Alcohol Motors and Odd Bank Check Amid Curiosities
A Berlin exhibit showcased alcohol driven motors for stationary engines and carriages, plus alcohol heated domestic items like irons and ranges. A $10 bank check to “the sweetest of the sweet” led to a humorous exchange as a wife endorsed it for her husband. Separate notes discuss mushrooms’ food value and Newcomb’s stars brightness, with a Pittsburgh Observer remark on novenas for husbands, praising divine aid in marriage pursuits.
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Berlin
Tonawanda
Thebeck
Saic
Simon Newcomb
Canopus
Rigel
Constellation
Arbon
St. Joseph's ‘Church
Hoboken
Evers
Three Ages of Man The Cynical Reply from a Schoolboy
Excerpted humor recalls a pupil answering what the three eyes of man mean. He outlines innocence as the thinking of wicked deeds before growing up, calls the prime of life the acting on childish thirsts, and finishes with dotages in old age, a caustic verse on human stages.
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Macaulay
On the Jury Ex-Governor Shaw tells a courtroom tale
Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M Shaw recounts a courtroom anecdote from Iowa. A fourteen year old witness is grilled about family work and a prosecutor asks if the boy's father is a deadbeat. The boy deflects noting his father sits on the jury.
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Leslie M. Shaw
United States
the Treasury
The Inverted Comma Debate in Printing
Bernard Shaw urged removing apostrophes in everyday words while arguing that inverted commas are overused in quotes. He notes his own usage in The Author and cites a random passage where quotes inside quotes are unnecessary. The piece defends plain quotation marks and warns against stylistic overcorrection.
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Bernard Shaw
Jesus
Hackney Horses A English Carriage Breed For American Stock
English hackney horses, road horses four te en to fifteen and a half hands high, mix thoroughbred blood with heavy country stock. They trot fast, carry twelve stone, and have endureing power with showy action. In England saddle is common, but their DNA could make them valuable carriage stock in America.
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England
Care of the Asparagus Bed Advice for growers and home gardeners
The article explains how to plant and care for asparagus beds, stressing strong roots and buds, and the risk of cutting too early or too late. It compares the root to a cistern, refilled by new growth, and notes to avoid cutting until the third or fourth year for new beds. It urges patience for family beds and warns against overcutting even for market growers.
Diversified Crops in Florida and the South
The Florida paper notes a shift away from oranges toward diversified crops. Farmers are adopting tobacco, grapes, sugar, rice, cucumbers, and stock rearing as uplands are parcelled into small fruit and vegetable holdings. Wet lands may yield rice and sugar, with cotton and tobacco expanding in Northern Florida. The article argues a staple crop remains the most profitable path to wealth.
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Florida
Ornamental Trees and House Placement
The article argues ornamental trees enhance beauty and value of real estate better than spending on other improvements but warns against placing many trees too close to the house. It advises keeping trees fifty feet away, avoiding branches touching the building, and trimming large trees high to allow light and air beneath.
Poultry Roup Threat Warns of Spread From Sick Birds
The article warns that roup contagion is carried from sick birds to healthy flocks, creating infection sources in any place housing poultry. It stresses the need for a proper hospital or coop to prevent disease spread via drinking water and notes neglect allows rapid transmission even without visible illness.
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Powls
Notable Eccentricities and Wit Across 19th Century Figures
A parade of genteel scandal and humor features Beau Brummel dining with a dog at a consul’s party and passing a trumped capon to his poodle. Captain Percival, “Mad Jack,” raises a protest by shipboard antics with jackasses displayed at harbor. Grant admires a horse while snubbing Conkling. Kipling’s grandfather is teased by propriety in courtship. Toole’s royal handshake yields half crowns. Amish politicos in Lancaster County offer sturdy humor amid campaign talk. Barnum’s jests and a landlord’s pepper dispute close the potpourri of anecdotal eccentricities.
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Calais
Beau Brummel
Brummel
Atous
Percival
United States
Jack
Waos
Morocco
New York
Mad Jack
Grant
Conking
Jones
Nevada
Conkling
President
Rudyard Kipling
George B. McDonald
Mr. McDonald
Lancaster County
Penn
Mrs Mouse Johnnie Tells Off Cat Calls in Bazaar
A line from a page header shows Mrs Mouse-Johnnie admonishing a flirtatious call during a bazaar. The exchange underscores social tension and community humor captured in a brief, dated snippet.
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Johnnie
Bazar
The Piano Player Makes a Grin Through The Keys
A rambling comic piece rails at high art while a brash performer boasts his streetwise prowess. The speaker mocks pretentious terms and vaudeville slang, claiming skill with popular tunes, barcarolles, and show tunes while noting the burden of professional life.
Seasonal Farm Advice and Open-Air Composting Debates
The column urges early mowing to thinning cornfields and managing daisies by mowing before seed set, then plowing and replanting fodder corn. It recommends oats on reseeded meadows for calf forage, and notes oats as excellent milk cow feed. It also discusses household waste disposal, arguing for surface burial over deep pits to avoid disease and save money, citing Drers Open Air Vegetables.
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Dreer
Feminine Dairy Wisdom From 19th Century Advice Column
The note extols keeping cows calm and well watered to maximize milk yield. Gentle handling and steady care boost production. keep pastures clean, ensure feed like clover is stored properly, and cut hay early to avoid woody texture. Proposes more fodder and careful calf management in ventilated stalls to prevent starvation.
