Mrs Hayes and Mrs Hayss Endorse Lydia Pinkham Remedy
A Boston pair recounts fibroid relief after following Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound advice. Mrs Hayes, worn by long treatment, reports tumor expulsion and restored mobility. Mrs Hayss praises health restoration and urges others to try the product. The ad touts the compound as a cure for ovarian troubles and uterine issues, with a $5000 forfeit guarantee of genuineness.
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Boston
Hayes
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
K. F. Hayes
Dudley St
Roxbury
Mrs. Pinkham
E. F. Hayss
Pat’s desperate bid ends when landlord intervenes
A distressed immigrant named Pat, hopeful for easy money in America, plans to end his life by rope. His landlord finds him and questions the scene, prompting Pat to reveal his belief that choking himself with the rope would suffice, unaware of how to breathe.
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Pat
America
New York Times
Artist confronts farmer over farm scene painting
On Sure Ground a famed artist overheard a country couple ridiculing his farm scene picture. He exclaimed its value at £100 and asked if they know art. The farmer retorted he knows nature, noting the cow in the painting rises by its fore feet, which, he says, nature never did.
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London
The Khedive Ismail and the Rascal’s Audacious Entering
In Cairo and beyond Ismail showed a good natured patronage even to rogues. He preferred a rogue to a fool and once forgave a flagrant offender who climbed through a window, remarking he had obeyed commands by crossing the threshold by the window.
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Cairo
Ismail
Whistler’s West Point run ends after odd chemistry exam
Noted painter James MacNeill Whistler spent three years as a cadet at West Point. He failed his exam when he described silica as an elastic gas or saponifiable fat during a chemistry discussion before the academic board, prompting the board to dismiss him.
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West Point
Edgar A. Poe
Matt H. Carpenter
Wisconsin
James MacNeill Whistler
Whistler
Academy
Army and Navy Journal
Mannee
Stern Academic Board
Military Academy
Fifth Century Authors on Heart, Veins and Nerves
Herophilus, of the Alexandrian school, wrote medical treatises on obstetrics the eye and the pulse linking them to heart movements and lacteals with mesenteric glands. Hrasis publicus, Theophrastus and Chrysippus pupil, noted heart with veins and arteries but erred that veins carried air and arteries blood. He anticipated Harvey on circulation and described two nerve types motion and sensation.
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Herophilus
Hrasistratus
Theophrastus
Chrysippus
Harvey
The Orange In Spain Tastefully Described
A fragment describes Spain as the place to see how an orange is eaten. A severita uses a silver knife to peel the rind and a fork to detach each morsel, consuming the juice without spills and setting the core aside with the fork still embedded.
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Spain
Severita
Wolsey’s Household in Rich Palace Life and Cost
In Cardinal Wolsey’s palace at least 280 beds awaited guests with silk or velvet hangings. Alabaster bedsteads and embroidered quilts graced the rooms, while chairs and cabinets sported costly woods and gold. The chapel’s pomp matched secular splendor, with 44 copes in one suit. Annual household expenses topped 30,000 pounds. a retinue of 500 and a grand mule procession to Westminster highlighted his lord chancellor status.
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Cardinal Wolsey
My Lord
Wolsey
Westminster
Mississippi 400 000 Years Ago Cataract Theory
Scientists theorize the Mississippi eroded its bed via a colossal cataract that began far downriver and retreated slowly, leaving high bluffs along the river. The St Anthony Falls area may be the remnant of that once vast cataract, with geologists dating the carving to about 400 000 years.
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Mississippi
Mississippi River
Gulf
St. Anthony’s Falls
Jack the Giant Kiler and bone bread origins
The piece notes fairy tale imagery in Jack and the Beanstalk and recalls a historical episode from 1594 Paris during Henry IV’s siege when famine drove bread prices to high levels and some bread was made from bones in the Holy Innocents charnel house.
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Jack
Paris
Henry IV
Napoleon III and His Cigarettes
The passage portrays Napoleon III as the most obstinate cigarette smoker, a fatalist who faced Sedan calmly with a cigarette. Hugo resented his calmness, while Zola, a smoker who quit to work, understood Napoleon III in La Debacle.
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Napoleon III
Sedan
Hugo
Zola
Lizard Meloch horridus Noted for Fierce Spiny Appearance
The Meloch horridus of Australia stands out for its ferocious look with spines covering the body. It appears as if nature aimed to display many spies per area yet, unlike its mythic namesake, it does not crave blood. It is vegetarian and oddly absorbs water from surroundings.
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Molech
Westminster Gazette
The
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
Ancient Trades Unions Across Early Civilizations
The article notes seven thousand years ago Nineveh and Babylon had strict trade unions with harsh penalties, including death for infractions. It cites Pompeii inscriptions showing official appointments to guilds, highlighting the Fishermen's guild as powerful. It also includes a humorous exchange about making a living and an undertaker remark from the Boston Transcript.
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Nineveh
Babylon
Pompeii
Fishermen's Guild
The Difficult Part Punchline
A humorous exchange between husband and wife from Town and Country: the husband doubts counting money while the wife insists she can count every penny except the money she cannot keep. The joke hinges on the idea of self control and misdirection in household finances.
The Feminine Mind and Eye of the Gleaner
A discussion on the unknowable nature of a woman's thoughts contrasts with male perception. The piece then describes rural gleaning in Hertfordshire and surrounding counties, noting how women and children collect grain after harvest, bind it into sheaves, and return home to thresh and use or sell.
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Ruth
Naomi
England
Hertfordshire
Bedfordshire
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Arizona
United Typewriter and Supplies Co
W. Second St
Los Angeles, Cal
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Court Street
Tucson
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Graham
7Th Street
Los Angeles
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HOTEL
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Josephine
Coronado Beach
Tent City
Karl Lamb
C. Parker
Eng
Yuma
Yuma Bakery
W. Hi. Shorey
Prop
G. Hi. Doe
E.G. Woodard
DOE & Woodard
Congress St. P. O
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S. Spring Street
Brady-Schneider Commission CO
Stone Avenue
Columbus
Alex Rossi
Congress St
Yuma County
John D. Burgess
Ning
P. O. Box
Tucson, Ariz
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R. F. White
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Broadway
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