The Sound of a Piano Defects From Outside Causes
A piano buyer learns a rattling note may come from outside the instrument. A dealer explains vibrations can travel from room objects, like a chandelier globe, creating a false impression of piano fault. The note improves when the external cause is removed.
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Chicago
Inter Ocean
Scientific Facts Tossed Into Confusing Fragments
The text presents scattered scientific observations on tuberculosis microbes visibility of the moon atmospheric effects on Earth and light perception. It includes figures on blood flow rates and a personal anecdote about attempting to eject a cook from a house, ending with a quip about acting put out.
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Puck
New Discovery Cures Consumption Says Satisfied Patient
Mrs A M Shields of Chambersburg Pennsylvania credits Dr King s New Discovery for consumption with saving her life after six months of severe illness. She says the remedy cured her throat and lung disease and warns it is the safest infallible for coughs colds and bronchial affections. Bottles 50c and 1.00 trial bottles free at druggists.
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A. M. Shields
Chambersburg
Foods in Fruit Skins as Brain Nourishment
A traditional health column extols the brain nourishing value of fruit and vegetable skins. It cites grapes and greens like asparagus, cabbage, and spinach, arguing that skins carry essential nutrients and that rejecting skins leads to poorer health and increased cravings for stimulants.
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Savarin
United States
India
Folklore of Enduring Brute Strength at Work
A Prank Leslie’s Monthly account recalls Scipio Planagan known as the biggest nigger in the business who bore a 1,800 pound box on his body. The box toppled a hand truck, he fell, but fifteen workers lifted it off and he returned to work, clutching his eyes and stretching his limbs in a grotesque display.
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Scipio Planagan
Leslie's Monthly
Burt
Cleveland
Lis
New York Tribune
Quail A Day and Rope Myths Debunked at Lawrence
In Lawrence, Will Upton reportedly ate two quails daily for over thirty days, once doubting appetite but later consuming three or four in a day. The Kansas City Journal mocks the belief a horse cannot pull a sand load on a two hundred foot rope, noting any cow pony in Kansas could manage such a task.
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Lawrence
Will Upton
Kansas
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Chinese Hats and Head Coverings Described in Detail
In China retainers and guards wear distinctive hats indicating office. Ensigns use a sugar loaf like wire structure, a foot high, with no sun or rain protection. Chair coolies wear simple form, cheaper and without button or feather. Boutillen sport a storm hat of rat tan and bamboo, diameter at least a yard. A sergeant marked by a two or three story cook's cap. Mourner wears a gray yellow turban with long cloth ends. A second strip covers head and neck, a medieval feature. Another shape resembles a remnant felt hat with irregular brim.
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China
Douglas as a Printer and the Wentworth alliance
A reminiscence recalls Stephen A. Douglas learning print work with Wentworth on a Chicago project in the 1830s. Douglas handled ink and rollers while Wentworth operated the press, as the two men produced handbills to cover about $3,000 in debt amid tight facilities. The piece also relays a Cleveland anecdote about a man admiring a misfitting mansion and a club dinner.
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Stephen A. Douglas
Long John
Wentworth
Dougas
Mr. Wentworth
Pease Novelty Co Tucson Ad For Games And Supplies
Out of town orders welcomed and prompt service guaranteed. Slot machines card and trade machines of every description for sale created on commission. Correspondence solicited. Office and salesroom 213 North Meyer Tucson Arizona Telephone 2281.
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Pease Novelty Co
North Meyer
Tucson
Arizona
The Untitling of a Life in a Building
Fragmentary reflection on life as a rising block built from daily acts and influences. The text notes learning from books, conversations, and actions shaping a quiet, ongoing construction of self across years. Continuous imagery ties personal growth to a building that ascends with time.
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J. St. Miller
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