Cholera Cure for Chickens Promoted by West Virginia Doctor
A West Virginia country physician reports a home remedy for poultry cholera using antiseptic tablets of corrosive sublimate and citric acid dissolved in hot water. He claims the mixture saves cholera struck fowls and advises monthly preventive use for three days. The physician asks for readers to test the remedy for potential inclusion in future poultry books.
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West ‘Virginia
A. Valued
West, Virginia
Biggle
Farm Journal
A Feeding Experiment About Prof Andover Chickens
A Boston reader recalls a joke about a professor from Andover, married in winter, who raised chickens but did not feed them assuming the hens’ milk would sustain the chicks. The neighbor noted the birds grew thin and lacked ambition, highlighting a humorous misunderstanding of animal care.
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Boston
Prof
Andover
Watering Poultry In Clean Practical Method
Practical notes on watering large flocks by inverting a water-filled pail into a pan to keep water clean and reduce spillage in cold weather. A simple bottom support allows water to rise, preventing hens from overturning the dish and preserving warmth. Also mentions inch-from-top holes and sticks for stability.
Notable prodigies of art and music before age twenty
The Globe-Democrat notes famous figures such as Moliere, Handel, Fra Angelico, Rembrandt, Titian, Correggio and Corneille achieving major works by ages 12 to 20. It highlights extraordinary early creative output across painting, poetry, and opera, illustrating precocious talent.
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Chatterton
Landgeer
TL Perugino
Moliere
Handel
Corneille
Auber
Claude Lorraine
Fra Angelico
Fra
Bartolomeo
Johnson
Rembrandt
Titian
Correggio
Tévy
Weber
Globe-Democrat
SONS OF MARS AND ROYAL IRISH DRAGONEERS TALE
Don Jayme de Bourbon, son of the pretender Don Carlos, joins the Russian army as a sub lieutenant. Only ten percent of last year’s British army recruits were Irish. The gray horses of the Second Dragoons are to be replaced by dark horses. A Jomecon trooper faced an embezzlement arrest and three months in jail after a prior South Africa departure. Lieut Walter Maxwell Scott, Sir Walter Scott’s great great grandson, reaches 21 in April and may receive a baronetcy from Queen Victoria.
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Don Jayme de Bourbon
Don Carlos
Second Dragoons
Jomecon
England
South Africa
Walter Maxwell Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Abbotsford
Sir Walter
Queen Victoria
Little Laughs Extravagance and Wisecracks
A collection of brief quips from era newspapers. Jokes include a wife lamenting a double chin, a husband urging modesty in hard times, a flirtatious remark about a man named Jack Giddiboy, a pun about one-handed piano playing, a gentle rebuke about a future baby, and a bachelor’s pride in his “baby” as a humorous spotlight on social idiosyncrasies.
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Boston Transcript
Pop
Dawson
Harper
Azar
Oddities in Silk and Silk Worm Production Figures
The word shesh in Genesis, rendered silk, is also translated fine linen in other texts. Silk worm authorities estimate one ounce of eggs yields 1,200 pounds of mulberry leaves consumed and 120 pounds of cocoons produced.
Remarkable Magno Mud and Lithia Baths Shine in Indiana Valley
A 19th century treatment using Magno Mud and Lithia water at Indiana Springs drew acclaim from physicians and patients. Reports say rheumatism kidney and nervous ailments improve. the valley hosts a booming hotel and bath complex linked to a national hotel and bath circuit. Indiana Springs Co. sells information through offices in New York City and Chicago, inviting inquiries by mail or in person.
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Lithia
Inprawa Minenat
Ind
o-Lithia
Worldi Ons
Ledra Lgift
United States
Indiana Springs Co
Hudson St
New York City
Randolph St
Chicago
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad and Uncle Eben Quote
An 1880s notice in Toledo shows F J Duzasy & Co offering one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J Cheney swears as senior partner, notary confirms, and ads claim internal use ends in blood and mucous surfaces benefits. The page also features Uncle Eben dialogue from the Washington Star.
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Ouro
Toledo
Eas County
Frans J. Connex
F. J. Duzasy & Co
Frank J. Cheney
A. W. Guzason
Azar
Hall
Ongnar & Co
Ball
Spring Trip Excursions Offer From North to South
On April 7 21 and May 6 excursion tickets go on sale from northern principal towns to Louisville & Nashville routes in Tennessee Alabama Mississippi Florida and part of Kentucky. Round trip price covers a single fare with return within 21 days for 2 dollars payable at destination and allows stopovers on the southbound trip. Inquiries to agent or to C. P. Atmore Louisville Ky or Geo. B. Horner St Louis Mo.
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Louisville & Nashville
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Florida
Kentucky
C. P. Atmore
Louisville, Ky
Geo. B. Horner
St. Louis
Quotations and a misleading medical ad copy
A collection of misquoted lines and notices including a syrup advertisement and a renaming of a Cincinnati advertising firm. It also contains a jab at medical claims and a dated testimonial about Piso’s Cure for Consumption from Springfield in 1994.
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Springfield
Lls
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Sons OF Mars
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New Mesa
Wenee
Kansas City
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Dineves
Shadbolt
Dingus
Chicago Tribune
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Washington Star
California Fig Syrup Company
John
Alden & Faxon
Cincinnati
Ohio
Frank H. Alden
Pepantarr
Colton
Detroit Tribune
W. L. Douglas
W. J. Douglas
Wena
Ookton, Mass
W.B. Paarz
Beoy
ST. Jacobs Oil
Demorest
Rane
Demorest’s
Sil
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de Longpre
Demorest Publishing CO
Fifth Avenue, New York
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Longora
DeMomger
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SDD
Erento
Saph
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