Fall of trusted financial figures cited across ports and cities
The piece discusses widespread embezzlement among cashiers and treasurers in multiple cities, noting the social circles of the accused and the moral decline blamed on wealth worship. It argues exposure is a cure, then shifts to a George Sand fragment on gender and conscience, ending with a medical ad for Dr. McLean’s cordial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Boston
Ioho
Flartford
Canada
J. H. McLean
5. A. White
City Drug Store
Pasteur Recaps Hydrophobia Prevention Trials
In a letter to Dr. Davis of Philadelphia Pasteur summarizes his experience with inoculation to prevent hydrophobia from the start through September 2 of the current year. The report outlines milestones, methods, and observed outcomes in the ongoing program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasteur
Davis
Philadelphia
Indifference and morality across the sexes debated
The excerpt argues that indifference is rare and tied to conscience, noting women’s heightened sensibility and the asymmetry with male morality. It contends that morality aligns with strength and that immorality accompanies weakness, challenging simple gender comparisons.
A Clergyman's Tongue The Worth of Tar Syrup
Rev. R. Priest extols White Wine of Tar Syrup for throat relief after fifteen years in the ministry. Promotes sale by Crowder & Reed as a remedy for hoarseness irritation and throat discomfort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crowder & Reed
Sunday laws and Sabbath theory ruin church conscience
In an article from Popular Science Monthly, Rev. A. H. Lewis argues Sunday laws and second century Sabbath theories corrupt public conscience and church authority. He contends civil law intrudes between heart and God, eroding adherence to the divine command and leading to Sunday desecration and profit on Mondays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H.lewis
D.D
Popular Science Monthly
Japanese Wheat Swindle Exposed by American Agriculturist
A dubious claim of a new “Japanese” wheat is debunked after Mr. C. W. Derry consults Japan’s authorities. Edwin Dun, citing Minister Hubbard, states Japanese wheat is unsuitable and inferior to American varieties, exposing a swindle to sell common wheat under a false name to Western farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Far West
C. W. Derry
Lake Co
Colorado
Japan
Hubbard
Edwin Dun
Agricultural Department of the Empire
Derry
Hulitt
Humbug
Sunday lecture fund-raiser campaigns George canvass
The report notes a Sunday lecture with admission fees benefiting Mr George’s campaign fund. Catholic and Protestant clergy join as speakers and workers, reflecting broad support and provoking debate on Sunday observance and political duties aligned with religious zeal. The Brooklyn Union discusses implications for electoral norms and social reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Brooklyn Union
Mileage of the blood current in six ty nine heartbeats per minute
A Canton Society of Arts lecture notes practical points on vital mechanics. The author discusses the blood flow mileage in a healthy adult when the heart beats sixty nine times per minute and circulates through the vessels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Society of Arts
Steel Ties Prove Durable On Veracruz Railway Line
The Veracruz railway reports two years of tested steel ties with 20 000 in use and 40 000 more ordered for this year as the line plans to replace wooden ties to cut costs. Life span is put at 30 to 50 years, and a shift to travelling gangs may halve employed workers. The article notes England now produces ties cheaply at five shillings each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veracruz
Foote
United States
Fingland
England
Shiloh's Vitalizer Offered For Constipation Relief
A patent remedy named Shilohs Vitalizer is advertised to treat constipation loss of appetite dizziness and hyperpsia. Price is 10 dollars and 75 cents per bottle and it is sold by J W Hughes Sullivan and Bedwell Dugger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shiloh
J.w.hughes
Sullivan
Bedwell
Dugger
Early childhood of Abraham Lincoln in the woods
The account notes Lincoln’s solitary boyhood with little schooling and few formal memories of early years. It cites a single wartime recollection and a generous act toward a solder, suggesting a temperament shaped by scant schooling and minimal parental instruction per Nicolay and Hay in the Century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pigeon Creek
Sparrows
Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Thomas Lincoln
Abraham
David Elkin
Nicolay and
Hay
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Great Britain
Sarah
Zachariah They
Caleb Hazel
Hays
Manure as a Crop: Pride, Profit, and Health
An American Agriculturist reprints urging farmers to treat manure as a crop. It argues manure, gathered and stored well, yields value and health, contrasting it with neglect of barns and yards and noting its cost is mainly harvesting. Cleanliness boosts health and farm wealth.
