New England Miracle Publicized in Pink Pills Case
A Boston Herald account reports Dr Williams Pink Pills aiding Fred Vose, his wife, and mother-in-law Mrs Holt in Peterboro. Vose describes years of stomach and heart trouble, relief after three boxes, while Mrs Holt notes earlier prostration and spine pain vanished with treatment. Analyzing the pills, the advertisement claims they rebuild blood and nerves for numerous conditions and offer postpaid sales.
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Boston Herald
Canada
Dr. Williams
New England
Fred ¢ Voss
Mes
Holt
Peterboro
Herald
Mr. Vose
Fitchburg
Ben
Adress
Dir
Williams’ Medicine Co
Schentay
Brockville
Ont
Fashionable Pie Etiquette Sparks Cozy Cheese Twist
A Boston Transcript note says fashion dictates pie with a fork, but Bass prefers cheese with his pie. He finds this approach tasty and satisfactory.
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Bass
Boston Transcript
The Virtue of a Sweet Day and Mortal ends
A fragmentary verse tribute to virtue and mortality. The speaker contrasts the bridal earth and sky with the inevitability of death, noting that even roses and spring fade. A virtuous soul is likened to seasoned timber that endures in the face of a world that turns to coal.
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George Herbert
Humorous Quotations and Snippets from 19th Century Papers
A collage of wry lines and jokes from various papers including Lowell Courier Texas Siftings Atchison Globe Harper's Bazar and Washington Star. Quotes cover real estate talk language jokes about life love and money with playful mishearings and sharp witticisms.
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Lowell Courier
Texas Siftings
Atchison Globe
Hartford Journal
Cholly
Harper's Bazar
Detroit Free Press
Chappie
Daisy
New York Press
Sage
Indianapolis Journal
Alice
Sparrows on a Spree Endangering Planters Crops
A Mississippi planter lured English sparrows with whisky-soaked wheat to curb depredations on cotton. The birds became intoxicated, staggering and squeaking as locals collected two bushels in a day. Repeats yielded similar results, and now fewer birds visit the plantation.
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Ynewions
Mississippi
St. Louis
Stones and lead projectiles reveal Acarnanian stinger relics
The Acarnanians were renowned for skillful stone throwing and use of lead balls. In Marathon Plain local finds include metal projectiles with inscriptions and epithets. The inscriptions often carry the warning legend Look out.
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Greece
Marathon
Library’s Space Seen For World’s Books for Century
Librarian Spofford says the new Congressional library in Washington will hold copies of all the books of the world for one hundred years and still have seven eighths of its space for other uses.
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Congressional Library
Washington
Spofford
Letter from Marshfield agent extols St Jacobs Oil
Mr Fnoch L Hanscom School Agent Marshfield Maine an old Union soldier writes that at sixty he suffered a bad knee and rheumatism for years before using St Jacobs Oil which he applied three times daily and claims it cured him and left him in good health for the future.
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Fnoch L. Hanscom
Marshfield
St. Jacobs
Guiteau's Crankism Plea for Assassination Noted
The phrase Crankism as a plea for assassination is cited as Guiteau’s view, reflecting his fixation on violent act. The remark is recorded as part of a historical note on his rhetoric and mindset.
Syrup of Figs Promises Comfort and Health Benefits
An advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative that cleanses the system, dispels fevers and headaches, and improves health by acting on the kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them. It claims popularity with millions and medical approval and notes it is manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co and sold by druggists in Syrup of Figs bottles.
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California Fig Syrup Co
The Name America and Early Maps
A treatise from 1507 by Waldseemüller popularized the name America. Early editions are rare. the first map with the term may be the woodcut Typus Orbis of 1560. The text notes discussions of cartography and a Stradivarius debate among socialites.
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America
St. Die
Vosges
Waldzeemuller
Hylacomyius
Lyons
Jean de la Place
British Museum
Vienna
Joannes Singrenius
New World
Long Island
Great Ship Canal Nears Completion Between North and Baltic
The new canal lacks locks and sluices with gate ends to regulate water levels. It will open next year with a 27 foot bed, 60 yard bottom width, and slopes of 2 to 1 or 3 to 1. Least depth about 13 feet, Baltic ships should pass, radius of curvature 3,000 feet, 63 percent straight. About 5,000 workers summerly, 100,000,000 cubic yards excavated, cost near 34 million dollars with 12.5 million by Prussia and the rest by the German Empire.
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North
Baltic Seas
Baltic
Prussia
German Empire
Patent Medicine Ads and Oath in Toledo Notice
An old Toledo notice includes a sworn oath by Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. offering one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh cured, with a claim about Hall's Catarrh Cure. It also contains multiple patent medicine endorsements for Brown's Iron Bitters Beecham's Pills and other tonics, advertising cures for indigestion, blood issues, and general weakness.
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City OF
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Chenry & Co
HaLe
A. D. Isae
A. W. Gleason
No Man is Free From By Pocrisy
A terse maxim on hypocrisy appears in a readers’ quotation, noting that no person is entirely free from self deception and public pretense. The remark underscores moral scrutiny and social judgment in everyday life.
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Westerly
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Iache
Rhode Island
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Pilla
Searee — Cook Remxpy Co
van Braam
Dinwiddie
Ledger
Pittsburgh Chronicle
Jaywink
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Weill
Washington Star
Johnnie Fewseads
Hostetter McGinnis
Hostetter
Texas Billings
Waeington Post
Bradfield Regulator
Atlanta
Mra. Connoieseur
Academy of Music
Mra Parvenue
Mrs. Connoisseurs
Notary Public Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
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Corgas Nee Brown
Cupid
Maia
Pia
Brown
Beecham
Reecham
Main St
Buffalo
E. A. Bond
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Toate
St Catilvuet
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Ripans
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