Two kinds of girls and Wild West exploits in old notices
A Providence Sunday Transcript excerpt contrasts two types of girls and notes education shaping both. It profiles Nellie Pickett, a 20 year old who joined Billy the Kid’s gang, wed three men, and died recently. Also cited is Rev. Geo H Thayer praising Shiloh’s Consumption Cure.
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Providence Sunday Transcript
Nellie Pickett
Tom Prickett
New Mexico
Billy the Kid
Pickett
Bawdry
Geo. H. Thayer
Bourbon, Ind
Shiloh
A cautionary tale from a bygone era about friends and courage
The passage warns that true friends improve a man more than boastful words. It says thunder cannot forecast rain and warns against abandoning respectability for cowardice. It contrasts a hound dog’s usefulness with futile bravado and muses on nature’s oddities as a child learns life.
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Chile
Kidney Disease Hope in Beckford Hall of Ethics
In Beckford's Hall of Ethics the crowd bears wounds on their chests and remains silent about kidney or liver symptoms. The piece urges early use of Hunt's Remedy to end the disease at its start. A large bird over Wilmington Monday night alarmed pedestrians with doglike barking sounds, speculated as a weather omen.
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Beckford
Hall of Ethics
Hunt
Wilmington
New York
T Musec
Com
Sr . Samp
Hartman
Oddities and tragedies from a delayed medical tale
An odd clipping notes a Paris dog bite leading to hydrophobia after a cauterization and a student’s taunt. It also advertises patent remedies Mishler’s Bitter and a misuse of a shotgun accident in Arkansas. The piece includes quips on physicians and dubious medical endorsements.
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