The Cocoanut Palm A Perennial Prince Of The Tropics
The cocoanut palm is a tall evergreen with a slender trunk and long pale yellow leaves. It grows near water in sandy soils and provides food shelter and tools for millions in tropical regions. Every part is useful from roots to shells and the young nut offers a milky beverage and nutritious jelly like albumen. It is widely cultivated in colonies and the U S imports up to twenty million coconuts yearly with San Blas Baracoa and Jamaica as major sources. yields vary, with some trees producing up to three hundred nuts in ten years.
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Oraily
India
Maaya
Tropics
Europe
United States
British Honduras
Jamaica
Central America
South America
West Indies
San Blas
Sanhoes
Baracoa
York
Debunking the Claim of Marshal Moreau in New Orleans
A New York Times correspondent states there was no mention of Moreau’s role in the Battle of New Orleans. He notes Moreau was wounded at Dresden in August 181? and died on September 2, about fifteen months before Jackson’s command at New Orleans.
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New Orleans
Marshal Moreau
France
Jakson
New York Times
Moreau
Dresden
Jackson
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure for All Stages
Ad touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the universal cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims internal use reaches blood and mucous surfaces and offers 100 reward for any case it cannot cure. Includes testimonials list request and price 75 cents. The ad ends with a proverb about fools.
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Hail
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Gentle Spring Remedies and Medical Patents Ad Highlighted
An assortment of patent medicines and tonics is advertised for spring health. Syrup of Figs promises family remedy for 50 cents, Brown’s Iron Pills claim cures for dyspepsia malaria and debility, West’s Nerve and Brain Treatment listed with other products, and quotes from users endorse Brown’s Bronchial Traches. Includes a note on bird tail usage and a claim about machine glass blowing failing.
Napoleon III Visits Sing Sing Prison in 1837 Prank
New York Times recounts Prince Louis Napoleon visiting Sing Sing with Anthony Constant in 1837. Warden Rowell unlocks a French prisoner’s cell and Louis Napoleon is briefly locked inside as a joke, then released amid laughter. Brick is made from slag.
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New York Times
Napoleon Jr
France
Sing Sing
Louis Napoleon
Napoleon III
Washington Irvington
Sunnyside
Irvington-on-the-Hudson
Anthony Constant
Hastings
Napoleon
Constant
Rowel
Waterloo
Dr Pierce remedies for female ailments profiled in testimonials
A long extract extols Dr. Pierce products for female weakness and uterine debility. Mrs Ida Coventry of Huntsville Ohio and others claim improvement after using Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery. Testimonials praise relief from leucorrhea, womb ulceration, and general debility, with references to childbirth relief and overall vitality.
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Pierce
Ida Coventry
Huntsville
Logan County
Ohio
Dr. Pierce
M. A. McAllister
Lim Rock
Jackson Co
Ala
World's Dispensary
Medica
L Association
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
Chinese Horsefish as Delicacy Turns Farm Focus
Chinese kitchens favor small ponylike animals known as horsefish grown on grass and hay. Farmers devote most efforts to raising these compact livestock for the market where meat remains affordable due to efficient feeding.
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China
Folding glass winged dressing tables replace hand mirrors
Movable plain glass wings attached to dressing tables hinge to any angle. They aid in dressing hair and nearly supersede hand gla s. The wings are part of inexpensive tables and fold away when not in use.
Quack Remedies and Pseudo Advice in a Turned Page
A jumble of patent medicine pitches and moral quips. Advertisements tout Brown's Iron Bitters Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root Beecham's Pills and Dr Isaac Thompson's Eyewater. The prose mocks deceitfulness and touts cures for digestion malaria kidney and bladder troubles with scattered, uncertain claims.
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Kilmers
Binghamton
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Fair Rosamond
Eleanor
Vadstow
California Fig Syrup Co
Brown
Georgia
West
Liver Pills, Inc
E. A. Hall
Charleston
8. C
Ptah
W. Baker & Cow’s
W. Baker & CO
Dorchester
Mass
Rrichmond
Targe Factory
New York
Aes Beau
Cigna
Cataloues
N. P.rover & Co
Coatesville, Ra
App Drug Co
Philadelphia
Particain Waren &Co
Hadlyme
Conn
Uington
D.C
Abogne
Iet
Reccaa Falls
Water St
Seneca Falls
Bakles
Rea ES
W.L. Douglas
Tute
Der
Core
SM - Tod
Bsc
Roy
Brazil
Beecham
Beechams
Isaac Thompson
Linde
Aermotor Co
Ami
Arkey
Tonto
Wee Nem
Ana Ween
Sey
Poe
Eersen
Adencie
Pompang
Kawear
Bespois
Casey
Ted
ISO
Anne
Fisher & CO
Prekers
Sework
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