Fragmented 19th Century Snippets and Vignettes
A collage of oddities and anecdotes from 19th century life: notes on postal service quirks, a Philadelphia charity donor, a young woman described with “ble eyes brewed in black,” and varied tales from towns like Middletown and San Francisco. Reports touch opium raids, double fares for streetcar riders, a man fined for sidewalk sleeping, and a French movement to abolish handshakes, all colorfully sketched in concise, period-voice fragments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biack
Jasenger
Finarden County
San Francisco
Middletown
Conn
Memphis
Household Hints and Culinary Notes From Detroit Free Press
A compilation of kitchen tips and recipes including cheese sauce, pounded sugar with butter and eggs, codfish and potato cakes, yeast cakes with currants and candied peel, and pastry ideas. Also a letter debating beef and pork in sausages, urging safer cooking and better nutrition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sesson
E. W. Hern
Grand Rapids
Mich
Detroit Free Press
Meg
Bortya Rd
Sausacres
Sauages
Tribune
Keeping Farm Accounts and Profit in Farming
Difficulties in preserving farm accounts to reveal true profit arise from valuing capital invested and in credits for returns. The farmer must include all outlays such as labor seed and fertilizers and also account for the value of using his dwelling and household produce as part of farm income.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alco Bs
Cost of living and farming profits in Newra remarks
The article discusses farm accounting and the difficulty of tracking small expenses. It argues a year or two of careful record keeping could reveal farmers lack of understanding about true costs and profits from farming. It emphasizes honest effort to improve financial awareness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newra
Cleanliness and hog yards in rural life
The passage contrasts dirty hog-keeping with natural hog cleanliness, arguing pigs are clean by nature if given proper conditions. It cites the hog’s preference for clean bedding and water, and notes the farmer’s neglect and misjudgments. A Chicago Times summary and a Toledo Commercial anecdote about Chief Justice Chase mirror themes of propriety and authenticity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Times
Justiice Chase
Toledo
Chase
Ohifo
Aggwell
Jie
Schenck and Swern remedies claim cure for conception fears
An old pamphlet touts Schenck’s Kea Weed Toale and Manókene Pills with patients allegedly cured of conception fears. It notes Dr Schenck’s long recovery and his advertised weekly Philadelphia clinic at corner Stauth and Arch streets, offering advice by letter. Medicines sold by all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bey Meenak
Schenck
Jor
Bchenck Himmelf
Prtiel
Pal oMier
Stauth
Areh
Hiladelpia
Amd
Shane Ord
New York
What shall We Bet Tr Ia Bo and Other Remedies Advertised
An old timey newspaper fragment lists health complaints and public health remedies. It promotes Sitakex Extract, Roots, Cons vive Sixup, Gentian, and Guarana Bitters as cures or tonics, cites Druggists at 310 Pearl Street New York, notes cautions about Gentian, and includes a window sash rattling fix with wooden buttons. It ends with export value figures for last October and various sums in specie equivalents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.J. White
Pearl Street
New York
Pottsville ring tactics and a tasting of old world trivia
Odd notes report Pottsville bruisers fighting in alleys behind a hotel as readers cheer. Statistics cite 1875 brewery output at 8,880,620 barrels yielding 9,804,079 in revenue. A Virginia woman sues a railroad over a broken nose. A Lospos seamstress lived on two shillings weekly before dying of cold. A Virginia bridge is named for Mrs Campbell's prominent nose. A yellow Sam Ryan sold for fifty cents at Las Animas auction.
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Timmeat
John Campbell
Virginia
Sam
Ryan
Las Animas
Col
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Base-Dell Club
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Waprxice
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Brattleboro Asylum
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Moses
Ariel
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Uryant
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Walis
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Pererat
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Brat
FO Sia & Coy
Lown
Mer
Inventors' Union
Greenwich Street
Case
Addreee
F & Marah
Quincy, Mich
Tange T
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Ptapur
Erica Armere
Oltiera
Tu Lewisi Mo
Miliona
Addrera Lyx
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Ciicage
Paty
Noase
Terma
Derby Fued
P.C. Vickery & CO
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J. L. Watien & Co
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N.Y
Ashland
Jackson Street
Chiicago
Hal
Mo Cormack & CO
New York City
Struatiens Guarantevsl
Tendeat Union Tileghapi Company
Gebrlia
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Mark Twain
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American Publistiing CO
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Culoaco, Ill
All Good of All Good Company
Danbury News
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Danbury
Terry
Poate Letey
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Pridtic Genee Scenes Paren
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Pavinson & Caliias
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Jolefin
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M.D. Hebron
Eriteat
Frey
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T. Potnan & CO
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COLL
Mbian Bouk CO
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Broadway
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Uniteed States
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Unitai
Monhly Saymente
Barri American Ortecas
Cataloguca
Rick
Honse Powets KY mi
Walter
Great Western Well Auger CO
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Davis Co
Iowa
Eo Burnett
Burnett
AA Fuller
Jo. Lewis
Waterville
Sepr Vs. T
Joseph Jill. Jr
Peereiadie
Frank Leslie
Joseph Burnett &C
Vanbuskirk
Craciant
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Rane 4 CO
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