Forty Years a Slave Aunt Dollie Parker Reveals Past
A Milwaukee elder known as Aunt Dollie Parker recounts her life as a slave from Kentucky to freedom, detailing brutal scenes, family separations, and migrations from Memphis to Cincinnati and Canada. Her recollections cover a grandmother’s path to freedom, rebel cruelty, yellow fever, and a perilous escape to Union lines, with notes on her family’s later moves to Milwaukee.
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Milwaukee
Dollie Parker
Market Street
Woodford County
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Lucas
New Orleans
Logan
South
Massus
Chambers
Logans
Ladd
Frankfort
Lucases
Guerrilla Forest
Adair
Wrain
Marie ‘Adair
Thal
Brooks
Pigeon Roost
Memphis
Mississippi
Fort Pillow
Stonewall Jackson
Rolla
Fred
Cincinnati
Canada
Panchothee
Mary
Dolly
Hhen
The Fish Epidemic on Fourth Lake Perch Investigated
Madison inquiry by Prof Forbes finds a contagious germ like micrococcus in perch and herring livers and kidneys. The small spherical organism around 0.00125 inch may cause abscesses, tissue death, and blood vessel clogging. Disease likely spread from herring to perch. full US Fish Commission report awaited for details. No evidence of human infection.
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Wisconsin
Mapisox
Wis
Fourth Lake
Madison
S.A. Forbes
Illinois State College
Champaign
Our State University
Forbes
Prof
United States Fish Commission
G. Thwaites
Blue-eyed boy found in steerage on Brittannic voyage
A Ohio boy labeled Thomas McCue, likely 12, alleges he was kidnapped from Cleveland six years earlier by a German contortionist and sold into life as a street performer. He was identified by Rotterdam authorities after a show in Germany, and his father arranged passage home.
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Moses Montefiore
Lowpor
Ramsgate
East Cliff Lodge
Isle of Thanet
Kent
England
Leghorn
Italy
Joseph Elias
Rachel Montefiore
Spain
Montefiores
Cromwell
Stock Exchange
Judith Cohen
L. B. Cohen
Nathan Meyer Rothschild
London
Great Banking Establishment
Alliance Insurance Office
Palestine
Middlesex
Guildhall
Egypt
Turkey
Damascus
Czar Nicholas
Louis Philippe
France
Morocco
Rome
Pius IX
Montefiore
Moses
Holy Land
Jerusalem
Goodsnake
Wausau
Clear Creek
Eau Claire
Ripon
Carn Jos
Sister Bay
Alex
Carter
Racine County
State Street
Racine
Geo. Athearn
Palmer House
Fond du Lac
Mayor Powelll
la Crosse
Buffalo Bill
Bay Shore
Lmora L. Latham
Hollis Latham
Elkhorn
Ance
Louis Phillippe
Gephev Laroyp
Sturgeon Bay
Galveston
Tex
W. T. Gines
Bedford
Ida Kimball
Waupaca County
New London
Hasson
Ephraim
Door County
Anderson’s Pier
Tromwas Weaver
Sussex
Waukesha
County
Eng
America
Lisbon
Florence
Albert Newman
Wright
Chicago, Freeport
Blanchardville
Wis
Freeport
Portage City
Portage
New York
Thomas McCue
Cleveland
Germany
McCue
Rotterdam
Tommy
Wosrtp
Dispensanyy
Meprcat Association
Main Street
Buffalo
N.Y
Use of Disinfectants From Fort Porter Guidance
Directions compiled by Assistant Surgeon A C Girard outline disinfectants for household and public health use under AMA guidance. It lists prepared solutions No 1 to No 5 and their mixing ratios, storage tips, and usage for disinfection of feces and sickroom containment in diseases like cholera typhoid scarlet fever diphtheria dysentery and acute tuberculosis.
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Buffalo Express
A. C. Girard
United States Army
Fort Porter
American Medical Association
The
Express
Hay
Twenty-third Infantry
Plaster of Paris
Inventory of property of Fish Bros. Co. shows value at $600540
The receiver J. J. Case lists property held by Fish Bros. Co. in Racine valued at 600540, compared with a 1683 inventory totaling 576000. The note mentions reading the Science of Life as the premier medical work for youths and middle-aged men.
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J. J. Case
Fish Bros. & Co
Racine
Kyowthyself
Hall's Vegetable Saction Hair Renewer Ends Hair Troubles
Medicinal hair care product praised for scalp health, hair nourishment, and restoring color. Testimonials from Dr George Gray of Nashua and FT Sandhein of Philadelphia claim the Renewer restores original hair color, reduces dandruff, and prevents thinning while promoting new growth.
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George Gray
Nashua
N. H
Hall
Sandhein
Spruce St
Philadelphia
Buckingham’s Dye for the Whiskers Advertises Beard Dye
An 19th century style advertisement touts Buckingham’s Dye for the beard and mustache. It promises to color gray or faded whiskers to natural looking brown or black, with lasting color that does not wash off. The product is claimed safe, cheap, easy to use, and prepared by R. P. Hall & Co. of Nashua, New Hampshire, and sold by medicine deniers.
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Norton Harland
Inamma
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the Weekly
Plechly Tixconsin
Davtoy
Isaish Burnerat
Chambersburg
Dr. Pierce
State News
Tomst
Boston
Bosros
Sifaia Renewer
Buckingham
R. P. Hall & CO
Nashug
U.S. A
Perry Davis
Betier
Chicago
Icel
Clare
Nels
Cbs
Clarkr
Sarnt
F.D. Clarke
Clark St
Ill
Reeves
Chatham Street
New York City
Prsaetine Goehor
Evans Pecan
SEIRO
Jean Hixon
Tubbs
Esqanager
W. C
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