18 Jan 1878
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Newspaper
Ashtabula Telegraph
Location
Ashtabula, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1878
Page
1
A fragmented directory page lists various trades and services including hardware, job printing, architects, and attorneys. Readable entries mention livery, carriage work, granite gravestones, and general merchants, with many gaps and garbled names.
Abstracted timetable details describe routes from Cleveland to Buffalo and points west via the Erie and Michigan Southern Railway, listing departure times from Cleveland, connections at various towns, and arrival times. The notice mentions dining and sleeping cars and notes train names and transfer points along the line.
An old advertisement markets Dr. Sanford's Improved Imbalt and Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup claiming cures for chest and lung affections. It touts Mandrake and other remedies, with testimonials of past success and a general note that Schenck medicines are sold by all druggists.
The piece warns of cheap confections using Terra alba glycerine and glucose from potatoes, with deadly colorings and adulterants like chromates and lead compounds. It cites health risks, cites a statewide sample showing many colors containing harmful pigments, and recounts the dangers to children from mixed candies and tainted sweets.
Comic anecdotes recount rowdy courtroom clamor and bungled justice from judges in Kentucky California Louisiana and Colorado. Judges Dowling Alec Smith Old Eye and others figure in tales of hasty decrees bribes intoxication and legal misadventure.
Henry M. Stanley, famed American traveler, is described as extensively traversing Africa between the east coast near Zanzibar and the west coast, exploring lakes Victoria Nyanza Albert Nyanza and the Congo. The piece reports his Cape Town lecture detailing discoveries, dangers, and ethnologic notes about white natives and Congo exploration, with vivid accounts of local beliefs and geography.
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