Pointed Paragraphs on Society and Power
A compact survey contrasts exports and urban life with social reform. Notes that 40 percent of American nails go to Japan, Paris opera house spans nearly three acres, and one acre supports four in a vegetable diet. Massachusetts adopts the electric chair for capital punishment. Convents and charities are mentioned alongside social maxims on wisdom, life, and humanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Paris
Massachusetts
Convent Garden
Bedford
London
England
Wales
Great Britain
Oxford
Remarkable Sayings and a Medical Giveaway
A collection of quips and maxims on virtue, work, love, and change ends with an advertisement for Dr King’s New Discovery. The ad claims ten million free trial bottles distributed and asserts cures for asthma, bronchitis, coughs, and lung diseases, with pricing and a guarantee offered by S Kingston, a local druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
S. Kingston
Remark on human bones and Haarlem Lake discoveries
The piece argues bones survive salt water poorly and that Haarlem Lake drainage by the Dutch government yields few bones but artifacts. It notes many shipwrecks and battles in the lake area, with trenches and recovered items, while most finds are art and objects under three hundred years old due to the lake's late sixteenth century formation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tlaarlem
Netherlands
Haarlem
Napoleon Death Mask and a Curiosity’s Decline
On March 6 1821 Automarehi took a plaster cast of Napoleon’s face to create a death mask offered to a London collector for £6000. The mask failed to sell in London and Brussels as prices waned. It later belonged to the Sons of Glory and rested on coffins at funerals before passing to Miss Forty, whose sale yielded a fraction of early offers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon
Automarehi
London
Brussels
Sons of Glory
Grand Army
Automarchi
Boschee's German Syrup Free Sample Offer
An ad offers free sample bottles of Boschee's German Syrup to adults with cold related illnesses at S Kingston's shop. Each person may receive one bottle only, and no children without parental order. The note cites a long history of distribution and physician endorsement as proof of efficacy. Sold by dealers in civilized countries. local testimonial from P Ketcham about Chamberlain's Pain Balm also noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Ketcham
Pike City
Cal
Chamberlain
Kingston
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Handsome
David
Roner
Spreme Court
Supreme Court of Kansas
Kansas Supreme Court
Doster
China
South Sea Islanders
Paradise
Queen
Prince and Princess of Wales
WM. F. Peter
City Barber Shop
AMD
Highland Marble Works
MD Phos
L. L. Eckert
Robert Winter
Prop
Serson
Public Square
John Diehle
Odd Fellows Building
Main Street
F. W. Zanders
L. BE. Rawson
Jefferson Ave
St. Tonia Ddentisit
Troy
Theo. Guennewig
Billard Hall
Main & Market Sts
Troy, Ih
Phil. Eckert
Wil
Superior
Graham
Fred Kuntzmann
Troy City
John Deimling
Beagon
Corner Market
Hickory Streets
WM. Meiners
General Hardware
August Droll
the Star Store
The
Old Reliable
Eneral
M. F. Auwarter
J. H. Sthenhans
A. Heddergott
General Merchandise
West Clay Street
Troy Exchange Bank
W.W
Troy, Il
Kansas
Kanaas Ja
Lee Monroe
Hays City, Kas
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