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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1882
Page
4
A reflective verse from All the Year Round muses on the passing of a year, mourning the loss of loved ones and questioning whether any new year can match past joys. The speaker contemplates dusk, silence, and reunion beyond this life.
In a Vermont family saga spanning decades, Mina, Hildegard, and I recall youth, love, and separations. Mina announces plans to marry a New York widower, Hildegard rejects a farmer, and Harry Fenton returns after years abroad to propose anew. A New Year reunion seals Hildegard and Harry’s betrothal.
Ladies who make their own dresses learn gathered flounces return for silks and velvets as frugal trim. Tips include bias gathered flounces, tab finishes to basques, tucks on satin, plush borders on skirts, and options from Astrakhan borders to velvet collars.
A quotation narrates the charm of sleep as a cloak that wraps a person gently. Sancho jokes about the first inventor of sleep while imagining the soothing drift into rest. The prose crafts a tranquil scene of bodily fatigue yielding to a calm, dreamy disengagement.
An inexperienced traveler in British Guiana dies after drinking a rum enhanced sap from a water-holding punt. Post mortem reveals organs sealed with hardening rubbery sap, toxic alcohol reaction, and fatal outcome.
The sculptor biographer and close confidant of Charlotte Cushman, Miss Emma Stebbins, has recently died after years of ill health contracted during her stay in Rome.
In a cribbed reprint from the Chicago Times a Gen Leib of Chicago Democrat praises St Jacobs Oil as a remedy for rheumatism and neuralgia. The note mentions hotel proprietor Hoaag in Hazelhurst Mississippi and another named Homing and references a Huntington Democrat endorsement. The piece closes with a quip about rainbows.
The piece discusses the Guildhall statues Gog and Magog as a London pride and contrasts them with popular medical claims. It advertises various patent medicines and sensational health claims from Dr. R V Pierce and Worup’s Dispensary Medical Association, noting price and contact details, and includes satirical bits from Puck.
An 1880s ad proclaims Celery and Chamomile Pills cure sick and nervous headache neuralgia dyspepsia and sleeplessness. It sells 50 cents a box with mail offers and notes a Baltimore address and six box deal. Also mentions Kidney-Wort as spring cleanse and a joke almanac for 1883. A bank scene joke follows about a parasol tapping to gain attention.
An old advertisement collage touts Hop Bitters to profit from high hop prices while promising health. claims Michigan horse ate starch. promotes Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham remedies for female ailments. skewed product pitches include cough syrups, dyes, clockwork gadgets, and axle greases with sensational pitches.
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