Some Things Peculiar to the West in the Arizona Kicker
A digest from the Arizona Hicker includes social snubs, political satire, and local humor. It lampoons Judge Gildersleeve’s alleged misdeeds, lampoons Aldermanic hopeful William Parton, and highlights The New York World style ventures and Western business expansion. It also notes a city recorder’s drinking, weather forecasts, and a youth’s migration to New York ending with malaria recovery at a hospital in Brooklyn.
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West
Arizona Hicker
Judge Gildersleeve
Jackass Heights
Omaha
Illinois
Iowa
Indiana
Nebraska
Ankap
Ricker
New York
Courageous Young Wanderer Reaches Out for Help
A 13 year old German born boy named Harry Werhey visited the Third Precinct station house last week seeking hospital care. He claimed to have been in the United States about three years to support a Worcester Mass family and father in poor health. He spoke earnestly and drew sympathy from Capt. Leary as he recounted his plight.
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New York
Newsboys
Poplar Street
Harry
Coney Island
Brooklyn
Leary
Long Island College Hospital
Brooklyn Eagle
Harry Werhey
Third Precinct
Capt
Germany
Worcester
Mass
Bob Collins Refutes Paper Claim of Sponge Vomiting
In Peck's Sun a tale from Towus describes a boxing match where Red eyed Jake is knocked out by Big Gus and Pete Jenkins supposedly throws up a sponge. Bob's father questions the report noting no man could eat a sponge, labeling the paper’s account a lie.
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Jake
Big Gus
Pete Jenkins
Bob
Pete Jenling
Peck
It Wasn't Angels He Heard and Other Fragments
A sentimental dramatic scene ends with a dying man crying of angels but a wife’s misjudge reveals the band outside. A Eatonton smoker’s pipe tale humorously computes vast tobacco costs with improbable compound interest. Varied notes touch on electricity, London subways, and a California vintner’s race to replace Chinese labor with white workers.
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Jennie
John
San Francisco Chronicle
Made His Life Bleed Do Duty for Brains
An old soldier, gin-soaked and gabby, visits an editor with battlefield recollections. He maps a Civil War scene and describes wounds, while the editor interjects with a harsh question about the fate of his own brains. The tale blends bravado and frustration in a wartime reminiscence.
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San Francisco
Entirely Helpless to Health Rheumatic Syrup Story
Mrs H H Ford of Corunna Michigan, wife of General Ford, endured two years of rheumatic suffering confined to bed with swollen feet and limbs. After using Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup, she recovered fully after two more bottles. She is now well. Drugstores may stock it or it can be mailed for one dollar per bottle or six for five dollars from Rheumatic Syrup Co Jackson Michigan.
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H. Ford
Gen. Ford
Corunna
Mich
Hibbard
Orday
Ryeumatic Syruf Co
Jackson, Mien
Howd
Hood
Murs
J. B. Abas
Richmond St
Newark
N.J
M. E. Reap
A. Read & Son
Wauseon
Olio
C. 1. Hood & CO
Apothecatics
Lowell
Mase
DR Perkins Medical CO
Richmond
The Flopping of a Fly Wing and Humming Hee Notes
A historical note on wing vibration and sound, citing Lubbock and Marev. It records fly wing vibrations at 21 120 per minute and 830 per second, hee at 26 400 times per second, with tests showing 330 wing strokes per second. The excerpt also includes a Toledo patent cure claim for catarrh and an 1890s stamp of authenticity from a notary.
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John Lubbock
Marev
Not Without Its Use and Weathering Smell at Cattle Yards
A Chicago visitor notes the overwhelming odor from stock yards and bone-boiling houses and learns rain often follows the smell. Kemp’s Balsam for the Throat and Lungs is advertised as a guaranteed cure with 5c and 1.00 prices, trial size free. In Stillwater Minnesota goose hunters use electric-lit boats on Lake St Croix to lure and capture a flock after fog and smoke, with geese colliding with the boat and six captured.
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Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Stillwater
Minn
Lake
St. Croix
Scott's Emulsion Promoted For Scrofula And Debility
An advertisement claims Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil with hypophosphites offers immediate relief and lasting benefit for scrofula and general debility, with Dr HW V Mott of Brentwood Cal endorsing its use in phthisis and wasting diseases as very palatable.
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Scott
HW. V. Mott
Brentwood
Cal
The Fruit of Violence and a Stomach Bitters Remedy
The piece argues against excessive purgation harming digestion and intestines. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a gentle, natural relaxant that aids digestion and assimilation, diverts bile, and claims protection against malaria and rheumatic, neuralgic, nervous, kidney, and bladder ailments.
