music
In Teras Siftings a countryman enters a music store and asks for a son’s music. The clerk offers a fifty cent sheet, but the father insists on a higher piece. He retrieves an operatic selection that proves difficult and pays the price, feeling his son will progress.
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Teras
The Floods of Books Germany as World Leader in 1887
The New York Independent notes Germany remains the world’s great book producer. In 1887 German publishers issued 16,972 publications, up 689 from 1886 and rising across departments such as Pedagogics, theology, belles lettres, law, medicine, natural sciences, popular writings, economics, history, fine art, languages, juvenile literature, military science, geography, mathematics, and philosophy.
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Germany
New York Independent
Married Happiness and Bermingham Confidences
A dialog notes marital happiness as Mrs Brigham describes mutual devotion and her husband’s trust in her judgement. A Fleming New Jersey hermit died, believing pebbles to be gold, trading with townspeople for provisions in exchange for his pebbles. An oak tree felled in Pike County Missouri yielded 43 fence posts and nine cords of wood.
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Fleming, N. J
Pike County
Canton Chinese Bank Visit Shows Foreign Currency Trade
A Canton street visit reveals a Chinese bank with fast paced tellers in pigtails and blue gowns, handling Mexican dollars and Hong Kong Shanghai notes. The writer notes heavy coinage, rough notes, and counterfeiting craft as pewter cores and led replacement drive down value, criticizing clumsy foreign currency.
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Canton
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
England
Mitkiewicz
Hank
What a Modest Girl Never Does
A list of social prohibitions for a modest woman detailing behaviors to avoid. It covers accepting gifts from a gentleman, looking back on the street, dining with a gentleman post theater, inviting intimate male company on the street, exposing monograms, accepting streetcar seats, maintaining ballroom engagements, drinking patterns, snubbing other women, public idleness, staring with a lorgnette, wearing striking clothes, and speaking ill of her mother.
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Jia
Marion Harland Endorses Allcock Porous Plaster
The author praises Allcock's Porous Plaster in Eve's Daughters noting its comfort and tonic qualities. She advises wearing it over the back for several days or a fortnight in obstinate cases and renewing as it wears off for continuous support when back pain persists.
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America
Eve
A Failing Mind
A bon mot from Puck notes Mr. Hoffman and Mr. Rockaway Beach debating a friend's mental decline. They joke about careless habits and a sighting on the avenue where the friend is seen without gaiters, highlighting social commentary with wit.
Vanished bal loon toy puzzles Myra in Detroit
A short note reports Myra’s new bal loon vanished after striking it against a stove. She searches under the stove and asks Where's the pop gone as she investigates the missing toy in the Detroit Free Press excerpt. The column then mentions ivory substitutes from potatoes and a Berlin police seizure of a German translation of La Terre for indecency, followed by a quip about omens and a charity box.
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Myra
Detroit Free Press
Zolua
Berlin
Corrosive Sublimate Antiseptic Formula Described
The text explains that corrosive sublimate mercury solution must be acidified to be effective. It recommends a formula of one part sublimate to 1000 parts water plus five parts acid such as hydrochloric, carbolic, or tartaric. Benefits include no sublimate deposit, better albuminous fluid handling, and enhanced disinfecting power, allowing weaker solutions.
Campaign Opening Against Malaria and Exposition News
The piece urges rapid action against malaria with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a preventive and remedy, touting its efficacy for various ailments and urging residents and travelers to use it. It also describes a Mexico tunnel scheme to reach sulphur deposits, a home remedy for damaged skin, and reads a Dante quotation about consumption with promotion of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It reviews the Centennial Exposition opening in Cincinnati, highlighting government funding, Smithsonian displays, and vast exhibition space and national significance.
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Hostetter
Mexico
Popocatapetl
Amecameca
Morelos
Dante
Dr. Pierce
Cincinnati
Northwest Territory
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Contagious Catarrh Remedies Promoted for Home Use
An old advertisement claims catarrh, catarrhal deafness and fever are caused by living parasites and introduces a home remedy with 1 to 3 applications. It offers a free pamphlet via A H Dixon & Son of Toronto upon stamp request. Also promotes Lenouveauil for skin aging and a hair tonic from B Wells, Jersey City, priced $1.
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Thes
A. H. Dixon & Son
West King Street
Toronto
Canada
Wells
Jersey City
Chicago
G.H
Noratam
M. D
Amsterdam
D. R. Dyche £ CO
Chicags
Deuggista
Chautauqua Lake Excursion Guide From Chicago Rail Lines
Guide advertises routes and excursion ticket rates to Niagara Falls St Lawrence River and New England via Chicago and Atlantic and Erie Railways. Through Pullman sleeping cars on all through trains to New York and New England via Chautauqua. Solid trains to New York. Ticket office 105 Clark Street Chicago. W H Hurtaunt General Western Passenger Agent Erie Railway Chicago.
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Chautauqua Lake
Niagara Falls
St. Lawrence River
New England
Chicago and Atlantic and
Erie Railways
New York
Chautauqua
Clark Street
Chicago
W. H. Hurtaunt
General Western
Erie Railway
Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription praised for women
The text extols Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription as a health and beauty aid for women, promising satisfaction or money back, and notes its bottle wrapper guarantee. It also promotes Scott's Emulsion for throat and lung diseases and includes various quotations and a Kentucky River remark.
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Tennyson
Dr. Pierce
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M. Quad
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the Quick and the Dead
New York York
Philadelphia
New York Star
Dr. Sage
Sage
Express
Ohio Valley
Northwestern Territory
Capenon
Mint
Scott
Connewy, M. D
Manchester
Moxie
Kentucky
Winter
Spring
Howers
Puck
Hood
Lowell
Mags
Rhenm
H. M. Milus
French St
Maes
C.I. Hood & CO
Pettit
7Kuk & CO
Augusta
Moody's
Moody & CO
Rochester
N.Y
Radway
Addison
Warner
Peter
Gill's School of Eclectic
Opera House
Bryant
DestNess College
Buffalo
Wists. Glee CO
N. State St
Hil
Sohnson & CO
Main St
Richmond
Lothers
Areptieg
Sanpio
Taor
Schiff
EMORY
Baltimore
Detroit
Beaton
Columbia Law
Yale
Wellesley
Oberlin
University of Penn
Michigan University
Ichard Proctor
W.w.astor
Jupah FL. Benjamin
Gieson
Oyey
Mrdeniy
Tha Chamfeal Ge
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