Pockets and the rise of the modern pocket form
The essay traces pockets from early taboos over portable goods to the modern garment pocket. It surveys ancient stages from scrips and belts to the flap pocket seen with Charles II, noting Greek and Roman precursors and a female cultural lag in adopting pockets, ending with hope that women may one day wear pockets.
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Rehoboth
New Zealand
South Sea
Greece
Odysseus
Herodotus
Kolpos
Theocritus
Isaac the Jew of
York
Prince John
Fairholt
Charles II
Comte
Bacon
Royal Society
Sanguine Friends of Progress
Ape Hospitals in India and Monkey Welfare Traditions
A Chicago Times piece cites Professor F. L. Oswald describing mahakund ape hospitals near Miraapoor, where sick simians receive care funded by believers and gifts. It notes royal protection for monkeys, colonial troops housing infirmary patients, and a lunch parade of Rhesus baboons demanding provisions each morning.
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Benares
Chicago
Emerson Tennent
British India
F. L. Oswald
Chicago Times
Eels as Food and a German Eel Chase
The article extols eel as a cleanly feeding delicacy and notes its historic status in ancient Egypt. It recounts Dr. Marshall Hall on the eel’s independent heart and a humorous German episode where a large eel escapes a hotel bucket, pursued by cooks and onlookers before finally recaptured.
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Batrachia
Marshall Hall
Germany
New York Commercial Advertiser
A Teuton's Blunder in Civil War Guard Tale
In 1862 the One Hundred and Fifth camped in Chicago and a soldier overstepped his leave. A German guard asked for the countersign and, to gain entry, the interloper bravely declared Lincoln. The ruse worked, ending the dilemma for that night.
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Chicago
Lincoln
American beauty in Paris and a chemist’s list
A Chicago News quip recalls a past beauty amid gossip and a separate medical note reports an English study of 10,000 prescriptions. The drugs most used include chloroform bromide of potassium sal volatile glycerine syrup of orange peel wine of ipecacuanha and common soda and bicarbonates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara
Janet Crudlie
Dora
Paris
Chicago News
Great Strike Offer Promises Cloth Bound Volumes for Subscriptions
Rochester New York Rural Home offers 150 types of cloth bound volumes with a $1 subscription to a weekly journal. Books include Law Without Lawyers and Universal History among others. One year for $1.15 postpaid, with satisfaction guaranteed and reference to Hon. C. R Parsons, Mayor of Rochester.
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Rochester
N. Y
Danelaon
United Try Yard
C. R Parsons
Rural Home Co. Ltd
Grand Union Hotel Promises Comfort For City Travelers
When entering or leaving New York City, patrons should save baggage expressage and $3 carriage hire and stop at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot. The hotel offers 613 rooms, fitted up at a cost of one million dollars, with rates starting at $1 per day. European Jan Elevator staurant services, horse cars stages and elevated rail to all depots. Families can live better for less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class city hotel.
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New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Executioners Swords in Berlin Museum Offer Grim Inscriptions
A Berlin museum houses a collection of executioners swords with verses dating from 1324 to 1721. Notable blades bear lines such as If thou act in the service of virtue this sword shall not strike thee and Viva la justice. Also mentioned is a sword linked to Von Kalte’s death and another inscribed This sword is whetted and I am deputed by God and the authorities to punish wicked people. Baltimore’s G E Reardon is cited for rheumatism relief by St Jacobs Oil.
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Markisches Museum
Berlin
Frederick the Great
von Kalte
The Bell Punch Patent and Its Global Rent
A notes piece details the bell punch used on streetcars and elsewhere, claiming the sole proprietor owns every unit and rents them for vast sums. It cites $60 daily in a city, up to $500 in others, and a bribery case where a superintendent was paid $25,000 to trial the device, boosting receipts and leading to unconditional surrender to the bell punch. It ends with an ad for Red Star Cough Cure at twenty five cents a bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell Punch
Arts California
Col. Jay Considered Poor After Railroad Venture
A Dakota man discusses Col. Jay's finances noting he is an incorporator of a new territorial paper railroad. The exchange suggests financial trouble and a proposal that friends start a collection to assist him. Estelline Bell reports the remark.
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Col. Jay
Territorial Paper Railroad
Scott
Estelline Bell
Ouida and Women Comment on Venus de Medici
St Louis Magazine quotes Ouida on women and the Venus de Medici. It notes that women would shriek at the statue if animated and insist on modest dress, while still attending balls in revealing gowns.
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Ouida
St. Louis Magazine
Sons of Flesh and Strength and Health Advice
The excerpt warns of poor appetite and morning weakness possibly signaling consumption or liver issues. It notes wasting and disordered digestion as precursors to scrofulous disease, claiming Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cleanses blood and restores vigor. It also contains stray ad lines about remedies and promotional phrases.
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Pierce
Simmona Liver Regulator
A Tried Remedy for Biliousness and Liver Disorder
A promotional note extols Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters as a reliable remedy for biliousness and liver inaction. It claims direct, powerful, and permanent relief from symptoms such as skin pallor, coated tongue, indigestion, constipation, headaches, nausea, and right side or shoulder pains, with widespread testimonials.
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Hostetter
Largest elephant in show taunts tax payer buyer
A Coney Island showman boasts of the world’s largest elephant that bears heavy burdens without complaint. A New York taxpayer retorts that he has long carried burdens himself and can show the elephant how it’s done. The exchange reflects a wry tale from Texas Siftings.
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Coney Island
New York
Texas Siftings
Favorite Prescription and other remedies in old advice
Advice notes promote Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a reliable uterine disorder remedy and general health aid for women. It lists benefits, claims savings, and urges trusted tonics for female ailments alongside AYER’s Ague Cure and Rough on Itch products. Includes references to Rough on Catarre for odors and throat issues.
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Aleo
Catarre
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