Horse Talk for Farmers and Colts Training Tips
Advice on resting tired horses after hard work and feeding patterns. Emphasizes rubbing and leg care, cobblestone in manger as a supplement, low mangers, and slow colt training. Recommends first class thoroughbreds and Morgan blood if possible to improve condition and reduce costs.
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Morgan
Bulletin on orchard fruit diseases and spraying calendar
The State Experiment Station Wooster Ohio prepares Bulletin No 7 on diseases of currants gooseberries raspberries blackberries plums cherries pears quinces and apples with simple remedies. A comprehensive spraying calendar accompanies the bulletin. Also notes on the currant scale and its remedies and crop data for Greese currants and trade.
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Wooster
Wayne County
A. D. Selby
England Cromwell descendants among thirteen peers
A London column surveys assorted items from history to current events. It notes Cromwell’s descendants through Frances, the youngest U S governor William McCroskey of Washington at age 28, emigration patterns in Ireland, early 1900s urban congestion, Berlin population trends, a Baltimore wheat overcharge case, and satirical takes on Baconian cipher theories and Shakespearean authorship amid concerns about white slave traffic and cross channel crime.
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England
Oliver Cromwell
Frances
Cromwell
United States
Washington
William McCroskey
Rogers
McCroskey
Tennessee
Ireland
Europe
America
Berlin
George T. Gambrill
Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio
Avon
Shakespear
Paris
Brussels
Buda
Buenos Ayres
Generous Chief Grants Gift of Beadwork to Visiting Party
A travelogue recounts Mrs. Mavil Loomis Ladd and companions meeting Samoan-like natives on southern Philippine islands. A young Samoan-tongued woman asks for beadwork. the chief, in playful dignity, offers garments as gifts rather than sales, then instructs the women to focus on other tribe members.
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Philippine
Mavil Loomis Ladd
Amherst
Samoa
Insisted on His Rights at School Whaling Threat
An Indian paper reports a dispute after a teacher claimed not to have whipped a student severely enough. The parent, a large taxpayer, demanded harsher punishment, insisting his son deserved the same beating as others and warned of future action.
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Adr, Ltd
Aspersing Their Fathers Hymns At Maurchester Prison
A Manchester Guardian contributor recalls a chapel hymn selection at Maurchester prison where inmates sing solemnly about returning to God, remarking on the presence of rascals singing seriously as they reflect on their fathers’ paths and the chance for redemption.
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The
Manchester Guardian
Maurchester Prison
Miscellany of political ribaldry and crude humor
A column compiles a string of old political and social quips. It recalls a tarpon story with a racial slur, Roosevelt as a beleaguered office seeker, quotes on Rhodesia and Groot Schuur, a Leeds suffrage anecdote, and a Kentucky politician McCreary tale. It also retells Lincoln’s courtroom anecdote about a marriage license and a lawyer’s doubt, all in a period-tinged tone.
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Henry van Dyke
Florida
Herbert Gladstone
Leeds
Mr. Gladstone
Yorkshire
Rhodesa
Rhodesia
Groot’ Schuur
Sweet Home
Rhodes
Groot Schuur
Jameson
McCreary
Kentucky
Andyavhen
Ashi
Lincoln
Ida’ Tarbell
Squire Bagly
Menard
Linoln
Sduke
Bob Thomas
Panic on Stage Ends With Empty Hall Trick
Panic spreads as a stage manager warns of fire and riot. The chairman, cool and witty, announces a talent act by Miss Winnie Wurdeigh to entertain the crowd, causing patrons to leave quietly until the hall is empty, appeasing the crowd and defusing danger.
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Winnie Wur Deigh
Too Much For the Sheriff Irish Widow Wit
An Irish widow outwits a sheriff bearing a writ by quick, playful banter. She denies the attachment and jokes about leap year courtship. She suggests the sheriff should court, and quips about preferring a priest, with a justice waiting in the background.
Heroic Eliza Varney of Bloomfield The Dedicated Canadian Woman
Elizabeth H Varney of Bloomfield Ontario aged 73 devoted lifelong Christian charity to the poor and needy. She and her late husband served across the continent including the Canadian Northwest Doukhobor community. She credits Dodd's Kidney Pills for personal recovery from dropsy and rheumatism and endorses them for kidney disease among her people.
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Bloomfield
Ont
Elizabeth TH. Varney
Levi Varney
Old Orthodox Friends
Dodd
Warder suicide at Little Britain farm shocks Lindsay
Special from Lindsay reports John T Warder a 39 year old well to do farmer near Little Britain hanged himself in a barn after leaving a haying job. The death was instantaneous an inquest was deemed unnecessary. His funeral was held today. Also reported is the death of John Frame 35 a Pittsburg bound brakeman, son of A Frame of Kent Street West, who died in Pittsburg in a railroad accident while coupling cars. His funeral occurred today in Lindeny.
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Hell
Warder
Lindsay
Pittsburg
Frame
Kent Street
John
Meb
Lindeny
Pitts
Canadas remedy for stomach liver kidney bladder ailments
Canadians offer Egyptian Damiana Wine as a speedy pleasant restorative after illness. Described as non drug containing nature’s rarest cures, mailed from Canada with freight prepaid for 75 cents a large bottle. Claims to defy competition.
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Canada
Egyptian D émina Co Advertsay: London and Toronto Reach
Advertisement for The Egyptian Demiana Co touts head office in London and branches worldwide. Mentions addresses 88 90 92 Church Street Toronto and a pain killer claimed for humans and animals. Offers mailed free sample and price 60 cents.
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the Egyptian Démiana Co
Church St. Toronto
London
England
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Mosskowsky
New Sky
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