Immodest Bathing Tales and Doan's Kidney Pills Notice
A Philadelphia scene recalls travelers describing nude and masked bathing customs in various lands. The item shifts to a Rebecca Lodge letter from Topeka praising Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney trouble, signed by Mrs C Br Bumgardner, with a free trial offer and Buffalo distributor details.
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C. E. Romgardner
Rebecca Leader
Doan
B. Romegardner
Rebeccas
Topeka
Kan
S12
Kansas Avenue
Poan
C. BR. Bumgardner
Foster-Miltmirn Co
Buffalo
Gaining a Little and Prize Contests Highlight Page
A mix of anecdotes on art doubt and a stubborn artist. An Odessa engraver earns royal thanks after etching the Russian National Hymn on a grain of corn. St Louis World's Fair offers 85 500 in prizes with deposits in Missouri Trust Company and a October 15 deadline. Also brief bits on engagement gossip and train routes to Boston and New England.
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Odessa
Missouri Trust Company
Anatelas Institution
Delmar
Adelaide Avenues
St. Louis
Louis
Osseo Santos
Dolan
Sale
Olober
Nigtal
Bre Winslow’s Boormm Jumble Nonsense Dialog
Nonsense lines repeat with garbled phrases about gums and winds. A misread joke about finding a woman’s pocket is attributed to an anxious author. The text features playful names Scribbles-Say and Dribbies-Oh and hints at an old pun.
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Jay
Bugle Signals Through Military Times
A historical note on bugle usage in armies and navies, tracing its antiquity from Persian and Egyptian horn signals to its role in modern drill, formations, and inspections. The piece highlights the bugle’s presence as a constant, timekeeping presence in soldiers and sailors daily routines.
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Thebes
Pruidia
British Museum
Troy
From Bugles to Ironclads A History of the Trumpet
The article traces the trumpet’s origins from primitive flare-mouthed instruments to the modern bugle, notes the technical distinction with the true trumpet, and contrasts naval life of sail with the mechanized era, ending with the ironclad battleship era led by ships like the Oregon.
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Gabriel
Angel
Hourly Bugle Cues Shape Army Daily Life
The piece describes how bugle calls at military posts guide officers and families, dictating wake, sleep, meals, church, and household routines. Army babies and mothers sync to the schedule, using calls like first call for retreat and dinner time, creating a familiar, constant time discipline.
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Doc
Trumpet replaces boatswain pipe in modern naval bugle calls
The article notes the trumpet with an extra crook creating a baritone range increasingly replaces the boatswain pipe in the navy. It describes the pipe’s decline as new fighting ships and rapid fire guns redefine naval routine from reveille at dawn to taps at night.
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Naval Service
Thas
Navy Cadets Embrace Bugle in Drill and Ceremony
At Annapolis the bugle replaces many calls as the academy integrates military tempo into daily life. The drum and bugle guide study, recreation, and routine, signaling that naval training blends science with rising military traditions as ship crews prepare for service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Steyhound like the commerce destroyer Columbia
A fragment notes naval craft with triple acrewes and quadruple expansion engines speeding over twenty knots. It highlights the need for skilled guidance, the meaning of army bugle calls, and field music accompanying skirmish drills, reflecting military practice and appreciation in naval contexts.
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Steyhound
Columbia
Dibden
Military drill commands from a well trained soldier
An officer designates a maneuver using a bugle call and signals the execution with a sequence of commands. The sequence includes attention forward flee halt lie down rally by squad deploy commence fringe and other movements, all clearly intelligible to a well trained soldier.
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Grho
Aquad
Roots and Saddles and the Military B ritual Notes
The narrative lists official calls heard in barracks from sick call to taps, noting how soldiers wove rhymes to the rhythm of life on base. It describes the morning flag hoisting at 8 o’clock and the cadence of daily examples, reflecting garri son routines and voices of officers row and barracks dwellers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrenka
Living Aboard a Small Cruiser A Guide for Amateurs
The piece advises nervous people to narrow sailing life aboard a small cruiser to manageable work and a philosophical mindset. It urges avoiding overcare, using prudent sail handling, and embracing plain living with fresh foods kept in reserve for cruising along the coast, referencing the Boston Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bourl
Gail
Boston Journal
To the Colors and Retreat Echo In Sunset Parade
The passage describes the sunset ceremony of the colors with bugles and a rifle volley marking the day’s end. It notes the two calls to the color and retreat played by the field magics and the guard trumpeter, symbolizing national greatness and military ritual.
The Humble Jimson Weed Becomes a Garden Pride
In a garden tale, a self-sown jimson weed, the thorn apple, grows through neglect to become a striking centerpiece. It thrives amid ash dumps and old cans, reaching nine feet high and ten feet wide, with forty blossoms. The narrator tends it, gardens around it, and notes its unlikely charm and resilience.
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CO. M. Siterner
California
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