Peculiar Infatuation and Family Idiosyncrasies Explored
A column on unusual attachments between men and women, plus reflections on family traits. It cites a New Jersey marriage where the husband proved to be a woman, discusses enduring male friendship, and notes how family likenesses appear in humor, taste, and sentiment across siblings and cousins. It also references Warner's Safe Cure and a satirical story about a king’s double.
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New Jersey
Meriden
Conn
John EL. Preston
K. T. Cook
Curtis & Cook
Warner
Jane
Emily
Thomas
Tennysonian
Charleo
Alfred Tennyson
Caracci
Rossettis
Herschels
King George
Mr. Gilbert
Popular Science Monthly
Pirate Remedies and Hidden Dangers From Old Medical Claims
The article critiques dubious patent medicines and tonics marketed as cures for malaria dyspepsia nervousness and rheumatic ailments. It contrasts modern medical standards with sketchy remedies and warns that sensational claims mislead readers while real health outcomes depend on proven care. It uses period tone to describe the boom of fraudulent preparations and the lifecycle of public trust.
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Amelia
Periah
Various Patent Medicines and Advertisements In Narrow Columns
An assortment of medical cures and household products is advertised, touting Bragonera's Pinaé as a safe indigestion remedy, Baxorero's Prns as a vegetarian tonic, Dubbins Electric Soap, Frown a Bronchial Trachea for throat issues, and Hall's Catarrh Cure. The notices claim long use, universal availability, and a contest for catarrh cures, with miscellaneous notes on fashion and counterfeit imitations.
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Bragonera
Baaxorero
Arctic
Luigi Cornaro
Newton
Percy Shelley
Sprighuy
Benedict Spinoza
Felix L. Oswald
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets Promote Gentle Cure
An ad-like passage contrasts two life paths and endorses Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a mild effective remedy. It promotes quick relief from ailments with a single sugar-coated pill and notes a low price. It also briefly mentions Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy at fifty cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Johnson
Mallock
Benohnson
Kirk
J.J. Mack & Co
San Francisco
Hong Kong street menders fascinate shoppers in daily toil
A Globe Democrat observer describes Hong Kong sewing women who mend coats and garments on the streets. They sit with baskets of rags, patching and altering for a small price while peddlers pause to chat, and even the oldest menders display wit and patience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
Minerva
Cor
Globe Democrat
The Eccentric Scot Maxim O'Rell Describes
Max O'Rell portrays a Scot from Edinburgh to London as frugal and observant. He notes the man pays promptly yet savors money, eyes the passing landscape, and dislikes tolls preferring to swim streams when possible. He is generous in his own way and not truly a miser.
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Solul
Tie
Edinburgh
London
Lle
Australia
Max O'Rell
Eskimo distribution spans Arctic coasts and Greenland
A remark notes that Eskimo populations inhabit Greenland and Arctic coasts from Greenlam eastward along the island to the far north inhabited area, then along the mainland from TiVoison bay northward to Prince William Sound. It claims remarkable linguistic similarity across the vast coast, contrasting with the divergent languages of California and Oregon valleys such as the Lititos families in Scionoa.
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Arctic
Greenlam
Man
Tivoison Bay
Dohring Strait
Prince William's
Greenland
Behring Strait
Lititos
California
Oregon
Temperance, Towka, and Prohibition in Far Lands
Fragmentary text notes Matligasan virtue of water drinking and dislike of drunkenness among visiting nations. It mentions a luxury distillate towka and a legal prohibition in Tananariveo on ancient spirits. The passage includes garbled names and unreadable dialogue.
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Tananariveo
Demorest
First Club Lounger Mystery Amid Whmbteede Rumor
A garbled fragment reports Mackensie Geel and the Second Club Lounger debating a mysterious event. The text hints at a startling claim that the emperor is dead, as noted by the New York Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackensie Geel
Ivelled
Shewter
Clul
Ignorance of Medicine and Quackery in Public Life
The piece argues that quackery thrives on public ignorance and calls for comprehensive education in physiology anatomy and hygiene. It cites Garfield Conkling Kaiser Wilhelm Grant and German remedies to illustrate how mistaken beliefs persist and how medical literacy could curb superstition and harmful cures.
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Fordyce Harker
Conkling
Darky
Garfield
Girant
Kaiser Frederick
Mr Conkling
Gen Grant
Germany
Africa
Chicago Times
Decline of statesmen and pulpit orators in modern age
The speaker laments that progress and industry rise while era giants like Clay Breckinridge Marshall Gentry Maynard and Calhoun disappear from the statesman pulpit. He notes no modern equivalents rivaling the revered figures and cites Waddell and Wirt as contrasting icons.
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Kentucky
Clay
Breckinridge
Marshall
Tennessee
Gentry
Maynard
Johnson
Haskell
Mississippi
Poote
Prentiss
Alabami
Yancey
Georgia
Toombs
Hill
Stephens
Johnston
Cobb
South Carolina
Calhoun
Chewesa
Thine
Rutledge
North Carolina
Macon
Mangum
Balger
Virginia
Jefferson
Matrek
Marrison
Vearce
Huscomb
Waddell
William Wirt
Solomon
Atlanta Constitution
Mountains of Ayawra Sparkle with Quartzite and Marble
A traveler in Ayawra, India, describes metamorphic mountains rich in marble and quartzite. The rocks gleam like ice under the sun as vast ledges crown the crests, while plains below reveal broken bir glistening like diamonds. A mighty, water carved torrent shapes the terrain over eons.
