New Industries for Warren-Eaw 10 Drese- Senator Davis
A long, era-spanning piece notes social dress reform and a bootmaker turning reform advocate with stylish boots, then profiles Mrs. Nancy Baker the union county centenarian who runs a thriving Westfield farm at 12 acres and preserves memory and vigor. It continues with a California horticulturist who built a floriculture business from home projects, exchange networks, and growing markets, employing locals and expanding to nurseries and hot houses. The tale highlights graft, enterprise, and the rise of women in new trades.
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Warren
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Drese
Davis
Tyantitie
Paris
Union County
Nancy Baker
Baker
Springfield
N. J
New Jersey
Philadelphia
California
United Mines
California Senator's Wife Advocates Personal Dress Reform
Mrs Cushman Davis of Minnesota, wife of Senator Davis, shares her private dress reform system. She defends corsets worn sensibly, rejects stockings supporters, and wears silk gowns with a single shift. She favors long stockings, a belt, and adaptable fabrics to suit weather while promoting beauty through practical attire.
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Senata Davis
Mont Blanc ascent by aged astronomer Janssen
An elderly French climber, about 60, Mr Janssen, president of the Alpine Club and an astronomer, completed a rare Mont Blanc ascent by sledge. He sought to test whether scientists can observe at high altitude without fatigue and whether sun atmosphere contains oxygen in earthly form. Guides towed the sledge as he rested, later attempting a few steps near the ridge before returning to the hotel.
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Alame
Mont Blanc
Janssen
Alaine Club
Tanssen
Moountain
Mont Llane
Preacher loses faith over hat caper ends with calf chase
In Blue Knob, Rev. Galvin Bobbigton, beloved pastor, accepts a stylish plug hat from congregants. A stray yearling calf knocks the hat off a window, lopes into the yard, and stamps the hat into pieces. The embarrassed pastor, after the mishap, retires from church duties until revival season.
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Bue Knob Chinteh
Galvin Bobbigton
Dobbigton
Blue Knob Church
Blue Knob
Bobbigton
Henry Gliddee
Gliddee
Yuende
Gole
Arkansan Traveler
Self Denial Tale Amid Ocean Peril and Turtle Rescue
A Chicago hotel guest recalls a 1870s voyage where a ship wreck left thirteen men adrift ten days. He survived, enduring thirst and hunger until a rescued turtle offered a perilous, symbolic chance at land. The tale ends with rescued status and a toast to self denial.
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Chicago
Jondon
India
Wrecv-D
Aurricane
Portugal
Hell
Lon
Fi. H.C
Azores
Reed
Avar
Chicago Evening Post
War Judgment and Women Intuition in Daily Life
An elderly farmer misses a city visit because of the cold, joking that women’s intuition is sharper in ordinary matters. Letter excerpts discuss Bright’s disease and a testimonial praising Warner’s Safe Cure for kidney hemorrhage, with a woman asserting life saved after taking the remedy.
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Alice Bennett
Bright
Pennsylvania State Medical & Elery
Joe Howard
New York Press
Alice
Davis
Wa i Davis
Basil
Ohio
Warner
Transatlantic visitors dominate Stratford and Burns sites
A Pullman Gazette report notes that Americans largely compose the annual visitors to Stratford-on-Avon and Burns’s birthplace and mausoleum, with Coleridge’s Highgate resting place described as a bleak, dismal crypt in the chapel of Highgate Grammar School. The tomb’s massive stone bears Coleridge’s name, while a nearby vault lists family interments and stray school desks hint at past pupils who may have carved the engraver’s marks.
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Stratford-on-Avon
Burns
Old Country
Highgate
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Highgate Grammar School
Coleridge
Pull Mall Gazette
Plating business boom draws customers and profits in Ohio
The letter describes Mr Moorehead’s plating venture with gold silver and nickel. A plater's starter kit costs $3 and lessons take an hour. Earnings reported include $37.10 in one week and $119.85 in three weeks, with the wife earning about the same. Addresses W AH Griffith & Co Zanesville Ohio.
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Jaxson
Proverb Wit and Potent Tonic Stomach Bitters Endorsement
A fragmenting old column extols brevity and warns against excess in eating and drinking. It touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a restorative for digestion, liver function, and overall strength, citing a Clifton Springs case and a doctor’s testimonial. Also mentions Hall's Catarrh Cure and a Toledo firm offering $100 for a cure, with general medical endorsements.
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Bantella
Boreham's Pills Promise Relief From Noxious Humors
An 19th century advertisement claims that wind and water travel through the body every six minutes, causing pains labeled rheumatic but attributed to bodily humors. It urges Boreham's Pills to restore circulation and health, notes Beecham's Pills are produced by Beecham of England, with United States agents at 365 Canal Street in New York and mail order availability if local druggists lack the product.
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Hammond
Masachusetts
Robert Coles
Jonge
T. Hawkins
John Vauban
Dunkards
William C
New Haven
John Jenner
Molenony
Thomas Frankland
Popular Science Monthly
Mississipi
Camp Supply
Beechan
Thomas Beecham
St. Helens
Lancashire
England
Alten. Co
Canal Street
New York
United States
Beecham
J. A. Lawrence
Warren Street
New Yorks
Washington's Silence and Medical Remedies Parade
A cryptic snippet notes Washington never spoke of a man’s whereabouts while praising Dr White's Delion Alterative as the best liver and kidney remedy. The piece also jokes about sheet folding methods from Berlin and Paris, a tramp at the door, and Dr Bull's Worm Destroyers as a harmless candy with occasional benefit.
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Washington
Dr. Bull
Favorite Prescription Promises Cure for Female Weakness
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as the remedy for enfeebled women, promising proof and a money back guarantee if not beneficial. It claims the medicine builds up tired and broken down women, urges women to learn of it and try it, and mentions Dr. Pierce's Pellets as regulators for stomach issues and headaches.
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Dr. Pierce
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