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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1876
Page
4
A fragmentary verse piece portraying a candidate and the working man as the honest laborer. Refrains insist on trust, home duty, and economic inquiry, with the chorus asking how the wife and family fare and praising honest toil amid political doubt.
The piece laments love powder swindles advertised to gullible women and notes Comstock arrests as warnings. It argues sentimental literature harms young women, urging sound views on life, love, and marriage. It profiles Tom Hamilton of Beaufort, a liberal centennial legislator who favors employer voting discipline and influence over workers.
The Augustd Chronicle criticizes indiscriminate use of titles like Colonel and General for public figures. It cites Breckenridge shrinking from titles, laments widespread pretension among lawyers and politicians, and warns that many prominent figures are called titles they do not earn. The piece also includes an agricultural aside extolling barley cultivation and warns against overgrazing pasture and soil damage from trampling.
A sermon urges reverence in worship and limits on church chatter, dress, and display. It denounces shouting, gossip, and fine clothes in service, praising plain dress and equal treatment. The piece advocates reducing titles from social life, urging fewer Majors and Colonels and more plain manners.
A collage of humorous vignettes and maxims on debt, economy, honesty, marriage, and daily life. Anecdotes include a misused proverb about September, a lazy tramp seeking money, a witty exchange about a girl opening eyes via matrimony, and quips on carpentry, etiquette, and aging.
Advert appears for Merrell Hepatine from Simpson and Sannen Drug Store claiming it cures indigestion dyspepsia liver disease and bowel complaints. It urges daily doses of a teaspoonful in wineglass water three times daily with claimed rapid permanent relief and energy restoration, appealing to skeptics to try the medicine.
The ad asserts a universal relief for dyspepsia and related ailments. It claims the remedy quickly eases heartburn, indigestion, and debility, noting vast past sales and a sample bottle available for 10 cents. Two doses promised to relieve.
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