Convict Dalton’s Bold Escape Plot From Wisconsin Prison
Henry Dalton, 25, recently lodged at the central police station, previously jailed for burglary at Tomah and released earlier this week. He devised a prison escape by hiding in a shipment case, removing sixty dozen shoes, stripping case nails, and using ropes to secure the end. He hid in the case, then crawled out and avoided capture for days, finally surrendering. During confinement he honed writing skills and produced fine pen designs.
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Henry Dalton
Waupun
Tomah
Dalton
Ile Case
German carp as a farm pond food source
The Fish Commissioner advocates German carp as a cheap, abundant food fish usable in all sections. Carp thrive in warm ponds, require little space, and can yield large harvests with minimal feeding except during spawning. A small pond can meet a family’s needs, making carp farming a profitable farm adjunct.
Photographing Lightning By A Bohemian Observer
Robert Haensel of Deichenberg has captured lightning flashes on film revealing long continuous sparks crossing the sky. His images also depict the landscape and allow estimating the luminous train length, one case measuring about 1,700 metres. Wheatstone showed single flashes last no more than a millionth of a second.
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Robert Haensel
Deichenberg
Wheatstone
Love and passion in contrast with numbers and purity
The text contrasts love with passion, arguing love elevates and refines while passion degrades. It defines pure affection as rare and free from taint, likening the serene certainty of numbers to divine order that measures the earth and weighs the stars. The fragment ends abruptly with broken phrases and symbols.
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Earth
God
Delicate and Feeble Ladies Hop Bitters Advertisement
Delicate and feeble women find relief from fatigue and irregularities with Hop Bitters. Testimonies claim cures for neuralgia headaches and stomach sickness, with notes from Providence Braprorp and Rochester. Describes family use and a physician disclaimers about alcohol content.
A Long Spooze and a Nostalgic Elixir Note
A fanciful note recalls Bip Van Winkle sleeping about 50 years ago when Downs Elixir rose to fame. It suggests he would awake to find Downs Elixir now the leading cough remedy, while Aliso Baxters Bitters remains for bilious diseases. For sale by Johnson & Siegfried in Warren, Pa.
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Bip van Winkle
Aliso Baxter
R&l
Johnson & Siegfried
Waren
Daughters Wives and Mothers Offer Female Health Cure
Emphatic guarantee for Dr Irohisi Cabol icon female remedy to treat ovarian troubles inflammation ulceration and other female ailments. Sale by druggists at 1.00 or 1.50 per bottle with pamphlet offered free. Also free trial bottle and treatise from Dr Kline nerve restorer to fit cases.
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Irohisi
J- B. Marchisi
Utica
N. Y
A. W. Merck
Geneva
Agencis
Samuel Pratt
Greenwich St
New York City
America
L. G. Noyes
Pratt
Queen Victoria Health Fears Prompt Kidney Cure Appeals
English court circles worry over Queen Victoria’s health with suspected kidney disease. An 1888 testimonial from New York claims Fenner's Kidney and Back-Ache Cure relieved complex kidney heart and female weakness, detailing long term dropsy and urgent symptom relief and urging widespread sale.
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England
Sir
Jaws FuLven
Gilmore's Aromatic Wine and Piles Cure Ad
An old Warren Pennsylvania advertisement touts Gilmore's Aromatic Wine claiming flawless skin and a health boost, then markets Gilmore's Pile Specific with a five minute relief promise and a 50 cent price. It lists A Morek and A W Merck's as sellers and makes bold claims about neuralgia relief from a separate product.
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Gilmore
Warren
Guptave
Lake
Gilmore’sa
A. W. Merck’s
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Queen Victoria
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A. Mowkell
Aare
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Le 12
Lalso
Islan
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Rochester School of
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Eberman
Warren and Vicinity
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Youngsville
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E. A. Weagraff & Bros
Einsoe
Warren County
Fonerala
McNeti & CO
Hr& Son
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Priczsa
Golden Horse Shoe
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Carver
sTon
Quarnarn
Michael Hoffman
Daaler IF
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Berkstresser
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