Appian Way Echoes Electric Wires Across Time
A fragmented 19th century mosaic contrasts Rome’s Appian Way with modern progress as marble tombs give way to electric wires. The piece reflects on ancient grandeur, death, and a future where infrastructure reshapes memory, then shifts to scattered anecdotes about horse draught fixtures in Philadelphia and a dramatic snake exhibitor incident in Melbourne.
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Beauty
Aroid
Philadelphia
Maee
James Oliphant
Dumbarton
Alpit
Peter
Sxave Brix
Melbourne
Shires
Freemason's
Sandridge
Ancient ruins and odd anecdotes from a distant era
Ancient ruins near Origaba reveal an Aztec fortress high on a forested summit. Four houses, three sacrificial stones, pillars and urns with over two hundred marble‑white skulls were found. A series of antiquated, humorous anecdotes follow, including misfired sermons, court quips, and light satire on manners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Origaba
Noval
Bristol
Mary Carpenter
Lady Bowring
Jacob Bright
Mise Hill
Trineing
Elizabeth Blackwell
New York
Emily Faithfull
Marylebone
Camrt
du Bee
Jack
Bedelde
Melbourne healer markets bold cure for fatigue and skin woes
The ad claims Dr Louis L Smith of Melbourne offers treatment for a wide range of chronic symptoms including fatigue despondency memory lapses skin eruption and hair loss. It urges patients to abandon generic doctors and seek his specialized program with morning and evening consultations at the Physiological Museum Bourke Street East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tye
Cna
Louis L. Smith
Melbourne
L. L. Smith
Physiological Museum
Polytechie
Bourke Street
Lettur
Feo
Uil Parte
Colonia
London Agency notices read at News Rooms for PPE Waylarootices
In London readers may encounter notices read gratuitously at the News Rooms of Mesars Gordon and Gotch at 121 Holborn Hill where advertisements and subscriptions for the notices are received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Mesars Gordon & Gotch
Holborn Hill
Advertising Rates and Terms For Allardo News
The notice lists advertising scales: two shillings for six lines, three shillings for eight lines, four shillings plus threepence per extra line. Dracorwis rates show twelve insertions at 43 percent, twenty six insertions and more at 80 percent. Advertisements run until countermanded if no specific end date is requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
JV Allardo
Keatings Cough Lozenges and Worm Tablets Ad
Melbourne advertisement proclaims Keatings Cough Lozenges as highly effective for coughs colds and throat ailments praised by medical testimonials. Also promotes Keatings Children's Worm Tablet a safe vegetable remedy for intestinal worms, sold in assorted tin and bottle sizes with caution about trade marks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keating
Australis
New Zealand
Unrivalled Powder Claims Flea and Insect Destruction
An advertisement extols TPUTS Powder as unrivalled against fleas bugs mice flies and many insects and notes its appearance in various package sizes with a caution on the trade mark and signature. It also promotes a first class billiard table and a broad patent medicine list including influenza bronchitis colds and numerous ailments with Holloway's pills claimed as a universal remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEB
Melbourne
Ben‘trade Son Brow, Hood & Co
Lebros
Sydney
Elbiow Brow
Bew
And Every One His Own Physician in Australian Colonies
A period of thirty years has seen CL AY'S Hor rise to renown. Medicines and pills have gained fame among Battlers, Diggers, and Emigrants in the Australian Colonies, where their use is highly valued and widely appreciated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Duncan
London
Holloway's Pills Promises Relief from Debility and Disease
An old advertisement extols Holloway's Pills as a universal remedy. It claims to restore digestive tone to fatigue and debility, prevent brain and head ailments, aid females during puberty and monthly cycles, and cure liver stomach and bowel disorders caused by overindulgence or climate. It emphasizes vigor, energy, and cheerfulness returning to weakened constitutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patieota
Purifying Pills Offer Relief From Digestive Distress
A gummed note promises a cure for misery from disordered digestion including headache biliousness and nausea. The text claims these purifying Pills remove the morbid affections without heavy inconveniences, presenting a medical remedy to restore health and vitality.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rome
Atheneum
Medical
Nolice TV
Altavet
Bir
Danlek Long
Mr Thomas Keating
Globe Hotel
Wallaroo
Moonta
G.N
W. H. Birks
Wholeale and Retail Chemists
Deuggists
Boursellers
Stationers
Kadina
Wallaroo & Moonta
Medical Hall
George-Street
Beythien
Eller
Holloway
Piysician
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