Plow Scene on Louisiana Plantation with Song
A crude photograph from a Louisiana plantation shows two male plowmen named Sherman and Morgan amid a rural scene. The text reproduces a dialect song with interruptions about mules, weather, and a weddin, plus a long digressive note about a ball in The Hague and a US representative.
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Louisiana
Sherman
Morgan
Minies
Moses
Satan
Sugar
Jay
Jay Bird
Warnings Against Worry and Self Help
The piece urges readers not to worry about past or future troubles, emphasizing that tomorrow may never come and yesterday is far away. It argues to handle what one can now, accept penance if wanted, and oddly suggests self harm moments as a misguided remedy, then promises help.
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Clara
Katy
Charlie
Spreongfield Cior
Singer Charms Countess Then Faces Grand Bill
A stage singer wooes a famous countess and dinner leads to a night of songs. The next day a business steward brings a 4000 franc bill for last night’s “honors.” The singer quips that he billed five thousand for sineing, offering to settle for less, and the countess hears no more.
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Monsieur
Madame la ‘Comtesse
Troudoir
Madame la Comtesse
Mindlame la Comtesse
Apis
Anecdotes on food habits and Gen Grant
The Burman described as a peculiar feeder refuses rats and mice, eats fish but not blooded meat, and keeps cattle and poultry without using them for larder. He may drink milk and eat eggs. The San Francisco Chronicle notes this. A Detroit Free Press item recalls Col Fred Grant at his wedding, grim with a new boots joke.
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Lis
San Francisco
Col
Fred Grant
Gren. Grant
Detroit Free Press
Our Colors from Coal Tar and Ancient Wine Preservation
The article notes about 150 colors derived from coal tar supplanting vegetable dyes with indigo and log wood remaining important. It lists dye yields such as magenta from a ton dyeing 500 yards of flannel and aurine 120. It also describes guar juice bottled with olive oil to prevent fermentation, a rediscovered ancient Egyptian technique. It then cites seating capacities of Europe’s eight largest churches, lifespan ranges for birds, a petrified ten foot snake to be sent to the Smithsonian, 300,000 French residents in windowless apartments, and a vague pool player in a crowd targeting pockets.
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Arkansaw Traveler
A Twenty Years Experience of ALLCOCKs Medicines
A letter from C. D. Fredrika of 770 Broadway New York dated March 17 1886 extols ALLCOCKS POROTS Phastnns for twenty years use. It claims the pills energize the body when placed on the lower back and cure fatigue brain exhaustion debility and kidney troubles with no skin irritation. It says they help women and children and relieve throat coughs pains digestion and bowel complaints.
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Broadway
New York
Allcock
C. D. Fredricka
In the Bays of Rapid Transit
A fragment from a 19th century paper mixes social chatter with an advertisement for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters claiming relief from indigestion and nervous symptoms. It touts a large butterfly collection by Berthold Neumoegen and mentions explorers Livingstone and Stanley in a dated, miscellany-like item.
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Mionomauia
Eures
Paris
Berthold Neumoegen
New York
Livingstone
Stanley
Selewatka
Arhausaw Treeveler
Famous Women and Health Boost Creative Success
A health-focused note claims famous women in art and literature owe much of their achievement to bodily vigor. It argues that sustained mental effort requires a strong body and endorses Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for nervous debility and female weaknesses, promising restored functional harmony and health.
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Pierce
Scotts Emulsion Promises Strength and Spring Weight Gain
A period advertorial notes Scotts Emulsion with Hypophosphites as a tasty post meal tonic for delicate people. It claims rapid improvement in flesh and strength and cites a testimonial about an eight month old child gaining four Rennie in short time, endorsed for consumption throat and bronchial issues.
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Scott
Alabanaia
Onroxs Beverage Praised For Depot Taste Test
Detroit free Dress reports Onroxs as a favorable option for depot use with a note of tasting satisfaction. Moxie is hailed as creating great excitement, claimed to renew endurance and curb appetite for liquor and tobacco over a few days. Gentlemen are urged to hire private tooters for cornet instruction.
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Detroit
Moxie
Gyer
Grand Excursions to California for Teachers Meet
Burlington Route official trains from Chicago to San Francisco Denver and Peoria bound for the National Educational Meeting list July departures with deluxe sleepers chairs and dining cars. Special Denver route tours accompanied by Educational Directors invite passenger groups including Michigan Minnesota and New York Pennsylvania attendees with one fare round trip and direct to Denver connections.
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Burlington
San Francisco
Olga
Chicago
B&q
Michigan
Denver
Indiana
Peoria
New York
Pernsylvania
Chmieo
Big Grande
Miinais
Chicagro
Eustis
Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Promises Renewal
An old Philadelphia Call ad notes a final fate for the weak and dying and touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a restorative that purifies, invigorates, and fortifies the system against disease. It frames the product as a life-enhancing tonic from druggists.
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Dr. Pierce
Sage
Goulden
Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Small Stature Big Impact in Healing Purgatives
A Boston Post remark notes that some great men were small in size and cites Dr Pierce's Purgative Pellets as gentler effective remedies for liver stomach and bowel issues. It mentions Kingsland name origin from the Angles and Teutonic peoples and ends with a witticism about misers needing chest protectors.
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Dr. Pierce
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