The Peculiar Fortune of Mr Brown of Big Meadows Nevada
A Nevadan saga of Mr Brown the poker-loving mining pioneer from Big Meadows on the Humboldt River. The Silver State chronicles his alternations of wealth and bankruptcy, owning mines like Crown Point and Gould and Curry, freighting to Carson, and later turning to farming while teaching Piute laborers poker. His career totals near 250000 in benevolence and losses, with plans to resume fortune hunting as spring returns.
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Pacific
Brown
Big Meadows
Humboldt River
Nevada
Silver State
Brown Haa
Afoener
California
Crown Point
Gould and Curry
Wumboldt
Carson
Ragtown
Montezuma Lode
Oreana
Meridian
Mr. Brown
W. .Orld
GirlsStockings and the Darning Dilemma in New York World
A humorous column from the New York World explores girls devotion to stockings and the social stakes of mending. It contrasts thrift with romance, recounting tales of patches and proposals and noting the era’s moral pressure to keep stockings flawless while courting with wit and social observation.
Eastern Bottles in Arabian Tent Life
The bottle, a goat skin pouch carried by Arab and Persian travelers, holds water and milk and stays fresher than other vessels. Skins are wrapped in woolen staffs to prevent damage from camels and sand, resist insects and dust, and can be repaired when worn. The practice mirrors ancient custom noted in Joshua about reusing old wine bottles.
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East
Asia
The Tyranny of Memory and Its Frailties
The piece from The Saturday Review explores how memory misleads through false recollections and involuntary plagiarism. It cites Lamb and Mazini admired lines, recalls a school anecdote with Hoskyns, and discusses memory’s double bind keeping truth and deception in tension.
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Charles Lamb
Dante
Mazlitt
Wood
Hoskyns
Winchester
Maskyns
Saturday Review
The Flower Garden Advice From Moore's Rural New Yorker
Practical guidance for flower lovers on varieties and beds. It stresses quality over quantity, recommending few well grown kinds, careful bed design, and proper watering. Tips cover bed depth, elevation, color massing, and wind or sun considerations, plus seed sowing and seedling care for hot beds and warm rooms.
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Moore
New Yorker
Bees in the Spring and hive management advice
Beekeeping notes urge timely hive placement and readiness. Feed only if necessary to avoid robbing, monitor supplies, and keep hives on stands. Prepare for stronger colonies as swarming season nears, study natural and artificial swarming, and work to have hives ready before the first swarm. Also reports San Franciscans lose wooden docks to a new pile borer Limnoria, a crustacean isopod.
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Ohio
San Franciscans
Academy of Sciences
The Geld of Christian missions in heathen world
The Geld of Christian missions in what is distinctively known as the heathen world embraces a population of 700,000,000. Of these, seven diplths are attached to one or other of the three great systems Mohammedanism Sindaoism and Buddhism.
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Geld of Christian Missions
Ocean
Asia
Africa
Michelet
Amos Woolly
Nathaniel Harria
Middlebury
Lloyd
Ohio
Fletcher
Lexington
Afc
J.N. Harris & CO
Cincinnati
Remedy for Chilblains Promoted by Vienna Medical Writer
A Vienna medical magazine notes a concentrated solution of iron chloride as an unfailing remedy for chilblains, citing its effectiveness. The claim highlights iron compounds in topical treatment and reflects period medical advocacy without modern validation.
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Vienna
Remarkable Misidentification Aboard River Steamer
A Louisville to Bowling Green steamer carried a divorced wife and her present husband who feared a former husband was pursuing them. The wife identified a regular passenger as the threat, but inspection revealed the man was a lifelong bachelor with no marriage past. The incident ended with apologies and the mistaken trio quieting the scene.
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Green River
Indiana
Kentucky
State-Room
Ocean War and Enamel Fashion in Old Continent Tastes
A column contrasts the ocean’s brutal food chain and biblical desolation with a critique of enamel skin cosmetics. It traces sea predation and divine wrath motifs, then details enamel processes, risks, and the vanity trap of lifelong skin painting.
The Use of Salt in Diet and Morality
The piece weighs salt reliance versus abstinence, noting sensational tales of salt exchange with people and slaves. It argues many stories exaggerate, claims moderate salt is advisable, while excess corrupts appetite and taxes excretory organs, and hints those on mineral rich diets would naturally adjust.
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Sierra Leone
Gold
Africa
Matchmaking musings and a long regional tale
The piece muses on how couples are formed and why loves and marriages diverge, weighing like and unlike attractors, then notes four thousand English ministers press Canterbury for a deceased wife's sister marriage bill. It also mentions Derrort Minn and Agatha Mandeville in a divorce, and Trevis Farm in Essex County Massachusetts, longstanding for 207 years.
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Archbishop of Canterbury
House of Lords
Diverse Household Remedies From Harper's Bazar Notes
A varied roundup of old time home remedies and kitchen tips: soap and lye preparation for soap making, a palliative paste with saltpeter and brimstone, a hair dressing with almonds and essential oils, onions as disease absorbents, maple bark ink, dyeing silk with walnut and elder dye, and coffee as a disinfectant. Also included are pumpkin related foods, melon wine, roasted coffee to neutralize odors, and recipes for vermicelli and pea soups with seasonings and ham.
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Row1ann
Meg
Otto
Scientific American
Arabia
Persia
Pierre Blot
Harper's Bazar
Bengal Census Panic Amid Fears of Revolt
The article notes alarm among Bengal natives during census preparations, claiming widespread evasion of count to avoid conscription for Russians. It compares Bengal’s population to Russia and warns of potential a coordinated uprising across British India, suggesting independence could be won quickly but questioning post revolt actions.
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Bengal
Evry
Russia
Europe
England
Russia-in
British India
Forney
Remarkable 1644 English Fountain Bowl of Punch
An extraordinary 1644 English fountain banquet featured four hogsheads of brandy, twenty-five thousand lemons, a thousand three hundred weight of sugar, nutmegs, biscuits, and Malaga. A canopy sheltered the scene while a boatman filled cups, and the crowd reportedly drank heavily from the fountain. A Ferrara marsh drainage company is also mentioned.
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England
Malaga
Nettles and potions touted as cures in old papers
A Jersey reader cites an apparent French claim that dried common nettle powder acts as a preventive against yellow fever, with notes on its preparation and uses. The piece also advertises pain killers, heart disease remedies, and various patent medicines, touting their supposed efficacy and urging readers to buy from druggists.
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Mx. I. W. Nicnon
Jersey
Bermuda
France
London
Thornton
Pownee
Guitre
Babié
Blood Cancer Cure Claims From Local Case Report
An Albion Michigan testimonial claims a cancer on the lip healed after three bottles of a remedy, praising relief and peace of mind. The note urges others with similar disease to try the treatment, with references to Dr Jaynes Expee arin and related products.
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Mau
Crane
Calhoun
Wintiaus & O’dusovauen
Albion, Mich
Ransom, Son & Co
Bufo, N.Y
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National Encyclopedia
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National Encyclopedia Publishing CO
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Webster & Co
Broadway, NX
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Davenport
Iowa
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Bert Tock
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N. Main
St. Louis
Cheever, Burchard & CO
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Arpsena
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Breanne
Davis & Co
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Washington Ave
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Great Pacific &Pice and CofFee Dfuis
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Gleason
B. R. Lippincott
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8Th & St. Charles Sts
St. Lo Louis
Delmay Wine Co
Siwet Neal
Ludlow, Saylor & CO
Wires Wiregoods
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North Levee
Amber Yee
Radway
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Ilas
Bright
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Dengzisis
Radway & CO
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