Bucking horse story leaves traveler bruised and wary
A Western trip tale recalls a gent from an Eastern city who tries bucking mustang Deacon near Blackhawk Colorado. After multiple falls he remounts, endures a wild ride, wrecks his dignity, and leaves convinced no sober horse is trustworthy in Colorado. He advises walking when possible and avoiding horseback riding if not necessary.
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Blackhawk
Denver
Deacon
Colorado
Peck
Regularity of Habit and Its Benefits
The text argues that regularity and timeliness ease life and boost efficiency. It notes people with many duties can succeed by scheduling fixed hours for each task, leading to calm, orderly progress. When duties clash, tasks become burdensome, highlighting the crucial point where many fail to maintain routine.
Regular vs irregular habits in daily work
A Philadelphia Call quotation contrasts two workers one rushed and scattered attempting many tasks with another steady figure who moves from duty to duty and accomplishes vast amounts. The difference lies in method, not capacity, highlighting the value of organized practice over confusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Machine Education and Its Dangers in Public Schools
Popular Science Monthly critiques rigid mass schooling calling it machine education. It argues the method is fundamentally flawed and unchangeable, driven by vast legislative support and universal reach. The piece warns that system-wide expansion corrupts genuine learning and yields poor outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Science Monthly
How Sleigh Bells Are Made Science Lesson
A Papi lar Science Monthly excerpt explains the process of making sleigh bells. It describes a mud ball with an iron jinglet inside the hollow mold, the poured metal forming the bell, and how dirt is shaken out to reveal the jinglet that produces the ringing jingle.
A Sage and a Financier in Market Parables
A Fall Street News quip highlights contrasting views of a sage, financier, and philosopher. It humorously notes a wise man who times trades well while a successful financier drains a bank, a philosopher who loses his wife’s money in silver yet profits in pork, and a financial prophet who praises prosperity then collapses by millions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Times
Fall Street News
Belled Dogs Helpine Hunt Mystery End Good Luck
A hunter recalls a tale from Michigan where an Englishman used bells on dogs to trace them in thick covert. When the tinkling ceased, birds were near yet one dog vanished only to reappear at camp dozing in the sun, having simply lost the bell. Maurice Thompson, in St Nicholas.
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Michigan
Maurice Thompson
St. Nicholas
Steam Extinguishing Fire Trial In Berlin Factory
A German contemporary reports steam extinguishing tests in enclosed spaces. In a Berlin steel-pen factory, steam pipes in three drying rooms operated automatically to flood the area. When a hiss announced activation, the steam extinguished the fire before it spread, despite contents igniting in the room.
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Berlin
Porter Jumpup Taliaferro Holds Brandy Question
Grocer Sugarsand finds Jumpup Taliaferro in a cellar glass of brandy worth 18 dollars a gallon. The porter denies theft as Sugarsand recalls a guilty conscience and reflects on echoes of the past.
Spider Audience for Tuning Fork Music
John A. Coryell recounts an experiment from St Nicholas where a prisoner of state uses a tuning fork to attract a garden spider named Madame Epeira. The spider repeatedly tries to capture the fork, mistaking its hum for prey, even after several disappointments.
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Europe
Mistress Epeira
Piera Diademe
Madame Spider
Madame
Madame Epeira
Madam Spider
Trymne
John A. Coryell
St. Nicholas
The martial dragoon scout Moll Davis and her triumphs
Moll Davis, a famed dragoon, served in the Second Scots Grays and Lord Hay's Dragoons. She fought at Namur and Ramillies, endured injury and disguise, endured social peril, and was finally reconciled with her husband during a wartime wedding feast amid a jovial regiment celebration.
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Scots Grays
Lord Hay
Namur
Ryswick
Dublin
Nimequen
Venloe
Holland
London Society
Small Card Sparks Big Idea for Ice Cream Sign
A tiny card proposes a bold plan to a restauranteur to print Ice Cream and display it in a restaurant window. The card argues that attracting the attention of nearby seminary girls and their suitors would drive business, despite its diminutive size. The exchange, recounted from the Chicago News, hinges on visibility and novelty as a marketing stunt.
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Chicago News
The Complexionist Sign draws a curious visit
A reporter encounters a so called complexionist in a curious dwelling. A French lady explains she studies skin and offers treatments for beauty. She mentions seasonal demand, diet, elder flower baths, and a sulfur regimen as possible cures.
