Surviving Legal Oddities of New Jersey and Beyond
The New Jersey legal relics include the East and West Jersey Adventurer companies still meeting, a Chan cery Court echoing English practice, and former deputy sheriffs with slave staff tied to hangings. The piece notes the persistence of these antiquities alongside modern reforms such as the presssure-baton era.
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Court of Appeals
New York City
J Wges
Board of Coroners
Board of Police
New Jersey
Charles II
England
East Jersey Company
Porth Amboy
West Jersey Company
Burlington
Alexander T. McGill
Chancery Court
Gerry
Batton
New York Sun
The Physiology of Evil and Inherited Crime
Dr B W Richardson argues heredity and environment fuel evil. Professor Dugdale traces 1200 descendants from one early American family and follows 709, finding no escape from evil and costs to New York state. Recommendations include teaching useful trades to at risk youths.
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B. W. Richardson
Professor Dugdale
New York
America
Dugdale
Isaac Ashe
Central Criminal Asylum
Dublin
Ireland
St. Louis
Buttermilk lauded as healthful drink in St Louis
The St Louis Globe-Democrat extols buttermilk as a superior beverage with medicinal value. It aids digestion and serves as food, with lactic acid benefiting the digestive system and doctors increasingly prescribing it for liver and kidney ailments. Instances of Bright's disease patients living years with daily buttermilk are cited.
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St. Louis
Two-Headed Adder Attracts Curiosity In Yard
Report describes a snake about eight inches long found in a yard branch with two distinct heads and four eyes. On disruption the creature struck. the four eyes glittered as it darted. The snake was eventually killed amid local curiosity and debate.
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Jim Ries
Diamonds for Mrs Chatteered on a Streetcar
On a streetcar two women discuss a scheme to buy diamonds with money from a husband who supposedly will gain 5000 from a Woodward avenue property sale and then pass a bargain to a man named Blank for 5000. A bystander comments ominously as plans unfold.
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Woodward Avenue
Watchmaker Declares Demagnetize Error in Squeehawkit City
City watchmaker jokes a demagnetized timepiece instead of demoralizing it after a repair in Squeehawkit. Jewelers' Weekly notes the quip as a playful exchange about a recent service.
San Francisco magician Carl Hertz wows London crowds
Carl Hertz a San Francisco magician now exhibiting in London amazes audiences with his tricks. He performs a stunt dropping eggs into water and ducks rise and swim away. A vivid line about a woman attempting to ride a bicycle shows the dramatic effect.
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Carl Hertz
San Francisco
London
German Syrup as Cure for Consumption Alleged by Physicians
An historic claim describes consumption as a germ disease. It asserts many doctors now link lung decay to bacilli entering from food air or skin. German Syrup supposedly loosens kills expels and heals the damaged lung tissue restoring health.
Berryer the French orator and his spontaneous eloquence
Berryer never drafted his speeches for the Chamber of Deputies yet his heart guided his rhetoric. He defended Royalist principles yet scorned opportunistic Royals, and his incisive reply to apostasy remains famous. He shed tears on the Paris bar stage and refused to use notes, trusting memory and feeling.
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Berryer
Chamber of Deputies
Napoleon
Paris
M. Favre
Rebel dog faithful to Confederate rider told by St Louis paper
A Civil War note recalls a Col. Bowen regiment dog that followed its master on picket duty. The dog warned of Federal forces with a keen nose but did not join battles, departing after the captain fell at the spring. The animal showed personal loyalty rather than esprit de corps.
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Col. Bowen
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Flour sample sticks to wall in West Indies test
A New York Bulletin item recounts a Jewell Milling Company attempt to sell flour to a West India shopper. After failing to satisfy him with standard samples, he demands a flour that will stick on walls when tested by “the darkeys.” The sample was finally fired at the wall of the Exchange and stuck, and the sale was completed.
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Rowney
Jewell Milling Company
West India
West Indies
Bulletin
New York
Enougat Train Promises Ride on Clever Minds
A playful note declares that a train of pure enougat will run only on the track of a well graded mind, blending whimsy with a nod to disciplined thinking.
Various Health Remedies and Facts From 19th Century Ad Fragments
A collage of ad snippets highlights remedies for croup and nervous disorders, cures offered publicly by A P Hoxsie Buffalo NY and Dr Kline Philadelphia PA, plus endorsements for Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound and Hall's Catarrh Cure. It notes Vermont maple production, New York police salaries, and Russia proposing a Ministry of Husbandry.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets Promote Liver Health
A promotion touts Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a mild effective liver remedy. The text claims they cleanse and regulate the liver stomach and bowels, relieve sick headaches bilious headaches constipation indigestion and other derangements, and guarantee satisfaction or money back. They are described as vegetable and harmless and cheaper than alternatives.
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Dr. Pierce
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Russia
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French Guiana
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Boston
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Warren St. N
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