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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1885
Page
4
A faded fragment depicts a Southern family during the yellow fever era. A young boy sleeps beside his deceased parents as summer skies and vines frame a memory of loss, illness, and quiet childhood memory amid a fever’s grip in 1879.
Addy Walters a proud, twenty year old sister, tries to save her family farm by selling eight barrels of apples. She travels to Mapleton with help from her sister Kitty and merchant Willis Avery, who buys the stock and later offers to reclaim the mortgage on Sterd Farm. Avery expresses romantic interest, asking Addy to marry and sign back the mortgaged place to her father.
The piece explains Egyptian loans under Ismail Pasha, detailing three stages from rising treasury advances at Cairo banks to a Paris London funding scheme. It describes how bonds depreciated, syndicates bought at discounts, and how lenders and the borrower benefited or were harmed, noting totals from 1862 to 1873 and the 1875 default.
A collage of farming tips and notes on crops live stock care and household remedies. Early peas and onions should be planted soon. sweet corn praised as forage and foliage producer. Lard and snuff mixture offered for lice around the neck of cattle. Ink stains treated with cream of tartar and oxalic acid mix as safer alternative. Milk warming for calves discussed and cautions against overheating.
An article extols ivy and other climbers for walls and buildings. It covers varieties including Irish and Hedera helix, Ampelopsis quinquefolx, and Wistaria sinensis, noting hardiness, growth, autumn color, and training tendencies, with prices and American ivy popularity.
Directions for making lime pickled eggs using lime salt and water. Steps include slaking lime, making a clear pickle, placing eggs in layers, applying milky pickle to seal shells, and maintaining low clean storage with good air flow and temperature.
Revival of imported French fabrics resurfaces in fashion with silk-faced serges, French poplins, stripes, and glossy mohair gowns. Designers pair lustrous mohair with velvet and taffeta silks in basques and plastrons, featuring blue rings, satin-like drapery, and silver embellishments.
Florida correspondent reports on Flamaton’s two hotels six houses and about 700 razorback pigs. The beasts are described as ferocious and suicidal, rushing toward wheels whenever trains start, with a mocking, humorous tone about their fate and a museum future relics.
Mrs. Gill narrates Katie Gill's eight month battle with sciatic rheumatism in which Athlophoros eased pain and aided sleep, though she later died after a hospital fall. The account mentions Athlophoros sales at 112 Wall Street New York and a neighbor’s quick child relief. Father Tscheider confirms details of Katie’s illness and recovery. The piece promotes the remedy as a quick aid for rheumatic pain.
A collage of quotes praises St Jacobs Oil for rheumatism on humans and horses, with testimonials from J H Goldsmith of Wal nut Grove Farm and James Brent, deputy sheriff of Baltimore. Health ads tout Electro-Voltaic Belt, Pierces Favorite Prescription, Brown’s Bronchial Troches, Dr Lace Catarrh Remedy, Pike’s Toothache Drops, and Glenn’s Sulphur Soap, followed by a pun about a fisherman and his net.
Fragmentary text references Wheeling and Cleveland with names Cleveland and Mariette R As. unreadable context. Strong entities unclear due to garbled OCR.
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