26 May 1883
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Newspaper
Boonville Enquirer
Location
Boonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1883
Page
1
An improvised advert-like fragment asserts Tron Bitters ensure perfect health through the seasons and claims personal use of Tron Bitters. The text emphasizes claimed benefits without verifiable details.
The item notes a cornet introduced in a Chicago Presbyterian church stirring churchgoers and sparking debate over authorized innovation. It also discusses a New York bar keeper’s plan to license saloonkeepers and revoke licenses for Sunday liquor sales, plus speculation about corn crops, photography of flesh impressions, and the Southern Presbyterian assembly’s handling of a colored minister.
A New York Journal tale recounts William H. Vanderbilt's Christmas kindness. He meets a boy whose father works on the railroad and barely earns a dollar a day while caring for a sick mother. Vanderbilt gives fifty dollars, directions for aid, and promises ongoing help, making it a rare warm note in a hard day.
Dr Bontelle notes a Hampton Virginia patient describing pervasive pain all over, including back, shoulders, and head, with burning sensations, loss of appetite, and water aversion. The dialogue captures a vivid, multistage musculoskeletal and headache presentation from a long medical interview.
A Drake's Travellers' Magazine anecdote features a drummer and conductor discussing a new sleeping car style named Prohibition cars. The joke centers on the absence of porters aboard these cars, prompting curiosity about their popularity and naming.
A manufacturers' peril states sealskin must be handled over two hundred times before cloaking but does not specify handling after cloaking if any weighting occurs. The note discusses interpretation and potential inconsistencies in the process stages.
A veteran canal boat wreck story reveals a blind painter and his crippled wife living as squatters on a half sunken vessel. They endured hunger and cold after losing gear and earnings when the yacht sank after a steamer collision. A 30 dollar charity was raised, and the steamer owner provided temporary lodging and promised a home, with the couple protected from blame.
A hunter enters a country tavern at night and orders wine. The host jokes about the hunter’s luck and offers a hare in the stable for ten francs. The hunter shoots at the tied hare but the shot severs the tether as the hare bounds away into the distance.
The Chico California Record recounts a farmer’s tale of two hens and ten chickens. A hen refused to provide for the brood, fled to a fence, and died by her own action. The orphans were adopted by a young pullet proving protective despite inexperience.
In eastern Savannah N Y a small lake about an acre in extent lies half a mile west of the Seneca river. The water is reportedly as salty as the ocean.
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