Best Opportunity to Buy Lamps and Chandeliers
A sales notice proclaims an opportunity to purchase lamps and chandeliers now available. It highlights the affordable pricing and urges customers to act quickly for limited stock and timely delivery.
13 Nov 1884
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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1884
Page
1
A sales notice proclaims an opportunity to purchase lamps and chandeliers now available. It highlights the affordable pricing and urges customers to act quickly for limited stock and timely delivery.
A narrator recounts a childhood rebellion against his mother and the long, painful consequences. After years away, he returns to recount his misdeeds and a pivotal moment when he kicked her. His mother’s suffering and eventual death lead to a sobering plea to boys to honor and obey their parents, as disobedience is opposed to God.
A late 19th century note recounts two ill men sharing a room where a nurse and watcher slept. One man with mumps struck the watcher with a pillow to wake him, sparking loud laughter that coincided with the fever patient’s rapid improvement. The piece cites laughter as a possible remedy and adds a separate anecdote about an ulcerated throat healed by mirth. It ends with a home remedy for a child’s stomach acidity using magnesia in water and a small dose.
Dr. Talmage preached that true religion belongs to ordinary people. He cited Romans and urged readers to value homemakers and small-businessfolk over celebrated figures, arguing that the world lacks patience for experts and that steady, common virtue sustains nations and families despite everyday struggles.
A Brooklyn Eagle tale describes a young man calling himself Smith who lived like a Russian prince in New York and Paris. He charmed a crowd with fashion and money tricks, then burned through his family diamonds, fled to Paris, profited briefly, and returned bankrupt. He is said to wander city life with a dapper style, a valet, and the nickname Julieta attached in Paris.
A dream sequence shows an editor confronting a chorus of critics over forgotten notices and unpaid bills. Peter and others demand accountability as the editor calmly explains past missteps and guides them inside, ending with the editor leading him through the gate.
Advice on spontaneous and injury related nosebleeds describes natural discharge, irritation, and methods to stop bleeding. Recommendations include borax and water pads, alum snuff, and applying pressure above the lip or jaw line to control flow. The text notes that habitual bleeding signals systemic attention and outlines when bleeding may subside with reduced supply.
The excerpt recounts Uncle Oglesby and Uncle Dick commenting on a woman's children at a gate while noting Richard J. Oglesby, Republican candidate for Governor, visited. A narrator reveals the children are orphans. A separate note reports Daniel O. Kiser, a Southweat business leader, badly wounded himself at his Bonssek farm by cutting his throat. The world expo opening in New Orleans is postponed to December 16 to ensure President Arthur and Congress attend.
A detailed, somber account of a burial at sea aboard a ship, where a body weighted with a lead is lowered from the main hatch as Mr. Sherman intones the Burial Service. The scene blends sea imagery with reflections on mortality and resurrection, followed by a long anecdote of a lawyer and tramp dialogue on Griswold Street.
Rumors sweep Augusta that George T. Jackson president of Enterprise Cotton Factory faces a defalcation exceeding 300000 with estimates up to 1000000 in combined losses for the mill and company. Jackson admits fault and says he bears responsibility. The mill is said to remain solvent as stockholders convene November 5.
A letter laments Miss Sallie Sallin whose family plans to educate her are disrupted by a land sale. The father buys land on easy terms to help children, amid debt, while the mother and daughter toil. The writer predicts ruin if Miss Sallie loses schooling and faces an unwanted marriage for land.
Horace Deland, aged eighteen, of Brookfield, N B, destroyed himself by burning in a brush pile after failing to win the affection of Bila Dinsmore. He lured himself to his room, left a note for his parents, lashed himself to the brush, and ignited a fire amid signs of long despair. His body was found burned beyond recognition yesterday.
The piece extols scripture as enduring truth guiding virtue and charity through all ages. It contrasts godly wisdom with a fallen world and recalls death with faith while presenting a NY millionaire’s fall from virtue and Major Lane Wy Walker’s death near Mielmand Virginia, noting political aims.
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