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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1892
Page
3
An advertisement extols Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy as a sure cure for catarrh and related ailments citing a $500 offer for uncured cases and describing the product's soothing cleansing and healing properties. The piece weaves in anecdotes and a doctor’s endorsement to urge readers to try the remedy despite dubious claims.
An oral tale from Sonoma county recalls Jim Ford living near Walhalla river with neighbor Gilbert Marsall. It recounts rumors of past crimes, a deadly millstone accident involving Dick Temple, moral judgments in logging camps, and Bob Lowry’s testimony, ending with Ford’s violent concealment of a lurid past as a cautionary frontier vignette.
A Boston Herald fragment recalls a man with a long penny royal beard who wanders Washington Street. He jokes about opening umbrellas, avoiding moon positions, and dodging misfired fate, while commenting on luck, injuries, and two detached tigers near his left hand. The piece then shifts to a notice about tea advertisements claiming strength and aroma. It argues Ceylon and Chinese teas differ in tannin and nerve effects, urges factual labeling, and suggests regulation to reveal tea composition and impurities.
A mash of anecdotes and notices spans race humor from old slave tales to royal jokes, a Vienna lounge tale of fortune in the grave, Minnesota and Chicago political scenes, Democratic conventions, emigration cautionary notes, and Canadian settler trends. Several delegates, committees, and resolutions surface amid a broad day’s journalism.
In a fragmented, humorous excerpt the speaker recalls giving Castoria to a sick child and mentions Cal and Mie. The garbled lines imitate old timey medical advertising dialogue, referencing Castoria as a remedy and castor.
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