Beautiful Preston Park and Its Environment
Preston Park association in Wayne county presents a woodland lakeside retreat started in 1891 by James P. Stocker. The lodge hosts fishable lakes, boating, and coon hunts, with expanding amenities and planned golf and tennis facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preston Park
Delaware River
Wayne County
James H. Torrey
Stella Hathaway
Carbondale
Ontario and Western Railroad
Catskills
Evening Verse Mosaic from Browning and Friends
A collage of Romantic era poetry on evening and dusk scenes. Poems and excerpts by Browning, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelly, Tennyson, and others explore twilight, memory, nature, and mortality with lush imagery and reflective tone.
Judge Roy Dean of Langtry Claims Law West of Pecos
A fragment describes Judge Roy Dean of Langtry as the law west of the Pecos with broad jurisdiction beyond statutes. An anecdote recalls him as coroner holding an inquest on a man’s body, illustrating his stern, independent approach to punishment and justice in Frontier Texas.
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Pecos
Bean
Texas
Judge Hean
Roy Dean
Langtry
Peoas
Pecon
Factory profits and wages across trades in the period
The article analyzes profit margins and wages in calico printing sugar refining piano and locomotive manufacturing. It notes high wages in piano making with modest capital, larger profits in some goods, and a view that labor's share rises while capital's may fall. It compares cost and retail margins across staple and fancy goods, citing specific examples like cloth and shoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Boston
Worth Remembering Household Tips From Scraps
A spoonful of vinegar in the water used to boil meat and poultry tenderizes. Tarnished picture frame gilding can be restored by washing with onion water. A pinch of borax in cold starch stiffens linen and turpentine in boiled starch adds luster. Ivory piano keys and knife handles clean with two thirds alcohol and one third sweet oil. Ink stains remove from wood.
Rules to Prolong Life and Vigor
An 19th century dietary and physiological essay argues longevity depends on blood health. It favors fruit over meat after 60, distilled water with phosphoric acid, and moderation. It cites Evans and Flourens, notes arteries’ condition, and claims climate matters less than food, exercise, fresh air, and sleep.
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C. Evans
Ficurene
Cormaro
Flourens
Hufeland
James Crichton Browne
Cuvier
Thomas Parr
England
Willam Harvey
Ladies Only Patent Remedy Claim For Liver Pills
For Ladies Only. Claims that PRMICURE LIVER PILLS act on the Liver Kidneys Stomach and Bowels while regulating female organs. They purport to relieve dyspepsia nausea indigestion liver biliousness faintness backaches and other female complaints. Carl Lorenz druggist 416 Lackawanna Avenue Scranton sells them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Lorenz
Scranton
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wayne
Preston Township
James PD. Stocker
Jermyn
Lackawanna County
Ita
Preston Park Association
Stocker
Lakes
J. G. Stocker
John W. Ai
Matthews
Pond
JE. Burr
Mary Lathrope Crane
FE. Hendrick
W. Cook
Thomas Canning Church
Valley Falls
N. J
G. A.learwater
FE. A. Clark
A. W. Dickson
Joseph FR. Dickson
Jesse L
J. J. Williams
W. W. Watson
T. F. Welles
A. B. Williama
Brown
Lullton & Majestic
Preston
Delaware
FE. B. Sturges
Association
Joeh
Jansen
J. H. Torrey
T. J. Foster
W. D. Kennedy
W .T. Colville
A. P. Troutwine
C. W. Kirkpatrick
C. ©. Mellon
E. H. Ripple
Major Fish
C. D. Simpson
EB. P. Kinks
F. E. Platt
Skinner
Guildford
Conn
Mary L. Crane
Jadwin
8. B. Price
Harold
Miss Foster
Jerry Foster
H. Kirkpatrick
J. D. Stocker
Aeris
Willam Collins
Alop
Ana Gay
Riliz
Ume
Thug
Andrey
Darta
Robert Browning
Sonnet
William Shakespeare
Jess Devine
Abraham
God
William Wordswoth
Charles Tennyson Turner
Heaven
John Wilson
John Keble
Algernon Charles Ewinburne
Percy Bysohe Shelley
Maddie
John Keats
Tom
Alfred Tennyson
Golden Sea
Earth
Samuel Longfellow
Algernon Chartes
Swinburng
Paracesus
Sordello
Edgar Allen Poo
Frontier Justice
Leslier's Weekly
Scribner's
G. H. Lewis
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