The Widow's Plot Bends Fate with Illness and Matrimony
In a drawing room drama, Mr. Murray feigns grave illness causing concern from Sister Sarah and Mrs. Hayward. Doctors differ on his condition while Sarah declares cure powers. Mrs. Hayward engineers a ruse, prompting Murray to rediscover zest and reveal a married life misread, ending with renewed bond and a planned spring wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel
Sarah
Mrs. Murray
Mr. Murray
Matthew
Mrs. Hayward
Dr. Monroe
Dilmann
Pictare the Greatest English Gen in Dublin Youths and Dress
Description of Sir Garnet Wolseley as a youth in Dublin with foplike habits and a drag ride to Dycer's repository. Then more recent appearance in 1562 at the Clarendon with Colonel Rowan and current attire noted. Includes a vivid list of clothing and items in yellow and blue. The passage ends with a marketing line for Brown's Iron Bitters addressing nervousness in overworked women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garnet Wolsely
Dublin
Duke of Wellington
Dycer’s Repository
the Clarendon
Colonel Rowan
Alcoholized Pigs and a Pennsylvanian Relic
A Paris Figaro report describes experiments on fifteen pigs fed various alcoholic beverages to study effects on organs. Pigs showed small white ulcer like spots. flesh unfit for market. Dispute arises between researchers and police over market inspector judgment. Also noted is a 13a Wampum belt relic at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania tied to Penn's land grant and bicentennial contemplation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grenelle
Paris Figaro
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Penn
Keystone State
Granville John Penn
Pennsylvania
The
Historical Society
A Most Remarkable Oath and Cures Claim
A Philadelphia man cites 78 weeks bed confinement for fistula eased by Mishler's Herb Bitters. The ad extols liver kidney cures and general debility relief, linking historic figures like ex-Governor Morgan, Russel Sage, Jay Gould, and William H. Vanderbilt as context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Keenan
Parrish Street
Phila
Mishler
Morgan
Albany
Russel Sage
Jay Gould
William H. Vanderbilt
Peruna cures long illness in Pittsburgh reader’s tale
In a Pittsburg Commercial Gazette report a frightened narrator recounts a woman named Mrs. Milo Ingram suffering ulcers misdiagnosed as cancer for six years. The piece credits Peruna with a perfect cure and references Dr. Hartman’s promotion in the magazine section. A separate note claims Secretary Lincoln shipped trunks of his mother’s dress materials to Washington. A Missouri farmer’s daughter reports Hop Bitters restoring health after years of ailment.
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Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
Federal Street
Allegheny
Milo Ingram
Hugh McKelvey
Peruna
Hartman
Lincoln
Europe
Illinois
Washington
Kahoka
Bishop & Co
Wa. T. McClure
Ohio victory sparks political upheaval warned by editors
The Indianapolis Journal argues that a Democratic win in Ohio signals a broader, dangerous alignment of parties and traffic interests. It warns serious people to prepare for a powerful coalition that could abuse illegal aims and threaten conservative business and intelligent elites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic-liquor League
Ohio
Indiana
Indianapolis Journal
Judge Men by Their Works and Ayer Remedies
The piece extols Dr. Swayne’s Ointment for skin diseases and Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for lung and respiratory ailments. It contrasts physician-science with the ointment’s claimed good works, recalls a Toronto woman’s church mishap with a husband’s transfers, and quotes a young lady on gendered notions of kissing from infancy to courtship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Rough on Rats Ad Rounds Household Pest Remedy
An old advertisement urges readers to ask druggists for Rough on Rats. It claims the product clears rats mice bedbugs roaches vermin flies ants and insects at 15 cents per box.
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Saral
Monroe
Shiloh
IE. R. Lash
Pictare
Brown
Ayer
Board & Sale Stable
Quarters Valley
Chas. Brown
Hack
Congress Street
Cornell House
United States
J.c.smith
A. M
Pittsburgh
J. H. Johnston
Smithfield Street
Hostetter
Columbus & Hocking Valley
R.R
Arrisburg
Baltimore
Philadelpia
New York
Boston
Dayton
Indianapolis
Louisville
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
Missouri
Iowa
Kansas
Nebrska
California
Territories
Pullman Palace Cars
Columbus
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
E. A. Ford
Jas. McRea
W H. H. Minton
Attorney AT Law
B&f
the Court House
Food & Wood
Attorneys AT Law
Athens, Ohio
First National Bank
Chas, Townsend
D.,l. Sleeper
LAW
Athens
Onto
Elch & Welch
OFTO
Supreme
U.S
John Welch
Judge Welch
J.M. Welch
Magnetic Medicine Co
Detroit
Mich
H. K. Dorr
Central Drug Store
George R. Walker
Aare
Court House
Main Street
Eead
Yellow Sea
Havlock & Jenney
Dey Street
Mercantile Review
Haylock & Jenney
Haylock & Co
America
Dey St
Ly. H.C. A.co
Har
J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
Mass
Ohio University
William H. Scott
A. Frame, M. D
Court Street
Norton’s Building
Miami Commercial College
Phaeton
Spring & Farm
Beck Botte
LAIRD
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