Dangers of Flowers: Poisons in Poppies and Tulips
London Answers warns that certain flowers including poppies and crimson tulips can cause drowsiness light headedness and even illness. It cites cases of headaches faintness and eye damage from berries and contains cautions about primula obconica skin disease and iritis from belladonna handling.
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Asia Minor
London
Feasts Slow Russian Work Amid Fifty-Two Sundays
The text notes Russia has about thirty-nine church holidays per year, with business closing like London Sundays. After each feast drunkenness cripples work for a day or two, leaving roughly thirty days when Western nations work while Russians stay idle.
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London
Scribner’s Magazine
The Backward Tenant's Peril in the Times
A quirky quip notes a man owing his landlord as a figurative danger around a volcano, implying he may be blown up. The Philadelphia Times framing uses humor to describe debt risk.
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Philadelphia Times
Balloon flight ends in English asylum misadventure
A London aeronaut recounts a balloon ascent with anchors failing to hold. After a perilous drift and a staged descent, he supposedly jumps to a plowed field. He later wanders to an inn and is mistaken for an escaped patient, ending with his admission to a nearby asylum.
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A. Noel Blakeman
London
Mr. Blakeman
Realised His Own Madness In Marital Dispute
A young wife sobs that her husband will not hire a second maid to care for her dog while he admits he was eager to marry her despite friends predicting it. The couple argues over domestic care and sanity.
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Kansas City Star
Mrs. Roser Praises Lydia Pinkham Remedy After Cure
Mrs. Ida L Roser of Denver writes of relief from female troubles after four bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports renewed strength, ease in duties, and a grateful testimonial urging others to try the remedy. The letter endorses the product and invites readers to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham.
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Ida L. Roser
18Th Ave
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Col
James K. Polk
Colorado
Wyoming
New Mexico
Independent Order of Good Templars
Pixxuan
Lydia E. Pinkham
Spany Roser
DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve Promoted for Piles
R S Meredith of Willow Grove Delaware Testifies that DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve cures piles. The ad claims piles yield to the salve and promises skin disease and wound cures. Warns against counterfeits and names Beil's Pharmacy.
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DeWitt
R. S& Meredith
Willow Grove
Del
Beil's Pharmacy
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