Laying Bare the Secrets of Hypnotism in New York
A New York World excerpt outlines Dr. John D. Quackenbos claims that hypnotic suggestion can transform character and unlock latent talent. It describes methods of inducing sleep states, auto and interpersonal suggestion, and reports on medical and moral uses, including morphine withdrawal and personal reform cases.
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York
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
John D. Quackén‘hos
Cotembte Uni
Sigeestiem
Quackenbos
Harper & Bros
New York Sunday World
Dr. Quackenbas
Bernhardt
New York
Ife
McKinsey
Feu
Dr. Quackenbos
How to Cure Yourself of Drunkenness
A historical anti liquor tract urges a drinker to reject whisky as unnecessary and harmful. It promotes self discipline through nightly autosuggestion and advocates reliance on nutrition, air, exercise, and rest to abolish the alcohol impulse.
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John D. Quackenbos
Notable Health Warnings From Early Public Messages
The excerpt outlines initial advice to reduce cigarette use and to detest tobacco. It references nefarious habits and delves into habits like kleptomania and habitual falsehood, framing them as linked to self-control and vice. The tone reflects a historical public health caution against smoking and deceitful behavior.
Europe Grows Colder Says Flammarion Tables Indicate Change
Camille Flammarion’s tables cited by the Philadelphia Record suggest Europe’s temperature has fallen over six years. Paris readings run about one degree below normal, with spring showing the sharpest decline. Similar cooling noted in Great Britain Belgium Spain Italy Austria and Germany. Historic notes recall medieval wines at court and Henry I’s fondness for Suresnes grapes, but modern vintages face hardship as vineyards fade.
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Camille Flammarion
Europe
Philadelphia
France
Paris
Great Britain
Belgium
Spain
Italy
Austria
Germany
Philip Augusta
Etarmpes
Heauvais
Henry I
Suresnes
Auto suggestion and moral reform in 19th century discourse
The text critiques self help rhetoric and describes auto suggestion as a method to reform behavior. It explains using the tran liminal mind during reverie to reject bad habits and cultivate talent, contrasting historical wine and fruit cultivation notes across France to illustrate environmental change. It references Macon’s wines, SURESnes petition, and France’s shifting flora as context.
Life In Kentucky Dramatizes Rivalry Turned Fatal
A Moonshineville Ky storekeeper laments competition as a rival opens nearby. The feud escalates with mutual hostilities and shootings, leaving both shops shuttered and without customers, in a vivid scene from the N Y Weekly.
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Kentucky
Moonshineville
Crossroads
N. Y
The Trouble with Gems People satire fragment
A brief fragment notes that some people are hindered by small efforts while others persist. The line hints at character and motive, without clear context or full quotation, leaving the reader to infer implications about discipline and behavior.
Immigration from South Expected to Surpass Records
St Paul reports strong signals of higher immigration from the southern United States and Canada directed toward the Canadian Northwest this year. Rates for homeseekers to western Canada rival those to the southwest, with agents offering information on districts with the best settlement incentives. A Cardston Alberta telegram notes unusually mild winter conditions and early start potential for winter wheat, while growers in Magrath Alta report high yields and substantial per-acre values for wheat, oats, and other crops.
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St. Paul
Minn
United States
Ne West
Canadian Northwest
Canada
Alberta
Cardston
H. Howe
Magrath
Alta
J. F. Haycock
J. F. Bradshaw
Ivy's Strength Threatens Tower at Yarnborough Church
An ivy plant growing in a crevice of St John the Baptist Church tower in Yarnborough undermined the foundation and lifted stones. Repairs are estimated at 3000 dollars. A separate note: headaches from October to May are often caused by colds and treated with Laxative Bromocenine.
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St. John the Baptist Church
Yarnborough
England
W.grovess
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Aimed at Female Ailments
Reader letters praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for backache and related female symptoms. Advertises as standard remedy for uterine and ovarian discomfort, stating decades of use and claimed cures for irregularity, pain, and nervous prostration.
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Lydia E Pinkham
Will Young
Columbia
Lydia E. Pinkham
Augustus Lyon
East Earl
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pink
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