Poison and household tips from a 19th century page
The clipping shares home remedies and advisory notes. It warns that pressing a small key’s barrel over a bee sting may relieve pain, explains watermelon preservation with varnish, and details flour tests and washing methods for dresses. It also covers Javelle water and chloride of lime for stains, describes the largest elevator in Brooklyn, and ends with poison treatment guidance and first aid for ingestion.
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Harrisburg
Quick Poisons First Aid Note From Historic Text
The passage cites mustard and egg whites as ready emetics to remove poison quickly, noting eggs antagonize many poisons. It urges calling a physician promptly, as delays of twenty minutes can be fatal.
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Racter
Baby Saved By Hop Bitters Cure claim
Parents in Rochester claim their baby was permanently cured of a dangerous bowel irregularity through Hop Bitters, which also restored the mother to health and strength. Buffalo Express note invites readers to see another column.
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Rochester
Buffalo Express
The Electricity of a Young Couple Utilized
A science man lights a buggy with a hidden electric lamp to illuminate the ride as a couple shares a kiss. The device, wired to the dashboard, flickers on at moments of closeness, startling the pair and the horse. The experiment, part of a patent bid, previews electricity in everyday objects according to the St Louis Mo. Dispatch report.
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T.hey
Denver Land and Improvement Gamping
Denver
Archie OC Fisk
A.H. Estes
A Sharp Barber reads the razor and debt trouble
A barber tale follows Gus de Smith avoiding prompt payment. While getting shaved, his chin bleeds as he blames the razor and as the barber defends sharpening on under payments. A closing note touts Col John C. Whittier crediting War ner a Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
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Gus de Smith
Gus
Jess
John C. Whittier
Atlanta, Ga
Warner
Telegraph origins and a volcanic tunnel tale
A reader questions the inventor of the electric telegraph, noting Wheatstone and Prof Henry built on his work. The piece describes a New Zealand railway through a volcanic lava tunnel near Christchurch and Lit tleton. It recounts a 19th century plantation arithmetic anecdote and a testimonial about St Jacobs Oil for rheumatism from a New York journal via the Richmond Christian Advocate.
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Morse
Dr. Wheatstone
Henry
Weatstone
New Zealand
Christchurch
Littleton
Dead Baby Lays in Mother's Grief Amid Funeral Imagery
A Syracuse Courier poem portrays a mother grieving her infant Ruby who has died. Lament fills the scene as a funeral procession looms and the home becomes a tomb of sorrow with the cradle empty and the heart burdened by loss.
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Foo
Syracuse
The Genesis of Jokes and their enduring charm
Hazlitt notes mankind created about twenty one jokes from early times to Heracles. Since then jokes surged to nearly twenty one million, often altered versions of the original. A good anecdote achieves near immortality, circulating across nations and eras with little harm in repetition.
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Hazlitt
Heirocles
Heliocles
Jocuse
Bismarck
Disraeli
America
Moody
Sidney Smith
Spurgeon
Mr. Beecher
Best family medicine to regulate bowels and purify blood
An advertisement column promotes Hop Bitters as a pure, perfect, and harmless remedy to relieve costiveness and briousness, aid digestion, regulate bowels, and purify the blood as a general system tonic. The note credits To leila Blade for the column.
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Toleila
Soda Water and its Gas Generation Methods
A detailed description traces soda water origins and the chemistry of gas production. It explains bicarbonate of soda usage, lime and sulfuric acid reactions, gypsum sulfate handling, and the cooling process in portable fountains to maximize carbonic gas absorption. It ends with a short medical note claiming Kipysy-Werr cures long standing kidney complaints.
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Grocers Bulletin
Decline in British Army Uniforms Reflects Economy
The article notes a loss of ornate details in British Army dress across years. Feathers and epaulettes fade, gold and silver trim largely vanish. Only essential adornments remain, with buttons reduced and tunics pared to plain facings, provoking mixed reactions among soldiers and civilians.
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Hussars
Water as temperance drink fools a wary traveler
An excursionist seeks a temperance drink at a drug store. The clerk offers a “straight temperance drink” that proves to be water drawn from a hydrant. The man pays ten cents, drinks half, then leaves in a huff, later sipping peppermint lemonade.
Labor, taxation, and native labor in Fujian life
A compact survey traces the labor question in Fujian after annexation, noting inconsistent accounts of black-birding and cooley-stealing, Governor efforts to repatriate imported workers, and a claim that returning emigrants influence local morality. It mentions Solomon Islanders growing savagish and a peculiar Polynesian nurse anecdote. An aside from London Saturday Review discusses file techniques for metalworking and removing sharp edges with progressively heavier pressure.
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Fujian
Cooper
Fiji
Patent Medicine Advertisements and Remedies Listed
A dense catalog of patent medicines and tonics appears, touting Winchells Teething Syrup for summer illness and stomach pains, Canwell Hazard Calisata tonic as a fever recovery aid, Hilert’s Daylight Liver Pills for liver issues, Carboline oil for hair restoration, Houston Pain Co Restepms for absorptive treatment, Uncle Sam’s Nerve and Bone Lotion for rheumatism, Henry's Carbolic Salve for skin and wounds, Green’s Oxygenated Bitters for digestion and blood health, Hurndos Catarrh Snuff for nasal mucous membranes, and Dr. Motis Liver Pills as cathartic regulators.
A Tough Horse Story From a Cincinnati Inquirer Reprint
A Canadian draught horse at Mr A Toughman’s stable on North Elm Street displayed remarkable sagacity by licking and using St Jacobs Oil on a sore shoulder after knocking over a bottle. The tale, though humorous, is backed by testimonials from horseflesh experts asserting the remedy’s efficacy.
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The
Cincinnati Inquirer
A. Toughman
North Elm Street
Mr. T
Toughman
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David, Dows & Co
Brooklyn
N. C
Columbia Street
Allrest
Imachinery
Ellevator
S. Jacobs Oil
St Louis
Moe. Dispatch
Electric Telegraph
Dar
Baby
Briish Army Battons
London Saturday Review
Ds. Winceell
Dr. Winchell
Sli
Canwell, Hazard & Co
New York
Mat
Houaton Pas Co
United States
Frazer Lubicator Company
Uncle Sam
Wall Druggista
Henre
Green
Hurno
Motis
Dros
Addrang
Narrowal Pupulseme Co
Chicago
Ee Asnt Wane Aampa Rae
Jay Bronson
Vickery
Augusta
George Woodley
Lumberter Wt
Chicago, Ill
H. Hallett & Clo
Portland
Atd
Eee Portas Se
State St
Adpress
Standard Watches
American Watch Co
Pittsburgh, Pa
Valentine Bros
Janeaville
Wis
Bakzs ED Wirre
Clark
Pinearert
England
Eng
Pew
Manhattan Book CO
P.O
Bree
Garfield
Guitean
Ian Fortune
Outfit
Hic
Hubbard Bros
Chicago Ledger
Chicago, Il
NaTsoNau Pusitsomne Co
Johnson & Co
Boston
Mars
Bangor
Cyclopedia War
Great Library of Universal Knowledge
Chambers’ Encyclopedia
Appleton
Johnson
Russia
Apecimen Pigeu
Oum B. Alden
Broadway
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lymn, Mass
Lydia E. Piinkham
Lydia E. Pinkhamw
Western Avenue
Lynn
Masa
Mead
Lydia ZE
Ball
Joan
Beast
Gontan
Mass
Mathews & OG
Fifth Avenue
C.N.Y
Isase Bay
Ndorfal
Seaseusl IP
Wilma
Arter Medicine CO
Europe
Colgate &Co
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