Prospects Bright for Peach Crop in Delaware Peninsula
Wilmington dispatch notes peach trees in tested districts show no cold damage and offer optimism for a large next season. Growers report hardy, uninjured trees after severe cold with several large orchards confirming positive conditions, though they concede a narrow escape. Meanwhile human interest items note Hoon’s Sarsaparilla claims and a December debt decrease of 5 600 000 dollars in silver, plus a Los Angeles woman tending 40 cats.
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Wilmington
Delesye
A Michigan Indoor Bean Bag Game Finds Its Way Eastward
A Micuicas parior game uses four bags tossed at a hole on a smooth inclined board. Through the hole scores ten, remaining on the board five, and bags landing off count against the party. The activity provides exercise and amusement for all, encourages health, and can supplement music and chat indoors.
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Michigan
Do Good to Her Neighbors and Colds Myths
A Dallas woman jokes about her friend persuading her husband to quit chewing Tobacco. The piece then notes common cold myths blaming wraps or wet feet, and warns that heat cold shifts strain vocal cords. It cites Burdock Bitters as a blood purifier freeing Mrs. J. C. Anderson from erysipelas and salt rheum.
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Dallas
Texas
J. C. Anderson
Peshtigo, Wis
Burdock Oe
Transatlantic, transparent, and medical quips in one page
A jumble of jokes and ads appears: a girl asks what transatlantic means, puns about crosses and transparency, then ad copy for Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets and Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil. Notices mention a Tokyo writer, an ice palace worker's fall, and a Chicago divorce gift.
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Rockland
the Atlantic
Snow Shoveling Bargain Sparks Neighborhood Mockery
A teen boy asked for ten cents to shovel snow on Brush Street and recalled a neighboring woman who paid fifty cents for similar work. He warned the alleged rival about a plush cash scandal and left, while the scene draws in a tale of local chatter and a separate report on Mrs Elizabeth Stanton and Mrs Susan B Anthony debating their History of Woman Suffrage methods.
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Brush Street
Detroit Free Press
Elisabeth
Eilizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan Bo Anthony
Stanton
Mer. Stanton
Boston Record
Mild Pellets Promise Pain Free Relief From Agony
An old style patent pill ad extols Pierce's Pellets as mild, painless, and without next day weakness. The copy links the product to safer remedies and notes various health claims. It also includes satirical snippets from periodicals and a list of other patent medicines with testimonials and price references.
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Pierce
I Wall
Aew
Blood purification claims of Dr. Pierce remedy
The Ruddy River of life is the blood. From it the system receives all its material of growth and repair. It bathes every tissue of the body. How necessary, then, that the blood should be kept pure and rich. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is the great blood food and blood purifier. It is a sovereign remedy for all diseases due to impoverished blood, consumption, bronchitis, weak lungs, scrofula, influenza, and kindred diseases.
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California
Vinnegar Bitters
H. McDonalnd
Cemer Street
Pierce
Conversation in a Prison Cell About an Impending Hanging
A visitor asks the convict about time and days while noting the long nights. The convict reveals he is to be hanged next month, explaining the nights feel longer than the days. The exchange presents a stark, somber mood as execution nears.
Mustang Liniment Says For All Flesh Inflammation
The statement claims Mustang Liniment treats inflammation of all flesh, not just horses, challenging the notion that it is horse only.
War Deaths Since 1793 Reach 4 470 000
An English statistician calculates that wars since 1793 killed 4.47 million men with most deaths from wounds hardship and disease only 17 000 fell on the Borodino field, while a Cambridge family suffers nausea and sleeplessness traced to arsenic dust from frieze decorations.
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Borodino
Cambridge
Mass
First Keen Twinge and Coconut Planter News
The article notes rheumatism pains rise after exposure and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as beneficial advice for sufferers. It also reports Mr Osborn, a coconut planter, receiving 150000 coconuts by ship from Africa to plant along a lengthy Florida seacoast strip this year.
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Hood
Century for 1885 86 highlights forthcoming volume
The Century announces 1885 86 remarkable War Papers and timely antici pated features. It promises more than scores of copies weekly and outlines features for the upcoming volume beginning with the November issue.
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