Four Possible Ends for the World Warned by Lowell
The Boston Journal reports Professor Percival Lowell outlined four fates for Earth and the sun. A stray star could strike Earth, grinding it to powder. tidal friction may halt planetary motion, baking one hemisphere and freezing the other. depletion of water could desiccate Earth into a dry mummy wandering space. finally the sun’s decay could extinguish all warmth, leaving Earth to drift until collision with another planet.
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Percival Lowell
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Professor Lowell
Boston Journal
Vigorous Old Age and Storied Leaders in Later Life
A collection of anecdotes shows aged figures like Enrico Danislo and Villars defying age in bold feats. Mutiny-era generals Campbell Havelock Rose Outram are cited for enduring command in extreme heat. A playful tale links Louis XIV to the number fourteen, and lighter vignettes recount fishing mischief, debtor woes, and a farmer who goes mad after discovering Confederate money.
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Enrico Danislo
Venice
Matthe
Constantinople
St. Mark
Villars
India
Colin Campbell
Havelock
Hugh Rose
James Outram
Ish Magazine
France
Mazarin
Louis XII
Henry IV
Louis XIV
Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Promoted for Women
An advertisement claims Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cures female ailments and avoids surgery. It presents a testimonial from Lexa V. Jenny of Adrian Go and urges readers to write to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn for confidential, free advice on displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities periodic pains backache indigestion and nervous prostration.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Sam
Lexa V. Jenny
Adrian
Lydia EB. Pink
Real Estate Listings in Shepherdstown West Virginia
Real Estate for sale by Shepherdstown sellers describes multiple parcels including Antietam Cement Works and Farm Place 214 acres with timber bottom land two springs and farm buildings. Also main street dwelling with stable and location near Potomac river. Several farms 50 80 acres limestone land near Engle's Switch and Potomac Cement works with mill and water power. Also a straw board mill property nine to ten acres with several buildings and bluff river views. Prices vary with many tracts advertised as desirable with terms no charges unless sale. inquiries to undersigned at Register Building Shepherdstown VA
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Antietam
Shepherdstown
Engle
Potomac
Potomac River
Irick
Shenferdstown
Shepherds
Straw Board Mill
Rly
Register
Reform Talk and a Patchwork of Vignettes From a Crime and Cures Page
A collage of opinions on temperance, legal action by Mrs De Haven against Chicago liquor interests, a comic train joke in broken English, testimonials for Electric Bitters and Foley’s Honey and Tar, a short Nathan Hale tale, General Lee’s courteous seat gesture, and scattered notes on old peach orchard battlegrounds and an ancient apple tree near Cherokee Village Indiana.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Chicago
Chicago Examiner
Nathan Hale
Washington
Long Island
Howe
Nathan Hare
Hale
Foley
Foley's
Mill's Pharmacy
Telephone seen as essential to farmer life
A 1920s voice extols the telephone as more than a convenience for city men, urging farmers to view it as a necessity for instant global connection. It argues five cents a day is a small price for access, noting a postal or two calls can trigger an agent visit.
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Warren Street
Charles Town, W. Va
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Gettysburg Battlefield
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London
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Feponto
Canada
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L& Cooke
Charles Town
A. S. Dandridge & Co
Jefferson County Telephone Company
Hell System
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J. Y. Blackford
Shenandoah Junction, W. Va
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