Cambojia in Bygone Centuries A Civilized Yet Faithful Land
The piece portrays Cambojia as a flourishing historical kingdom known for advanced civilization, its people preserving language, dress, and customs under vassalage since 1820. It describes Buddhist worship, ornate temples, home interiors, and a simple private life, contrasting with Western fashion and modernization. The essay also notes imperial and religious devotion, with households centered on temples and altar rites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambojia
Siam
Cochin China
Benneath
Arule
Jesus
Illustrated Christian Weekly
Indian Death Customs Across North American Tribes
The article outlines seven burial methods among tribes including ground interment, embalming, urn deposits, surface burial in trees or cairns, cremation, aerial sepulture, and aquatic or canoe burial. It cites Mohawks in New York and Carolinas’ reed coffins, ossuaries, Yumanas bent burial, Peruvian sitting posture, and Winnebago westward graves with head eastward as guiding beliefs.
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New York
Schoolcraft
Carolinas
South America
Tyler
North America
Soothing a Horse by Song and the Swabian Tower Tale
A hymn loving preacher once calmed a horse by singing while a Southern Indiana circuit decamped from grace. In a nearby Gothic church tower at Innspruck, bells bear names and a wine bell rang at 10 pm to fetch drinkers home. The tower hosts an Ulmerspatz sparrow figure and the famous nine hour pipe.
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M. C
Indiana
Detroit Free Press
Erwin
Strasburg
Swabian
Alps
Maximilian
Innspruck
Her Majesty’s
St. Catherne’s Docks
Tubingen
Notable Cassatt story linked to racing stable owner
An elder railroader recalls A. J. Cassatt once riding a train line between New York and Philadelphia and later taking a locomotive with Jim Sanford at Jersey City. The tale involves Cassatt in retirement as Kelso, proprietor of a racing stable, reflecting on fast running.
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Philadelphia
Menlo Park
Jim
Cassatt
Jim Sanford
A. J. Cassatt
Chicago Herald
A. J. Cassett
Pennsylvania Road
Mr. Kelso
Weill
New York
Jersey City
A Cheap Lightning Rod And Pithy Miscellany
A column notes a cheap lightning rod method using galvanized barb wire, grounding via wells and moist earth, with a caveat to improve grounding. Also mentions editor's approval and a commentary about common sense in a pulpit, plus a French calorimeter measuring heat from cold-blooded animals and a remark about sarcasm in education.
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Boston Transcript
Athlophoros claims cure for rheumatism and neuralgia
The advertisement extols Athlophoros as a certain cure for rheumatism neuralgia and nervous headache promising safety and success if bowels are kept open. Athlophoros Pills are recommended as a cathartic aid and to treat related conditions including nervous debility blood poisoning dyspepsia and digestive troubles. The firm offers both products via druggists or by mail from Athlophoros Co New York at one dollar per bottle and fifty cents for pills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athlophoros Co
Wall St
New York
Forehead Shapes Linked to Character and Mind
Article from Philadelphia News outlines how forehead size and shape reflect intellect, imagination, willpower, and temperament. It describes retreating, high, and knotty foreheads with associated traits, noting poetic and sensitive individuals may show a blue vein forming the letter Y.
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Philadelphia News
Impurities in Metals Altar Properties in Odd Ways
In a lecture, W C Roberts Austen noted minute impurities alter metal behavior. Copper's purity affects ocean telegraphy, tin loses its cry when purified, and arsenic makes lead flow into small shot. Gold softens with silica, lead in gold weakens its breaking strain. Palladium absorbs hydrogen. rhodium lead alloy can absorb nitrogen and oxygen and release them violently as gun-cotton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Roberts-Austen
British Mint
Bridges Through the Ages and a Rochester Offer
The piece traces wooden and stone bridges from Rome 500 B C to Trajan and a Chinese chain bridge built A D 65, noting the Severn iron bridge of 1777 and railway impact. It then advertises 150 cloth bound volumes from Rochester Rural Home for $1 with a sample list of titles and authors.
