Royal Never Fails Baking Powder Ends Worries
Royal Baking Powder is praised for consistent performance in American households for 30 years. The ad warns against inferior brands that sometimes fail and must be returned, urging consumers to trust Royal which never fails.
Origin of Providence Mill and early Worsted industry
The account recalls John Sugden settling at Dockroyd and establishing Providence mill in 1800, marking a pivotal point in the valley’s mechanical spinning of worsted. It notes Sugden’s small operation, the shift of pieces to Halifax Piece Hall, and fear among band spinners as Providence mill began to employ workers and expand.
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Hargreaves
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Arkwright
Watt
Worested
Halifax
Providence Mill
Sugden Bend
Conscription Woe in Civil War Tale from Atlanta Constitution
Narration recalls a conscript physician curing a half wilted youth named Garrett Hendrix who cannot enlist. Dr Calhoun issues a certificate allowing him to return to the farm to aid crop efforts. A second conscription officer presses the youth to march to town for enlistment.
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Andy
Garrett Hendrix
Calhoun
Bobe
Allanta
Fragmented Verse and War Testimony Pieces
A collage of lyrical fragments describing a woman and nature alongside a gallery of wartime memories. It contains vivid imagery of eyes and lips and a narrative about soldiers facing battle, with quotes attributed to unnamed sources from the St. Louis Republic and New York San sources.
Tetherball Described as New English Lawn Game
The article defines tetherball as a lawn or courtyard game using an eight foot post a cord and a ball. Players strike the rotating ball with tennis racquets in turn. It promises lively contests though the ball can be elusive on the grounds.
Libraries Muscome and Methods Modern museum methods applied to libraries
Modern museum methods applied to libraries will extend their usefulness and availability for instruction. In the modern museum the display of books has become almost as important as the display of conventional museum specimens.
Preachers Warning Urges Women on Men and Justice
A southern preacher lecturing in Boston warned women to wary of men with small ears small bores small eyes and small hands and feet implying poor offspring. He argued life tests human nature and calls for justice and tenderness toward the dead who cannot protest injustice.
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Boston
Mall
Granger Sells Fine Horses After Witty Offer
Postmaster Sexton recounts a rustic from Todiana who visits Chicago with two fine horses and a letter of introduction to a savvy buyer. The countryman meets a connoisseur who inflates the price to fifteen hundred dollars, proving city smarts beat country brag. The tale ends with the granger returning home satisfied that Chicago is cleverer than he thought.
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Sexton
Todiana
LaSalle Street
Granger
Lake County
Chicago
Albany Argus
My boy you be a liar Cassell’s Journal tale
A mock recollection from Cassell’s Journal recalls a boy before Bishop Wilberforce. The bishop doubts a past confirmation and mutters a private question. The boy responds with blunt honesty, saying the bishop is a liar.
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Wilber Force
Cassell
Not a Legal Day for Meeting a Loan
A banker’s daughter Sally denies meeting on Sunday for a loan while a man pleads to meet, only to be swallowed by darkness as he leaves. The scene appears in St. Joseph News.
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Sally
Joseph
Ambitious Worth-1 Seeks Pushing Job After Grocer Ad
A brief exchange shows a pushing young man applying for a delivery role. The grocer notes forty to fifty orders to fill and directs the applicant to the push cart at the back door.
Terrible Scare Ends with Comic Pigs in Cellar
Parmer Stebbins and his wife awaken to noises they fear intruders. The source is five or six pigs splashing milk and prowling the cellar, driven out after a barefoot kick. Dame Stebbins helps, villain pig escapes, and laughter follows the odd ordeal. The piece ends with a humorous locksmith anecdote.
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Parmer Stebbins
Niel Stebbins
Eri
Evie
Fuller
Eli
Bruteam
Dame Stebbins
Youth
Life and happiness through calm acceptance
A reflective piece on patience and perspective urging not to sweat trifles. It compares life to a looking glass and warns that angry thoughts breed a harsh temper that can fuel criminal behavior.
Clever French Comedian Outsmarts Walk Home
A young Paris actor, struggling to reach his lodgings near Montmartre cemetery, devised a plan. Dressed in black he joined a funeral procession, hid his face with a handkerchief, and slipped into a vacant coach seat. The ruse allowed him to ride undetected to his destination.
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Paris
Montmartre Cemetery
London
Nature and the efficacy of a famed bitters in disease
An old testimonial extols Hostetter s Bitters as a reliable remedy for chronic liver disease malaria constipation and kidney troubles. The advertisement emphasizes natural support through a long endorsement by professionals and decades of use, urging readers to rely on experienced guidance.
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Scott
Doug
Local Photog Praises Allcock’s Powders in Ad Copy
C D Fredricks a New York photographer touts Allcock’s Powders as a top family remedy after twenty years use. He claims quick relief for nervous energy fatigue indigestion and kidney issues and notes safety for women and children. An ad copy also mentions Brown’s Bronchial Traches and hoop skirt fame for women.
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C.D. Fredricks
Broadway
New York
Allcock
Remarkable cures offered for rupture piles and diseases
An 1886 ad claims permanent, painless cure for rupture and piles with no fee unless cured, plus private remedies. It advertises pamphlets from Porterfeld Losey in San Francisco and Menlo Park suppliers, with testimonials and a financial pledge by F J Cheney & Co to refund one hundred dollars for uncured catarrh.
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Drs. Porterfeld & Losey
Market Street
San Francisco
Sherwood Hall Nursery Co
Menlo Park
State OF Chinio
Coty of TeLeDe
Lucas Covn
Frank J. Chese
F. J. Canay & Co
Teledo
Sata Fem
Hall
CaTannn
Frank J. Cileney
A. W. Gleason
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Druggista
Brooklyn Grammar School Boyinforms on Girls in Verse
A Brooklyn grammar school boy’s recent composition notes girls as pretty and afraid of guns, wearing toe rubbers and admiring clouds with phrases like oh how perfectly lovely. The piece appears in a New York Times excerpt.
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Brooklyn
New York Times
Decline of copper engraving in Southern Iotia noted
The article surveys the fading copper engraving craft in Southern Iotia and nearby regions, lamenting the loss of skilled artisans and the decline of traditional techniques across Tanjore Arkanum and Manambuchavadad Tiewpati as the 19th century art wanes. A blind organ grinder in Alexandria Indiana and a Cambridge autograph letter of Newton are also mentioned amid broader historic notes. Amarath L killed five brothers and his mother killed herself in grief before his capture by voisom.
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Iotia
Tanjore
Arkanum
Manambuchavadad Tiewpati
Amarath L
Voisom
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