Shocking Calamity and Potent Cures Mentioned in Ad
A Williford Ark doctor touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve for a railroad laborer severely injured his foot. The ad lists multiple travel and medical offers, featuring Nickel Plate Road tickets, Pan-American routes, and Electric Bitters claims, with various prices and dates, alongside local goods and services from Westbrook Geise and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Kellett
Williford, Ark
Bucklen
Westbrook & Geise
Buffalo
Choate’s persuasive eloquence and Smith’s whisky anecdote
The piece recalls Rufus Choate admired for restraint and fluency, likening his voice to a sweet flute and noting his silent power over juries. It also recounts F Hopkinson Smith’s lecturer mishap in a temperance setting, where a cold hostess provides whisky to calm him before his reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkinson Smith
F. Hopkinson Smith
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Smith
Clockwork marvels and magnetic swan automaton clock
A London paper describes an elite clock collection led by a Rothschild timepiece dating to Louis XVI. It details a water basin swan whose “dial” is a floating iron figure guided by a magnet, a springless tower clock driven by falling balls, and a system where balls move between receptacles to advance the gear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rothschilt
Lews XVI
London
Gols Perny
Supreme Court Power Framed by Election Returns
In this critique, Dooley and Rooley discuss the Supreme Court as a powerful yet fallible body. The article notes justices serve for life and can strike down laws, while politicians and public opinion shift with elections. It cites postwar cases on Porto Rico and criticizes judicial independence in political terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Supreme Court
House of Representatives
Senate
Supreme Court
Congress
United States
Justice Shiras
Justice Brown
Insular
Justice White
Murt
Porto Rico
Porto Ki Id
Los
Portsico
Fuller
Harlan, Brewer and Peckham
Gray
Brown
United States Senate
Rooley
Mr. Hennessy
Dooley
Beef and chili pepper fricasse mixed with onions and lard
A dated kitchen prep instruction describes cutting beef and onions, soaking chilis, frying with lard and bacon, browning the meat, simmering with mashed tomatoes and pepper soaking water, then thickening the sauce. The notice closes with assorted classified ads for rent signs, candy stock, bakery items, wedding stationery, building lots, and a house with land in Newton.
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N. K. Fairbank Company
Chicago
St. Louis
New York
Death
B. Munday
Henrieta
Tex
Nickel Pate Road
Boston
John Y Callahan
Adams St
California
Chicago Great Western Railway
San Francisco
Portland
Ore
Great Western
J.P. Elmer
Wagley & Smead
the Record
New York Tribune
Tribune Kansas City Star
Wallace's Farmer
Daily News
Des Moines
Des Moines Weekly Leader
Des Moines Register
Des Moines Weekly
the Homestead
The
Farmer's Institute
the Mutual Insurance Journal
Marshalltown Times
New
E. W. Grove
Perry Davis
J. Thompson
Little Mint
Fred Meredith
Oppera House
Opera House
Jasper Sons
Drs.Fellows & Fellows
W. Walnut
Des Moines, Dh
Hoate
Rufus Choate
Senator Hoar
Choate
Cicero
Cornelius
Jeremy Taylor
Scribner’s Mozine
KMK
Neel’s
Frank
A. Lona
Jas- Per & Sons
Neel
Newton
J. Brown
Grand Cafe
East Side Square
Portland Cement
Louisville Cement
Fort Dodge Cement
Ash Grove
Hanson’s Lumber Yard
Mound City
Newton, Iowa
Lambert
Geo. Koenig
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