Abhorred Evil Eye Tale From Pennsylvania Dutch Belief
A Cleveland attorney recounts a Pittsburgh folk superstition about the evil eye. A Pennsylvania Dutch neighbor allegedly inflicted eye injury using an improvised ritual and bowl of water to identify the cursed eye, with dramatic claims of illness, pain, and social dread.
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Whiel
Pennsylvania
Cleveland
Mary Dietz
Levi Bauder
James Barrow
Bauder
Chicago Times, Jr
Barrows
Aiisat
Oie
Painter
Do Dogs Understand Remarks About Them
A writer recalls a terrier with a damaged eye reacting when told of calling a surgeon. The dog left the room, hid upstairs, and later whined when approached by the physician, showing evident unease at the idea of treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burgeon
Ablution of the Future by Shower Baths in Homes
The New York Mail and Express reports future homes will lack tubs replaced by tiled rooms with adjustable rain showers. Critics praise space, speed, and cleaner bathing. advocates cite lower water use and stronger cleansing. Examples include London houses, a Philadelphia home, and early installations at public institutions.
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New York
London
Philadelphia
Madison
Fifth Avenues
America
Demist
Baron Irish Fund
Henry
Market Streets
State Hospital For the
Utica
William Poul Rerhard
Gerba
Anecdotes on Names Climate and Courtship
A collage of anecdotes contrasts a lieutenant’s letter home about India with remarks on climate and death from drink. It includes a joke about family relations with a parsnip and a tale of Jones and Smith identifications, plus a Staten Island dance scene and a whist game ending with a witty exchange about keeping one’s place.
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India
Boston
Jones
Smith
Kentucky
Mr. Smith
Staten Island
Imported Lapps and Reindeer Reflect Arctic Policy Efforts
Five sub Arctic nomad families from Lapland, totaling seventeen people with eleven dogs, were brought to Port Clarence Alaska under government sponsorship to herd reindeer. The plan aims to stock arctic Alaska north of the Yukon and lift native Eskimos toward self support, with native apprentices being taught deer care and harnessing while potential future herds are planned at Cape Prince of Wales and Saint Lawrence Island.
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Lapland
Alaska
Behring Strait
United States
William A. Kjellman
Madison
Wis Kjullmann
Port Clarence
Cape Prince of Wales
North America
Arctic Circle
Siberia
Asia
Golovin Bay
Nulato
Yukon River
Saint Lawrence Island
Congress
Yukon
Port Clarenes
Unalaska
Amakuok
Aleutian
Arctic
Port Clarenas
Woman with eighty nine dresses hides fortune in trunks
Miss Johanna Farnham of Milton New Hampshire died, yet kept hundreds of costly gowns, shawls, and undergarments unworn. A Boston Herald source notes she owned vast wealth stored in twenty trunks across Milton and Boston, including gold securities and savings deposits, later auctioned for over 10 thousand dollars.
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Boston Herald
Johanna Farnham
Milton, N. H
Milton
Boston
Milo
Ann
Rare gold images from Oaxaca ruins reveal priests and hieroglyphs
In Oaxaca state ancient ruins yield metal images of oriental looking people and priests in ceremonial robes. The pieces are gold coated with unknown enamel preserving fine lines and unknown hieroglyphs, suggesting significant historical artistry buried for centuries.
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Oaxaca
Mexico
Unshod Horses Prove Feet Adaptable Across Terrains
Sir Geo HW Fox argues that unshod horses endure diverse terrain from Mexico to Europe without foot problems. He cites heavy travel over hard roads, rocky Exmoor ridges, and wartime maneuvers as evidence that natural hooves withstand hard contact, while noting shoeing limits sole hardening.
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Mexico
Peru
Brazil
England
Ireland
Exmoor
Dartmoor
Orkneys
Welsh Hills
Europe
Moscow
Vistula
France
Sir Geo, HW. Fox
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Exposition Train Adverts
Para about Hall's Catarrh Cure with price 75, then notes on the World's Fair Exposition Flyer litho for the Lake Shore Route. Mentions Créer, Krupp remark, and proverbs. Discusses irrigated fruit lands in Idaho, and the Idaho Exhibit. Describes a Nebras. blizzard and John Bull satire origins with Arbuthnot reference.
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Lake Shore
New York
Chicago
C. K. Wilber
West Pass
Agt
Idaho
Oregon
Washington
California
L. Lomax
Omaha
Neb
Ain
Co. K. Wilber
West
P.A
Venetian Merchant Revels in Prosperity After Losses
A fable shared from the New York World tells of a Venetian merchant who, once poor, now enjoys luxury after debt settlements. Moral: Composition is the Life of Trade. The note also mentions Kari's Clover Moat Tea and a colossal meteorite in Brazil, with a Melbourne museum display of a 25 ton stone.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Rialto
New York World
Brazil
Carlton
Melbourne
Kilmore
Coes Cough Balsam and a Judicial Plea in Court
A fragment mentions Coe's Cough Balsam claimed to break up a cold. The report notes a criminal case where the prisoner pleaded not guilty as a juror asked why trial proceeded. An unrelated odd dialogue and a classified sale item for a billiard table appear, along with a tip about clarifying liquor by careful pouring.
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Jimson
Mr Noodles
Uncle Sam
Tommy
Paw
Mr Figg
Braddock
Fannie Arnold
Bessemer
Ala
Steele
Manchester
N IJ
Connecticut
Dove
Manheim
Iter
Glacier Bay
Ankernyko House
Staines
Henry VIII
Annie Boleyn
U.S
Hall
Price
Crervantis
Krupp
Dakota
Minnesota
John Beri
Arbuthnot
John Bull
Lewis Baboon
Nicholas Frog
Duke of Marlborough
Marianne
H. C. Akix
Pry
Michigan Lands
Michigan Central
Lensing
Saginaw
Bay City
O. W. Ruggles
Gen
Ticket Ag’t
Flerce
Haydentown
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Sweeney
Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Geo
W. Sweeney
Colorado
MG Ebastian General
Takearest
Omaha Medical Save Cscaes
Patrice Otambell
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