A Bouncing Baby and a Journalist's Fact Obsession
A humorous tale from the Arkansaw Traveler recounts Jim Gilling, a young journalist who insists jokes must rest on undeniable facts. He seeds a fake item about a bouncing baby at Judge Gates’ house, incites anger in the judge and editor Colonel Spotts, and ends with Gilling driven to ruin by the absurd ruse and the judge’s fury.
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Arkansaw Traveler
Jim Gilling
Greece
Suum
Daly Hesperian
Gilling
Huxley
Darwin
Colonel Spotts
the Mesperian
Judge Gates
Colonei
Gates
Iupreme Court
Hesperian
House of of
General Assembly
Steng
Gommane Latre
Tastes a King's Heart in a Pall Mall Tale
A Pall Mall Gazette anecdote recounts Dean Buckland eating a relic heart of an early French king during a visit to Nuneham. The Dean, famed for tasting everything, reportedly consumed many animals and claimed even a mole tasted better than some.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Frank Buckland
Dean
Nuneham
Dean Buckland
Household and cooking tips in a vintage newspaper style
A collage of domestic guidance covers egg stain removal with salt, sponge cake and orange cake recipes, grilled salt pork methods, a cheese filled boiled egg luncheon idea, tomato plant care advice, and a long fragment on carriage maintenance, all drawn from 19th century household sections and similar notes.
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Chicago Journal
W. ¥. Post
Chicags Tribune
Green Food for Hogs and Seasonal Crop System
John H. Staid argues for feeding hogs on pasture with rye, beets, peas, and sweet corn to reduce costs. The plan envisions multiple crops per season, including rye cut twice and turned under for pumpkins or corn, improving soil and maintaining sanitary conditions.
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John IL Staid
Boys Going to Cities and Land Policy Across Nations
An English paper notes urban migration trends in the countryside, linking land availability to farm youth leaving for towns. It cites Victoria's shift from rural to urban dominance by 1883 and comments on legislative efforts to settle land. A German discovery of Goethe's diary from 1777 to 1852 is also reported, highlighting the diary's potential historical importance. Chicago Current.
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United States
Australia
New Zealand
Victoria
Germany
Goethe
Chicago
Orphans’ Court
Warren County
Conewango
Warren
A. Scott
Aga Scott
Conewango Township
Pennsylvania
Asa Scott
Titus
George Kolfrat
Walter A. Scott
George Scott
Walter Scott
Howe
Howe Sewing Machine CO
Pitwburg
Neuralgia Relief Cited After Peruna Treatment
Capt John Orr of Pearlington Mississippi suffered facial neuralgia for over twenty years with seventeen nerve operations offering no relief. After consulting Drs Hartman and Miller in New Orleans and using Peruna his pain vanished in under a month. Other sufferers including Mrs Elizabeth Kenner of New Orleans and Mrs C J Miles of Gallipolis report dramatic improvements. Numerous letters claim success with Peruna and Peruna products with prices listed.
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John Orr
Pearlington
Miss
Laurel Street
New Orleans
A. B. Lovejoy
Dadeville
Ala
Pemua
Manaus
Gilmore's Aromatic Wine Promises Health And Vitality
An extensive promotional notice touts Gilmore's Aromatic Wine and Magnetic Elixir as cures for asthma throat and lung trouble female weakness nervousness sleeplessness and general vitality. It cites testimonials from individuals in Salem Oregon Blackberry Illinois Wyoming and Clarkson New York and urges use for children coughs colds croup whooping cough and impaired menstruation. The piece emphasizes dramatic cures and urges sales by W. Morck & Co.
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Gilmore
James Sullivan
Salem
Orexon
Axsson Hugh
Blackberry
A. Higgins
Wyoming
Malaia
Willis L. Culver
Pavilion
E. J. Whitney
Clarkson
N. Y
W. Morck & Co
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Bufffalo
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Dunkirk
Allegheny Valley
Pittsburg
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Pm Express
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Erie
Bradford
East
Sheffield
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Lander
Tin
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Cornplanter
Corydon
Onoville
Steamburg
L’a
Arplex
P. M
Warren CO
George P. C
Willis Cowan
George Ensworth
Chas. Lott. A. A. Wiltsie
W. B. Acocks
Philp Selchrist
J. P. Samuelson
Allegheny College
Meadville
Penn
Buvid I. Wheeler
LL. J
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Anglo-Aamerigan Firwtorledo Co
Enladelphia
HsSs
OB. Carr
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GomInmaniing
Pittsburgh
Siue Bigus
Matheuitt
Piluetreau
Pinsburgh
CIA
Magnetic Balm Co
Warren, PA
Tutt’s
Tuet
Express
Murray St
Candee
Jhysi
JRAMS
Kellersy
Keller
TERR
Cists Rally
Sawn Fisko
Josie, Holl. Co
Sui Kime & Co
Philad’s
Aston
St Rlis Manufacturing Co
Limien
Wood St
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