Sewage Ships Cleanse London Thames Sludge System
London’s modern sludge disposal uses twin screw ships with three tanks to carry 41,000 tons of sludge weekly. Lime and iron precipitate solids, then the clear effluent joins the Thames while sludge is pumped to sea, improving river cleanliness and foreshore conditions.
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London
County Council
Barrow Deep
Thuaichum
Barking
Thames
Nore Light
Gravesend
London Bridge
St. James
Misnamed earth remark sparks old debate on gendered terms
A clipped quotation from Harper's Bazar questions the phrase mother earth calling the earth a spinster. The exchange notes the inaccuracy of gendered naming and critiques common usage, reflecting period views on language and personification.
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Mother Earth
Harper’s Bazar
City Girls Water Their Horses At Montpelier Trough
W. W. Hall reports a funny scene as two city girls try to water horses at a Montpelier trough. The horses could not lower heads, so the women lifted the buggy, raised the hind wheels, and pleaded with the animals while laughter rang from a nearby blacksmith shop. Eventually Hall helped untie the horses and the pair drove away.
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W. W. Hall
Montpelier
Will
Modesto Herald
Mozartian System and Miscellaneous Curiosities
The article surveys Mozarts system praising concise construction and clear tonality, mentions Haydn and Mozart influence, and notes Mosquito biting mechanics, political gifts at weddings, Saratoga Opera House, a Portland derrick, Rossini's father, Inigo Jones, and Europe's dense population of about 360 million.
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Mozart
Haydn
Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes in a Losing Race
Two former college friends recur to a gray told tale of waiting for inheritance and independence. One man, aged and worn, trudges home while the other, well dressed, seems prosperous but both chase wealth. A Detroit Free Press recounts their contrasting fates from youth to bankruptcy.
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Brown
Smith
Waal
Schol
Rici Am
Detroit Free Press
Iving
A Fatal Mistake in Heart Disease Cure Claims
A sensational claim promotes Dr Franklin Alfies as Indian heart specialist offering a universal cure. The ad touts a New Heart Cure by Ar eo Mulliens with a guarantee and promises to treat both nervous and organic heart disease, shortness of breath, fluttering, chest pains, irregular heartbeat, fainting, swelling, and related symptoms, along with a Nervine restorative for headaches.
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Tranklin Alfies
Mules
Plain girl sparks fifteen marriage proposals after graduation
In the New York Herald item Jarvis and Miss Smithers reveal a striking reaction to a graduation day essay. Sixty sensible suitors crowded in after she completed college with a piece titled How to Cook a Beefsteak, provoking the playful remark Snell about her plainness and the crowd’s eagerness.
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Jarvis
Restorative Nervine Promises Cure for Nervous Ills
In a promotional snippet a great specialist Dr Milles markets Restorative Nervine as a cure for headaches blues nervous prostration sleeplessness neuralgia St Vitus dance hysteria and more. Free trial bottles and testimonials offered by Morris & Mlktens with humorous banter about Cureall and seeking a doctor.
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Milles
Morris & Mluktens
Castoria Keeps Faith Between Generations Sealed
An old advertising jingle notes how Castoria was trusted from infancy through motherhood, claiming mothers turn to the product for their children's ailments and daily care across generations.
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da. G. GC
Osaoon
Lowell, Mass
Cure AID skin disease with swayne's ointment claim
An advertisement touts swayne's ointment as a cure for tetter eczema and skin eruptions without internal medicine. It claims permanent cures across faces and hands, notes harmless powder form, and references an address for Golden Specific Co. 1 Race St Cincinnati Ohio. It also promotes gram's grandmother medicine and a drill on window screens and secret society cards.
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Swayne
Golden Specific CO
Race St
Cincinnati
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Gassendi
E. T. O'Loughlin
Godey
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
New York Times
Saratoga
Kan
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Maine
Rossini
Inigo Jones
Europe
Ayer
Frank Teson, Jr
West Fourth Street
New York City
D. W. Barnes
Valparaiso
Neb
Boston
A. P. Ord
Y & Co
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pa
Jon YE. Harris
PH. B
PRESE
Gretzinger
Lewisburg
Theo Go
Pretty Rose
Old Madrid
Katie Connor
Mary and
John
Krout
Albert Kroucp
Pha
Louisa C. Casemere
Second Street
Children Cry For
Pitcher’s Castoria
Ion
Jimson
Castoria
Dr. Haines
Golden
Gram
Warren
Geo
Davis’ Drug Store
Cor. 2Nd and
Liberty Sts
Charles Hamm
Diamoond
Chas, Hamm
Siegfried & Co
Law
SSS
Sons
Storia
Samuel Pitcher
J. FL R McHrroc
Cunway
Srk
BL. A. Ancner, I. D
Oxford St
Brooklyn
Children’s Department
Castor
Asirep
Mass
C. Surra
Dres
Centace Company
Murray Street
Firbeh Pass
Chicago
Ifjs
Remeber
Taper
Weon
Ciparge
Evathandevers
Elson Greenland
Cidanoh
Penn’a
J. J Speck
WH. H. Holmes
Pennsylvania
THE
WM. Heh. Holmvweess Co
Water St
Firstiave
Paetsburgh
Brown & Friend
Henry Friend
A. Weiss
Water Street
Warren, Pa
Sapolioc
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