Odd Hallucinations Among Deluded Patients in City Practice
Dr Graeme Hammond reports cases of firm belief in bizarre body anomalies and speaking in verse. A retired merchant fears a glass left hand will break and kill him, while a rural clergyman insists he rhymes and cannot stop. Other patients imagine clocks in stomachs, reptiles in livers, and demonic possession expunged by church intervention.
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Graeme Hammond
West
Russia
James E. Kelly
East Twenstreet
Kelly
Reed
James Harrison
Harrison
Ag Sen
Cyrus Edson
Health Board
Lucifer
Edson
Third Avenue
Russell Sage
Russell
Mr. Hage
Prairie fires and ingenious protections in Dakota prairies
The Chicago Herald recounts how prairie fires devastate wide grasslands and the measures used to fight them. It notes winds drive rapid flames, and describes burners and trailers devised to start and extinguish fires. Locomotives and firebreaks are deployed to limit damage to ranches and homesteads.
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Great Northwest
Cnicago Herald
Scientific Notes From Around the World
The note pack surveys the Lick telescope star count and a mass of stars. It cites Illinois Experiment Station on barnyard manure as a wheat fertilizer and a diamond ink for glass writing. It mentions Swedish phosphate glass for microscopes, tidal power for Paris lighting, advanced grindstone materials, and Geissler tubes enabling early bright light via AC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lick
Illinois Experiment Station
Havre
Paris
Geissler
Royal Prohibition on Smoking at Windsor Castle
Queen Victoria has barred smoking within Windsor Castle. The notice reflects monarchial authority over royal residences and signals strict etiquette surrounding the royal household. The restriction appears in the era’s public-interest news column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Victoria
Windsor Castle
Mrs. Gladstone
Florence
Abraham Lincoln
Practical Household Remedies From a Historical Almanac
This fragment lists folk tips such as stopping bleeding with powdered rice and wood lint, removing tea stains with sour buttermilk, using rubber erasers to polish rust, beating whites of eggs near an open window, suppressing sneezes by pressing the upper lip, purifying foul cistern water with borax and alum, and hair darkening with glycerine bay rum sage tea.
Modesty and folly in a bear tale anecdote
The speaker mocks constant fault finding and praising modesty as weakness. He jokes that even truth would blush a gal when hearing a bear story and says the critic who sees no good in anything will find none when he dies. He dismisses perpetual grumbling as imbecility.
Queen Victoria Favorite Dish and Odd News Fragments
A collage of brief items notes Queen Victoria’s favored nuts and blanched almonds for the royal table, a dinner on a tree trunk near Tacoma, a prophecy about blondes, a church carpet theft in Kansas, and a rainmaker selling a secret for a hundred thousand dollars amid evolving petroleum and trade talk.
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London
Tacoma
Kansas
Reave
Paris
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Dakotas
East
Morehouse
Missouri
Ulysses
Grant
Mary Lowell Putnam
Gates Russell Lowell
Florence Hartley
Wichite
Kes
Robert T. Lincoln
United States
Tours
France
Stephen J. Field
Planfield Water Supply CO
W. H. Rogers
Central Avenue
Plairfield, New Jersey
Herman A. Weber
Liffrty Street
Mulford
Gkseller
Second Street
C. Io
Park Avenue
Pigs
New Jersey
Lehigh Coal
Plainfield, N. J
Lumber and Mason's
L. A. Rheaume, Ag’t
Broadway
Oot
John W. Murray
William White
Nathan Harper
Elgas R. Pope
Odher
Laing
West Front Street
Madison Avenue
If. B. Drake
Duer Street
Plink Plunk
John E. Beerbower
Prop
City Hotel
William A. Coddingtor
Solleitor
W. Puan Sr
Jackbon & Cuddington
t-Law
Mastera In Chancery
Notarts Public
Cormmmissioners of Deeds
Upee
Corner Park Ave
Money To Loan
Nelson Runyon
Orricen
K. McClure
Covamellor
Atchaw
Supreme Court First National Bank
Buthdis Plain NJ
Ccharles
A. Reed
First National Bank
Octs
M.S Laka J. Karner
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
Wim
Evona
Plainfield
Dunham
Park Avene
N. J
John H. Sayres
New Goods
East Front Street
Water Supply
Milainfield Water Supply Company
I. L. McVoy
A.M. Seguine
Madison Ave
Teasure
Evers
Ts. Sunm Ua
Wee Ea
Newark
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Sbeth
Plainfield and
Somerville
P.m. Iihie
Fee
Reston
Lake Horatoomy
Weerwaup
Tide
Raston High Bridge
Allen
Loxe Brawem
Oczaxy Ghove
Round Brook
Phi Ieee
A.m
Tia
J. H. Olhauses
H. P. Baldwin
The
North Avenue Pharmaiy
A. D. Mallinson
North Ave
Opp. Capet
Stelle & CO
West Sixth Street
P. Stelle
la Telephone
D. E. Clarke
William J. Stephenson
North Avenue
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