How Drunkenness is Cured by Dr Exseley
In Dwight Illinois a Dr Keeley treats drunkenness with bichloride of gold, a method praised by Chicago Tribune editor Joseph Medill. Patients travel from far regions to this village, where a yearly influx grows, housing in inns and private homes while undergoing a routine of scheduled doses and injections.
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Illinois
Dwight
Chicago and Alton
Keeley
Dr. Keeley
Joseph Medill
Chicago Tribune
Chicago
Keeley Institute
Rely
J. G. Speed
Harper's Weekly
Carpet manufacture in Philadelphia drives vast industry
Philadelphia hosts a major carpet making sector with 7,380 looms and about 17,200 workers. Last year output reached 71,400,000 yards valued at 27,690,000 dollars. U.S. consumption averages 400,000,000 postal cards annually for every person.
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Philada Phia
United States
Our Girls as Successful Poultry Pioneers Boost Women
A wealthy woman funded a $200000 summer resort for poor mothers and children and the piece praises women expanding into useful arts and poultry farming. It cites Sheridan's Condition Powders boosting hen lays, lists several women with high egg yields, and promotes purchase of powder and subscriptions from I S Johnson Co Boston.
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Sheridan
Henry Baker
Holliston
Mass
L. J. Wilson
Northboro
Hirs
Edwin Brown
East Greenwich
R. I
E. Bartley
Freeport
Ada L. Ross
Mt. Sterling
Ill
Maggie Croushorn
Ottobine
I. S. Johnson & Co
Custom House St. Boston
Singular Longevity: Burglary convict returns home aged 120
A French housebreaker condemned to 100 years in the galleys reappears in Bourg Ain at age 120. He recognizes only the Brou church, has forgotten his youth and crime, and is met with old age reverence and quiet curiosity from locals. He is described as the patriarch of burglars, a living symbol of clemency and punishment.
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France
Galleys
Bourg
Department
Ain
Brou
New York Ledger
Adventures of a five pound note mishap in South Shields
A South Shields woman tore a five pound note near Kepple Street and the police headquarters believing it was junk. Officers recovered pieces by lantern light, patched the note, and sent it to the Bank of England for replacement. The bank issued a new note, and the woman made a contribution to a public fund.
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South Shields
Ottica
Kepple Street
Moorhouse
Newcastle
London
Bank of England
There Is No Place Like Home Reflections on Memory and Mother
The piece extols home as a binding force across society. It contrasts wandering peoples and civilized life, arguing that memories of home and the mother elevate affection, with the mother’s comfort guiding sorrow and the grave of a mother heightening reverence for home.
Thames Tunnel contract awarded to Samuel Pearson and Son
The London County Council accepted a £1 million tender to build a Thames tunnel at Blackwall four miles downstream from London Bridge. It will be 17 ft 6 in diameter for carriages and pedestrians, 1200 ft under water, using a shield with compressed air. Two deep-water channels exist, with 1200 ft of approaches rebuilt. Work includes diverting main sewers at a cost around £100,000, with completion targeted in three years.
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London County Council
Messrs. Samuel Pearson, & Son
Westminster
Thames
Blackwall
London Bridge
Hudson River
New York
Jersey City
Colossal Egyptian statues found near Aboukir
Three 10 foot rose granite statues unearthed at Aboukir near Cape Zephyrium by Daninos Pasha. One group shows Ramses I and Queen Hentmara seated together on a single throne, a unique feature among Egyptian statues. The other depicts Ramses standing in military dress with sceptre and crown. Inscriptions bear hieroglyphs and the site also yielded early Christian relics near the temple remains of Venus at Arsinos.
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Times Alexandria
Aboukir
Daninos Pasha
Rameses I
Hentmara
Rameses
Cape Zephyrium
Arsinos
Mrs Wilstow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children
A vintage advertisement claims Mrs Wilstow’s Soothing Syrup calms a sick child during teething, relieves fever, dysentery and diarrhea, regulates stomach and bowels, reduces inflammation, and gives energy. It touts a pleasant taste and lists a 26 cent price with wide drugstore availability.
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No. T. Lamb
Little Bay Mines
J. W. Pitts
T. J. Daley & Co
Water Street
Os Ard
Dr. Exseley
Egypt
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