A Ship's Company and the Life Aboard
The article details how ships muster twelve to fifteen men per watch with many serving as seamen or ABs and require naval reserve enrollment for blue flag status. It covers boarding, wages, provisioning, debt to the Sailors' Home, and the sailors’ wary resilience as they prepare for voyage under Admiralty protection.
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Naval Reserve
Liverpool
Scullion
Board of Trade Shipping
Jack
Admiralty
Ratcliffe Highway
Hinjies
West
Animals that Eat Fruit
A survey notes various animals and their fruit preferences. Fig is a favorite for many including horses cows hogs sheep and goats while elephants and deer also seek them. Apples are widely eaten by domestic and wild animals, and grapes are enjoyed by horses cows sheep deer hogs rabbits and many wild species.
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Esquiman
California
Waverley Magazine
The Poland China hog breed description from 19th century origins
The Poland China hog originated in Southern Ohio during 1837 and became established in 1840. It blends four breeds, including Poland and Bayfield, yielding a large but lean carcass with dark color and white facial or leg markings. The breed features strong constitution, good fattening, and desirable maternal traits.
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Ohio
Warren
Butler
Poland
Bayfield
St. Louis Republic
German Emperor Seeks Ninety Four PS 6 Command
Fragmentary text suggests discussion of a German ruler's intent related to forces or units named PS 6 and to Va'tic and No th ag. Readable details are limited, leaving core facts unclear.
The Inventor and the Self Made Man
A Boston writer argues the successful inventor earns the title of self made man through ingenuity enthusiasm and perseverance. It notes invention shapes machinery and daily comforts and examines the challenges of continual improvements, especially in electricity as a rapidly expanding field with vast future potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Papers
The Servant Question and Public Standards in Labor
The piece argues that people universally dislike others daughters in service roles while avoiding similar roles for their own families. It questions the fairness of moral judgments about service work and notes occupational lines as self-chosen with social stigma. It cites Harper's Bazar in Vienna and Massachusetts traffic facts as context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Artemus Ward
Harper's Bazar
Hypnotism Or Political Talk In A Forty Year Gap
A traveler meets Grizzly who jokes about a forty year old dictionary and claims Taylor is the presidential choice after quips about God in California and lingering war talk. The exchange reveals calm rationality amid irony about old ideas and newspapers.
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Grizzly
God
Calfornia
Taylor
Oregon
Times
West Shore
Hartwell Boy Builds Bicycle From Scrap Iron
Sloan Reeder a sixteen year old colored apprentice in a Hartwell blacksmith shop has built a bicycle from raw material. The wheels use iron and steel rods, the frame from an old iron pipe, and the saddle from scrap iron. The machine is strong and practical though heavier than factory models. Sloan rides with skill and is working on another invention, details of which he will not reveal.
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Hartwell
Sloan Reeder
Sloan
Atlanta Constitution
BeccaHaM's V1Lts Cure for Sick Headache and Other Claims
BeccaHaM markets V1Lts claiming cure for sick headache and cholera losses with dramatic figures. Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer is advertised as stopping fits after one day and offering a trial bottle free from 934 Arch St Philadelphia. Kansas allocates 60 000 dollars for seed for settlers.
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Kline
DR. Kline
Arch St
Phila, Pa
Talk's cheap but backed by a firm pledge
The Detroit Free Press piece contrasts fake claims of numerous blood purifiers with Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery promising guaranteed results or money back. It then shifts to a midnight incident as an officer questions a Beaubien Street household about possible robbers, a man with a club, and a wary reply about protecting home.
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Z¢Necans
Dr. Pierce
Beaubien Street
Dar
Sartin
Detroit Free Press
Religious Worship Spending and Soap Advertisement Noted
The text claims a $200,000,000 annual spending on worship and promotes Dobbbins's electric Soap with persuasive lines about experience and imitation. It also mentions Henry George praising the bicycle as the best invention for man and urges readers to buy through grocers.
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Rat
Hall's Catarrh Cure Endorsed by Medical Practitioner
A doctor testifies to Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co praising its reliability after years in practice. He asserts it cures catarrh when taken as directed and notes a $1 reward for any case not cured. Also mentions Syrup of Figs as a cleansing tonic and a Montana telegram about a 100 horsepower plow.
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ToLepo
Messrs
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hee Beer
Hall
L. L. Gorsten
MW. D
Summit St
J. Cheney & Co
Props
Toledo
O. G. Seid
Tse
August Flower Trusted by Malden Man for Indigestion
A letter from Captain A. G. Pareis of Malden-on-the-Hudson New York describes using August Flower for seven or eight years. He cites relief from dyspepsia and constipation for himself and his wife and notes his wife often asks for another bottle.
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Malden-on the-Hudson
N. Y
A. G. Pareis
Colored jury convicts man in two minutes over chicken theft
In South Carolina a full colored jury found the defendant guilty in two minutes after being sent out for stealing chickens. Previously chickens were not treated as property and their loss was deemed Providence.
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South Carolina
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Vienna
Austria
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Johnson & Co
Bocten
Mass
Beccaham
Japan
Kansas
Hazleton
Meize
Moecurg & Co
Eaziewn Pa
B. J. Greely
Harvard
Amherst
Ogton Street
Boston
Frazer Ciesse
Astin
Henry George
The
United States
Sears
Moreland
Montana
U 20
Swift
Atanta
Spissrrow Bf
Rochester
U.S
APPLE
Bellawe
Ohba
Woc Kiar
Lerageie
VW. T
Dension
Principeail Examiner
Pension Svrei
Ality Apo
Sige Free
Buffalo
Aern
Piers
Weeder Express
LweTi
Anva Werder
North Weare
N.hl
Wyoming Lot
Wyoming
Ilas
Garden
Mann & Thom
Wye
Qongheed
Oventscom
T. & Mo-Ne
Sapolio
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