Hood's Sarsaparilla Promised Cure for Many Diseases
An advertisement claims Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood and cures a range of ailments. It narrates a Chicago man’s testimony about his wife’s sores, a mouth ulcer, and red blotches improving after three bottles. Mentions mud baths for ex-Premier Crispi near Padua and a note on English horseshoeing history.
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Hood
James H. O'Neil
Halsted Street
Chicago
Crispi
Padua
Uses of Alcohol Spread Across Many Manufactures
Congress probes alcohol in arts reveals its wide role from stiffened hats and silk processing to cologne, cigars, medicines, varnishes, paints, soaps, dyes, collodion, and photography. It notes alcohol aids gunpowder and smokeless powder costs, and serves in gold-beaters skin and compass lubrication.
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Congress
Remarkable Gold Digging At Belmont Bend In Missouri
Tobn Brainheuhl a wealthy St Joseph grocer employs a force of men to dig in the Belmont Bend bluffs near St Joseph seeking the buried gold from the 1856Overland stagecoach robbery. Bandits hidden treasure rumored to lie nearby has drawn continuous digging as Brainheuhl pursues a promised reward.
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Missouri
St Joseph
Belmont Bend
Krainbeuhl
Phrenology of the Horse Temper and Intelligence
The article describes how a horse's temper and intelligence are reflected in facial features. It notes a teachable horse has a broad flat area between the eyes, a ridge on the face that curves toward the nostrils, and well set ears with a ridge across the head. the eye should be large, clear, and bright with a prominent ridge around the eye socket.
Rusting of iron in moist air and moisture
The rusting of iron is described as iron oxidation. Chemists say iron is readily acted upon by dry oxygen only slightly, but by moist air or oxygen and moisture it oxidizes most vigorously.
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Mediterranean
West Indies
Broiling guidance and kitchen tips from 19th century columns
A mix of culinary and household notes includes warnings on broiling over fire, making a heat screen, and preparing mushroom sauce for beef. It covers practical kitchen tips from meat handling to breading, plus recipes for starch, egg yolk preservation, window polishing, and sponges. Also includes advice on keeping a warm kitchen, organizing singing schools, and inexpensive decorative baskets.
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Philadelphia Times
Congressmen on bicycles in the capital recall early riders
A fragmented reminiscence notes Jerry Sierson riding to Congress on a bicycle down Pennsylvania Avenue, followed by Lam Johnson and others. It mentions steady adoption of wheel riding among new members, with references to Cannon, Chandler, and summer home politicking. Walter Baker & Co. of Dorchester is praised for cocoa and chocolate production under Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette endorsement.
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Jerry Sierson
Congress
Pennsylvania Avenue
Lam Johnson
Hoowe
Ducle Joe Cannon
Chandler
Walter Baker & Co
Dorchester
Mass
UC. S. A
Baker
People of the rocks fortress in Madagascar tale
A northern Madagascar rock fortress rises 1060 feet, eight square miles, with sheer cliffs and a hidden subterranean entrance. The piece mentions a wild tribe known as the people of the rocks guarding this natural fortress.
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Madagascar
Rocks
Ares
Spring Planting and Seed Catalogs of 19th Century
The notice guides readers to plan next spring’s vegetable garden and flowers. It recommends a reliable seed catalog, Vick’s Flors! Guide of Rochester, N Y, for fifty years, priced at 45 cents for catalog and a seed package. The ad features playful asides about adjectives used for French leaders Faure Thiers and others, noting varied epithets.
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Vick
Flors
Rochester
Wilak
Zacelyd
James Vick
W. Y
No-to-Bac and Health Ads in One Fragment
A mixed fragment from an old newspaper item references No-to-Bac tobacco ads and pricing, library staff changes at Boston Library, Hall's Hair Renewer, a Dallas News bridal note, Piso’s Cure for Consumption testimonial, a Georgia dialect rail road quip, kidney and bowel health warnings, and a note on farmers sending fax seed abroad with earnings.
Monument marks Wellington’s charger’s final rest in England
A marble tombstone at Sivarhield Saye, England, marks the epor where Copenhagen, the chestnut horse ridden by the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, is buried. The piece notes the horse’s age, features, and a list of ailments supposedly treated by Bosterter’s Stomach Bitters, touting its restorative powers.
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Monrw
Sivarhield Saye
England
Epor
Copenhagen
Uke
Wellington
Weterloo
Time flies from the date a man distinguishes himself
A quoted line from the Washington Post discusses the swift passage of time when a person earns distinction, reflecting a philosophical view on recognition and aging.
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Washington Post
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