Colling Jewelry and the Hidden Gold Melting Trade
In a backroom near Madison and Dearborn, a pawnshop proprietor reveals how gold and silver are melted and recast into bars then shipped to Washington. Workers heat crucibles with naphtha flames, pour molten metals into molds, and separate alloys to produce ready cash and new coin, with weekly meltings and profits ranging from six to twelve percent.
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Republic
Madison
Dearborn
Taele Sam
Uncle Sam
Washington
Express
Uncle Sam’s
Dave
Chicago
Tory
The Hooked Umbrella Incident on Canal Street
A quick moving passerby on Canal Street found a hooked umbrella snag a handsome young man’s vest, dragging him around as bystanders watched. The tale warns against carrying hooked umbrellas anter your arm. A separate note mentions a mushroom grown in northeastern Asia linked to inducing intoxication and affecting muscle exertion.
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Canal Street
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Physicians market pills direct to patients era of self prescription
A Saint Louis Globe-Democrat excerpt warned that doctors increasingly supply ready made tablets to patients rather than write prescriptions. The shift cuts apothecaries out of fees, boosts repeat visits, and risks unsafe drug use as manufacturers push doctor directed sale of dosed pills. Clinics and firms expand nationwide to supply physicians with small dose packets.
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St Louis Globe- Democrat
Memory and sudden recollection in Ribot’s direaxes case
A 30 year old patient after a severe illness loses all memory of objects and names. Restored health brings rapid relearning from reading to Latin. A momentary head sensation triggers realization that he already knew the material, followed by full recovery of faculties and puzzlement at why reading and writing had been necessary at age 30.
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Ribot
Ne Essary
Poe's The Bells First Printed in Sartain's Magazine
Philadelphia Record recounts Henry Sartain narrating how Poe sold The Bells to Sartain's Magazine in installments. Poe asked for 57 dollars and received payments for additional stanzas as the poem progressed, with the work finally printed after space became available.
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Eow
Poe
Henry Sartain
Sartain
Ofice
John
Philadelshia Record
Plagiarizing Bar Pupils Work From Teacher Prompt
A Washington Post item recounts a Capitol hifi family pupil ordered to write an essay on an abstruse subject aided by a quotation. The elder brother promised to type it. the student then copied and altered sentences from various sources using a mother’s shears to trim quips. The piece illustrates a curious journalistic anecdote about originality.
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Cox
Cnarr
Washington Post
Explaining a Blank in a Jewish Messenger Note
A fragmentary Jewish Messenger passage discusses memory lapses from drunkenness and cites an Irish porter who misplaced a package while drunk and subsequently remembered its location after another drink. The text illustrates unreliable recall and comic misdirection.
A Soldier's Legs They Are Apt to Roz but the Owners
A veteran discusses the hidden costs of war, noting bravery is honor bound and soldiers fear not death but dishonor. He recalls a rear-guard march in Virginia where he chased down applejack hunters, guiding a rapid retreat as Confederate riders pursued.
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Ebot
Hell
Virgin
Httle
Lau
Confederacy
Iran
Louisville
Farmrém
The Cowboy and the Folding Bed Tale
A Denver hotel tale describes a cowboy from the plains who rented a room with a folding bed. In the morning a chambermaid discovers the room ransacked with mugs and towels used as a makeshift pillow. A sarcastic note mocks the folding bed and cubberas, reflecting frontier humor from Denver Field and Fam.
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Cowboy
Fesas Panhandle
Denver
Allusy
Denver Field
Origin of the Menhaden Industry Air
Robert P L Walsh recalls the rise of the menhaden oil industry starting with a Bluehill Maine fisherwoman Bartlett who noticed oil on water in 1530. Her family sold 18 barrels soon after, then 100 the next year, sparking a coastal expansion of oil presses and rapid industry growth that surpassed whaling within two decades.
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Robert PL Walsh
Bartlett
Bluehill
Boston
Themerican Fisheries
Judgev Work Described by Cincinnati Gazette
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette explains judge work beyond bench time. Opinions require careful writing, research, and record preparation with much labor from clerks and stenographers, who dictate and transcribe in offices.
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Ix i
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
She Was Blind A Poor Sick Man Seeks Help
An old-time line from Zeitungs Lese buch depicts a blind man asking for aid while his wife, blind herself, waits at the door for a policeman. The dialogue paints a small scene of hardship and begging for relief.
