Curious Phenomena and the Three Lives of Louis V
A Norristown dispatch discusses multiple personality cases linked to Alfred Myers’s theory. It traces Louis V and Felinda X, notes hypnotism as a treatment avenue, and cites Watseka Wonder and other cases as evidence that personality may shift while physical control remains.
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Louis
Watseka
Norristown
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
Alfred Myers
Louis V
Felinda X
Bammons
Washington
Peraps Mgr. Algers
Ky Nothee
New York Tribune
Londonville Lodging Tale Echoes Beecher Anecdote
A humorous 1877 reminiscence from H W Beecher describes staying in a two story brick tavern near Londonville Ohio. He and his brother Charles slept on table cloths used as bedcovers and debated whether dinner had been roast beef or mutton, based on odor and inference.
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H. W. Beecher
Londonville
Charles
New York Tribune
Hog weight guessing feat stirs New York humor
The Rochester Union crowns Hiram Sibley of Rochester as the best hog guesser in western New York. He claimed a hog weighed 261 pounds but the animal weighed 251 1 2 pounds. A stone in the hog’s mouth skewered the guess, revealing the hog's true weight. The Union noted the trick, while the New York Sun echoed the joke about luck and white horses.
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Rochester Union
Hiram Sibley
New York
The Incarnation of Business and Its Ruthless Methods
A critical portrait of Alexander T. Stewart as a ruthless mercantile titan who hoards wealth, destroys rivals, and stirs public odium. The piece recounts stories of harsh dealings, family coldness, and a reputation that eclipses any private warmth.
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Alexander T. Stewart
Judge Hilton
Stewart
New York
A. T. Stewart
tWorden
Chicago News
The Divine Art of Studying Human Nature in School
A teacher shapes outcomes by studying causes not effects. Poor governance fixes symptoms while good government directs causes. Transform a school without noise by touching underlying springs. Learn this art from within and by studying human nature in experience and others. The School Journal.
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Hera
The
School Journal
Novel pebble stained glass door decorates Chestnut street
A Globe Democrat reader reports a private home's front door panel carved with rough pebbles and shells set into opalescent mosaic glass. The owner gathered the materials on a Florida trip while his eastern craftsman fashioned a unique window, pleasing when viewed from inside.
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Chestnut Street
Florida
Globe-Democras
Worship of the Moon and Everyday Superstitions
A Harper's Bazar essay contrasts modern Christian practice with lingering superstitions from medieval days. It criticizes beliefs about moon signs, lucky tokens, unlucky days, cross symbols, and ominous natural omens, deeming them degrading to human intellect and urging reliance on hard facts over pagan remnants.
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Dercas
Old Ladies
Diana
Tolette
Aberdeenshire
Sutherlandshire
Argsleshire
Great Britain
Harper’s Bazar
How Glass Articles Are Made In Early States
The Boston Herald describes glass article production. Blown by hand with a blowpipe and goffer, goblets and bowls are formed off hand. Irregular shapes use smooth-surfaced molds. finished pieces are called planks and patterns cut with iron wheels, then smoothed and polished with crocus and rouge.
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Boston Herald
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Eidward Irving
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Henry Ward - Beecher
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N.Y
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M. Ehret, JR. & CO
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Mark. J P
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Bante Co
Ae Nate Hoopes
Brother & Thomas
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Water Street
Episcopal Church
Episcopal
High Street
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Grebini
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Warren
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