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Ayawra
India
Glass World
Stonewall Jackson keepsake cut from Confederate leader coat
A New York World report notes a gentleman at Buckingham Court Howe Val preserves a fragment claimed cut from Stonewall Jackson’s coat by surgeons after he was shot, described as a highly prized relic tied to the Confederate leader.
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Buckingham Court Howe
Val
Stonewall Jackson Ashe
Bie
New York World
Peppermint Oil as Promising Antiseptic in Diphtheria
London Lancet reports peppermint oil as a potent antiseptic with inhalation use against phthisis and diphtheria. In two adult male diphtheria cases during an epidemic, topical peppermint applications yielded rapid, complete recovery unlike traditional treatments, suggesting a potential broad therapeutic role.
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London
Lancet
Nutritional Comparison: Oysters Versus Milk and Meat
Professor W. O. Atwater notes that a quart of oysters provides a balanced mix of flesh forming proteins and fuel ingredients, closely matching milk in nutritive value per equal weight. He explains bread and cod differ in composition, with bread mainly starch and fuel, while lean cod and meat yield protein quantities.
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W. O
Atwater
Sweet Charity’s Sake and the Sham of Charity
A sensational portrayal of a social climber who uses charity to gain status. A faded patron navigates society by aiding orphans and the poor, yet her rise reveals vanity and manipulation in a literary gathering. The unnamed author recalls a distrusting reception of a shy poet and a charged salon moment.
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Nieidam
Brooklyn
Cotton wool blocks germ passage and fruit preservation claim
Public Opinion reports Professor Tyndal demonstrating that meopheric germs do not pass cotton wool layers and that boiling preserves fruit with a jar covered by cotton batting. A separate Toronto Globe item recounts a woman nearly suffocating after a canary incident and an average Mexican laborer supporting his family on per diem earnings.
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Tyndal
Darrin Electric and Medical Treatment Ad
Advertises Dr. Darrin's electric and medical cures for heart disease catarrh asthma deafness and more with testimonials from patients in The Dalles Pendleton Baker City and Vancouver. Promises free examinations confidential treatment charges by ability to pay and home treatment options with branch offices in The Dalles Pendleton Baker City and Umatilla hotel.
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Darrin
Dre. Darrin
Dalles
Pendleton
Baker City
Volua Webster
Weton
Umatila County
Iasac Wingard
Centralia
Joseph Moore
St. Charles Hotel
Portland
Fanny Kennedy
Walla Wa la
G L Whitman
Monmouth
Joalin
Herman Butler
Washington Building
Fourth
Washington Streets
Oto
Des. Darrin
Umatilla
Sud
Prendleton Hotel
Washauer
Phesiciansa
Enet
Teibias
Gwees & Sons
Tio
Irla
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Eo Belleve
What & Truax
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Crucistes
Eskimon
Malagnenar
Robinson Davkson
Brown
Javkeen Hattertt
Torus
Texas
France
Chicago
Weston
Alamenida
Cal
Cours
Wan
Koy
Prince County
Wasn
Darrrin
Was. McCoronron
Nan
Bae Ware
A. J. Tower
Boston, Mass
Drs
Porterfield
Salen
H. H. Green
Trev Gerwes
California Fig Syrup CO
Louisville
New York
A. Wilfovco Halls
Young Antich
Craic & Mosher
Solar Lintern
Turk Street
San Franelon
Chesebrough Manufacturing CO
State Street
Price Berlin Company
Capital
Clay St
Stewel’s
Stvewre
J . Smith £ CO
St Lobte
Creasinger & Co
Prop's
Los Angeles
Cotichar
Wilew
Corina
Potter Drug and Chemical Corporation
Huston
Mass
Seal OF North Carolina
Ddires
Erie Medical CO
Buffalo
le Povece
MAY & Co
ST. PA
Re Seuttee Pathick
Arrell
Attrney-at-law
Wablogton, D.C
Penbow
Carr J
NORKS
Pine Street
U. S. Peseion Agency
la Frenelaco
A.J Kehle
Albr. Dope
Smith’s
Home Circle
Mith’s
Front Street
San Franciso
Steinway,gabler and
Pease
Kheet Music
Steimsway Haun
Post Street
Matthias Gray Co
AGEN
Cireulirs
Geo
Evans
Intalli
Clive Kapress
H. & Root
M. C
Pearl St
New Yorks
Cymnasium and Athletic Goods
William CG. Beck Arms Coo
Heminngtonngton
Winchester
Martin, Colum
Repeating
NEW Lightning Magazine
Rkher Ios
Ols
Tae
THE
Aphao Medicine Company
Western Branch
Bosc
Portland, OR
Bold By
Wisrom Care Co
Beecham’s
NEW Law
Attormers
Dustness
Mien
Nune
Portland Buskeness College
Capital Business College
Salem
A. P. Armstrong
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