Albino Flies and White Rattlesnakes Found in Old California Mine
Bangor cor respondent reports unusual discovery during resumption of Blue lead mining near the Potter/Bishop mine. A white eyed red eyed fly and a four foot long pure white rattlesnake were found in a dry slope shaft. Professor Harlow Ballard preserved specimens and offers theories on their origins and captivity. The flies return to normal color when exposed to light.
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Potter
Ben Bishop
Bishop
Will
California
Mr. Will
Harlow Ballard
Buffalo
Bangor
Ballard
Bangor Cor
San Francisco Examiner
Bucklen’s AKNICA salve and Columbus portrait in old column
Bucklen’s Anka salve advertised for cuts and eruptions with a 25 cent price and local druggists listed. A long column then critiques Columbus, calling him a sea rover, buccaneer, slaver, and harsh ruler, blaming him for cruelty and the slave trade, citing Las Casas and Harper’s.
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Bucklen
Aknica
Belt & Barr
Batavia
J. B. Walker
Williamsburg
Columbus
Rene of Anjou
Charles of
France
St. Vincent
Portugal
New World
New Land
Las Casas
Hispaniola
Eugene Lawrence
Harper's
Dr Haines Golden Specific advertised as a cure for drunkenness
An 19th century advertisement touts Dr Haines Golden Specific as a guaranteed cure for drunkenness and liquor habit. It claims the powder can be given with beer coffee tea or food without the patient knowing and promises permanent speedy results with thousands of successful cases. It offers free particulars and lists an address in Cincinnati. It also promotes reduced rail rates to Portland Oregon for the Presbyterian church assembly with travel details via Pennsylvania Lines and requests names and addresses for further information.
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Golden Specifico
Hace St
Cincinnati
Portland
Oregon
Pennsylvania
General Assembly of
Th Presbyterian Church
Northwest
F. van Dusen
Cule
Pittsry
Penn
Gregg
Reduced Rates to Omaha for ME Church Quadrennial
Reduced excursion fares to Omaha Nebraska for the Quadrennial Conference of the ME Church. Tickets via Pennsylvania Lines sold April 97 and 1 with return validity at specified lower rates. Travel is from Pennsylvania to Omaha and back with time window and pricing details, though some text is garbled.
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M E. Church
Omaha
Nebraska
Pennsylvania Lines
Cattail Industry and a Reporter’s Inquiries
A Philadelphia Press note describes Delaware River cattail marshes yielding down for bedding, shipped to cities like Philadelphia and New York, with Delaware producing about two thirds of the crop. The piece also warns reporters can err, recounting a drowned-man mix up at a Baltimore paper with a reporter dismissing a grieving man.
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Delaware River
Christendom
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New York
St. Louis
Delaware
New Jersey
Maryland
Philadelphia Press
You Can Most Always Tell Him
A Detroit Free Press reflection notes the picturesque figure of a young man newly free from home life who tries to appear worldly. He strides Manhattan streets with delusions of experience, stylish dress, and nonchalant manners that reveal him as a beginner. The piece observes his formal air contradicting his inexperience.
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Detroit Free Press
A Day of Walking in the Country Reflects on Change
Julian Hawthorne muses on a countryside walk that carries four miles or forty from the start and frames a shift from morning to evening. The piece emphasizes absorbing landscape, shared travel with the sun, wind, and rain, and the lure of pastoral seclusion. It hints at becoming travelers or roving spirits as civilization recedes.
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Julian Hawthorne
Lippincott’s
Mudfish rolls in mud cocoon to survive drought
The mudfish shows a remarkable instinct by rolling into a ball of mud as the dry season nears. It breathes through gills in its native water and uses lungs when enclosed in the mud cocoon, a natural adaptation to prevent extinction.
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Philadelphia Ledger
The Antiquity of Ivory and Egyptian Ivory Found
The Phoenicians sourced ivory from the Persian Gulf while a carved Egyptian ivory piece found in Nineveh suggests African origin. Good looks hinge on healthy organs, and Electric Bitters promises a tonic effect on liver stomach and kidneys with claims of clearing pimples and improving complexion. Sold at Belt & Barr’s Drug Store and J.B. Walker’s.
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Persian Gulf
Nineveh
Egypt
Scvottish Review
Tonio
Pimlee
Blote
Belle and Ives
Elt & Barr's
Batavia
J.B. Walker's
Williamsburg
Caliche Nitrate Fields of Chili Explored in Detail
An 19th century account explains caliche or nitrate of soda deposits in Chile, describing caliche layers chuca castra cava and the mining method using a hollow cup formed in the earth after lowering a worker with gunpowder. It notes color varieties from snow white to blue and brown like raw sugar.
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Pampas
Chili
Blackwood’s Magazine
Lambs for Market Advice at State Board Meeting
At the New Jersey state board of agriculture annual meeting J B Woodward of Lockport NY urged buying early summer lambs from stock yards and cross breeding with a strong mutton ram. He advised good pasture, then winter shear and frost proof barn with liberal hay ensilage ground oats corn and peas. Lambs sold in New York market in December January February and March averaged seven to twelve dollars.
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New Jersey State Board of Agriculture
J. 8. Woodward
Lockport
N. Y
New York
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Omba Yia
Scrofula
Ayer
Washington Pos
New York Evening Sun
Ca Nea
A. P. Ordway & C
Boston
Mass
Ceck Medical
Express and Post Office
H. G. Root
M. C
Pearl St
Charles Gaus
Marshal Joly Aorgtls
Wollf
Acme
Wolff & Randolpe
THE
Gregg Electric Care CO
Inter Ocean Building
Chicago, Ill
C. F
Motzer
Imilford, Delto
Ank
Onin Jogner
Mobil A. A. Bennett
Tinting
Aliance Carriage CO
North Court
Court House
Parisian Dyeing and Scouring Company
aSee
Uring Company
M. J. Eain
Orth & Bennett
Wemarqua Carriage
Medical
Lwich’s
Broadway
Sycamore and
Court Sts
Holesale
Spiral Spring Boggy CO
Gatalogue & Prices
H. Kruse & CO
Main St
C. ID. M.envy
Clobe Saloon
Railroad Crossing
Loveland
Thomas W. Paxton
Barbon, Boyle & CO
Walnut St. In
James Julian
Roprietor
Madisonville
Ohio
Clermont
McAdams
Iiding
Tiss
Clermont County Board OF
Board of Examiners
Byron Williams
T. L. Simmerman
G. W. Witham
Warniners
Cor. Main and
Bradford Well & Pump CO
ALLEN
Telegraph
Glendale
Fett
Nali
U. i
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