Frugal Bachelor Tries One Broken Vase Gag
In Pittsburg a bachelor sought a cheap yet valuable wedding gift. He bought a Bohemian glass vase with a broken lip, asking the price for the broken piece. The salesman offered it free but warned the pieces could be repaired. The plan backfired as the wrapped fragments ruined the gift and earned a frostily disapproving bride.
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Pittsburg
Pitisbaurg
Uncertain medicines and long-lived Indiana couple tale
The item warns against dubious cures such as Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and promotes Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. It also profiles TA and wife, Indiana's oldest married couple, noting Mr. Long's 08th birthday and decades on an Indiana farm, plus memories of early settlement, an Indian spring, and large ancient sinkholes on the property.
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TA. Toxy
Alto
Ind
Long
Indiana
Kentucky
Chicago and Eastern Illinois excursion fares to Nashville
Montgomery travelers are offered reduced fares for a rail excursion via the Evansville route with two daily fast trains to Nashville. The Nashville Fest Time departs Chicago Polk Street at 3 50 p m reaching Nashville 7 10 next morning and Montgomery in the night. Another Night Fast Express leaves at 11 15 p m with Pullman sleeping cars, arriving Nashville 4 30 p m and Montgomery 2 25 the following morning. Also noted are two little girls from Tile au Hant Me Georgie May Welsh and Edie Combs who guided a wild pig home by leading it with corn, demonstrating quick wits useful for life.
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Montgomery
Ala
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Evansville
Chicago
Polk Street
Nashville
Pullman
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Ticket Office
Clark Street
William Hill
Ill
Priour
Tile Au Hant
Georgie May Welsh
Edie Combs
Hibbard's Pills Claim Pain Relief and Safety
An advertisement touts Hibbard's Rheumatic and Liver Pills as scientifically compounded and safe for adults and children, promising relief from sick headache constipation dyspepsia biliousness and as an appetizer claiming superior care versus other preparations. It asserts no equal in health benefits.
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Hibbard
Freak of Nature: Dwarfed Man Draws Attention
Florida Times-Union reports a twenty-something man with a fully developed head but diminutive body and limbs, described as a freak of nature. He is said to have average intelligence and has learned to sew and knit.
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Florida Times-Union
Swift's Specific touted as universal blood cure in 19th century ads
An 1889 testimonial style sketch claims Swift's Specific, from Creek remedy roots, cured chronic blood diseases after other cures failed. Letters from Rogers Arkansas and Cavanal Indian Territory praise its effects, with endorsements from J.B. Wien and a Richmond, Virginia doctor.
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Arizona
William Parton
Bill
People’s Reform
Reform
William
Onur City Recorder
Tur Wrarner
Gettysburg
Arctic Ocean
Amazon
Pacific
Detroit Free Press
Hie
Bob Collins
Towy
Eatonton
Loudon
Strand
Stan Frorp
California
City
Toledo
Lucas Country
Frank J. Curenhy
St. Armany Co
Sail Firma
Hais
Prank J. Cheney
Ibis
A.W. Gleason
Natary Public
Saal
Hall
J. Chenny & CO
Ohio
Signal Service
Atchison Globe
Austin Statesman
Jverros
Pierce
Dox
Dr. Sage
Farmers’ National Congress
Spain
Europe
Pennsburg
Tur Youru
Yournu
Boston
Oregon
Oregon Immigration Board
Portland
Tansill
Kidder
Ely's
Avfever
ELY Bros
Warren St. N.Y
Adway
Radway's
THE
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimore
Cook Remedy Co
Neb
Pr. J. i
Stephens
Lebanon
wUhbio
Wen
Valentine Brows
Janesville
Wis
Bryant
Burin College
Buffalo
N.Y
apVantigna
LA Force Drug Co
Broadway, N.Y
Rochester
Gaton
Mary Vigor
Caton
Alist
Morey Mpg. CO
Waukesha
Auwx
T. Loup & Co
Lakeside Bldg
Lll
AL Chadwick
Theodore Holland
Philada
Wer
Catalor
A. J. Tower
Isaac Thompson
John J. Thompson, Sons & CO
Troy, N
Jones
Binghamton
N. J
Popham
Gleghorn
Gardner
Jil
T. Popham
Philadelphia
Gran Chemical Os
Cincionati
G.H. Ingraham
M. D
Amsterdam
D. R. Dyche &Co
Swift
Rogers, Ark
Wiant
Fhve
Cavanal
Indian Ter
J.B. Wien
WinoFixxo
M.D
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
Joseph H. Hunter
Sori
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