Brazil’s Mouse Plague in Lourenco Colony 1876
In Lourenco Brazil during May and June 1876 vast mouse swarms devastated corn fields destroying edible crops and spreading to potatoes oats barley and greens. Mice gnawed furniture clothes and even animal hides while cats fled the infestation. Similar plagues hit in 1833 1863 and possibly 1881 with Europe seeing smaller outbreaks. A single field pair could multiply to twenty three thousand in a single summer.
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Lourenco
Brazil
Europe
Earth
A Millionaire Banker and the Forbidden Love
A young couple walks beneath elms at Lowly Station as Arthur pleads for lifelong commitment. She cannot say yes due to her father’s pride and a betrothal arranged to Clarence Jones, son of the banker. Arthur laments his status and collapses into tears. He dies as the tale closes with the Merchant Traveler.
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Arthur
Clarence Jones
Death to all Quacks and Frauds kicks off editorials
A Dakota editor plans a bold send off for a traveling physician nicknamed Quacker. He contemplates a column condemning quacks while noting the doctor’s ad in the paper. The foreman suggests replacing the piece with a stronger attack and a pointed farewell.
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Quacker
Dakota
Estelline Bell
A New View of Consumption and Its Cure
Dr C Clark of Watertown asserts consumption is not always lung related and often secondary. He links acid buildup from liver and kidney dysfunction to lung damage, endorsing Warner's safe cure as effective after exhausting other remedies. Publishers note the interview aims to aid sufferers and cites wide support from physicians and boards.
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C. Clark
Watertown
N. Y
Warner
Earth
H. H. Warner & Co
Rochester
Clark
Theodore Wolf
Gettysburg
Lutheran Quarterly
A Daddy Long-Leg and Its Curious Watcher
A short illustrated note on the daddy long legs spider, its palps, and a story from Professor Lockwood about a friendly encounter. The creature’s egg shapes, leg measurements, and a whip like tickling action are described with literary comparisons to Captain Cuttle from Dickens.
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Professor Lockwood
Captain Cuttle
Daddy Long-Legs
Kittens and Votes in Scottish Campaign Tale
A Cambridge era anecdote from the Boston Journal recounts a Scotch parliamentary candidate canvassing an elderly couple. He praises a kitten, offers five pounds, and hopes the wife can sway her husband to vote for him. She notes the husband acts on his own mind, calls the kitten a bargain, and reveals the opponent had recently visited, buying its brother.
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M. P
Boston Journal
Unique Costume Draws attention at afternoon reception
A famous English novelist arrived at 4:30 PM wearing an extraordinary costume of pale pink satin robes, pink satin cap and shoes, red silk stockings, and a large red silk accessory. The striking attire made her stand out as uniquely as her characters.
Ideal Women in Poetic Imagery from the Gentleman's Magazine
The article extols idealized women in poetry, praising Shakespeare and other poets for portraying virtuous, noble feminine types. It argues that true ideal womanhood blends beauty with tenderness and purity, grounded in real life as imagined by poets like Imogen Desdemona Rosalind Portia Gretchen and Clare.
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Womahood
Imogen
di Vernon
Shakspeare
Desdemona
Rosalind
Portia
Gretchen
Clarchen
Gentleman’s Magazine
There Shall Be No Alps In Napoleon Legend
A quotation links Napoleon’s Alps remark to the Simplon pass and frames Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for blood and chronic lung and liver diseases. It lists illnesses like consumption, scrofula of the lungs, pimples, eruptions, tumors, swellings, and fever sores as treatable.
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Napoleon
Italy
Alps
Simplon
Pierce
A Mining Anecdote About Winzes And Stocks
A San Francisco Argonaut item notes a Teutonic investor mistaking winzes for ore bodies and losing money when mines are misrepresented. It contrasts ignorance in mining stocks with the proper meaning of a winze, a shaft between levels. The piece ends with a quip about a boy and a trick coat and a St Jacobs Oil bottle not being empty.
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St. Jacobs
Charming Ugly People and Saint-Simon Memoirs Recalled
The piece notes Saint-Simon's Memoirs as consoling for the ugly, praising charm over appearance and recounting a vivid anecdote about Madame de Loix. It also extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for constipation and related disorders, contrasting it with harsh purgatives and touting its gentle bowel relief.
Grand Union Hotel Promises Comfort and Convenience in NYC
Important notice advises travelers to save baggage and expressage when visiting or leaving New York City and to end their journey at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot. It touts 613 rooms renovated for about a million dollars, with rates starting at $1 per day, and claims European law and convenient access via horse cars and elevated railroad to depots. Families are urged that they can live better for less at the Chand Union Hotel than any other first class hotel in the city.
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New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Chand Union Hotel
Uninvited Guests at Elite Receptions Stir London Society
London Truth notes a trend of prying guests invading society events in aristocratic libel cases. The piece recalls Lady Palmerston’s selective, card-by-hand invitations and warns that modern “receptions” are vast omnium gatherum. Balls at new houses draw attendees without invitations, undermining hostess control.
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Lord Beaconsfield
Lady Palmerston
Read ing actor cured by Red Star Cough Cure
Mr G C Staley, playing the reading part in Michael Strogoff at Oakland, California, was so hoarse from a cold that he feared he could not continue. Two bottles of Red Star Cough Cure cured him without nausea.
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G. C. Staley
Michael Strogoff
Oakland
Qtal
Bales and Flesh Cited in Witty Dining Quip
A Harper's Bazar snippet finds Mrs Simpson Hendricks remarking on mortality as Dumley chafes at the saying. He corrects with a comic line about flesh resembling hay when judging a particular bite, delivering period humor through stammered speech.
Sam Jones and the Quake in Atlanta Faith Sermon
Sam Jones labels the malarial quake an alarming visitation that spurs reflection, saying only Christians can endure the quake age. He promotes Simmons Liver Regulator as a vegetable cure, claimed to regulate the liver and restore vigor, backed by witnesses nationwide.
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Sam Jones
Simmons
J. H. Zeitin & Co
Philadelphia
Quack Remedies and Holiday Travel Offers Sainted in One Page
An odd scanned ad page blends tonic claims for Scovill’s Blood and Liver Syrup with earn money at home schemes and grand California excursions. It includes testimonials from supposed professionals, a “Rough on Dirt” laundry powder pitch, and rail company trip dates, all urging rapid action and sensational promises.
Dr Pierce's Patent Remedy Widely Sold for Female Complaints
The text notes Dr Pierce's widely acknowledged remedy for female complaints and weaknesses sold by druggists. It also includes Johnny's saying that he is his mother's canoe and that she can always paddle it, as quoted by a merchant traveler.
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Pierce
Johnny
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College OF Business
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Standard Silverware CO
Boston
Barney's Perpetual
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U. S
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Washington
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J.B. Mayer
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Charlestown
Chicago Ledger
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Addreme
Dederick
HAY
P. Kedederick & CO
Albany, News
Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano CO
Wizard - Oileer
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Hamlin
Wizard Oil Company
Wisconsin
L. Colby
Wis
R. A
Milwaukee
Montgomery Ward & CO
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Ad Tower
Simmona St
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Poultry Yard
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All Nationa
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Wenn Tee
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