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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1884
Page
4
Cambridge notices list weekly items and local briefs published every Thursday. The page provides sparse civic and social notes from the Cambridge area.
A tale recounts Ali Ben Achmet who stores half his food for an expected Allahs angel. The angel refuses entry, citing pride and charity withheld from the sick and hungry, and the benevolent act is judged as sin. The story ends with Ali recognizing his pride and divine punishment.
In 1877 a Royal Regiment officer escorts Welsh miners to barracks and shelters in a cliffside inn where a storm and a spectral cry test nerves. A geologist guest, a murder, a siege at the edge, and a Bow Street detective reveal a trapped husband and a forged letter before dawn.
A 19 year old woman named Roda Lumly warns a Dallas post office clerk that a letter addressed to her Illinois fiancé must go straight or someone could die. She threatens murder if mishandled and recounts a suicide note linked to the letter. The scene ends with her leaving the window.
A Portland man and woman, both from Portland Maine, appear to have a sudden engagement after a playful handshake. The woman says they are engaged and the man agrees to marry to avoid a breach of promise suit as reported by the Boston Herald.
The Black Watch is identified as the Forty-second Regiment, Highlanders. Its 1737 enrollment included companies dressed in black or dark tartans, historically stationed in the Highlands during the Stuart restoration era.
The Ohio Senate and House meet April 9–11 with multiple bills read, amended, and passed. Actions include school bonds and tax measures, canal repairs, price limits for printing, road and tax reforms, and appointments including trustees and court house commissions. Adjournments follow each session.
A Washington youth asked for his daughter's hand and offered $2,000 to the future father in law. The agreement traded the money for the daughter with two years of care, after which the money would return if all went well. if not, the father kept the daughter and the cash.
A London audience enjoyed a unique event by deaf mutes from the Hackney Mission to the Deaf and Dumb. They acted in sign language in The School for Scandal and The Sorrows of Mr Snooks with all characters portrayed by deaf performers, pleasing the audience of deaf mutes.
The report notes a quick civil marriage in the Queen's town house ending with a handshake and departure. A £5 fee is paid, a document signed, and the couple exits the building. The ceremony lasts about two minutes. Nearby Yuijotoa Arizona features the Papago hay train with twenty squaws delivering gramma hay daily.
A Newport woman touts coal-oil as a universal remedy amid humorous exchanges about curing knee and eye pains. The tale closes with a grim note as a sea dog weighing 148 pounds washes ashore near Long Branch, N. J.
Palpitation or rapid beating followed by cessation is blamed on nervousness and bad blood. If neglected it may worsen especially during excitement. Advice to cure with Dr. Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla to end the affliction. Also a remark on noisy dinners and Hoe presses in agricultural papers.
The paper publishes cures for ALLCock's Porous Plaster and BRANDReETH's Pills with claims of purity and safety. Dr Mott endorses the plaster's ingredients and lack of irritation. Separate notes warn against inferior porous plasters. Wells Butter Color advertises a universal color for butter to maintain a gilt appearance.
A letter from Hon. John Cessna endorses Durang's Rheumatic Remedy with rapid relief in twelve hours and urges purchase at druggists or through R. K. Helphenstine in Washington. Another note touts Ely's Cream Balm curing chronic catarrh and deafness after two bottles. Mr W H Gilbert of Albany, Ga. reports Swirt's P PECIFIC healing an eating cancer, driving poison from the system and restoring teeth. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases offered free by The wirr Specific Co. Atlanta Ga.
The passage extols Kidney-Wort as a purely vegetable compound from roots leaves and berries with special value in kidney troubles. It claims combined action on liver and bowels explains its unmatched efficacy in diseases of these organs. It cites editorial comment about Iowa debt and migration as context.
A Toledo Blade reader recalls using Henry's Carbolic Salve after a finger swelled from an apparent run around. Pain subsided in twenty minutes and the inflammation disappeared within a day. The note also cites Mrs. Pinkham as a household reference for women’s health. A critic argues leaders must make proposals.
Universally Approved by J A Rogers of Kenton endorses Warner's White Wine of Tar Syrup amid a slate of ads. A poem titled Lady Moon by A Ppoet is noted. Also promoted are Diamond Dyes 10¢, Brown's Bronchial Troches 25c, Piso's Cure for Catarrh, Hale's Honey of Horehound, Pike's toothache drops, and Samaritan Nervine.
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