Mountain Schoolhouse Stand-Off Ends Without Violence
Two young men traveling through a rural North Carolina Tennessee border area with rifles anger local mountaineers after shouting cookie related phrase at a school. A clash is narrowly averted when the crowd withdraws the wagon and the men apologize. The incident underscores frontier discipline and schoolboy lore in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Ridge
North Carolina
Tennessee
Union
Upper South Caroo
Remington
Light Brigade
New York World
Locusts in Northwestern India Compared to Shrimps
A New York independent piece describes locusts in Western Rajputana and the Suliman range as edible pests. It notes regional origins, migration, and damage to crops like olives and almonds. Locusts are boiled, fried, or parched for food among natives and are not considered unclean to Jews or Muslims.
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India
Rajputana
Suliman Range
Baluchististan
Persia
Algeria
Australia
New York
I Wish to Be Cremated Do No Harm After Death
The writer argues cremation is safer than burial, recounting near death misjudgments and sensational tales. He notes savings for the poor, urges cemeteries to adopt crematoria, and cites Roman cremation history and a Cesar ashes discovery to support the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Massachusetts
Hawthorne
Vera Ben Trovato
Mississippi
Rome
Cesar
Carrying Out Directions Mamma and Tommy Scene
In a Philadelphia Times fragment a mother questions Tommy about giving medicine to a sick dog while she was away. Tommy confirms he read a receipt stating it could be mixed in an old broken dish and says he broke one to prepare the dose.
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Tommy
Philadelphia Times
Argentine Congress votes duty cut on petroleum and rice
The Argentine Congress approved a reduction in import duties affecting petroleum and rice products. Lawmakers moved to ease tariffs, aiming to influence markets and consumer prices.
Kennedy's Medical Discovery Sells Across the Nation
An advertisement by Donald Kennedy of Roxbury promotes Kennedy's Medical Discovery as a cure for various skin ailments and ulcers, priced at $1.50 and sold by druggists in the United States and Canada. The piece also includes a narrative dialogue about manners between siblings Grace Hunt Ellen Mayo and a father praising Grace.
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Kennedy
United States
Canada
Commonplace Syrup of Figs praised in ads and a suffrage anecdote
The article extols Syrup of Figs from the California Fig Syrup Company as a pleasant remedy with widespread approval. It then recounts a Lincoln Journal anecdote showing a hard working woman who says she has no time to be a suffragist, voting for her husband as she has for ten years.
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Lincoln Journal
Hall's Cure and Free Trial Offers Flood 19th Century Ads
Dr L L Gorsuch of Toledo Ohio endorses Hall's Cure claiming high success after forty years of practice. Druggists sell it at 75 cents. A U S site touts free trials of Kuhve’s Great Nerve Restarzk with no fits after day one and marvels of cure. Dr Kline 941 Arch St Philadelphia promotes a $2 trial bottle. Montana is noted as larger than the Empire of Turkey.
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L. L. Gorsuch
Toledo
Hall
Kuhve
Kline
Arch St
Phila
Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription Promises Cure All Female Ailments
An advertisement touts Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for women's ailments including functional disorders, displacements, and periodical pains. The tonic is described as vegetable and non alcoholic with a money back guarantee if not satisfactory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Pierce
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets Promise Clean System
Advert says the pellets cleanse and renovate the liver stomach and bowels naturally. It claims relief from sick headache constipation indigestion and bilious attacks and that the cures are thorough and permanent.
August Flower Dyspepsia Remedies Toasted by Users
Advertised August Flower is praised by diverse users including A Bellanger Montagny Quebec Ed Bergeron Lauzon Levis Quebec A Barrington Sydney Geo Gates Corinth Mississippi and G G Green Woodbury New Jersey as a cure or relief for dyspepsia with strong claims of good results and miracle effects.
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A. Bellanger
Stove Foundry
Montagny
Quebec
Bergeron
General Dealer
Lauzon
Levis
Do. A. Barrington
Sydney
Australia
Geo. Gates
Corinth
Miss
G. G. Green
Woodbury
New Jersey
U.S. A
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Kate Field
Washington
Hood
U.S
P. Harold Hayes
M.D
Buffalo
3. Y
W. McCormick Sons
Wasmainetom, D. C
Crycixnari,. O
Donald Kennedy
Roxbury, Mass
Grace Hunt
Ellen Mayo
Tom
Fanny
Ellen
Grace
Father
Mr. Black
Day
Joinsow Betan
H. H
Rexy & Sova
Atlanta
Hartford Journal
Joseph H. Barnum
Hartford
Frazer Axle
John W.sorris
Mensio
Washington, D.C
Aily
Tevecesety Miner
U.S. Pension Bureau
East Tennessee
Knoxville Sentinel
Buffalo, N. Y
W. T. Fitzgerald
Washington, D
Poultry Book
Fanc Sacco Clementon
U. P.co
Vandewater St
N. Y
The
Cal
Ifornia Fig Syrup Company
Montana
Empire
Turkey
S.S
Swift Specific CO
Ely
St. N
Atar
Sapolio
Fres Gun CO
Hazleton
Neen
Formulla
Ashington BD
Om E. Pinkham
Pickham
E- Pinkham Med. Co
Linn
Mass
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