Dying Under the Lash in 1800s Naval Punishments
A historical account describes court martial flogging practices aboard ships like the Gloucester, detailing extreme lashings, deaths from punishment, and the brutal routines that followed. It recounts Morris Murphy’s death, crew reactions, and a notorious captain’s alleged past flogging habits, with wider notes on flogging’s place in naval life and social commentary from period sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Murphy
Murphy
England
Passage
Waterford
Ireland
Chatham
Barce
Portsmouth
Gloucester
The Vinegar Plant and Its Eels In Vinegar
Popular Science Monthly explains the vinegar plant or mother as a funguslike growth that forms during acetic fermentation. It covers the vinegar surface if undisturbed and is undesirable in both cider and molasses vinegars. Vinegar eels are not beneficial. they need air and can be killed by heat to 128 degrees or boracic acid, with their presence signaling potential pasteurization or spoilage risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Science Monthly
Vesa
Epward Newton
Harrowsmith
Ont
Parta
Make haste slowly toward a lasting professional life
A warning that many hurry into professions without full study. The foundation is vital. college training or its equivalent builds skill and confidence. Jumping from high school leads to crudeness and perceived inferiority in literary and professional work. Deliberate effort yields equipage and success.
The Graverocks Portray Women in Delicate Light
Mrs Penhalligan and Loveday clash over views of women in a sharp Cornish scene. A squire lectures and a manager listens as Loveday argues that a woman's heart is delicate, likening women to finger glasses filled with pure water not to be misused for bets or vanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loveday
Sign Posts Wisdom From Experience And Youth
The piece cites a Scientific American paragraph on life mistakes urging restraint in judging others and setting a personal standard. It argues for learning from elders, avoiding perfectionism, and seeking to alleviate needs within one’s power while recognizing limits of understanding.
Overpressure in Schools Findings by M Lagneau at Paris Academy
The Provincial Medical Journal summarizes a report by M Lagneau on over pressure and sedentary schooling. He links short sight, tuberculosis, dyspepsia, and nervous issues to prolonged sitting and premature intellectual strain. He urges eight hours sleep, four to eight hours of daily work for ages 8 to 12, alternating recreation, short infant classes, longer restraint for older pupils, proportional home lessons, and gymnastics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Lagneau
Academy of Medicine At
Paris
Quips and curios from a bygone era in brief notes
A collection of quirky remarks and old-time curios includes Sydney Smith’s fishing quip on gun safety, a cleaning method for oxup chamois skins with soap and soda, a tiny Swiss watch set in a pencil case, and Prof EvisHa Gray’s claim of distant telegraphic duplication of writing.
Hostetter s Stomach Bitters against malaria scourge
In the entire catalog of diseases none stood tougher to cure than malarial ailments before Hostetter s Stomach Bitters. Chills and fever ague cake and bilious remittent were thought nearly incurable. Bitters now give settlers emigrants travelers a dependable defense and a means to expel malaria poisons from the system.
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Hostetter
Napoleon in history and public opinion debated
John C G Ropes argues in Scribner's Magazine that modern readers should reassess Napoleon Bonaparte by examining European political social and legal conditions of his era. He notes prior partisan attacks but suggests a more nuanced view may reveal his enlightened and liberal legislative impact and challenge Anglo Saxon biases while illustrating boiler plate testing with sand to reveal lamination or weak spots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon
Europe
John CG. Ropes
Scribner's Magazine
The Sweetest Girl in School Turns Beauty Around
A mother overhears gossip about Edith being plain and ill from headaches. She buys Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, and Edith’s blood improves, headaches vanish, skin becomes soft and rosy, and she becomes the “sweetest girl in school” and beautiful. An exchange notes racing men prefer bookmakers.
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Edith
Dr. Pierce
Controversial health ads and travel notices mixed in clipping
A fragmented newspaper clipping promotes Dr Sage Catarrh Remedy and Scott's Emulsion for consumption and debility, cites testimonials, and includes an Harvest Excursion sale by C B Q R R with travel to Nebraska and surrounding states. Also mentions Irish origins claim and a 5c cigar brand Tansill's Punch and Dr Isaac Thompson eye water.
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Ringgold
Sydney Smith
EvisHa Gray
Yexas Siftings
Dr. Sage
John Henry
Chicago
Newman
Scott
W. Hutsert
M.D
Salisbury
Til
Burlington
Harvest
Nebraska
Kansas
Minnesota
Dakota
Paul Morton
Gen’! Paus
R. W. Tansill & Co
Isaac Thompson
Lyon
Hood
Lowell
Mass
Pierce
Pettit
J. M. Cartor
25Th Ward
Cincinnati
Jay Bronson
Detroit
Mich
Radway
Rapway & Co
Renry Kenworth
Chebanage
Iroquois County
Tam
A. D. Middlebrook
Doraville
Rapnar
Wilgt Noonan Landhard
Otabir
Ention
P. Ween
Adveerube
Kidder
WM. F. Kidder & CO
John St
Fly's
Hayfever
Ely
Wm. T. Carr
Elizabeth, N. J
Bend
U.S
Fitzgerald & Powell
Indianapole
Ind
Holly
Stephens
Lebanon
Ohio
Grannan Detective Bureau
Arcade
Jones
Shan
Binghamton
C. Sohn P. Lovell Arms CO
Boston
Wren
Williams
Cleveland
Frazer
Payne
Mark Twain
Richi
W. W. Aator
Judah P. Ben Dr. Minor
Columbia Law
Yale
Wellesley College
Prospectus Post Fren
LO. Seties
Fifth Ave
New York
Mallead Free
Wizard Oil Company
Chicage
Gough
B. W. Payne
Elmira
N. Y
South Canal Street
Ill
Dey Street
York
Fish Bras
Trederagrk
Mmiustrated
A.J. Towe
Mary A. McClure
Columbus
Kans
Ses
I. V.gee
Yorkshire
Cattaraugus Co
WV. Y
Lazarrr
Eng
Decatur Street
New Orleans
Ress
Parmelia Brundage
Lock Street Lockport
Jans L. Colby
Fucatan
Houston Co
Trenisa A. Cass
Sprvid
H. E. Mourixy
Montmorenci
F. Assury Howegat
M. E. Church
Silverton
N. J
Ipa M. Strona
Ainsworth
Democrat and News
Cambridge
Dations
Ann Poorg
Leonard Poole
Dorsbet
Hite
T. A. Ayes
East
Bec
Dorchester County
Gooden
Lanac
Downs
Fesq
Spring Watks, Rockland Co
P. D. Box
Mr. Downs
Lunes
Jostia F. McFarland
Athens
Golden Medical Discovery
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Proprietors
Main Street
Buffalo
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