Credit reform and quack cures amid wide spread speculation
Montreal and Toronto papers discuss a proposed short credit system for retail trade aimed at farmers and merchants. The letters urge quarterly accounts, prompt charges, and October settlements to relieve debt and stabilize commerce. The piece shifts to a sensational tale of hoax cures and crime, recounting fictional and anecdotal remedies for boils and a separate criminal career across cities, ending with a warning about a notorious con artist.
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Montreal
Credit Department
Ely
Feds
Beneft
Pest control tips and household fixes from an old guide
The text presents various home remedy suggestions for pests and household problems. It mentions using oil of pennyroyal to deter insects, plantain branches to repel flies, cheese and onions for rats, potash for mice, sealing mouse holes with salve, and household items like cayenne pepper to deter ants and roaches. It also describes crude carpentry notes on a hole and an odd woodworking solution for a board.
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Cayenne
Davis the Abortionist and His Criminal Career
An American exchange details Arthur Paul Davis early life and a career marked by robbery murder and hellish crimes. The piece notes his residence in Rochester and lists a house breaking incident that led him to leave the city for the south.
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New York
Dr. Miller
Ny House
Job
Isaiah
Hamilton
Ganada
Duvia
Toronto
Davis
Gustaf
New Forks
Queen's
Ido
Kingston
Alexander McNabb
Bristol Bill
Billy Hall
Canada
Rochester
Paul Davin
Buffalo
Borod
Wan
Arthur Paul Day
Jane
Vaughan Gilmour
Villian
Sun
Arthur Paul Davis
United States
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