Snowshoe Adventure Ends In Wild Moonlit Night Ride
A narrator recalls a perilous trek from Storm Mountain to a cabin and back on native snowshoes. Wolf pack attacks, a halted moonrise, and a wind howled chase heighten a terrifying descent toward a cliff edge and a crash through the snow. The ride ends with the shoes lost miles away.
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Etter
Steamboat Springs
St. Louis
Deneer
Storm Mountain
Thad
Tie
Yeping
Heck
Pune
Old Storm Mountain
Superstitions About Babies Across World Cultures
The Springfield Republican notes diverse beliefs from Ireland to Spain on infant protection. Practices include belts of hair in Ireland, garlic and salt in Holland, red ankle ribbons in Romania, asafoetida on the neck in Estonia, tongs or knives in Wales and England, moon phase beliefs in Vosges, oil and joint cracking in Lower Brittany, three-fire turns in Greece, cradle rocking in Scotland, a book and money for future wealth in London, amulets and mud on the forehead in Turkey, and a pine bough sweep in Spain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Holland
England
Vosges
Lower
Brittany
Scotland
London
Spain
Springfield Republican
WISE AND UNWISE. Comic miscellany and ads
A mixed page of quips, riddles, and satire with short dialogues and jokes. It includes observations on ignorance vanity and laziness, whimsical exchanges about love and manners, and ad-like notices for medicines, tonics, and household products.
Growth of American Cities Surpasses most Nations
The piece notes US cities grow rapidly with New York Philadelphia and Chicago likely forming a trio over one million residents each. It compares city sizes to entire nations and cites Cleveland Leader figures on ten cities nearing 7 million inhabitants and other comparisons to Ireland Scotland and Denmark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
British Empire
Canton
Chicago
Philadelphia
New York
Ireland
Scotland
Switzerland
Greece
Denmark
Cleveland
Diet for Obese Women and Throat-Soothing Potionsechoes of Elixirs
A historical diet for obese women prescribes two meals a day of nuts fruit and vegetables with hot water and an obesity tea, plus two hours of outdoor exercise before breakfast. The piece also touts Tolbias Venetian Liniment for horses and Derby Condition Powders, then notes Dakota’s 1 500 foot well and regional wells reaching 4000 feet deep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Nowne
Dakota
Syrup of Figs touted as best family remedy
The text praises Syrup of Figs for pleasant flavor gentle action and soothing effects as a laxative, claiming it provides gratifying results for costiveness or bilious conditions and recommends every family keep a bottle. It also notes a saying about women having as many rights as wrongs to speed the world.
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Dr. Pierce
G. Hingraham
Amsterdam
Big G
Dyche
Chicago
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Johnson
Love
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Willie
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Isaac Thomson
E. A. Rood
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Ohio
Vruxguists
Dobbins
J.B. Dobbinges
General Cuester
The
Little Big Horn
New York Weekly
Binghamton N. Y
Bryant’s College
Main
Buffalo
Pensions McCormick & Sons
Washingto
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Cincinnati
Senator Blank
Farmellension
Wm. Fitch & Co., Pension Attorneys
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Ir Ca
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McAllister & CO
Washington, D. Ct
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