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Zeitungs-Lesebuch
Might Have Been Both First Boarder and Dumback
A Chicago Tribune quotation notes a border trio discussing appetite and romance. One boarder asks what ails Dumback as he has barely eaten for two days. The second boarder cites love or policy, saying he is courting the lanalady's daughter.
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Dumback
Daugther
Chicago Tribune
How Wire Is Made A Mechanical Process Explained
The article describes wire production from coil fed rods through drawing plates and annealing steps. It covers pointing, acid washing, limewater rinses, drawing with soap, and multiple passes through progressively smaller dies. It notes hardening during drawing and multiple annealings to produce soft or hard wire across metals like gold copper and steel, with sizes from one quarter inch to one seven hundredth inch.
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Cassier
Doctor’s Quiz Class Gaffe Highlights Medical Lesson
A Buffalo University physician uses a teaching anecdote about a private patient to illustrate how meaning can be lost. In a room full of students he explains a medicine and its expected effect, then learns the patient forewarned that her husband was away, proving the student did not catch the idea. Clinical miscommunication becomes a teaching moment.
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Squills
Provicians
Squiils
Bobbins
University of Buffalo
Why Olives Are Cheap
A fragment from Buffalo News notes cheap olives from Genesee valley farms and a grower with 34 acres of palms yielding several bushels each. Olives are picked green, labeled in bottles or kept, then sold, with hints of market tricks in the trade.
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California
Genesee Valley
Lizyar
Buffalo News
Animal sentries and warning calls across species
The article discusses sentry behavior in animals from prairie dogs to wild geese and geese alarms. It notes that vigilance persists in captivity and details how different species use distinctive alarm calls and sentinel posts to guard feed and roosting areas. It also includes a human anecdote about chickens affected by digestive issues and a farmer's remedy.
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Theralware
Jardin d
Paris
St Johm
Long Farms In Maine Oddly Shaped Dexter Farm
The Dexter farm once owned by Eli jah W. Sprague is eight red wide and a half mile long with the highway cutting it at right angles, creating an oddly narrow shape. The property, with pasture and woodland at one end, has persisted as a farm since forefathers and stands out for its extreme narrowness compared with other oblongs found in Farmington Falls and Canada.
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Maine
Dexter
Elijah W. Sprague
Barrow
Farmington Falls
Canada
Lewiston Journal
Fragmentary Philosophical Quotation by Pythagoras
The text presents a fragmented antique quotation attributed to Pythagoras gently urging moral reflection. It questions fidelity to rectitude and asks what designs remain and what actions were not completed before proceeding toward divine judgment.
The Laughing Owl of Florida and Nearby Regions
A brief note describes the laughing owl perched high in trees at night making loud ha ha laughter. The sound unsettles campers unfamiliar with the bird. Some say women prefer mild butter while men favor saltier varieties.
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Laughing Owl
Florida
Chesapeake
Farm Barn and Henmery Promotes Practical Farm Buildings
A 19th century design article argues for proper farm architecture concentrating on barns and hennery construction. It details plan elements, ventilation, water supply, nesting, feeding and flooring, plus the need for sturdy foundations and lighted, well arranged pens to improve labor efficiency and animal care. The piece notes costs are reasonable and urges farmers to adapt plans to local conditions. It also includes a humorous aside about a mesmerist on trial and a quip from a judge.
The Preacher of the House Wall Pulpit Poem Read by Children
A Boston Advertiser piece describes a classroom scene where young students explore moral tales through writing and drawing. A child recounts a poem about a benevolent preacher named Jack in a green place, whose death and renewal mirror nature's cycles.
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Anaymes
Anne
Jack
Ouse
Mother Earth
Sumuc
Boston
Advertiser
Rambler Bicycle Promotes Health and Beauty in 19th Century Ad
Health suggestions extol riding the Rambler Bicycle as a path to vigor for businessmen, children, and women. The ad touts spring frame to reduce vibrations, comfort, and luxurious exercise, claiming beauty and health advance together and urging use for a healthful life. It highlights ramblers for all, with spring or rigid frames and various tire types, by W. Delsplines as special representative in Frederick, Md.
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Hamblen
Frederick
Mid
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