Hybrid bank notes bewilder Treasury officials in mix up
A rare printing error produced a note that showed a twenty on one side and ten on the other. The Jersey City bank returned the coin with a sarcastic note, and an investigation traced the flaw to a sheet printing mix up. The two hybrids were spotted among millions of notes and one remains at large.
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Treasury
Treasury Department
Ous
First Washinton National Bank
Jersey City
Department of Issue
Gen. Meredith
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Hoe
Grives
Meredith
Tey
Birds and Sap Drinker: Woodpecker Fountain Observed Near Kentville
In June 1889 near Kentville I watched woodpeckers perforate a live white birch to create a sap drinking fountain. The sap attracted many birds including warblers, fycatchers, hummingbirds, and yellow-bellied sap suckers after insects swarmed to the sap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentville
Superstitions About Birds Across Nations and Beliefs
A survey of folk beliefs about birds in various countries. France fears white owls as omens of death while crows and magpies change luck by left or right appearances. England links birds to numbers, and Southern U S beliefs tie doves and owls to fate, with remedies like salt for nocturnal calls. Partridge feather beds supposedly cure illness though not guaranteed recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Germany
England
Great Britain
China
Indian Humor and the Shah-bah-skong at Fort Ripley
A passage recounts the humor and dignity of Old Shah-bah-skong of Mille Lacs. It notes 1862 bravely defending Fort Ripley, promises of government care by Minnesota officials, and a later push to cede Ojibway lands north of Leech Lake. The account ends with a retort about aging and wisdom from the council.
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Washington
Leech Lake
Minnesota
Shah-bah-skong
Explosion in School Injures Pupils and Teacher
New York principal Miss Jasper and teacher Miss Knox condemn explosives sold to children. Eddie Mullane buys a device with a nickel, shows it to classmates, then detonates during reprimand. Eddie burns, knickerbockers damaged. Miss Knox suffers a burned hand. Principal notes no spanking. explosion occurs as they confront the incident.
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Eddie
Miss Knox
Mean but True at a New York nearby college prank
A brisk anecdote reports college students near New York waking Prof X at 1 am with a playful fear of burglars. They tell him his window is open and his head sticks out, sparking a humorous exchange. The piece notes a blind-population quirk about smoking, claiming many blind veterans quit smoking once they cannot see the smoke.
Fun in a Photograph Gallery
A photographer recalls a humorous encounter with a man who sought a portrait of himself weeping on his beloved’s grave. The client proposed a local mock grave in the shop to mimic the required mood, claiming he could weep anywhere. The tale ends with the man leaving to “look around” for another possibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Night before battle sewing names on coats
Gen. Horace Porter recalls a grim scene as soldiers stitch their names into the breast of their coats the night before battle. The men explain they want to be identified if they fall, a somber ritual amid looming danger and camaraderie.
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Horace Porter
Forty-Five Years of Bondage to Blood Poison
Mitchellville Iowa resident Mus Many Bippie testifies after forty five years afflicted with blood poison liver and rheumatic troubles crediting Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup with remarkable relief from six bottles He notes cures of dyspepsia and neuralgia and praises the remedy as superior to others Prepared by the Charles Wright Medicine Company Detroit Michigan available through druggists locally
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Hibbard
Mitchellville
Iowa
H. Berchard
Charles Wright Medicine Company
Detroit
Mich
Hood
W. H. Lawrence
Agricultural Epitomist
Indianapolis
Ind
California
FIG Syrup-Co
San Francisco
Cal
Louisville
New York
Laws of China and Odd Medical Ads
The text bizarrely blends a harsh legal rule from China about officers and prisoners with a satirical verse about a singer and then advertises Dr Pisree's Golden Medical Discovery and Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy. It also mentions London’s Thirteen Club, which plans monthly dinners for thirteen, defying superstitions like salt spills and ladders. The items are disparate, reflecting a mosaic of 19th century newspaper content.
