Mudstones and the madstone myth from old reports
The piece surveys fossil coral mudstones said to cure hydrophobia and traces stories from Hannibal Missouri and Jersey Illinois. It weighs negative and anecdotal evidence, notes varied origins from Devonian to Silurian, and questions a scientific basis while acknowledging possible mind effects.
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Hannibal
Ilino’s
Kentucky
Theeal
Pompi
Deveniah
Mexico
Calhoun County
Illinois
Dow
American ordnance pieces built in Washington Navy Yard
Dispatch from Washington notes two 10 inch breech loading rifles for the monitor Maine Omaha, with muzzle velocity around 2000 feet per second. The Navy Yard is an immense gun plant with 700 workers, boasting 365 inch barrels, 30 feet long, weighing 60,000 pounds, and capable of firing shells many miles.
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Washington
Washington Navy Yard
Coass
United Tes
United States
Krapps
Fissen
Enel
San Francisco Chronicle
Long Life as Lost Art Stirs Prentice Mulford View
The Atlanta Constitution reports Prentice Mulford asserting ancients knew how to prolong life. He predicts within a century people may live far beyond 70 with vigor at 100 and appearance at 80, challenging traditional views backed by Biblical age limits and critics who call such ideas visionary.
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Prentice Mulford
Atlanta Constitution
Dleimston
Mazzantini the Spanish Matador’s Rise to Fame
The article follows Don Luis Mazzantini a bullfighter who rose from ridicule to fame becoming the world’s greatest fighter. He debuts as a torero and gains popularity, later fighting in Madrid and abroad. Bulls are supplied by Count dela Patilla and Duke of Veragua with plans to stage Paris bouts under French rules.
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Mazzantini
Rata
Asoon
Madrid
Don Luis
Dela Patilla
Veragua
Spain
America
Mexico
Matnidd
Paris
Remarkable Accident at Evangelical School
Eleven year old Pauline Arndt stuck her tongue in a flat tin coffee can lid and could not withdraw it. Principal Huber rushed to help as the can’s banded ring trapped her tongue. Dr J Siefert removed the can. a file freed the tongue and Pauline recovered within hours.
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Huber
Evangelical Lutheran School
Pauline Arndt
Pauline
The Latest Bottle Trick
A club challenge offered a thousand to ten to perform a bottle trick. An empty champagne bottle was gripped around the neck and worked down by the fingers without tilting, until the bottom rests in the hand. The famed athlete tried and failed.
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Philadelphia
Hearing in the Car Aids Deaf Patients and a Posture Exercise Note
A report from The Family Doctor describes how deaf individuals hear casual rail car talk better during rides as car vibrations mute ear ringing. It also details a simple exercise to straighten posture, lifting onto the toes to align the body and improve lung expansion.
Cocoanut Balls From Grated Cocoanut Paste
Grate a cocoanut and mix with milk enough to make a paste. Beat three eggs and sugar to sweeten. Form into balls and bake on buttered tins.
New Adjustable Nail System Looms for English Horses
A British innovation promises an adjustable nail system for horseshoes, aiming to cut costs and boost efficiency in farriery. Experts warn English shoeing is antiquated, with high mortality risks and significant losses from current methods, suggesting the new device could transform horse care and commerce.
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England
Wales
Universal
Mail
Express
Watch Repairs 250 Year Old Relic Found in Rutland
A Rutland Vermont jeweler recently repaired a 250 year old watch. The heavy Swiss made timepiece was an inch and a quarter thick, not large in circumference, and valued at $500.
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Rutland
Switzerland
Monster Rivers and Their Great Flows Notable Volumes
A brief roundup compares river discharges with the Mississippi as the Father of Waters. The Orinoco is near 120 million cubic feet per hour, the Ganges floods at about 44 thousand, and the Amazon tops with multiple tributaries. Fifty miles above the delta the Coos remains six miles wide and forty to sixty five fathoms deep.
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Mississippi
Ganges
Amazon
Coos
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Jersey County
Nature
M. Pasteur
St. Louis Republican
Tod
Mia
American Ordnance
Don Luis M
Bevera
Othe
Uus
I Lieu
Wilise Pui
Mee
OM On
Ous
Dj Anion
Ding
Dang
Ork
The
Monster Rivers
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