The Air Bicycle by Professor Carl Myers Explored
An 12 year study by balloon expert Carl Myers yields a novel air bicycle. The device combines elements of balloon propulsion and bicycle mechanics, featuring a hydrogen spindle, a duck sail, and a front steel shaft with a helically driven arms system to lift and steer the rider into flight. The wind becomes propulsion, enabling ascent with headwinds and a rudder for steering.
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Carl Myers
New York Recorder
Odds and Ends From A Curious Year In A Curious World
A quick survey of strange notes from 19th century life. A Brooklyn boy dies at fifteen from rapid growth after standing six foot two yet weighing under one hundred pounds. Seventeen thousand homeless women sleep outdoors in Stepney Green London shelters. A Baltimore schooner is christened with water by temperance owners. A Pirrspuxcu man uses banknotes to clean glasses, praising the bills themselves. Rome tombs of six popes including Silvester found in Silvester basilica. A flock of twenty one geese belonging to Asher Werts freeze to death on his pond. Arcuison Kan youths settle a fight by removing attire then continuing. Jumping in Idaho proves dangerous as Harris fatally wounds two intruders and injures another.
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Brooklyn
Stepney Green
London
Baltimore
Silvester
Rome
Constantine
Nice
Asher Werts
Crawfordsville
Ind
Idaho
Wallace
Harris
Wit and whimsy fill a curious newspaper page
A collection of jokes and quips on charity balls science manners and echoes. The humor touches on giving cow physics polite stairs and a jailed thief seeking a week’s continuance. The tone resembles light absurdist humor in a late era issue.
Georgia Alabama Notes on Agriculture and Population
The report details Alabama cotton valued at 50 million dollars and a lumber train reaching Savannah. It notes labor shifts in southwestern Georgia and Charlton Echol s and Charlton as two Georgia counties without a lawyer. Charlton also lacks a doctor or dentist. Terrell county shows growing black prosperity and land ownership. Governor Jones plans battlefield tree procurement from Virginia.
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Alabama
Savannah
Georgia
Wasumetox County
Turner
Echols
Charlton
Terrell County
Jones
Virginia
Goop supplies and home goods list with domestic aims
A jumble of household items is listed including Goop fuel knives a stove thermometer clock and clothline posts. A dialogue from Detroit Free Press depicts a woman resisting marriage to Edgar citing lack of romance or opposition and fearing an elopement.
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Pune
Edgar
Detroit Free Press
Royal drawing rooms draw ire of American ladies at the queen
London accounts describe long queues and delayed access to the palace for American visitors in two drawing rooms. Observers condemn the hourslong wait in daylight and the sight of semi clothed ladies as unfitting to the queen. Other vivid scenes cover carriages, gossip, and a duchess’s death notice linked to Marshal Malakoff. Two gems olivine and turquoise rise in value.
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London
New York World
Palace
Virago
Notable Oddities and Local Anecdotes From Mines and Towns
A string of curious items includes Ma. GolicuT y, a Missouri policeman, Cunis Brown promising a walk to Alaska for ten thousand dollars, and Ma. P.S. Dunn with a Wales brought gourd from 1838. Other notes feature Anhtuor Cummock's Harvard Yale prize, Josef Bonn near Toronto in ill health, Marm MacDuke Watson retiring after decades in Philadelphia, Fields the lifelong-born man, Miss Lupia Lanort's insanity from a prank letter, and more curious regional briefs.
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Ma. GolicuT_y
Missouri
Cunis Brown
Fort Wayne
Ind
Aspinwall
Alaska
Ma. P.S. Dunn
Callaway County
Wales
Axntuor Cumnock
Harvard
Yale
Josefh Bonn
Toronto
Marm Macduke Watson
Philadelphia
Old Treasures and Antiquities Drawn From Far Lands
A Flint Michigan tale lists a 140-year-old oak felled near Flint and a land grant from February 6 1807 bearing Thomas Jefferson and James Madison signatures. Items include a Paw Paw tax receipt from 1409, a 1673 Rev. Jons Exot letter sold for 500 dollars, a Rev. Jonathan Edwards letter sold for 11.5 dollars, a Labon New Jersey brass spectacle case with a 1478 1487 Dutch calendar, and a Harrodsburg Kentucky watch dating to 1775 once owned by a Boone associate.
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Flint
Mich
J.J. West Lake
Wheeling
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Paw Paw
Jons Exot
Jonathan Edwards
William J. Miller
Labon
N. J
F. L. Sarnop
Harrodsburg
Daniel Boone
Love and Elopements Across Time and Place
A compilation of quirky marital tales from late 19th century life. Mary Mocesxs of Erie elopes seven times from one husband while a Mississippi incident reports tar and feather for marrying a quadroon girl. A Michigan court awards 1500 in breach of promise, Anranam Sreex and wife near Huntington mark fifty years of marriage amid separation talk. Colchester Ontario’s Art South Colchester and M Brown wed at ages eighty four and ninety seven. groom with four prior wives, bride with five deceased husbands.
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Mary Mocesxs
Erie
Mississippi
Gexeste County
Mich
Anranam Sreex
Mill Creek
Huntington
Art South Colchester
Ont
M. Brown
Margaret Clickett
A Nickel in the Slot Sparks Public Debate and Mischief
The piece notes penny-in-the-slot machines rising in depravity with dice throwing and new schemes. It cites about 12 000 machines in use and mentions plans for two men to use tubes to hear music at a cost of two and a half cents. The Iverness town council approves erecting the first machines and a mixer damages a wrist attempting a blow test.
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Iverness
The Making of Words and Language Changes
A collection of linguistic curiosities and notes on word origin shifts. It discusses Milan influence on milliner, proposed substitutes for telephone language, Darwin era vocabulary growth, new terms like finance and pseudotherapy, and chivalry hat customs. The piece also mentions a Montana mining firm purchasing draught horses for $1000 and a price for two hundred and fifty ears.
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Milan
Joan W. Massry
Plymouth
Eng
Philadelphia
Department of Biology
London
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Slimsey
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Texas
Ima
Ura
Ima Hogg
Ura Hogg
More Hogg
Papa Hogg
Wicked Exchange
Ture
Kentucky
Smith
Shir
Smo
Jo-King
Drin
Curinous
Ariner
Her Majesty
Duchess of Malakoff
Eugenie
Marshal Malakoff
Malakoff
Parbleu
T. A. McClain
Flathead Valley
Demersville
Henry Therriault
Henry Heideman
Ashley
Walter Jaquille
James A. Booth
Egan
John Lang
J. N. Harrington
Inter Lake
Fields
Danville
Lupia Lanort
Davenport
Love
Granite Mining Company
Deer Lodge
Hazleton & Blessing
Montana
W.E. Tierney & CO
Establishment For Sale
Deering Binders
Royal Horse
T P Newton
the Messenger Office
C G Ferrell
Montana Iron Works
Aiken
Lower Main Street
Butte, Montana
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