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Rome
Julius Casar
Rhine
Danube
Tiber
Kirchen
Severn
Rochester
N. Y
Grand Union Hotel Promises Value in NYC Transit Era
Important guidance for travelers visiting or leaving New York City advises saving baggage and expressage, paying $3 carriage hire, and stopping at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot. The hotel offers 6138 rooms costing about one million dollars to fit out, with daily rates from $1 and up. It features European style elevators, a restaurant, horsedrawn cars, stages, and elevated railroad access to all depots. Families can live better for less money here than at any other first class city hotel.
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New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Sunflowers as Fuel Source in Dakota Practice
The writer describes growing one acre of sunflowers annually for stove fuel. They plant in hills, harvest when the leader ripens, dry stalks for fuel, and use seed heads and oil rich seeds for fire. Sunflowers are noted as land intensive but highly productive, used for heating in Dakota and historically in Russia and Tartary.
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Great Steppes
Prairie
Russia
Tartary
Dakota
The Liver and a Bitters Cure All Ages
The article extols the liver as the body's largest secreting organ and lauds Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a long trusted remedy. It claims cures for fever and ague dyspepsia bowel complaints rheumatic and kidney conditions and loss of nervous vigor while guarding against malaria. It emphasizes the healing power of human love and likens the heart to a musical instrument needing harmony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hostetter
Remarkable Escapes and Medical Patents in Advertisements
An assortment of sensational claims and testimonials flood the page. A Lafayette man recalls a near fatal consumption scare cured by Dr. Williams Hall’s Balsam for the Lungs. Also pitched are tonics, hair renewers, ague cures, and a thirty day trial offer from Vouraic Beer Co for nervous debility and vitality, with illustrated pamphlets mailed free.
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John Kuhn
Lafayette
Ind
WM. Hall
Tae Vouraic Ber Co
Marshall, Mich
Wells' Health Renewer Life Preserver Ad
An advertisement claims Wells Health Renewer to restore grip on life by targeting weak spots. It touts as a great appetizer and digestion aid, strengthening stomach liver kidneys and bowels.
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute advert
An advertisement from Buffalo New York promotes the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute with a full staff of eighteen physicians for chronic diseases including nasal and lung disorders liver kidney and digestive diseases women’s ailments and other conditions. It guarantees cure for ruptures piles varicocele hydroscele and strictures with brief residence and offers an Invalids' Guide-Book for 10 cents. Also mentions Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a women’s specific.
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Buffalo
N. Y
America
World's Dispensary Medical Association
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Ulm Cathedral
New England Farmer
Philosophy of the
Danelaon
C. R Parsons
2C Rural Home Co. Ltd
Dr. Pierce
Ayer
Mr. Sinnick
Hall
Burnong
Gault House
Chicago
Clinton and
Madison Streets
Union Depot
Oxr & Gates
Lyon
Jones
Smith
Simmons
J. H. Zeilin & CO
Prorgrerors
R Perry Davis
Hein Holder
Holly
Froce
Ewes
Charlestown
Mass
St Huine
Hones
Iam Humane
Itzagpy Company
Indl
Swedish Insect Powder Co
Pittsburg
Inuman
Elbel & CO
Canton
Hasley
Madison
Ark
John Oopbu
Vou Tsa
Ae PN
W. 13Th
Mas. A. P
CaLpwr
Orantville
Iowa
Mas.a. A
Corey
Lansing
Mich
Brown
Brown Chemical CO
Baltimore
F & RS
A. P. Lacey
Washington, D.C
SIOOO
Conewark — Men
DAY, Machine CO
Columbus
Bre House
Hagerstown
NEW England Conservatory OF Music
Boston
Thoreough
Fort
E. Tourjee
Franklin Bg
Boston, Main
Portant
United States
D. W. Moody
Cincinnati
Ohio
Prof. Moody
Chicago Ledger
Franklin St
Spencer’s Alligator Press
J. A. Spencer
Dwight, Hil
Isaac Thompson
LT Ae
John DL. Thompson
Gourgud
Ferd.t
Eine
N.Y
Tha U
Canadas
H. G. Root
A.J. Tower
Howton, Mans
Dr. Ward & GO
Louisiana
Piso
Cuenpert
CNN
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