Remarkable cures and curiosities in a late 19th century column
A clinician reports relief from severe toothache by gargling bicarbonate of soda. a Indian suit over ruined dinner party meals ends in reversal. a clergyman proposes geraniums curb house flies. an eight day clock inspires awe in Paris. Pitt letters surface from Sotheby sale revealing a gift rather than debt. a century plant myth debunked with Agave Americana flowering after sixty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Tom Puaaus
George Meares Drought
Seeesoaes
Caledlarias
Cracy
Paria
Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson’s
Pitt
Bury Post
St. Swithin’s-lane
Quintin Matsys
Remarkable Plant Flowering and Death After Bloom
A Gardeners Magazine excerpt notes a plant that grows a 20 ft tall flower stem and flowers once before dying. The plant thrives in a large space, then flowers and dies as its heart withers. Nearby allies also flower once and perish, while some live on years after flowering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardener's Magazine
Tea adulteration claims and Horniman tea contrast
Dr Hassall analyzes 18 tea samples and finds all adulterated with artificial colors including Prussian blue turmeric and mineral powder. He contrasts personal samples from Horniman’s Teas at the docks as perfectly pure and free of facing agents. February 19 1874.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hassalt
Horniman
Hassall
M.D
Hornimans
Marriages and Deaths Notice From Various UK Churches
A list of marriages and deaths with dates in September across multiple churches and towns. Entries include Oakley-Foster at Whitby, Cowell-Barnard at Lowestoft, Hawkes-Dowing at Stratford-on-Avon, Fishwick-Silvester at Stafford, Lloyd-Morgan at Machen, Smith-Stuart at Woolwich, Clibborn-Shewell at Darlington, Deverell-Chilcott at Torquay, Ferguson-Angus at Regent's Park, Viney-Brankston at Upper Norwood, Freeman-Warner at East Dereham, and deaths for Henry Dewhurst in Pendleton and Charles Udall in Faringdon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakley—Foster
Congregational Church
Whitby
H. Oakley
Chester-le-Street
R. Bulmer
Henry Hislop Oakley
Heckmondwike
Ee Ae Storr Foster
Captain Foster
Kitby
Cowell—Barnard
Congregational Chapel
Lowestoft
Peter Cowell
Ashby Hall
Anna Maria
Thomas Vince Barnard
New Cross
London
Hawkes—Downing
Independent
Stratford-on-Avon
Scott James
Richard Hawkes
J. Hawkes
Ely
Emily Ann Downing
Henry Downing
Fishwick
Silvester
Machen
Monmouthshire
Savanna Maria
James Hughes Morgan
Leeds
Smith—Stuart
Rectory-place Congregational Chapel
Woolwich
T. Sissons
C. Box
James Smith
Chatham
Bristol
Eliza
William Stuart
Clibborn—Shewell
Friends’ Meeting House
Darlington
Frederick Clibborn
Philadelphia
Henrietta
J. T. Shewell
Holmwood
Deverell—Chilcott
Abbey Road Congregational Church
Torquay
C. Knibbs
Philip Henry Deverell
Copcourt
Tetworth
Oxfordshire
Emily
Upper Norwood
R. Lewis
Joseph Elliott
Ebenezer Viney
Maria
Michael Brankston
Beauchamp Lodge
Warwick Crescent
Freeman—Warner
Baptist Chapel
East Dereham
Geo. Gould
Norwich
William Freeman
Jane Kizapet
William Warner O Cards
Holloway's Pills and Kinahan's Whisky Ad
Autumn health warnings promote Holloway's Pills as purifying aids to digestion and appetite, claiming they strengthen the stomach and expel toxins. Kinauan's U Wnaisky Irish whisky is praised as superior to cognac, with branding noted as Red Seal Pink label Cork branded "Kinahan's A Whisky."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollseway
Holloway
Kinauan
Kinahan’s
Great Titchfield-street
Oxford-st
TrHncaT IRRITATION and Hair Restorer Ads
A collage of home remedy notices and cosmetic ads. It promotes glycerine jujubes for throat irritation from James pps and Co, Mrs. A Allen's World's Hair Restorer, Stedman-Phillips Tonic Drops, and Jupson's Dyes. It lists depots and prices with London addresses and notes a skin disease institution schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Pps and Co
Threadneedle Street
Piccadilly
London
A. Allen
Southampton-row
Stedman’s Teething
Fast-road
Tax Institution
Gray’s Inn-road
King’s-cross
City
Mitrestreet
Aldgate
Hagan
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Dewhurst
Sorrel Bank
Pendleton
Manchester
Henry Sayar Dewhurst
Samuel Dewhurst
J.P
Udall
Chapel House
Faringdon
Berkshire
Charles George
T. C. Udall
Somersetshire
H.W. Newton
Bowe
Christianain
St. Anne’s Crescent
Ewes
W. A. O’conor
The
Guardian
Accidental Assurance Company
A. Kinnarro
M.P
Cornhill
Regent Street
William J. Vian
ROYAL
Keith, Prowse, and Co
Library
Harmonium
Mason and Hamlin
American Organs
Cheapside
Rudall and Co
Keith
Prowse, and Co
Anjoes
Nicole, Freres
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