Pigeon Creek Milk-sick Pestilence of 1818
The piece recalls life at Pigeon Creek in autumn 1818 amid malaria and epidemics. It notes settlers romanticizing youth while detailing harsh conditions and a deadly milk-sickness outbreak that nearly exterminated the community, a topic of much historical debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis Hanks
Billy
Pigeon Creek
Low Water in Wells and Typhoid Fever Connection
Dr. Henry B. Baker of Lansing links typhoid fever to low well water, showing six year trends where sickness follows water-depth drops after June. He cites contamination from stable yards privies and cesspools as a main cause, with winters' frozen ground hindering percolation and reducing cases. Dr Foster Pratt’s Kalamazoo remark supports the pattern observed in autumn when wells ran dry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry B. Baker
Lansing
Michigan
Foster Pratt
Kalamazoo
American Medical Association
Popular Science Monthly
Emigration Trends From Britain Favoring United States
Bradstreet reports show English and Scottish migrants favoring the United States over British colonies. From England in eight months 55 467 of 98 382 chose America while 17 343 went to Canada and 20 801 to Australia. August arrivals to the United States totaled 11 846 English, 4 901 Irish were headed there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Giffen
British Board of Trade
United States
England
British North America
Australia
Land of
America
British Isles
Bradstreets
New Use for the Photophone by M Leon Esquille
Inventor M Leon Esquille presents a photophone method using a polished diaphragm transmitter to convert speech into light. The light trace is photographed on sensitized paper to record articulation and later reproduced by projecting the trace with an electric arc or oxyhydrogen light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Leon Esquille
M. Esquille
Telephonic reception of speech vs early phonographs
The passage compares a selenium receiver to Edison and Bell devices for recording speech. It notes the selenium method, though more troublesome, may surpass mechanically traced phonographs in capturing sound through the telephone, as discussed in Electrical Review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Mercadier
Hdison
Professor Bell
Filectrical Review
Paper pulp products expand in fashion and industry
The article surveys numerous pulp based goods from slippers to bed coverings and notes advances in materials. It highlights leather substitutes made from pulp with cement bonding and mentions a New Jersey factory producing pulp bedding. It also reports Yucca palm fiber used for paper and the London Telegraph printing on such paper from an Arizona plantation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
New Jersey
Arizona
London Telegraph
Telegraph
No More Fighting Against Silver in Election Canvass
An editorial notes that during an election canvass no candidates pledge against silver. It argues the silver dollar coinage is harmless, replacing bank notes and preventing currency contraction, and that dire forecasts from 1885 proved unfounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William M. Evarts
Wiggins
N. Y. Sun
Dr Bigelow's Positive Cure for Coughs and Colds
Judge a man by deeds says the ad. Time tested Positive Cure from Dr Bigelow claims to cure coughs colds and throat lung troubles. Safe for children and sold by S A White in fifty cent and one dollar bottles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Bigelow
S. A. White
S. A White
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George Sand
Pastner
Sena
Ing
Mint Nels H Fririce& Algeriell
Austro-Hungary
German
Belgium
Spain
Greece
Holland
Russia
Roumania
Switzeraland
Turkey
Bombay
the Order of Children’s Studies
Education Society
Bryant
Boston Journal
the TimEs
British Emigration
Wiiowlotings, Co
Sullivan Planing Mill
E. & T. H. Depot
J. F. Hoke & CO
Tural Machine Works
Oliver
Selomiin
Rost & Robbins
North Broad Street
Sullivan, Ind
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