The Big Brewery and St Jacobs Oil Endorsement
J Hirsch of College Point Brewery lauds St Jacobs Oil as a superior remedy for rheumatism and sores among workers and horses. A floating kidney, often caused by tight lacing, is noted as a rare but serious consequence. physicians warn fashion’s risks to women's health in Dr Jooste’s Health Monthly.
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J. Hirsch
College Point Brewery
LL. C. N
St. Jacobs
Joote
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Promoted by New York World
In the New York World advertisement a praised tonic, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, is advertised as restoring digestive strength for indigestion. It is claimed to improve liver and bowel activity, build up the system to resist malaria and other illnesses, and aid rheumatic conditions and kidney or bladder inactivity.
Cure of Pneumonia and Patent Remedies Adverts
A testimonial from D H Barnaby of Owego New York recounts a daughter with pneumonia once deemed incurable by top physicians who recovered after using Dr William Hall's Celestial HKalsam for the Lungs. The page also promotes Caswell Hazard Co remedies including Cod Liver Oil and various patent treatments such as Wells Health Renewer Juniper Tar and Rough on Tooth Ache with pricing.
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D. H. Barnaby
Owego
N. Y
Moat
Wm. Hall
Caswell, Hazard &Co
New York
CasweLn, Hazann & Co
Fire in the store sparks alarm at Hamilton depot
A Cincinnati clothing dealer on the Hamilton depot platform heard a passenger report a fire in his own shop last night. The dealer doubted the blaze, joking that his stock worth 7,000 dollars faced no insurance, while the fire rumor suggested it was nearby. The tale blends with ads for Dr Guysett’s Yellow Dock and Sarkaparilia, Piso remedies, and a bear warning about consumption.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton
Don’t You Do It Stop Rheumatism with Kidney-Wort
Istbridge Malcolm of West Bath Maine says he was prostrated by rheumatism and kidney trouble. After one dose Kidney-Wort helped, six doses put him on his feet and it has cured him. The New Orleans Picayune notes the ad banner about money and hogs in society.
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Istbridge Malcolm
West Bath
New Orleans Picayune
Morsford Acid Phosphate and Diamond Dyes in 19th Century Ads
Newspaper fragments advertise Morsford’s Acid Phosphate for a cooling drink, Diamond Dyes claiming unmatched brightness, Lydia E Pinkham health pamphlet by mail from Lynn Mass, and a Chicago Gault House hotel listing with daily rates. Mentions Wells Richardson salts and local promos.
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Lydia EK. Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
A Wonderful Substance Promises Chronic Disease Relief
Drs. Starkey and Palen advertise a vitalizing remedy at 1109 Girard St for chronic diseases. The letter from Tarn of Fast Montpelier VI praises Athlophoros for rheumatism and neuralgia with pain and swelling easing after several doses, priced 32 per bottle. Ely’s Cream Balm is claimed to relieve catarrh and deafness after one bottle, priced 50 cents, from Athlophoros Co. in New York.
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Drs. Starkey & Palen
Girard St
Hill
Athlophoros Co
Wall Street, N. Y
Tuave
Ely
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Machine Education
Moll Davis
The
Dragoons
New York Mail and Xpress
Tikre
New York World
Guysett
Nonopy
Boston Lranscript
Piso
Cilarles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimore
Perry Davis
Found
C. M. Phillips
Lebanon
Graz
York Silk and Super CO
Broadway
W. Ziegler & CO
Chicago
U. S
Valentine Lros
Juneaville
Wis
Frazer Cheaset
Morsford
New York Journal
Gault House
Clinton and
Madison Streets
Union Depot
H. W. Hoyt
Lowell
David Kennedy
Francis Goward
Sumner Street
Lis
Goward
David
Lydia E. Pinkham
National PornsHine Co
Rosales
Hops and Malt Bitters Co
Detroit, Mich
Wxaaa & Co
Palmer
Paipikete
Chicago Newspaper Union
Franklin Street
PAEK
Loomis & Nyman
Tittin
Ohio
Eatntiees Chesebrough Manufacturing Co
Isaac Thompson
John N. Thompson, Sons & Co
Liroy
Voltaio
Marshall, Mich
Benes
Onl
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