Ransom Tale and Scold Gossip Highlight Old News Item
A fragment cites a Savannah News item about ransom and a boy in Spain, followed by a London Queen piece critiquing the scold stereotype. It also notes Brandenberg family travel, church protractions, literary society meetings, and local visits including Laura Thompson and post office applicant buzz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Alva
Savannah News
Que
Brandenburg
Wight Prickett
Kansas City
Isaiah Doughman
Wright
Christian Union Church
Johnson
Olive Branch
Charles Luck
Williamsburg
M. E. Church
Rev. Roberts
Level
Laura Thompson
Pleasant Ridge
Science of Digestion and the Fallacy of Plain Living
The article critiques plain living and dietary simplifications, arguing variety aids digestion when foods are properly cooked. It cites Dr Geo H. Taylor and The Sank a journal, warning against extreme dietary reforms and urging attention to normal digestive secretions and nutrition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geotary
H. Taylor
Frank Leslie
Footprint Fossil Cast From Coal Age Amphibian Shown
Professor Bickmore presents a slide of an amphibian footprint from a bluestone slab in the Museum of Natural History New York. The fossil from Turner's Falls Massachusetts shows a four legged animal of long body about fourteen feet, mainly hind foot locomotion, living on land and water along the Connecticut valley during the Carboniferous period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Professor Bickmore
Museum of Natural History
New York City
Turner’s Falls
Mass
Bickmore
Connecticut
Scientific American
Woman Seeks Lock of Hair From Ex Lover
A Pittsburgh Dispatch note recounts a young woman sending a request to a discarded beau for a lock of hair he had cut from her hair during courtship. He gathers many locks from various women, bundles them, and sends them to her with a note claiming he forgot which is hers and inviting her to select and return the others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Pittsburg
Dispersed by Their Creditors and Castle Thunder Prisons
A fragmentary item notes a German town riot quelled when a professor shields the fighters and leads them through the campus. It also recalls Castle Thunder, a Confederate Richmond prison for civilians opposed to insurgents, housed in a former tobacco factory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eee A
Vehe
Castle Thunder
Richmond
The Vanity of Man and Public Affairs
A humorous Maine anecdote contrasts male vanity with female vanity from Lewiston Journal. A London letter notes Savernake sale at £700,000 and the 1887 Manchester Ship Canal deal at £1,710,000. A London opinion discusses health ministers and sanitary science during epidemics, citing Chadwick and Beaconsfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savernake
Marquis of
Ailesbury
Sir Edward Guinness
Orthumberland House
Board of Works
Northumberland House
Manchester Ship Canal Company
Bridgewater Navigation Company
Messrs
C. H. Young
Ford
Sual
Chadwick
Beaconsfield
M. I. Holbrook
Herald
Colorow portrait and a physics note on cannonball photography
The text describes Colorow the Indian chief as crabbed morose and ble, noting his excessive eating and drinking and claiming he died at age 84. It also mentions photographing cannon balls in flight, stating a ball speed of 1200 feet per second requires exposure no longer than 0.11 milliseconds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Lewiston
Colorow
Chicago Tribune
Local Notices and Horse Loss Report
An old item notes John Dimmitt losing a favorite horse yesterday due to entanglement in its halter. The Courier announces new horse cuts and urges horsemen to place orders with the paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Dimmitt
Swayne's Ointment Promised to Cure Various Skin Ailments
An advertisement touts Swayne's Ointment as a simple cure for tetter salt rheum ringworm piles itch sores pimples eczema and all scaly itchy eruptions. The claim asserts no internal medicine is needed and the remedy is effective and inexpensive.
Vacuum drying method for fabric using slit cylinder
A cloth passes over a horizontal cylinder with a full-length slit. Steam is fed into a connected tube creating a vacuum that draws air through the fabric and slit, aiding partial drying. The cloth moves slowly to remove sufficient moisture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
Notice of Settlement in Clermont Probate Court
State of Ohio Clermont County Probate Court signals continued settlement hearings for numerous administrators executors guardians and trustees. Accounts and vouchers are set for exceptions on Monday March 4 1889 with final or partial filings listed for Matilda Brunk Charlotte Bools Wm T Prather Charles Adams Ennis Jones John M Cramer Albert R Crane Clementine Parvin John B Turner Co W Ross J B Butler James Gernon Peter Hraunaugh A Johnston William Boggess and others and presiding Probate Judge William W Prather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Ohio
Clermont County
Ohio
Matilda Brunk
David Brunk
Charlotte Bools
John Bools
Wm. T. Prather
Sarah Buchanan
Charles Adams
Mary Belle Adams
Ennis Jones
Charles Jones
John M. Cramer
Jackson Cramer
Albert R. Crane
William B. Bragdon
Clementine Parvin
James
Parvin
John B. Turner
Joseph C. Turner
Co. W. Ross
J. B. Butler
Ene Eurore
William B. Pease
James Gernon
Mary Begley
Peter Hraunaugh
Thomas Robertson
Missionary Fund
A B.johnston
Grace Johnston
William Boggess
Edwin B. Boggess
Annie M. Boggess
Jennie L. Boggess
William W. Prather
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Flanders
Swift
Doe
Ays
William
W. G. Fish
Gsuit
Pitcher’s Castoria
Castoria
Paine
J. T. Cors- Lane
Wells, Richardson & Co
Burlington, Vt
B. A. Dow
NCE Bros. & Wuitz
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Willenbrink & Co
New Richmond
Carl Lehman & CO
Akeclogt
Merchant Tailors
Montyey
Anson Wilson
Monterey
Charles Ulmer & Co
Langestain
Stevr Goods
Earl Street
Cinginna Att
East Pe
Alaska
New Secure
Cincinnati Centennial OV
John Moormann
H. Siefke
Moormann & Siefke
Race Street
Mait
Drahman & Ennering
Reluse
Mercy Tads
Dick’s” and “Ross
Fiaind
Uckeye
Monarch Corn and Cobb Si
E. F. Harmeyer
Walnut St
F. A. Ayer
Garfield Place
Bethel Natural Gas and
Ol Com- 4
Aboe
Aaron Brown
Tre
Lllamibeoua
Janio
Goshen Seminary
Seminan
WM. Haight
Marathon
Ee RS
Miami Township
J. R. Woodlief
Batavia
Lettey
Milford
Gateh
Loveland
C. Janiétz
Chase Vanosdol
Brown County
Crawford & Miller
Mt. Orab
Ohto
Pork and Beef Packers
East Pearl Street
Breas
Clermont Common Pleas
Harvey J. Buntin
Joan M. Buntin ET AL
Court of Common Pleas
Moscow
Clermont
State of
Elizabeth Street
Charles McClain
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O. Tatm
Clermont Party
Oslo
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H. J, Buntln
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