Remarkable tale of a 1680 Austrian bandit execution
A long, odd excerpt recounts Scharenburg, a notorious Austrian bandit, and his four companions condemned to death in 1080. Before execution he asks for their line, is beheaded, but the body rises and the emperor supposedly pardons the four. The piece blends mock heroics with travelogue and miscellaneous vignettes from early American papers.
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Dr. Love
Atrangy Ory
Waldo
Vienna
Scharenburg
London Sightseeing Trip Offered for Ten Dollars Fifty Cents
A London firm organized a six day sightseeing system for $10.50 including a midday meal daily. The tour invites visitors to inspect picturesque and historic attractions in the capital and surrounding suburbs.
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London
Thea
Musical Falls Sacred Concert At Forest Lake
The Thorndike band presented a sacred concert at Forest Lake on Sunday afternoon. Dishes fell from pantry shelves as far north as Barre Plains, Palwer Hogistar reported unusual disturbances.
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Thorndike
Forest Lake
Barre Plains
The Painful Truth Behind a Deadened Face
A machinist recounts an accident where a man felt no face sensation due to tic doloureux surgery. The electrician notes the man could not feel heat or pain on his cheek, yet kept laughing and smoking. The piece explains the facial neuralgia and its drastic treatment that relieves pain but leaves nerve sensation vanished.
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Tic Doloureux
Tie Doloureux
Gathering the Seaweed Harvest at Channel Istanda
In Channel Istanda the annual seaweed harvest draws all ages to gather about 100000 tons. Weed is used as fertilizer and fuel, with ash sold for cornfield dressing. On tide cut days, families work with sickles and forks, carts carry weed, boats harvest weed from distant rocks, and wrecking is noted as a hard but celebrated season.
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Istanda
Kidney Health Recovery from Five Years of Suffering
Mrs Remathe Myers of 180 South Tenth St Trenton describes five years of kidney failure and debility from exposure to weather. After using four boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills her symptoms subsided and she regained health. Pills sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foater Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Dean
Foater-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Finds Virtue in Old Clothes and Mellowed Wear
A knight of the palette argues that old costumes reveal a person best. New clothes feel ugly and stiff, he says, while evening dress brings formality and coldness even among close relatives. The artist values age in garments, noting ease returns when fabrics mellow with time.
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Knight of the Palette
Postum touted as a cure and daily coffee substitute
A doctor testimonials Postum as a nourishing beverage that replaces coffee in his family and with patients. He says stores now stock it, it helps indigestion and nervousness, aids convalescence from pneumonia and typhoid, and that once introduced a family keeps using it. The Pontiac Co., Battle Creek, Mich endorses the product with the Road to Wellville reference.
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Pontum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Henry Struggles With a Little Humility During Farm Evening
Henry, after an arduous day plowing, ends up in a tense family scene as he prepares for supper and a political meeting. His attempt at independence clashes with his parents expectations, ending with a chastened ride to the meeting and a wary fatherly rebuke. The piece captures rural life, peevish pride, and a fraught moment of growing up.
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Tombstone
Ariz
Bach
Fnally
Chicago
Michigan
Gual
Geddup
Bet
Henry
Father
Mother
Chicago Daily News
Restored energy and health claim from Herbal Remedy Ad
An old newspaper ad promotes Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for fatigue and women’s neglect, asserting the product restores vitality and relief from tiredness. The fragment hints at a testimonial style endorsement linking wellbeing to the remedy.
Lydia Pinkham Remedy Promises Relief for Women
Miss Kate McDonald of Woodbridge New Jersey reports health improvement after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The letter extols relief from nervousness backache and other female weakness, noting Mrs Pinkham’s ongoing free counsel from Lynn Massachusetts for twenty five years.
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Lydia B. Pinkham
Kate McDonald
Woodbridge
N. J
Mra. Pinkbar
Lydia I. Pinkham
Hinky Dink and Barrie Meet Alderman Kenna in Chicago
H G Wells recalls meeting Alderman Kenna known as Hinks Dink who ran two saloons and had ties to Chicago Chinese quarters. Wells, a forecast novelist and sociologist, describes Kenna as compact upright with iron gray hair and blue eyes, wearing a bowler hat and keeping hands in pockets. He jokes that Barrie, missing university education, might resemble Kenna if he ran a Chicago saloon and organized voters.
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Hinky Dink
Barrie
H. G. Wells
England
Chicago
Alderman Kenna
States
Hinks Dink
Tle
J. M. Barrie
Improbable relic found in Bocking brickwork
Workmen uncover a wine flagon sealed in brick containing a 1783 foolscap page detailing the chimney’s construction for Josiah Reeve and naming his wife Elizabeth Houston with a wife marriage date of March 18 1778. The document ends with a domestic quip about a cat and a cat’s insistence.
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Bocking
England
Josiah Reeve
Elizabeth Houston
Great St. Helens
London
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