Physical Effects of Alcohol by Dr Johnson and Dr M D
The article argues drunkenness as the strongest single cause of insanity and a predictor of hereditary mental decline. It cites Plutarch and Aristotle, notes children of drinkers are delicate and nervous, and claims sobriety protects mind and body from imbecility, insanity, or death. It emphasizes alcohol as a disease producing condition and warns of female vulnerability to hereditary drunkenness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Johnson
M. D
Washington, D. C
Plutarch
Badykard
The Blight of Strong Drink Sermon by Rev Dawson Burns
London preacher Rev. Dr. Dawson Burns decries strong drink as a toll on society. He says it harms physical, moral, and mental life, corrupts homes, and weakens civilization while opposing church and education and hindering national progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawson Burns
London
Hell
Prohibition and Crime: Saloon Closures Cut Criminal Toll
The Iowa State Register argues that Supreme Court approval of injunctions on prohibition correlates with crime drops. It notes saloon closures reduce crime costs, and cites Brooklyn abolishing City Marshal as police power shifts. Prohibitionists blamed for enforcement gaps if crimes persist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State Register
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Iowa
Prohibition Without Legislation in Cameron Parish
A Louisiana correspondent reports Cameron Parish, in the southwest, shows no liquor sales due to public sentiment. The sheriff notes the jail unused and decaying, repurposed as a corn crib, while residents stay healthy and work hard. Pullman Illinois also has no saloons in a 9000 population town with a Board of Health as its sole public board.
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Louisiana
Cameron
Pullman
Board of Health
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Fastang Est
Systemiof
Atlantic
Pacific
Chicoliet
Ottawa
la Salle
Peoria
Gene
Union
Chicago
Missouri ‘River
Kansas
City
Atchison
Minneapolis
S St. Paul
Indianapolis
Lafaye
Aoe
Sfepe
Ong Olsen
United Ants
States
Canada
Supreme Court Chief Justice Waite on prohibition and cholera pledge
Chief Justice Waite states prohibition is no longer an open question and advocates abstinence pledges as the best precaution against cholera. He urges closing drinking saloons to protect public health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Supreme Court
Waite
Dr Hart Remarks on Cigarette Use in Youth
Dr Hart comments that a cigarette in a small boy's mouth is shocking and out of place. He also notes the peril of kerosene explosions affecting a servant described as an exile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hart
Censorship in Russia Shapes Press Control and Punishment
The article details a multi‑tier censorship apparatus in Russia, including censor committees, the press department, and the former third section now police tied to the interior ministry. It describes preliminary and subsequent censorship, sequestration powers, and police deportation, with a noted case of M Koukol Jasnopolsky whose printing stock was mishandled by Gen. Tchebi kine, leading to fines and deportation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Police
Ministry of the Interior
Ministry of Public Instruction
St. Petersburg
Russia
M. Koukol Jasnopolsky
Tchebikine
M. Konkol Jasnopolsky
Aris
Nigni Novgorod
Insidor
Why She Felt Acquainted At Court
A critic mocks a minister who brought a self important American woman to a continental court. The queen greeted her kindly, but the woman improvised we share a chiropodist, revealing a social misjudgment and unintended informality in high society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Bulletin
Not Her Style
A Dallas father confronts his daughter, Fanny, for claiming she will marry Tommy Jones to provoke a rival. She retorts she will not wed for a year, insisting Jones is not her style and mocking the jealous peer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fanny
Dallas
Tommy Jones
Texas
Notre Dame Sisters Endorse Red Star Cough Care
The Sisters of Notre Dame at Govanstown near Baltimore certify the Red Star Cough Care eases coughs chest oppression and throat irritation. Health boards in Brooklyn Baltimore and other cities have publically proclaimed its virtues. The remedy is claimed free from opiates poisons and similar objections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Notre Dame
United States
Govanstown
Baltimore
Boards of Health
Brooklyn
An Appropriate Wedding Cake
A toast to a groom with a calling leads to a humorous wedding cake exchange. A pugilist seeks a pound cake while quips about harmonizing cake types with professions amuse the couple and guests.
Air brakes and Uncle Zach in a rural reminiscence
A vignette recalls Uncle Zach skeptical of the air brake in a train car and a misattributed claim of a miracle cure. The tale weaves humorous dialogue, a Yankee trick assertion, and references to Dr Carver and Warner's safe cure. The piece underlines skepticism toward grand claims despite anecdotal demonstrations.