Card of Thanks and Various Local Snippets From 19th Century Press
Card of Thanks extols Kemp's Balsam with free sample bottles offered by druggists for trial and notes large bottle pricing. Various statistics and anecdotes follow, including British India women in classified work, Hell's Catarrh Cure claims, a Pomona tobacco death, a Burlington exchange, a Georgia deer killer, German army vs France, Fresno grape cuttings, and Berlin prison classes.
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Kemp's Balsam
Dream Reveals Fulham Murder Plot and Execution
A Canadian youth dreamed his missing father was murdered by two men, one a dwarflike figure and the other with a scar and missing ear. He traced the vision to a log cabin, identified the suspects, recovered the watch and valuables, and the body was unearthed in the garden. The two men were arrested and executed.
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Fulham
Canada
Supremely Delightful Stomach Bittern Restores Strength
Supremely Delightful to the emaciated and debilitated invalid is the sense of returning health produced by Hosteller's Stomach Bittern. It improves appetite digestion and nightly rest, aiding flesh gain as digestion returns. It warns that wasting diseases follow neglect of vitality and touts relief for rheumatism malaria liver and kidney troubles.
Fearful Down on Prof X Frustrates New York Students
From New York comes a tale of a professor whose life is a constant struggle as students torment him. He was awakened at one in the morning by a loud bell, and after replying from his window the exchange grew into a chorus of taunts and clattering chatter.
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New York
Prof. X
Prof
Nail
Resistared
LY Brothers
Warren Street
Patrick O'Wfarcett
Washington, D. C
J. L. Stephens
Lebanon
Ohio
Picaresque Victuals The Parlor Spitting Tobacco Tale
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a girl noting her ill father sent her for tobacco to smoke yet eats it. A Dutch trader is accused of vandalizing German vases with lilies and anemones to boost resale. In Milnesville, a Hungarian man sells his wife and cow for 82 dollars to fund return to Europe.
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Grand River Avenue
Detroit
Limburg
John Paulsuk
Milnesville
Peter Paul
Paulsuk
Europe
Hibbard’s Pills and Odd Editorial Drifts
A scattered OCR fragment mentions Hibbard’s Rheumatic and Liver Pills claimed as safe for adults and children and effective for headaches and digestion. It also contains satirical lines about etiquette for a Chinaman and a Postmaster General’s view on matrimony, plus ads for novels, Cragin & Co. and Dobbins’ Electric Soup wrappers, and soap availability.
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Sin
Cragin & Co
Philada
U. S
Canada
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Edward Everett Hale
House of Correction
America
New England
Jim
Aiden
Dr. Pisree
Box
Dr. Sage
London
British India
NM. L. Thompson & CO
Draggista
Coudersport
Pomona
Theo
Mr. Youngblood
Coffee County
Georgia
Onn
Fresno
Berlin
Isang Thompson
C.1. Hood & CO
Lowell
Mays
W.jiorrir
Washington, D.C
Bradfield Regulator
Atlanta
ALL di Vecuerk
Martinez
St. Jacobs
Fred
Hittman
Cloverdale
P. M, Reinheimer
Ayer
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell, Mass
Pozzoni
Ely
Cf Zien
Ahingien
W. L. Douglassshoe Center
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
Bers Chemical Co
Cincinnati
Treas
G. H. Ingraham
M. D
Amsterdam
D. R. Dyche & Coq
Chicago
E. T. Hazeelrine
Warren, Pa
A.W. McCormick & Sons
Kidder's Pastilles
Bent Et McHricstown
Wilcox's Upacific Co
Phila
Salt Lake City
Chamber of Commerce
Utah
Northwest
Eustis
Gen
C.B
Q. R.R
L. A. Sayer
Houlton
Gouraud
U.S
Canadas
Ferd
T. Hopkins
Grant Jones St
Epps
Stowe
Dietl Service Gazette
Gironers
Isbelled
Ceopathis Satan
Scesati
OWENS
General Rand
Owen
Bend
Owen Electric Belt & Appliance CO
North Broadway
Louis
Broadway
Sapolio
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