CURRENT ITEMS A Miscellany of Oddities and Local Notes
A snapshot of scattered items: five riverrep patients in an Ohio asylum, limited furnace operation in Sharpsville Pennsylvania, Holly Water Works costs at 10 800 annually, Milford Pennsylvania shipping 60 000 quarts of strawberries in one day, and a regional inventor proposing horse false teeth. Also mentions Mohawk Flats potato cultivation, a Vermont courtship quip, Center Township age eighty, mosquito bill, a merchant lambasting the moiety system, a circus performer dubbed the human anaconda, and various brief anecdotes from Rhode Island to Missouri with local curiosities, travel notes, and science tidbits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Sharpsville
Holly Water Works
Titusville
Milford
John Happy
Vermont
Center Township
Boone County
Ind
Franck
Rhode Island
Granby
Joan Grocery
Maine
Detroit
Laura Fair
Commodore Vanderbilt
Blinkers
Dupuque
Wenaman
Missouri
GrorGk H. Avery
Boston
Montreal
Hrreacock
Dartmouth College
New Zealand
San Francisco
Sam Purdy
Messrs. McCord
Frank Malone
Onare Esner
Center Rutland
Joplin
Tite Joplin
Budleton
Kansas City
Germany
Pattenson
N. J
Oaleans
Philadelphia
First American whaler Rebecca voyage Cape Horn tale
The Rebecca built by Claghorn in New Bedford in 1785 was America’s first whaler to round Cape Horn. At 185 tons she seemed large for the time and Capt. Cornelius Grinnell, father of Henry and Moses Grinnell, commanded her. The ship changed hands during the Directory era, was captured by the French, recaptured by the British, and lost at sea in 1803 04.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Horn
Rebecca
Claghorn
New Bedford
Cornelius Grinnell
Henry
Moses H. Grinnell
New York City
Palvage
Rebeeca
The Deaf and Dumb Uncle Mystery in a Lecture
A humorist recounts attempting to make an older relative laugh through a lively lecture for the Cliyonian Society. Despite a full assault of jokes, the uncle proves deaf, dumb, and blind as a badger, revealing the nephew’s grave deception and the speaker’s own distress at being used.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cliyonian Society
Tnt
Mark Tioain
Land-Leeches of Assam and Ceylon described by travelers
A traveler reports on Assam land leeches attacking travelers with rapid creeping motion and feeding habits. Another leech variety, the hairleech, waits in grass and irritates animals feeding through nostrils. human attacks are rare. Compared is the Ceylon land-leech, capable of penetrating stockings, with protection needed by coffee planters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assam
T. T. Cooper
Ceylon
Emerson Tennent
Minute Pudding and Sugar Cake Recipes From Farm and Household
A cooking and home care column offers simple recipes for Minute Pudding and Sugar Cake, plus domestic tips. It includes guidance on flower bed color arrangements from The Canada Farmer, cabbage worm control using wheat bran, rhubarb use for summer drinks and sauces, and a method to press flowers with a two-board press and weights for drying delicate specimens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Pianos and Organag in Chicago Promoted at Great Reductions
A fragment of an old advertisement and medical claims promote pianos in Chicago at deep discounts. A Reverend Marion references mineral discoveries and the upper Yellowstone survey while a long medical advert touts Walker’s Vinegar Bitter and Polygonea Punctatum as curative, praising cold-processing remedies and a new plant-based extract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bozeman
Mont
Rand
Yellowstone Valley
Bear
Whielk
Marion
Walkers
RE. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Remarkable Smart-Weed Extract Promises Quick Relief
A dubious medical pamphlet extols Compound Extract of Smart-Weed as a universal remedy for dysentery, bowel complaints, fevers, and external injuries. It claims powerful internal and external effects, painless safe use, and notes a money-back guarantee after two thirds of the bottle. Also cites Wise-Ward patent-like claims and mentions other products from Don’s and Wirrcock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrica
Saharah
Norte America
Stim
Lee
Also Mentioned on This Page
Antex
Cornell University
India
England
Burmah
Holland
Bureau Veritas
Brussels
Boston Post
Wew Haven Register
Pianos and Organag
Chicago
Revd
Matsic
van Burenst
Winart
Charity Hospital
New Orleans
Withoft
Wirrcock
Jiniusy & Co
Honsx Nam, Co
Bee Hurst
Onl
Curtis & Perkins
Mapkin
Brown
Curtis & Brown
Fulton Street
New York
Liadien’ Forests Club
Lyon
Katleiion
Ray
Janest
Veryman
Phinter
A. Wy
Westbrook
Liniment
Say Turk Hovsmonn Panacea
Druggtate
BFE
Waters
Philharmonic
U. S
Horace Waters & Son
Broadway
P.O. Box
Ovich
Wales
United States
ZN Lem Lar Pad CO
Buchanan, Lich
ASTHA
Charles Sumne
N. Banks
Gornell
Carl Schurz
Curtis
Stavson & Co
Portland
Bend
Rex
WS. Lane QO
Saint Louis,mo
Hamilton.ohifg
Hamilton
St.louis
Nebraska
Pioneer
KF. Davis
Umana
Nan
the Sun
Amerti- Cum Institute
Corer
Hounon
Popham
Insaco M. Hant
Newton
Drugieta
Maadd
Adsivesa
Luclodding Atamp
Fovilam & CQ
Paladelpnia
Penh
Hales St
A . Fin R
C. Eawardy Lester
Sumner Bingelf
AustiNeEy Agh
Silicon, Osgood & CO
South Clark St
Chicas
Mapa
United
Jka
Clark Street
West
National Publishing CQ
Nevada
Agoma
Plumb & CO
DAS
8Th Street
Qrand Bible
Goodspeed
Empire Publishing House
N. WH
Migols & GO
Suizer
Nceen
Pontoficu
Addrees Elan
Burlington
Iowa
Ea Cn
Nhl
Wwe G. Webherd Co
Cowen & CO
Eighth Street
Asaemo
T.Z
G. B. Kane & CO
Learbqrn Bt
J. Walker
California
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Warlkrr
R. It. McDonald & CG
Ceram and Cor
Waetunaton
Charlton Sts. N.Y
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