California Ostrich Farmer Kitchen Quandary
A comic dialogue recounts an ostrich farmer asking if feeding was regular during absence. The wife explains she fed the birds with improvised fare from the house including nails and stove-pipe pieces. She even offered mince pie as the birds grew unsatisfied, prompting the farmer's dramatic remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Galen
Hair color beliefs and medical ads in a late 19th century column
A miscellany notes hair color as moral signs from ancient lore and popular saying, warns against cruel farriers and praises Dr. Pierce’s life study in women’s health. Also mentions Philadelphia government contracts and Caswell, Haz zard cod liver oil ads. Ends with a quaint question about the wealth of a ship owner.
Swindler prosecutions and patent medicine boasts in notices
A blend of sensational prompts to indict fake druggists for selling bogus Hop Bitters and a Supreme Court injunction against Warner's German Hop Bitters. The page also touts hotels, riddle-style jokes, and assorted vendor pitches including Caswell Juniper Sap and Frazer Axle Grease.
Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis a Cold Climate Opinion
Fragmentary notes describe digestion detoxifying channels and liver cleansing to prevent disease. The text asserts that obstructions in bodily channels cause illness and promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovered as energizing the body. It links climate to health and urges purification of impurities for vigor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Counterfeit Hop Bitters Injunction Issued Against Warner
The Hop Bitters Company of Rochester New York obtained a federal injunction against Collatinus D Warner of Reading Michigan and his agents prohibiting them from manufacturing or selling a medicine named German Hop Bitters. The order enjoins use of the words Hop Bitters on any bottles or labels to mislead buyers and bars manufacturing or selling bitters in the same form until further court order. The ruling was issued at Detroit on the fifteenth day of May in the year 1888 by Justice Morrisson and W C Harsha Clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hop Bitters Company
Rochester
N. Y
Collatinas D. Warner
Reading
Michigan
United States of America
Collatinus D. Warner
Stanley Matthews
Henry Brown
Detroit
M.aeturin
Warner
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Yees
Prickly Ash Bitters CC
ST. Louis
Kansas City
Hops & Malt Bitters CO
Denson
Kies
Harry W. Olmstead
the Times
Ind
David Kennedy
Rondout
Indiana
Davie Kennedy
Harry W. Olmster
Dr. Kennedy
David Kenedy
N.Y
SGO
Jones
Fred Pricy
Add-Tits Jones
Binghamtons Inghamton, N.Y
Hagan’s
Magnolia
Boston Courier
Warritierr
Elizur Wright
Robert Purvis
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
Zach
Carver
Arlile
Bose
Leive
de Kyars
Zachs
Philip Beers
United States Hotel
New York City
New York
Worl Bartholdi
Bright
Ives
Sah
Uncle Zadh
Judas
Pope
R. V. Pierce
Fierce
Philadelphia
Caswell, Hazzard & Co
U. S. Supreme Court
C. D. Warner
Mich
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Grand Union
Thos. Bass, Sr
Steelville
Isaas Thompson
Hb. Futon
Eer Ston
Eaven
Vermor
Stillwater Dis
Bear Lake
Paul
Red Wing
Latenve
Albert Lea
Green
N.S I
Mayison
Hell Gate
Terry Davis
Borne
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Mining Bros
Pittsburgh
J.C. Hoffjman
Jefferson
Wisconsin
A. P. Lacey
Tye
Washington, D. Z
Regulator Co
EMO
CU. PA
PON
Aurora
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Wateluigs
St., Chicago
Life OF
Gran
A. E. Davis & CO
Rochester Morning Herald
U. S
C. D. Farner
Syracuse Bolt Company
Syracuse
Victor Double Huller
Newark
Olumbus
Ohio
Ron
Elgrans
Newman
Grant
ER - Ware
R.U. A
Moven Teese
Lorillard
Lomberdo
MNE Bros
Esville
Perators
P. W. Reai
Onia
St.Louis Rand
HeNa
E. ST. John
Fassenaer
Man and
Beast
Bann Lax
Daun Conrs Unicorus
Lyon & Healy
Reeds Temple
Tussoy Lek Rtate
Celaco
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