Death Spider Tale in London Seven Dials Grim Shop
A grim London tale centers on goblin-like Hargon the Gobelin and his morbid affairs at a Seven Dials shop. He and the imp Grissikin conjure two Death Spiders to kill Andrew Fithington as vengeance, leading to a fatal midnight confrontation and the old man's ruin.
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Seven Dials
London
Borfah Hurgon
Gobelin
Hargon
Grissikin
Kent
Andrew Fithington
Hémist
Waus
Fishington
Fithington
Etki
Perfectly Sane or Loon on Wife’s Death Affects Montana Hermit
The Globe-Democrat reports John Hall of a Helena farm, who clings to his dead wife as alive. He keeps two chairs at meals, talks to an imaginary Mary, and insists she will return young and reveal a gold mine. Neighbors call him harmless but deluded, the “Gold Spook.”
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George Poston
Globe-Democrat
John Hall
Helena
Mont
Hall
Mary
Washington
Legations
United States
Washington Star
Legation
Pekin
The Bold Buccaneers A Description of the Spanish Merchantmen
A historical overview contrasting Spanish American merchantmen with light buccaneering craft. It details fortresslike galleons armed with heavy guns and musketeers against smaller schooners and brigantines that relied on maneuvering. The piece notes daring tactics, brutal boarding methods, and mutual respect between Spaniards and buccaneers amid ongoing struggle.
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Blackwood
The Banker's Daughter and a Daring Bank Robber
A veteran thief taker recalls luring a South banker’s son killer with the banker’s daughter from New Orleans. The tale ends with the crook arrested after the hair curls trap and the man’s two counts yield fourteen years in the pen. Soured diplomats and Washington society debauchery follow in a second tale.
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L. A. Juhring
Memphis
New Orleans
Canal Street
London Cabby Rejects Politeness and Fatigue
A weary London cabby quits after four years saying he can no longer endure. He explains his daily fatigue and rude treatment from some passengers. In a comic moment, he offers polite help to a woman who declines, promising to report future complaints.
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London
Design for Dyecug Indigo Printing Method
The article describes an ingenious process for white and red designs on indigo fabrics by destroying indigo with nascent bromide produced from bromide and bromate under strong acids or soda. A discharge color is prepared with bromide bromate and ammonia salts. alumina and related compounds are deposited on the cloth during steaming at 100 degrees C.
Sleep and antiseptics in treating insomnia claim
An English physiologist reports a successful trial of the antiseptic naphtholamine to induce sleep in difficult insomnia. He notes the approach is harmless with no unpleasant after effects and suggests gastric disturbances may hinder sleep in mental disorders.
The History of a Letter and Nightly Parlor Chats
A humorous talk about impatience in marriage contrasts a calm husband with a late wife seeking the gloves before a prayer meeting. Then a note on medieval astrology linking Jupiter to health forecasts and how a long prescription was shortened to the letter R.
Envelope Boiling Trick Headlines Traveling Man Anecdote
Traveling couple recall a hotel night when water boiled by holding an envelope over a gas jet. The wife suggested the envelope method, which produced a small scorch but allowed the water to boil. The couple claims the envelope remained intact and offers the trick for readers to try. A drug advertisement for Shoop’s Restorative Nerve Pills follows, with a free medical book and a 2 cent stamp offer.
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Shoop
Hos W
Racine Wie
Electric Power in Factories
Mr. Alexander Siemens argues for supplying an electric motor to each machine tool to cut floor strengthening and avoid shafts belts and pulleys. Lord Kelvin compares shafting and electric transmission and finds electricity can deliver at least 70 percent of a machine’s indicated horsepower versus 60 to 63 percent with shafting.
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Alexander Siemens
Lord Kelvin
Local Drugstore Offers Free Bottle With Cough Remedy
An old advertisement urges readers to visit a druggist for a cough remedy promising a free bottle and mentions large bottles priced at 50 cents. It ends with a call to action about collective responsibility.
Ohio board urges crusade against indiscriminate kissing
The Ohio state board of health appeals to Columbus Pastors' Union to curb indiscriminate kissing as a means of disease transmission. It argues that under proper circumstances kissing can be harmless or even pleasant, while critics warn of moral and physical contagion.
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TeBtep
Ohio State Board of Health
Pastors’ Union of Columbus
Boards of Health
Tin Recovery Process From Brussels Clippings
In a Brussels process by M. Lambotte tin is reclaimed as tin chloride from clipped tinned iron. Chlorine gas mixes with air and passes around a spiral furnace warmed by the chemical action. Tin is attacked to form stannic chloride and is collected on moist condensers while the argon remains untouched and reused.
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M. Lambotte
Brussels
Health advice on avoiding disease in hot climates
The fragment advises prevention for travelers and workers against fever and stomach issues in tropical heat. It mentions sanitary measures, regular hours, prudence, and using stomach bitters, slotted as a defense against chill, fever, and related ailments. It emphasizes safeguarding against tropical exposure and maintaining health in a hot climate.
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Tropics
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The excerpt depicts a witty exchange about handwriting quality and a sign painter named Brown-Jobson, noted for filling a deck of a Columbian stamp with the President's message. It captures colonial era telegraphic humor and a critique of penmanship.
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Smith
Brown
Jobson
Evolution of medicinal agents replaces old remedies
An old newspaper snippet notes the shift toward liquid laxative Syrup of Iigs by the California Fig Syrup Co and warns to buy only genuine products. It also mentions profitable cows, Hanson’s Salve, and veterinary or druggists’ wares with refunds.
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California Fig Syrup.Co
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