Fragmented Almanac Snippets and Vignettes From a 19th Century Page
A collage of short items includes a legend excerpt and reflections on storms and fate, a child’s birthday tale about pockets and keys, a shipwreck dog and boy reunion tale, schoollike lessons from farm animals, and brief notes on a Portuguese subsidy program for steamship ventures to Brazil.
Dakota Town Moves Away From Fading Cattle Center
Aberdeen correspondence cites the town of Hvaris once the country’s leading cattle shipping hub. August 1 marks the railroad’s closure as tracks are torn up toward Glenhem and Mobridge, signaling the town’s final neglect and the Missouri River bridge site near Aberdeen.
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Milwaukee
Ecgi
Missouri River
Glenhem
Mobridge
Milwraukee
Hivarta
Abérdeen
Chicago Tribune
First Diving Dress Revolution and Ocean Depths
The article traces the evolution of diving dress from Adolph Siebe's crude invention nearly a century ago to modern suits enabling divers to stay eight hours underwater. It notes the new ease of underwater work and the lure of submerged treasure, with ships' bullion rooms seen as both treasure and risk.
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Adolph Siebe
Workman
Nicholas
Woman credits kidney pills with recovery after paralysis
Sylvanne Verrill of Milford Maine describes a life changing cure after five years of kidney pain and paralysis. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with restoring kidney function and mobility within three months, confirming her recovery and removal of crutches. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Sylvanne O. Verrill
Milford
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N
Swedish inventor’s machine sorts money by value and counts fast
A Swedish inventor unveils a counting and sorting device that separates coins by denomination and deposits them in tubes. Operators can extract lots of 10 20 50 or 200 pieces. The machine counts up to 72 000 pieces per hour and, with one operator, replaces fifty skilled cashiers in a day.
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Hobbie
Bob
Brown
Mother
Sranny
Rosa
Mr. Brown
Daddy
Washington Star
Dundae Advertiser
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted As Internal Remedy
Advertisement claims catarrh cures via internal medicine affecting blood and mucous surfaces. Describes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Pills as effective tonics and purifiers. Mentions Toledo firm Crumver & Co and druggist sales with 7 cent price, plus reports about deer in suburbs of Boston.
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Hall
Crmver & Co
Toledo
Halls Family
Boston
Luxemburg tast to bread and water for vagabonds
The Luxemburg Government imposes bread and water for four days on incorrigible vagabonds with ordinary meals twice a week thereafter. Prisons reportedly emptying quickly. Jewels and objects sent from France to the London exhibition valued at over 125,000,000 francs. The Nue contains a greater variety of fish than any other body of water.
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Luxemburg
France
Inconsistent Remedies Highlight Health Fads and Confusion
The excerpt describes various unverified treatments and products such as Woolford's Sanitary Lotion and Mrs. Winslow's Teething Syrup, noting mixed results and high costs. It also mentions an official misremembering a professional credential in a Department of Commerce and Labor memo, illustrating the era's unreliable health advice and bureaucratic slips.
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Teoh
Woolford
Fadia
Department of Commerce and’ Labor
Hig
Drayw
R ‘Colquhoun
Institute of Civil Engineers
METCO
Lia
Br. Colquhoun
Lippincott
Swallows Defend Nest Against Aggressive Squirrel
Mrs. Bamford reports a nest built by swallows in her Oldfields Hall summer house. A squirrel repeatedly attempted to oust a swallow from the nest. The birds, aided by their mate, returned with reinforcements and drove off the intruder in a bold defense observed by Mrs. Bamford.
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London
Standerd
Standard OH Company to Tow Barges for Oil Transport
The Standard OH Company will tow steel oil barges across the Atlantic Ocean for bulk oil transportation. The barges will be packed and prepared for towing by oil carrying steamers, identified as O.P. 47.
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Standard OH Company
Bartge
Atlantic “Ocean
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