New England Miracle Tells of a Railroad Engineer’s Cure
A Boston Herald report details how Dr Williams Pink Pills restored health to Pred C. Vose his wife and mother in law from a New England household after years of stomach pain heart palpitations and rheumatic pains. Vose states relief began after taking the pills with continued improvement across digestion sleep and energy.
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Fred
Boston
Canada
Dr. Williams
New England
C. Vose
Chads
Walea
Holt
Billy
Aa- Wolliaens
Califoeain Gutting The Rest Of The Country
A misread line claims a group or country supplies vast pounds of raising yearly, much of which is consumed in the United States, suggesting economic or agricultural impact.
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Califoeain
United States
Poll of libraries ranks David Cop peril fiction top
A national survey of principal libraries finds David Cop peril as the most popular fiction work. The poll highlights reader preference for this title amid other contemporary novels.
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David Copperil
Mighty 110 Ton Naval Gun and Its Terrifying Range
A detailed look at the 110 ton naval cannon described as the modern steam powered artillery. It weighs about 110 tons, uses cocoa powder charges split into eight cartridges, and fires 180 to 200 pound projectiles at 2105 feet per second. The article notes ammunition costs, fire rate, and the gun’s ability to pierce heavy armor and multiple material layers.
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Italy
How the Egyptians Moved Monoliths Depicted in Relief
Fragmentary bas relief from Egypt shows transport of large stones from quarries to sites. A monolith remains attached to rock by grooves and holes while wooden pegs swell with water to break the stone free, then loaded on a galley towed by boats.
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Egypt
Syrene
Muich
Fras J. CQrxEy oath affirms partnership and catarrh remedy
Fras J. CQrxEy swears he is the sole partner of the firm F. J. Cagsgr & Co operating in Toledo Ohio and that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for each case of catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is advertised as a blood and mucous medicine with testimonials and a sales pitch from F. J. Chexer & Co. Toledo Ohio.
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Fras J. Cqrxey
Frmot F. J. Cagsgr & Co
Toledo
Srm
A. W.gle
Asos
Hall
F. J. Chexer & Co
Liberal fakir upsold by giving goods away
A Boston Herald report describes a courtside fakir on Green Street who freely gave away money and trinkets to a dazed crowd. He touted bargains and watched feee bids produce surprising returns while secretly keeping some cash, ending with an apparent net gain.
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Green Street
Ineas
London Bridge
Athan
Bean
Boston Herald
Corean Wonders Said To Dazzle Ancient Asia
A Chinese paper lists seven Corean wonders including a hot mineral spring near Kin Shantao cure all diseases and two wells with opposite tastes, a cold cave with icy wind, an unkillable pine forest, the famous hovering stone, a hot stone on a hill, and a sweating Buddha guarded in a temple with a barren surrounding yard.
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Corea
Kin Shantao
Famona
Avalanches Linked to St Gothard Rail Tunnel Case
A London Times correspondent reports a lawsuit filed by valley inhabitants against the Federal Government over avalanches blamed on tunneling work near St Gothard. Witnesses claim explosions from dynamite increase avalanche frequency and power, feared to destroy lower villages as hearings open in Bellinzona.
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London Times
St. Gothard
Toney
Passi Tratog
Bellinzona
Scientific American
A Bowl and a Pole in a Maine Parish Tale
An Episcopalian minister recalls a comic incident in a small Maine parish. He forgot a christening water receptacle and asked a boy to fetch a bowl. The boy returned with his mother’s clothesline pole, ten feet long, and placed it on the platform as the christening proceeded. The mother blamed the boy for stealing her clothesline, but the minister explained the boy misunderstood the whispered request.
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Maine
Jimmie
Jimimie
Detroit Free Press
How Old Is the Human Race The fullest answer in science
In the Forum Dr Daniel G Brinton discusses three key questions about humanity When did the first man appear By what process did he appear and Where did he appear He suggests dates from 5000 to 290000 years ago and notes evidences dating back 50900 years He weighs creation evolution and a leap theory and cites earliest traces in southern Europe Asia or north Africa with England France and Spain as early sites
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the Forum
Daniel G. Brinton
Brinton
Europe
Asia
North
Africa
England
France
Spain
Dead Men for a New Bridge in Bosnia Legend
The London News reports a revived superstition in Braseka Bosnia that a bridge cannot be firm unless a child is walled up in a pillar. Rumors claim gypsies steal children to sell to contractors who place one child in each pillar.
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Braseka
Bosnia
Mostar
Narenta
Brazeka
London News
Deacon William Brown Bible Distributor Dies at 76
Deacon William Brown of New Hampshire who began the Bible distributing work in 1849 died at age 76. In his lifetime he gave out 120,900 copies of scriptures and, in the last two years before his death, canvassed 239 towns and visited over 80,000 families.
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William Brown
New Hampshire
Shoe Dressing Recipes and Noise Reduction Ideas
The piece outlines a cheap shoe dressing recipe using spermaceti oil malachite and ivory black with half a pint of negar, claiming a clean surface and glossy look. It also notes a rainy weather dressing with turpentine Burgundy pitch and cotton feed, plus a plan for noiseless wheels and a promoter of Adirondack air as nerve relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adirondacks
New York
Mul and Express
Local Patent Remedies and Treasury Deficit Noted in Fragments
A collage of ad copy mentions Brown's Iron Hitters for indigestion and weakness and Beecham's Pills as a preferred remedy. It also notes a projected Chicago Treasury deficit around 1.6 million dollars and claims of phosphate beds in Lewis County Tennessee.
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Lewis County
Tennessee
August Flower advertised by Post Master in nation Centre NY
A Post Master advertises August Flower as a superb medicine sold in Nation Centre New York. He claims it cures a wide range of ailments by improving stomach function, appetite, and digestion.
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E. A. Bend
P.M
Nation Centre
N.Y
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