Echoes of Trevithick Steam Locomotives on Toll Road
A late 19th or early 20th century excerpt recalls 1802 steam locomotives feared as the devil by countryfolk. One tollman trembled as a puffing car halted, and the driver declared no toll was due, tempting the man to let it pass. The tale appears in Joseph Hatton’s Old Lamps and New.
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Otor
Joseph Hatton
Trevithick
Satan
Jack
Marian
Glenarm
Larry
Russia
Tibet
Ireland
Doc
B. S
Deep Cracks From Eczema Offer State-Pencil Cure Claim
A Newark Delaware resident reports seven years of eczema on hands with severe cracking. After trying many remedies, Culicura Soap and Ointment cured the hands after two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and one cake of Soap, per a March 28 1907 testimonial from W I H Dean.
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Cuthura
W. Ih
Dean
Newark
Del
Civil War Veterans Rib Each Other Over Valor
Two veterans recall a retreat and jokingly debate who showed more courage on the battlefield. One claims the other fled with arms dropped, the other counters that three chest wounds came from staying afloat in a rowboat while trying to escape. The exchange preserves the humorous, soldiers’ banter tone.
Reward offer and medicine ads from 19th century catalog
A messy OCR fragment advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for incurable cases and lists endorsements from local druggists F J Cheney Toledo. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, price 75 cents, plus Hall's Family Pills. It also contains a jokesy moral about a father denying a suitor in favor of another daughter.
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F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Kinnan & Marvin
O Hali
Hall
Farolly
The End of Glenarm House and Marian’s Choice
In the final pages Marian confesses her motives and Glenarm’s jealousy clears. The couple reconcile amid confessions about Pickering and hidden tunnels then plan a spring escape to a brighter life. Glenarm House stands rebuilt with a chalked door and stored whisky as a ritual for Olivia Armstrong.
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Glenarm
Ering
Marian
Glenarm House
Chicago
John Marshall Glenarm
Olivia Gladys Armstrong
Pittsburg
New Orleans
Dead languages and undertaker wisdom quote
A schoolmaster asks if the son should learn dead languages. Mr Koffin replies yes to assist in his undertaker business. The dialogue highlights restraint and silent virtue, attributed to Cato.
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Cato
Changes Color of Eyes in Spiders and Ducks
Strange reports from Java describe a spider with eyes that glow and shift from brown to grass green, then brown again, in a deliberate display. A second grass green and yellow eyed species also fascinated observers, suggesting voluntary color changes beyond ducks’ fear responses. An unrelated anecdote about postoperative care ends with a joke about a Newfoundland dog.
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M. W. Strickland
Singapore
Builtenzorg
Java
Healthy maternity prep per FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN
An advertisement urges women to seek Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for female ailments that affect fertility. It claims the tonic has cured thousands of cases including displacements inflammation fibroid tumors irregularities backache and nervous symptoms. The copy invites readers to write Mrs Pinkham for advice from Lynn Mass.
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Maggie Gilmer
West Union
D. C
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Josephine Hall
Bardstown
Lydia Kd. Pinkham
Rural Circular Deal Nets Quick Cash for Boy
A boy in Salt Lake City offered to deliver 2000 advertising circulars to rural free delivery mail boxes for five dollars. Six firms signed on, then he secured a 5 dollar commission from a printer for selling 12,000 circulars. He used a rent free rig from livery stables to deliver, completing the task in four days and earning about nine dollars daily.
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Salt Lake City
Towne He's Rising Despite Early Jobs
Important figure Towne He gains attention as his family background includes a janitor start, a policeman brother, and a cook sister. Browne acknowledges their longstanding prominence while noting no new facts about him.
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Towne
Browne
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