Insane Husband Threatens Fire to Gain Insurance
In Brooklyn, a mentally troubled man exposed plans to burn his house to collect insurance and fund public works. He ranted of digging a canal from Camasiake Bay to Ridgeweed Reservoir while threatening his wife with loaded muskets. Authorities removed him to an asylum after an insanity hearing, and his devoted wife faced the ordeal with him.
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Sashdenes Bey
Renueman
Camasaie Bay
Ridgeweed
Palmer
Charities
Micas
Lumatic
Brooklyn
NW. Y
Eagle
Lecture on Keresene at Maryland Institute Warns of Dangers
W P Torry opened a chemistry course at the Maryland Institute with a talk on Keresene an everyday fuel blamed for many household disasters. He cited tests on twenty Baltimore samples showing eleven highly dangerous six unsafe and three safe with flash points from 60 to 150 Fahrenheit and burning points as low as 69 to 134.
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Maryland Institute
Daily Wes
Baltimore
Chandlér
New York
Ton- Fy
Practical Household Cures From 19th Century Tips
A compilation of remedies for burns smoothing sore skin and black eyes, plus recipes for molasses pudding and preservation tips for souse and rust prevention. It references Minesed oil lime water, milk toning, starch compresses, chalk and heated iron for stains, and a dentifrice with soap and alcohol. Also includes garden management advice from Colman’s Rural World.
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Scientific American
Plan for horse powered farmers gardens
A proposed farming plan argues that many poor gardens result from hand cultivation and poor layout. It advocates selecting a plot, winter manuring, deep spring tillage, and using a cultivator to plant in three foot rows with staggered succession through June. The method promises easier, deeper soil work, abundant, tender vegetables, and less backbreaking labor for farm families.
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Colman
Ami
Boeing
Exterminating the Hark Lease on Apple Trees
An orchard pest known as shell shaped bark lease infests many young apple trees. The article explains the insect's life cycle and urges treatments using soft soap and lime whitewash or tobacco decoctions applied by brush or syringe. Prof. Glover notes a similar wash destroyed orange scale in Florida. The pest has natural enemies but remains problematic.
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Glover
Agricultural Department
Washington
Florida
WN. Y. Herald
Strange Petition Challenges Senator Sebastian Expulsion
A petition filed in the Senate by the children of the late Senator William K. Sebastian seeks revocation of his expulsion in 1860 and recognition of his seat from Arkansas for the 1850 term, contending he remained a Union man until his May 1965 death, with affidavits supporting loyalty. The item includes unrelated notices and advertisements amid a chaotic assortment of era medical claims and promotional copy.
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Congress
Senate
Wm. K. Sebastian
Arkansas
Sebastian
Washington Dispatch
St. Louis
Rheumatism May Be Symptom of Other Diseases
Alarming spread of chronic rheumatism blamed on liver kidney pancreas and blood diseases. Removal of these conditions reportedly cures rheumatism. Advert shows Smaxen Extract of Roots and Cunativa Syrup as remedies. notes Procter & Gamble Original Ivory Soap claim and meat drying technique from Rural New Yorker. Germany to have 1033 Centennial exhibitors.
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de. Lchenck
Dr. Schenck
Schenck
A.J. White
New York
New Yorker
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