Golden Seal and Dr Pierce’s Discovery Promoted as Health Boosters
An article extols plant-based remedies as vital for blood health and digestion. It highlights Golden Seal Hydrastis as a universal tonic, Stillingia as an alternative purifier, and Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery combining roots and herbs to treat stomach and liver derangements. It advertises a medical book and Merck’s pellets as aids for digestion and bowel function.
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Nature
Edwin M. Hale
M. D
Materia Medica
Hahnemann Medical College
Chicago
Stillingia
Queen's Root
John King
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Dr. Pierce
Common Sense Medical Advier
RK V
Merce
Baseball Umpires Kicking on Their Decisions In as Old as the Game
A historical note on disputing umpire calls in baseball. The piece recalls 1800s and 1867 reports where players challenged decisions, noting that top umpires today show restraint amid close contests while anecdotes describe early figures and rival teams in New York.
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Brooklyn
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New York
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Eckford
Monell
New York Tribune
Mephisto's Ring and the Mystic Emerald Jewel
A Pearson's Weekly item recounts a legendary ring called Mephisto's Ring once owned by the Spanish royal family. An emerald center with a ruby evokes a cursed history as disasters befall rulers, a war sale to a church, a fire, lightning strikes hitting a museum, and the ring finally hidden in a strong box awaiting fate.
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Pearson's Weekly
Two Cubes Near Miss for Perfect Cube Sums
Scientific American notes no known pair of integers whose cube sum equals a cube. The first twelve cubes yield two near misses where sums match a cube within one unit, suggesting the search may continue as cubes extend infinitely.
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Scientific American
Trapped by Its Portrait Pheasant Claiming Clever Portrait Trap
An old English tale describes a pheasant that peers at a painted portrait of itself. A fowler hides behind a canvas net, surprising the curious bird as it approaches the depicted neighbor. The scene merges curiosity with a hunter's deception.
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Fowler
The Dangers of Riches Explores Wealth Temptations
The piece from Strand Magazine warns that riches ruin more men through affluence than poverty. It argues wealth dulls duty, breeds greed, and corrupts character, while the comparatively poor man remains guarded against these temptations.
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Strand Magazine
Practical Sympathy Quaker Wit and Frugal Advice
A tale of sympathy ends with a Quaker asking if feeling for a neighbor was in the right place. The piece pairs a moral quip about sympathy with a pun on money and effort, contrasting ideas from Washington Star and New Orleans Tithes-Democrat about work, fear, and expense management.
Californian rider tells ostrich tale misgivings
A New York riding teacher recalls a cowboy from California attempting to ride an ostrich. The bird fought by twisting, grabbing the cowboy, then throwing him and trampling him. Three people intervened to separate them, narrowly avoiding a fatal outcome, reinforcing disbelief in natives riding ostriches.
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Africa
Australia
New York
New York Press
Mars as seer of earths past and future says Lowell
Percival Lowell argues in Century that Mars size makes it a forecaster of earths past and future. He asserts Mars aged quicker, having advanced beyond Earth’s current stage, and claims Earth will follow a similar path unless prevented by catastrophe. The general trend is that planets of different initial mass follow related evolutionary routes.
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Mars
Earth
Tts
Percival Lowell
For Sale 160 Acres Near Weatherby Ore With Improvements
For sale an alfalfa seeded 160 acre parcel with two good orchards a nicely furnished house several springs a fine sheep ranch good range near the railroad and arranged for two families. Also wanted men women and families to take advantage of premium offers for new or existing subscribers to the East Oregonian daily weekly and semi weekly editions.
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Ore
Tisky
East Oregonian
United States
Europe
Oregonian
Addrem East Oregonian Pub. CO
Pendleton, Ore
Why the Tables Are Green
A Philadelphia Record quote explains billiards as a evolution from bowls played on a green lawn. Indoor play used an imitation green cloth, and the cue was added to heighten skill, giving billiards its green table tradition.
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Johnny
Philadelphia Record
Fishing by river natives with dugout boats on Paniaung
Rangoon Gazette describes a unique technique where two men in roughly 30 foot dugout boats use long bamboo and grass lines weighted with stones to herd fish toward the bank. Divers then plunge in, stay submerged briefly, and haul fish with eight inch gaffs and corded hooks, warming by a riverbank fire between dives.
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Paniaung River
Rangoon Gazette
Unique 800‑year‑old St Botolphs well in Hadstock parish
In Hadstock Essex a water supply fed solely by an ancient well in the parish churchyard, known as St Botolphs well, is claimed to be among Britain’s finest drinking waters. The village is noted as one of the healthiest in Essex, adding weight to the boast.
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Essex
Great Britain
London Strand Magazine
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